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Published on Feb 6, 2019 Perfect Circuit

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This video shows all three of the Snazzy FX pedals made by Snazzy LV with both a Make Noise 0-Coast synth and a guitar. The Wow & Flutter is a delay with the sound of a worn out wobbly tape machine. The Tracer City is an analog state variable filter with both envelope follower and LFO modulation options as well as external CV inputs. The Mini-Ark is a monophonic tracking synth pedal that works with bass or guitar and has a crazy and chaotic sound.

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Analog Synthesizer Patch Tutorials

Published on Feb 5, 2019 Analog Synthesizer Patch Tutorials

Playlist at the time of this post:

1. Moog Grandmother patch tutorial. "Ennio Morricone's Grandmother"
2. Arp 2600 Patches from Vine Archive
3. SEQUENCE FOR ALAN AND DENNIS // ARP2600 PATCH TUTORIAL
4. SPACE DRONE // ARP2600 PATCH TUTORIAL
5. SOUNDS FOR TRS 80 // ARP2600 PATCH TUTORIAL
6. LULLABY FOR TOMITA // ARP2600 PATCH TUTORIAL
7. BUCHLA BONGO // ARP2600 PATCH TUTORIAL
8. SEQUENCE FOR EDUARD // ARP260 PATCH TUTORIAL
9. ARP2 D2 // ARP2600 PATCH TUTORIAL
10 WHAT IF HITCHCOCK? // ARP2600 PATCH TUTORIAL
11 THIS ISLAND ARP 1955 // ARP2600 PATCH TUTORIAL

Note these go back to 2013.

By the time I got to Phoenix, I had a VCO.

Some background on STG's new .VCO via the STG SoundLabs Electronic Newsletter:

[Here's a crop from a great photo of the Radiophonic One system prototype in a cactus garden at Joshua Tree National Park. (Jill Gautreaux)]

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"Finally ... I have a VCO.

So I sit here in a hotel room in Phoenix, waiting to hear from Southwest about my videographer's cancelled flight back to Chicago. It was already cancelled due to the crazy weather, and after rescheduling her flight has been cancelled again.

I thought I'd take this break in my drive back from California to let everyone on the list know that not only did I just show a VCO at the 2019 winter NAMM convention but that it is already for sale.

I really like using this Electronic Newsletter to talk about cool stuff going on in my life and then pitch something at you, however this time it's all pitch. To make up for it I'm going to insert some great photos from my trip out here and back. Some photos I took, some photos she took.

So my first VCO is actually going to be available initially in Eurorack format. Don't be too upset, it will be available in American format (or Moog format, or as some say "man-size") but for certain practical reasons Eurorack came first.

[Moustache Ride Bar & Grill, Amarillo TX. Looks legit.]

It's called the .VCO. It is 8HP in size, and has sawtooth, triangle, and suboctave square wave outputs.

It only has these three outputs because I already have a pulse shaper in the .COM/Pulse Matrix, and a sine shaper in the Wave Folder. I tend to think of all of my modules as components in a system so for me this makes a lot of sense.

It should probably be said right now before we get into it that this is an analogue VCO. There is a digital aspect to it in the tuning system, in fact there is even an ARM processor and a quad DAC in this thing but they are not in the audio signal path at all! They are just for tuning offsets, the drift generator, and scanning the knobs that control these things.

[Here's the full shot of Radiophonic One in the cactus garden. (Jill Gautreaux)]

The tuning system of this VCO is very exciting. There is a "range" knob which selects from LFO, octaves from 32' to 2', and a "wide" mode (more on that later.)

The next knob is "semitone" and selects an offset from zero to twelve semitones, and the fifth (seven semitones) is given a wider degree of travel to make it easier to set the VCO to this most useful of intervals.

The final tuning knob is called "detune" and when the range control is in the octaves has a bit more than a two semitone range. When the range control is in wide or LFO mode, the knob has a much wider range, measured in octaves. I haven't tweaked it to exactly what I want yet but I promise it will be as musically useful as it can be.

The next control is "drift rate." This VCO actually has an integrated drift generator!

[STG Soundlabs booth crew (Bubba Ayoub with Panamint Manse and Inhalt) with our new NAMM booth mascot, Stuffy. Coincidentally, our booth number was 11000!]

One of the really cool things about primitive VCOs from way back is that you would need to retune them because of temperature-related pitch drift. I thought "why not model that and turn it up to 11,000!?"

I originally conceived the drift generator as a random linear vector generator, inspired by James McCaskey asking me a long time ago "Okay so you have an LFO but what about a UFO?"

I thought about what a UFO would be in synthesiser terms, and backronymed it to Unidentified Frequency Oscillator. Another way of putting it would be a "random linear function generator."

[This is about 5 miles from Needles CA. That is not the sun, it is the moon.]

That idea got stored in my wetware about 10 years ago and it's been waiting for an application since. This presented the perfect opportunity for implementation.

Originally I just wanted the drift generator to be a random linear function, in both rate and amplitude. Obviously it would need to be bipolar.

However after a few days it occurred to me that maybe a linear function would be too harsh, and it would need to be smoothed. You can't just slew this function, because the frequency is random, so what to do?

[This is about 5 miles from Needles CA. That is not the sun, it is the moon.]

I decided to apply an S-curve to the linear segments, like running a triangle wave through a sine shaper.

This made the "drift" very smooth and the results are musically pleasing. I can listen to this thing drone for longer than I ought to be able to!

The rate control for the drift generator sets a master time period for the segments, which ranges from 30 seconds to 300 milliseconds. The random time variation is within 20 percent and 100 percent of that value.

The drift generator is normalised to the modulation input. This means that if nothing is plugged into the modulation input, the modulation knob will control the amount of drift, which at maximum is about an octave swing.

[Is it a tree or just a plant? I postulate that it's not a tree unless you can build a house out of it, so here I am with in between two Joshua Things. (Jill Gautreaux)]

There is a control input, which has the standard response of 1v/oct. However, the modulation input has a response of one half volt per octave. This is to allow for wide modulations from standard 5v control sources.

The third control input is a hard sync input. A cool thing about hard sync on this VCO is that the suboctave square wave is actually generated from the reset of the core, so it will sound different under hard sync than if it were counted off of a pulse shaper. It's kind of hard to describe quickly but just trust me.

I'm running a special low time preference sale on this VCO until my next Electronic Newsletter. If you order one or more now and are willing for it until summer you can get it for $200!

Act now and benefit from investor-level pricing!"

[Salt River Canyon in Arizona. Not even a fisheye lens can capture what an impressive scene this is.]

Paramount Synth Meira NEW Analog Synthesizer Crowd Funded Rik Marston

Published on Feb 6, 2019

"#paramountsynth #rikmarston #newanalogsynthesizer
Paramount Synth Meira NEW Analog Synthesizer!
Synthesizer Reveal & Interview by Rik Marston
**Watch in HD!!** **Turn it UP!!**

Crowd Sourced / Crowd Funded Please Contribute to:
https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/an...

These are pictures of the body / concept design. It is currently be assembled & next week we will get to hear the four voices in a chord. This synth is in it's very early stages, soon all parts will be assembled; we will see it & hear it in all of it's analog glory :)

The FUTURE of Analog Synthesizers is HERE!
The Sound of the Roland Jupiter-8 & Oberheim OB-Xa!!
Customize your own COLOR! Make it your own!!!!
And a light show that will BLOW YOUR MIND AWAY!
(Not to mention the crowd!!!)

Analog Synth "Meira" from Paramount Synth
Creation of an analog synth based upon Curtis CEM3340 sound generator chips designs all contained in a ultra-modern retro housing. The keyboard itself will support 3 octaves with 4 / 8 voices and 2 oscillators. Plus Cross Modulated LFO's!!

Some of the basic features include: 3 octave keyboard 4 / 8 voices / 2 oscillators Dual bender sections One for pitch and one for LFO LFO selection Octave selection Play Modes Whole Dual Unison Split 3 LFO’s Frequency Delay Level Waveform Selection Saw Triangle Square Sine Filters 2-Pole 3320? 4 pole Ladder? Filter Control A, D, S, R VCA 3 LFO’s Arpeggiator Section Rate Range Selection Performance Menu Patch Storage Patch Recall

Back panel Midi In\Out\Thru Power inlet Power on/off

ETD 2020 $1995 for 4 Voice $2495 8 Voice
Wood sides or aluminum

Thank you for watching!"

Some details via Indiegogo

"We are extremely excited about this new synth we are developing and hope you are too! It is an analog synth based on the Curtis CEM3340 sound generator chip series with a variety of features that will serve as our initial product with many more to come. Under the Paramount Synth, LLC umbrella, this flagship product will be developed. We are still debating the name of the synth but we are getting close.

For those of you that don’t know, Curtis components contributed heavily to music in the 1980’s. The 1980’s classic synth sound was influenced by the Curtis chips including the CEM3340. The list of synths that contained Curtis chips is too large to list here but a quick internet search will blow you away.

This synth will have many features that you are looking for and a few more, but we are not letting all of our secrets out quite yet. The keyboard itself will support 3 octaves with 4 voices and 2 oscillators. Some of the basic features include:

3 octave keyboard
4 voices/2 oscillators
Dual bender sections
One for pitch and one for LFO
LFO selection
Octave selection
Play Modes
Whole
Dual
Unison
Split
3 LFO’s
Frequency
Delay
Level
Waveform Selection
Saw
Triangle
Square
Sine
Filters
2-Pole 3320?
4 pole Ladder?
Filter Control
A, D, S, R
VCA
3 LFO’s
Arpeggiator Section
Rate
Range
Selection
Performance Menu
Patch Storage
Patch Recall
Back panel

Midi In\Out\Thru
Power inlet
Power on/off

This is the front panel illustrating the “Red” color option. Just looking at the front panel provides excellent insight to where we are taking synth performance. We will probably take some liberties and move certain controls and indicators as we get into final layout and fabrication but all of the basic functionality we have discussed will be there.……along with a few surprises that we will let you know about along the way!"

TEST SERIES Electro-Faustus EF110 Blackfly Gotharman's FX DeFormer Korg Kaoss Pad Quad

Published on Feb 6, 2019 Outsider Sound Design

"Electro-Faustus EF110 Blackfly, Gotharman's FX DeFormer, and Korg Kaoss Pad Quad.

The purpose of “TEST SERIES” is to focus on the sound design possibilities of various gear combinations. This series is not musical nor does it serve as an instructional video. It is all about sound potential.
Please consider supporting this channel by purchasing a sample pack or music download from www.outsidersounddesign.com"

Roland TB-303 Bass Line w/ Manuals

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Akai S612 Sampler & Disk Drive

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"An akai s612 sampler. This is a pretty cool old school sampler, this was one of akai’s first. Comes with a free akai md280 sample floppy disk drive. The sampler works for sure but I don’t know how to test the floppy drive so I’m throwing it in for free."

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Plankton Electronics Ants! Semi-Modular Desktop Synth

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Large custom knobs.

"Somewhat discounted due to occasional noise in the moment of engaging the button that switches between hi and lo pass filter outputs. It's in great shape otherwise, having only left the non-smoking studio once to appear in the video above."