Mini Jam Monday #35 | Korg Volca Bass, Volca Keys, & Teenage Engineering PO-32 Tonic

Published on Feb 11, 2019 littleBIGsynths

"Happy Monday everyone! 😀 lol Here is another Mini Jam for you guys featuring a couple Volcas and the PO-32 Tonic. In this jam, the Volca Keys is playing the chords and bass line; the Volca Bass is playing some arps; and the PO-32 Tonic is playing the beat."

New hapiNES 8 bit Desktop Groovebox from Twisted Elektrons

This one is in via Liquid Sky Berlin, via gearporn.berlin.

"available in march 2019 - 255 PLUS vat plus shipping

​Features

Hardware MIDI input (sync, notes and parameter modulation)

Analog trigger sync in and out

USB-MIDI input (sync, notes and parameter modulation)

Dedicated VST/AU plugin for full DAW integration

4 tracks for real-time composing

Authentic triangle bass

2 squares with variable pulsewidth

59 synthesized preset drum sounds + 1 self-evolving drum sound

16 arpeggiator modes with variable speed

Vibrato with variable depth and speed

18 Buttons

32 Leds

6 high quality potentiometers

16 pattern memory

3 levels of LED brightness (Beach, Studio, Club)

Live recording, key change and pattern chaining (up to 16 patterns/ 256 steps)

Pattern copy/pasting

Ratcheting (up to 4 hits per step)

Reset on any step (1-16 step patterns)"

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Behringer Crave Sessions - Ambient

Published on Feb 11, 2019 BEHRINGER

"Our Broadcaster at Behringer HQ in Germany is back on the Crave, this time with a 1980's inspired ambient arpeggiator improv."

1989 Akai MPC60, S1000 and S1000PB "Hitmakers: Don Henley and Akai" Ad

via Retro Synth Ads where you'll find the full write-up.

"MPC60, S1000, S1000PB 'Hitmakers: Don Henley and Akai' colour advertisement from page 23 in the December 1989 issue of Keyboard Magazine."

Soniccouture Balinese Gamelan: Breaking Bad Original Music

Published on Feb 11, 2019 Soniccouture

"A short excerpt from Sony Picture's Breaking Bad, where Soniccouture's Balinese Gamelan virtual instrument is used as the main musical motif.
http://www.soniccouture.com/en/produc..."

Stable Clock and Easy Setup - VCV Rack & Ableton Tutorial

Published on Feb 11, 2019 VCV Rack Ideas

"Do you have unstable clock in VCV Rack from Ableton Live? Do you have any issue with VCV Rack & Ableton workflow? Do you need proper multitrack looper and recorder setup in Ableton? Do you need some advice of using Ableton devices for shaping sounds from VCV Rack?

I see a lot of questions about VCV Bridge around the web. Just watch this video and I hope all your questions will find the answers.

You can support me on Patreon and download all files from this video https://www.patreon.com/vcvrackideas

Check my Instagram page
https://www.instagram.com/vcvrackideas/"

Cut Off

Published on Feb 10, 2019 zack dagoba

"How to patch a filter so that it has extra resonance. In this case its a vintage Buchla 100 series Model 191 which has zero resonance in normal use. But like so much with the 100 series, a simple patch-around solution is available. Just send the filter output back in on itself with a mixer, blending the input signal and filter output to get resonance galore. The mixer is used BEFORE the input to the filter, in other words, the mixer used to combine the dry signal with the filtered signal and send it back in on itself. Look at the diagram in the video. See https://myblogitsfullofstars.blogspot... for more"

Behringer CRAVE Does Acid!

Published on Feb 11, 2019 mootbooxle

"When I was playing with the Crave the other day, I heard some tones that made me think, 'I wonder how 303-eqsue I can make it sound?' Just add distortion (this is an EHX Big Muff w/Tone Wicker) and it’s ACID TIME. You have to imagine the crazy patterns because that ain’t really my genre. But it’s fun, and I just put out a vinyl record of it!

The sound is then going through the Strymon El Capistan delay for some 'space', then straight into the Roland Go:Mixer Pro which is connected to iPhone X which shot this video."

Laurie Anderson - Optigan / Panoptigon 2010 One-Off Disc Demo

Published on Feb 11, 2019 optigandotcom

"This is a historical oddity that was never intended for public consumption, but in honor of Laurie Anderson's Grammy Award for LANDFALL (which prominently features Robert Becker's heavily modified "Optigan Pro"), we thought it'd be fun to share this and get in a quick Panoptigon demo at the same time (http://optigan.com/2019/01/panoptigon...). When we lent Laurie the Optigan, we thought it'd be fun to put some of her own sounds on a one-off disc for her to mess around with. We pulled drums & musical loops for the chord buttons, and short spoken phrases for the keyboard. This demo is just some spontaneous noodling, which was recorded in multiple MIDI passes and then dumped live to audio. The video was shot during the actual audio recording, so you can see the disc speed up, slow down, and go into reverse in time with the audio. Maybe not Grammy material (OK, decidedly not!), but a geeky curiosity nonetheless! Congrats, Laurie & Kronos!"

Original 1977 Yamaha CS-80 Synthesizer Manual & Brochure

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Manual via this auction
Brochure via this auction

"If you own a CS80 and you don't have this document you are incomplete."

Description for the Manual:

"Here is a rarity.. The original manual for the iconic Yamaha CS80 Polyphonic synthesizer dated February 1977. This would have been the manual shipped with the very first units.

I got this with my CS80 in 2001 and recently came across it in a pile of documents I will be listing for sale over the next week. I've seen the 1980 manual online but this is the only one of these I've seen in 20 years of obsessing over these instruments. It's in ok shape, its a 42 year old document and shows some age as you can see in the photos. I have kept it flat, wrapped in a mylar magazine bag to preserve it as best i can. It's 20 pages cover to cover, it has some stains, a rip and isn't perfect but is what it is."

Description for the Brochure:

"Although not as obscure the 1977 owners manual, this document is rarely seen, particularly in this condition. I've seen lesser quality copies of this fetch document my asking price on ebay over the years. Dates to June 1977 (7726)

I got this with my CS80 in 2001 and recently came across it in a pile of documents I will be listing for sale over the next week. It's in ok shape, its a 42 year old document and shows some age as you can see in the photos. I have kept it flat, wrapped in a mylar magazine bag to preserve it as best i can. It's 8 pages cover to cover. 1 tear at the bottom through all pages. 3 ring binder holes. Full colour, suitable for framing."

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