MATRIXSYNTH

Deluge 3.0 Firmware Feature Tease: QWERTY Keyboard

Published on Mar 16, 2019 Synthstrom Audible

"A tease of one of the features coming in Deluge Firmware Update 3.0, due 2019

This major software update will be out later this year. Development is still underway and there will be a lot more to unveil soon, but the feature we can finally demo to you is is our new QWERTY keyboard mode.

In this mode, the Deluge's pads double as a QWERTY keyboard, allowing you to type text. This is accompanied by the ability to give your saved songs and presets actual text-based names, and quickly locate files by typing their name or first few characters. This will be a serious workflow boost for our users who have hundreds or even thousands of songs saved, or work with large libraries of samples. See the video below for a demonstration.

We’ll be unveiling the V3.0 software at Superbooth in Berlin on May 9th, but will share another tease and further details on what you can expect before then."

Roland R8 MK2 drum machine programming

Published on Mar 16, 2019 David Morley

"Programming real time pitch and decay parameters on the Roland R8 mk2 Almost identical on the mk1. An amazing drum machine with great sequencer features. I do get asked a lot about how to do this, so hopefully you can see how to record the real time slider."

X1L3 - Underwurlde and Shard - Harsh noise and power electronix

Published on Mar 16, 2019 X1L3

"Trial run of underwurlde (beta) - esoteric delay, looper and texture generator in a power electronics session. The set is dominated heavily by shard, but as it progresses and underwurlde finds it's place the lead is gradually handed over. So if you're curious then it's worth lettig the video run, or at least skipping to a third to mid ay through to get to where underwurlde starts to take the lead roll. Shard is continuously fed through underwurlde. For something fucked up to grap in a looper it does a great job. To then pitch and further abuse that psychosis is awesome. Wreckage provides the backing drone that leads in and out and keeps a drone through much of the set. Soundmachines LP1 lightplanes are used through the whole thing for cv manipulation. I love these things for live work and can't recommend them enough :)

The module was orginally designed to serve as a companion to shard, specifically for those with a desire for unhinged, violent and extreme textures and sounds. It serves the original purpose admirably but can be used with just about anything to add a quite unique slant on things. A past of indulging in circuit bending and a taste for abstract electronica being pivotal to the final outcome of the module.

At the core of underwurlde is a delay with an impressive maximum time and a solid method of manipulating the audio passing through it. Almost as if the ram contents were concrete. It can do the nice 'analogue' delay thing and time wise is capable of three to four seconds before you start to touch on a drop in quality, five to six with the low pass filter closed to mask the start of aliasing and noise. Beyond that it can drop to incredibly long looping with a gradual deterioration into bizarre and unique abuse through to noise similar to a pt2399, but much much better. It can lock the contents of the ram and switch to the function of looper. While in both delay and looper mode a 'ramglitch' array can be activated to mutilate the audio passing through the system. At faster rates you get the kinds o feffects often found in circuit bent digital machines. A circuit bent TR505 would be a good reference point for an example of this. As the rate decreases it gets more and more unhinged. The whitehouse track 'a cunt like you' being a prime example of what it starts to do once the echo/loop rate is slowed down. In a power electronix/noise rig it fits perfectly next to shard as it can provide the rhythmical texture favoured in PE such as NTT and theologian while shard is left to generate more organic artefacts and textures.

Gating is single press on/off on all features. Delay on/off, ramlock, delay/loop fast/slow, ramglitch1, 2 and 3. A gate or trigger will set any feature high or low depending on state. A second gate will revert back.

Ramglitch has a 3x array available to it. On the back of the module are three jumpers. Each of which can be set to configure the ramglitch array according to taste. An expansion module is planned for this which will add another eight gates over an 8 point matrix to the module. Each addressing one of the data lines in the ram/processor interface. Each data line being able to intefere with every other as desired. This will give countless ramglitch combinations which in turn give the module the capability to generate true circuit bent sounds, eliminating the necessity of a circuit bent instrument for those who might be interested in experimenting with such things."

MFB TANZBÄR 2 // FACTORY PRESET PATTERNS // 2

Published on Mar 16, 2019 LESINDES

Tweaking FACTORY drum grooves in MFB TANZBÄR 2 -- PART 1.
No sound enhancement. It is the pure machine.
Wrong interface mentioned in the credit list: The sound was recorded with ZOOM H-6.

Ambient Modular Synthesizer Collaboration ★ Plaits, Rings, Clouds, Magneto ★ PROGRESSION ★

Published on Mar 16, 2019

★ PROGRESSION ★ Ambient Modular Synthesizer Collaboration ★ Plaits, Rings, Clouds, Magneto ★

A collaboration with look_o_u_t (check him on instagram @look_o_u_t). Having been inspired by this beautiful piece by Albert Paley (@paleystudios) entitled "Progression" that was then on exhibit at Sculpture Fields park in Chattanooga, TN (www.sculpturefieldspark.org), the drone/pad was patched first by look_o_u_t and then I patched the bells and rhythmic elements using Intellijel Plonk and Mutable Instruments Plaits. The footage was shot on the Lumix GH5 with Leica 12-60 lens.

★ Special thanks to my good friend look_o_u_t for making this happen. ★

Recorded in Ableton Live 10. As always, thanks for listening.

Oscillate:Pittsburgh 2019 Set for Next Next Weekend

via Evaton Technologies

Once again, we are holding our annual Oscillate:Pittsburgh 2019 event this year on Saturday, March 23, from 2PM until approximately 8PM, at the Western Pennsylvania Center for the Arts, 300 James St. Verona PA 15147.

Oscillate:Pittsburgh is an annual event showcasing electronic music and the instruments used to create it.

Now in its 5th year, this part meet 'n' greet, part performance event will feature a wide variety of musical performances, modular synthesizer vendors, and a show-and-tell area.

There will be additional tables if you have some awesome gear you want to show off. Bring your CDs to sell, your business cards, and an open mind.

Admission is free, however donations to the Western Pennsylvania Center for the Arts (a non-profit organization) are gladly accepted.

Performers this year include:

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Simple things - Norns & U-he Hive

Published on Mar 16, 2019 junklight

"I'm just thinking about upgrading the Norns to beta 2.0 and somehow got distracted"

Mc202 and A4

Published on Mar 16, 2019 Cray

Arches 1.1

Published on Mar 16, 2019 Erstlaub

"Totally not my *thing* but a bit of tooling around testing the far more functional fw 1.1 for Arches.

5 Tracks of rhythm sequenced from Arches, Plaits from the step sequencer and then Elements and Braids as live elements on the left and right hand kb's."