Sébastien Léger - Techno Jazz Modular Freestyle Thing

Published on Aug 14, 2019 Sebastien Leger

"it's been a while ! Just a fun little jam, this time something faster, funky & jazzy tech'"

intellijel Stereo Line Out 1U

Published on Aug 14, 2019 Intellijel

"Use the Stereo Line Out 1U system to send audio from your modular synth into power amplifiers, mixers, audio interfaces, DAWs, and other such audio gear. The system works with both balanced +4 dBu professional audio products; and with -10dbV unbalanced gear."

via intellijel

"Use the Stereo Line Out 1U system to send audio from your modular synth into power amplifiers, mixers, audio interfaces, DAWs, and other such audio gear. The system works with both balanced +4 dBu professional audio products; and with -10dbV unbalanced gear.

The Stereo Line Out 1U system comprises two components:

The Stereo Line Out 1U module:
Either a Stereo Out Jacks 1U module, or a case with built-in ¼” audio jacks, such as Intellijel’s Palette or 7U cases (with a 2nd generation Audio Jacks board)."

Make Noise Mimeophon

Published on Aug 14, 2019 MAKEN0ISE

Update: 2nd interview with Tom Erbe and Walker Farrell video added below.

"The Mimeophon music synthesizer module is a stereo, multi-zone color audio repeater by Make Noise and soundhack, coded by Tom Erbe.

The Mimeophon (from Greek mimeo (repeat/copy) and phon (sound)) is a modern take on various historical sound copying, echo and repeating devices. It allows for Stereo modulations of Time, Space and Timbre of Mono or Stereo sound sources. The Mimeophon is capable of modulating and morphing time scales of repeated sound from micro-sound to note to phrase length while also coloring and spatializing the repeats.

- Full Stereo In and Out
- Color Coded Modeless Algorithm: morph between Karplus, Flange, Chorus, Echo, Looping and everything in between
- Rate continuously controls Repeats frequency within Zones
- Skew lets Rate control Repeats differently for Left and Right channels
- μRate offers dedicated Doppler Modulation
- Tempo Sync for Doppler Free modulation of Rate, create complex repeat patterns
- Control number of Repeats up to and beyond Infinite
- Halo smears Repeats in stereo space
- Color focuses feedback energy for timbral shifts over time
- Rate Out generates Pulses at Skewed Tempos, completing the conversation within the modular system
- Zones may be Flipped for backward repeats
- Hold sound for non-destructive modulation of infinite loops
- Fully Voltage Controlled Time, Space and Color modulation algorithm
- Reasonable power consumption
- Pairs well with Morphagene, QPAS, and X-PAN

MSRP: $399
Width: 16hp
Max Depth: 30mm
Power:
100mA@ +12V
10mA @ -12V"

Mimeophon Development: a conversation with Tom Erbe and Walker Farrell

Published on Aug 14, 2019 MAKEN0ISE

"As we were wrapping up development of the Mimeophon, Tom Erbe stopped by our shop to discuss his inspirations behind the module with Make Noise's Instrument Specialist Walker Farrell.

Tom Erbe (of Soundhack) has worked with us on several modules, including the Echophon, tELHARMONIC, Erbe-Verb and Morphagene. Our latest collaboration, the Mimeophon, is a stereo, multi-zone color audio repeater, and is a modern take on various historical sound copying, echo and repeating devices."

Quadruple Serge Waveshaper LM3900 wavefolder analog synth module

Published on Aug 14, 2019 Sbranvlztronics

"Quadruple Serge Waveshaper LM3900 wavefolder analog synth module.

Thanks for watching"

06-The Arturia Microfreak- Oscillator types F: Virtual Analog

Published on Aug 14, 2019 AutomaticGainsay

"Here is a demonstration of the sound and functionality of the Virtual Analog oscillator on the Arturia MicroFreak."

Arturia MicroFreak videos by AutomaticGainsay

What does an 8-voice SKULPT sound like?

Published on Aug 14, 2019 Modal Electronics

"Each chord here is the full 8 voices, we have simply hard panned each unit to give some width (4 voices left and 4 voices right) and jammed over some drunken swung drums.

You can chain up to 4 SKULPT's together to give 16 voices with 128 oscilators."

CATCH VCF modulation

Published on Aug 14, 2019 ReBach

"In this demo one VCO modulates a VCF cutoff. A second VCO runs through this VCF and the ADSR controlled the VCA."

Kraftwerk

Modor Noisy oscillator and Formant filter -Dark Vowel patch

Published on Aug 14, 2019

"Today I have a patch using Modor Noisy oscilltor and Modor-Control Filter, a bit of fun with Vowel using dark patch.
to this I added Black Dual VCF-Erica Synths filter for resonance which can be heard when lfo releases it from time to time by opening the filter .. but all the sound comes from Noisy VCO and Control filter. for this I used a little reverb from the Black Hole DSP module from Erica Synths and changed the filter format to the vowel some time, a slight addition of noise from the Noisy oscillator also causes the filter control to process the noise itself, which seems to create a rather dark effect.

More info about Modor eurorack modules here : http://www.modormusic.com

Noisy Oscillator module is and oscillator that mixes two signals: a 'regular' wave (sawtooth/square/triangle) and a 'tonal noisy' wave. This adds a special noisy layer over the sound, that adds 'air', grit or dirt, depending on the combinations you make. The MOD parameter acts on the noisy waveforms:

Sonar Noise: a white noise filtered by a resonant bandpass filter, with 1V/oct tracking of the filter frequency. The MOD parameter controls the resonance.
Wind Noise: white noise filtered by a comb filter, with 1V/oct tracking of the base frequency (delay). The MOD parameter controls a 6dB/oct hipass filter.
Arcade Noise: LFSR noise source as can be found on the SID soundchips (Commodore) or Sega Arcade games. The MOD parameter controls again a 6dB/oct hipass filter.
The noisy wave can be set equal, or 1 or 2 octaves above the regular wave.

The module has two voices, with their own set of CV and output connectors. This can be used to play in a full 2-voice polyphony, or in a 2-voice unison. The outputs can be separate, using both output connectors, or mixed, using only the connector of the second voice.

Next to the 1V/oct pitch CV, the module offers CV control over pitch (FM), the MOD parameter and the sound level:

FM CV: pitch control normalled to 0V, attenuated with the FM knob (+ and -). This allows for Frequency Modulation up to the lower audio range. It's of course a digital module, so higher frequencies can start inducing aliasing and digital artefacts.
MOD CV: CV control for the MOD parameter, normalled to 0V and attenuated with the CV AMT knob (+ and -).
LEVEL CV: CV control for the sound volume, normalled to 7.5V. With this CV control you can omit an external VCA stage if you want.
The CV signals of the second voice (upper row of connectors) are always normalled to the signal of the first voice (lower row), so you can use a single LFO for some FM vibrato or tremolo on both voices, for example. Only the V/oct connector of the second voice is normalled to the first voice with an extra addition of a fixed voltage that can be set using a trimmer at the backside of the module. This way you can use the 2 voices to play in unison with a fixed pitch separation you can set on the backside.

Modor's Formant Filter is a special filter that does a kind of 'vowel morphing' between three vowels. The big central FORMANT control is responsible for that, and on the Eurorack module there's of course a CV control (with attenuation) on this parameter.

You can imagine a formant filter as a set of parallel bandpass filters, picking up and amplifying a set of small frequency bands. For example, with these frequency bands around 750Hz, 1200Hz and 2800Hz, you get the sound of an 'A'. So far, nothing special. There are more formant filters around composed of a set of parallel bandpass filters.

It gets more interesting when you're able to 'morph' between different sets of those formant frequencies. Behind the central FORMANT control, there are 3 of those sets of frequencies. One at full left, one in the middle, and one fully right. So you can for example morph between A-E-O. Or U-I-E. Or AO-UI-EU. Or ...

That's what it does: morphing between different sets of formant frequencies, and that's why it sounds a lot more genuine vowelish than many other static bandpass combinators.

There are 10 preset vowels, that can be selected with the VOWEL button: A-E-O-I-OE-U-EI-EU-AO-U-UI. The vowels of the Dutch language... :-)

The 1-2-3-4 controls on top give you the possibility of composing your own vowels by manually adjusting the frequency bands."

Modal Electronics Craftsynth 2.0 & TC Electronic Helix

Published on Aug 14, 2019 3rdStoreyChemist

Testing Sidrax trig outputs on my Radio Music modules

Published on Aug 14, 2019 batchas

"Tested the Sidrax to trig events on the Radio Music.
The piezos behind the wood pads are very sensitive, so taping on a pad might also activate trig out on another pad, and it's not what I intend to do actually."

Some weirdness to start the day's posts.