KORG Volca Nubass: The New Acid Bass Machine

Published on Aug 15, 2019 Noisegate

"We recently got our hands on the Volca Nubass, the newest in Korg’s Volca series of synthesisers and drum machines. Videos first emerged earlier this year at Superbooth 2019 – and since then we’ve been anxiously awaiting its arrival.

The Volca Nubass is NOT a TB-303 clone, but rather a great sounding ‘acid’ bass synthesizer, in the form-factor of a Volca with a few extra tricks up its sleeve."

Gamechanger Audio Motor Synth at Summer NAMM 2020

Motorized Synthesizer at Summer NAMM Published on Aug 15, 2019

"Eric Black stops by the Game Changer Audio booth to check out Motorsynth. This motor driven synthesizer is truly one of a kind!"

Summer NAMM is kind of a low-key version of Winter NAMM. It's always interesting to see who from the synth community shows up. In this case, it sounds like Game Changer attended to showcase their guitar pedals, but brought along the Moter Synth, of course.

Funny side note. I created year labels for NAMM considering how much usually goes up. Because Summer NAMM starts before Winter NAMM, this is the first NAMM2020 post.

Void Modular Graviton VCO Demo

Published on Aug 15, 2019 Sean Pendleton

"VOID Modular Graviton VCO Demo by Pressurewave

A swiss army knife of a VCO in 8hp. Triangle, sine, saw, pulse, /2 suboctave square, /4 suboctave square, white noise, pink noise. The noise is normalized to the FM attenuverter, so you can do anything from 'a little dirty' to 'tuned noise'. It's 3340 based, so it's very stable, but enough extras to give it some personality."

via Void Modular on Etsy

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Korg PS-3200 Rare Vintage Analog Synthesizer

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Akai S3000XL Classic Sampler SN A9855-00445 w/ Original Box & Upgrades

via this auction

"Classic Akai S3000XL Sampler in original box,
Upgraded with full 32MB RAM. Operating system 2.0

8 Individual-Output board in place with digital I/O.

Stereo analog input sampling. Fantastic sounding unit, same converters as the MPC 2000.

This is a Japanese made unit, not the Chinese made model. This is the good’n :)

16bit / 12bit resampling, reverse sample, normalizing, loop, excellent trim/ adjust.
LCD screen working well, brightness is pretty good, see photos taken in studio with overhead light on.

Comes in original box. With power cable."

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The E-MU Proteus 2000 Song

Published on Aug 15, 2019 ProckGnosis

"Another one-synth song (the song starts at 02:23) from a synth I'm considering selling. Got this a LONG time ago, and never really used it much. Was a lot more into classic analog sounds when I bought it, and I never really got into the variety of samples and patches it offered so much. After I picked up a Yamaha Motif Rack a couple years after, I hardly ever touched the Proteus 2000.

Sadly I appreciate it a lot more now than when I bought it. Despite it being a fully digital product, it offers some seriously cool features for programming that a lot of ROMplers can't compete with, and as you can hear, it's fully capable of producing some great sounding stuff.

Isolated clips from the tune and some facts about the Proteus 2000 start at 06:38."

Bizarre Jezabel - Chloe v3

Published on Aug 15, 2019 ivan krasnov

tube overdrive Delay MultiMode Filter

rev 3
new version changes
cv - resonance filter (vactrol) led indicated or
cv - wet (mix delay) led indicated

the tube inside the module

LPG - MMF - TUBE - delay Pt2399
passive vactrol lpg/vca
mmf filter
Tube overdrive/distortion
delay based IC pt2399 with filtered tail
cv - delay led indicated

Ableton Live - Creating Playable Synth Instruments from an Analog Drum Machine, Tama Techstar ts306

Published on Aug 15, 2019 Expanding Sound

http://www.expandingsound.com

"I decided to share the creation process of my next mega pack, the Tama Techstar Series! I have 2 of these vintage analog drum units, one with 4 toms, a synth and clap voice, and the other with snare and rim shot voices. While the pack will include several drum racks, I decided to try and create playable instruments out of the samples as well. After all, an analog drum machine is just a polyphonic synthesizer, with a certain set of voices dependent on the amount of drums it is creating. This video showcases my process. I record samples, map them across a key bed in Sampler, play with the modulation and create a melody. Hope you find it useful as you create your own packs!
This is using Ableton 9.7.7, even though I have 10 I'm not sure everyones ready to upgrade so I don't want to shut anyone out on my packs!"

MODULAR TOYS #1 "Baby mobile"

Published on Aug 15, 2019 Tasos Stamou

"A toy phone turned into an amazing eurorack module, capable of creating unique rhythmic patterns, also work as an idiosyncratic oscillator and much more."

Great colors!

Black Corporation's Deckard's Voice Eurorack Module Open for Pre-Order - Priced at $199

via the Deckard's Dream website:

"This is a preorder deposit for a Deckard’s Voice synthesizer

The total price is $699 with free worldwide shipping, the remaining balance of $500 is to be paid when the product is ready for shipping, we expect to ship all orders in November 2019.

Deckard’s Voice is an entry level semi-modular synth from Black Corporation for eurorack systems. Sharing the same paradigm and circuit as it’s bigger brother Deckard’s Dream, trimmed down for eurorack and supplemented with the flexibility available only in a modular format.

Features:

VCO with pulse, glitch saw and sine outputs
Dedicated LFO for PWM
Noise source
external audio input to a filter
Discrete hipass and lowpass filters with resonance and IL-AL-ADR envelope
LFO with sine, saw, ramp, square, smooth and stepped random output
output VCA with ADSR envelope and velocity control over volume
ADSR (0-10V) and LFO (-5V/+5V) outputs
master and line level outputs
32HP size
+12/-12V standard eurorack power

We offer free worldwide shipping with Japan Post. Courier delivery (UPS, DHL, FedEx etc) is available but will be charged at an additional cost."

Pic via Black Corporation's Instagram.