Minimoog Model D w/ Matt Johnson of Jamiroquai

Published on Dec 16, 2019 Matt Johnson Jamiroquai

"I chat briefly about my Minimoog and play some sounds, along with the Yamaha Montage 8 and Behringer RD-8"

Supercritical Synthesizer - Demon Core Workshop @SchneidersLaden

Published on Dec 16, 2019 Alex4

"The most far-traveled guests of the 2019 autumn workshop season - Timo and Heikki from Supercritical Synthesizers. The new module builders from Finland have brought us the Demon Core Oscillator - powerful 16-VCOs in one module. After the wonderful and positively cheesy initial performance, the workshop continued with an exploration of the features and concepts behind the first Supercritical Synthesizers product. Also, Timo and Heikki revealed some of their favorite tricks!"

Interactive Ambient Music Head-Scratcher

Published on Dec 16, 2019 Human Interface

"Ever scratch your head and think, 'If only this were more interactive?'. Well these Stockholm design students we worked with have you covered with this nifty device! Music is activated by holding the head-scratcher and the melody undulates as you massage your head putting you into mega-zen."

Playing live with nuclear instruments and unknown synths

Published on Dec 16, 2019 HAINBACH

Some new gear in the second half of the video includes the Herbs and Stones Liquid Foam and the Neon Egg Planetarium (demos below).

"In which I play an improvised live show with a setup that is new and barely rehearsed.

Usually when I play live, I like to work with the setup I have had for the past three years. In fact, the reason for this channel was that I needed an audience to get better at improvising on my instruments, the camera became an important tool to get good it. But after five weeks of doing art projects, theatre soundtracks and live performances I was burned out. So I decided to play myself a little bit - I choose a completely new setup. Only the Plumbutter was with me on stage before, the rest, including FX and mixer, are studio pieces. Some, such as the Boxcar I had never used in that function before, and one synth had just arrived that day. I did not even know if I could safely travel with the nuclear instrumentation modular rack, without it breaking. The excitement of trying something new helped break the block I felt and I had a good time at the show.

You can find the full audio here: www.patreon.com/hainbach"

Check out more of HAINBACH's experimental lab and test equipment in previous posts here.

Herbs and Stones Liquid Foam - patch from scratch

Published on Dec 5, 2019 Gianluca Herbertson

"A quick jam with Liquid Foam, showing some of its patching possibilities.

herbs---stones.com"

2X Liquid Foam jam

Published on Aug 7, 2019 Gianluca Herbertson

"Quick jam with two Liquid Foam prototypes on a hot and cloudy summer afternoon"

Neon Egg Planetarium - Sidechain Compressor, Reverb, Delay, Chorus

Published on Feb 8, 2019 NEON EGG

"This is the Planetarium from Neon Egg.

It's a stereo reverb and chorus, running into a delay (with stereo modulation) which then runs into a compressor (with external sidechain).

Create beautiful tapey wobbly reverb tails from any instrument, then sidechain it live to a drummer (or anything else) without needing a computer or click track."

Neon Egg Planetarium - In Depth Video

Published on Jun 29, 2019 NEON EGG

Modular Demo: What can I do with a small Eurorack? My 120hp Modular Synth Setup

Published on Dec 16, 2019 Mitch Lantz

"This is a rundown of how I use my 120hp Modular Synthesizer including some improvisation.
Find this build with all the modules seen here on Modular Grid - https://www.modulargrid.net/e/racks/v...

Modules Used:
4ms SWN, Listen 4
WMD Metron, Voltera, Crucible, Fracture
Noise Engineering Basimilus Iteritas Alter
Erica Synths Pico Mix and VCF1"

Something new is coming

Published on Dec 16, 2019 DivKidVideo

"Something new ... and it's coming soon ... what is it? ... Answers on a postcard ... or if you haven't posted a postcard in 20+ years leaving your guess in the comments in welcome."

Slow is Smooth and Smooth is Fast (IDM Live Synth Jam)

Published on Dec 16, 2019 Ralph Baumgartl

"This is my latest IDM Live Synth Jam with some traces of EDM and Berlin School of Electronic Music. As the title suggests I go from slow and gentle to fast, and then back to slow. I just love dabbling with these musical genres. Please indulge me ;-)

Here’s the list of my Synth and Gear setup:
Bass Synths: Roland SE-02 (Studio Electronics), ARP 2600 with Arturia Keystep Controller, Korg Volca Keys
Lead Synths: Oberheim OB-1, Arturia Microbrute, Roland JX-3P
Pads: Korg M50 (Piano), Roland Vocoder VP-330, Roland JD-Xi
Additional Gear: Akai MPK25 controlling a Macbook running Logic Pro for Sequencing, Strymon BigSky, Strymon Timeline, Zoom MS-70CDR, Boss BX-600 mixer, MOTU Micro Lite USB Midi Interface, Soundcraft Signature 22 MTK, Yamaha YME8 Midi Expander.

If you like my Music, then please consider supporting me on https://ralphbaumgartl.bandcamp.com

Thank you so much for watching!"

Korg MiniPops 3 midi demo (Aria Diamond) - uniPulse

Published on Dec 16, 2019 tubbutec

"Showing our midi kit for the Minipops 3 and many other drum machines: https://tubbutec.de/unipulse/

Midi controlled MiniPops, original sound with a bit of added reverb. The Aria Diamond shown is a re-branded Korg Minipops 3.
Info and installation manual see link above."

Squarp Instruments Pyramid | Ollie Noir

Published on Dec 16, 2019 Ollie Loops

"In this video, we make a song with the Pryamid standalone sequencer by Squarp Instruments. This is one of the most powerful and feature rich sequencers we have seen. We connect the Pyramid to the Roland SP404SX sampler and the Moog Sub37 synthesizer. Then we go a bit further by connecting the Strymon Big Sky Reverb effects pedal using midi and automate midi parameters on the Pyramid.

We enjoy making videos like this and we hope you enjoy them too. In this video, we deep dive into film noir with our own character Ollie Noir. Videos like this allow us to have fun, spice things up and keep things creative and weird."

ST Modular - Rocinante´s Gate

Published on Dec 16, 2019 Stefan Tretau

"LPG with Envelope Generator and LFO

Rocinante´s Gate is not a classical low-pass gate (LPG) using vactrols, but goes way beyond that providing an adjustable envelope to control the "gate" through an analog filter. Sending a gate or trigger signal into the GATE INPUT will create these envelope shaped sounds you know from other LPGs.

The LOWPASS knob adjusts the range of frequencies being affected by the gate. If you turn it fully counter clockwise the whole frequency spectrum will be gated. Turning it clockwise will slowly add low frequencies to the gated singal until the whole spectrum is not affected anymore.

ENV AMT sets the amount of how much the internal envelope affects the low-pass gate. RISE sets the time how long it will take the sound to go from silent to the loudest level. Just like the time it takes the LED insight of a vactrol to start lighting to its full potential. DECAY controls how long it takes to go from an intial peak to the "gate-phase" level. The length of this phase is varied by the LENGTH potentiometer. Finally FALL changes the time your sound will need to return to silence after the "gate-phase". Just like the time it takes the LED insight of a vactrol to shut down.
RESONANCE sets the amount of filtered audio being fed back into the filter input. It can´t go into self-oscillation, but is able to create very crunchy and juicy overtones when turning clockwise.

The internal Trigger Generator is being controlled with TRIG RATE and the RE-TRIG/LOOP SWITCH. Adjust the rate of the trigger and apply the singal to either a re-trigger circuitry that repeats the "gate-phase" as long as a gate signal is being applied or to a loop functionality that will create cycles of gates without an external gate or trigger. The ENV/INV SWITCH enables you to alternatively route an inverted envelope to the low-pass filter. This way you may create "ducking" or "side-chained" sounds.

An internal triangle LFO can be routed via the LVL ATT attenuator to vary the amount of envelope that is being passed to the gate. The LFO will be deactivated if you turn the LVL ATT attenuator fully counter-clockwise or if you use an external signal to control the envelope amount by patching a CV signal into LVL CV.

In addition to the Audio IN and OUT jacks you may take the signals of the internal envelope and LFO from the ENV OUT and LFO OUT to controll external devices. In combination with the loop function Rocinante´s Gate is not only a Low-Pass-Gate, but also an LFO and ADSR Generator.

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