"Vintage Oberheim Matrix 6 analog polyphonic synthesizer, from 1986. Very nice condition, and fully functional. Includes power cord.
Please note that the Matrix 6 does not have a stereo output, despite the fact that there are two output jacks labeled Left and Right. These are NOT stereo outputs - they are for setting up keyboard splits with separate outputs, as described in the owner's manual. Unless you specifically have a split patch set up to feed the Right output, you will get no audio there."
Vintage/Classic for the Minilogue xd features 100 patches inspired by the synth sounds of yesterday. Packed with vintage style brasses, warm organic pads, silky strings, punchy retro basses and creamy leads.
Vintage/Classic contains a handful of recreations of classic sounds from classic songs such as- Van Halen- Jump, 808 State- Pacific State, Underworld- Born Slippy, Vangelis- Blade Runner, Michael Jackson- Thriller, Inner City Good Life, Toto- Africa, Daft Punk- Da Funk & Aerodynamic, Harold Faltermeyer- Axel F and more
Some of the synths that have inspired the sounds of this soundset are the Roland Jupiter 8, Korg Polysix, Korg Monopoly, Sequential Prophet 5, Moog Minimoog, Roland Juno 60/106, Oberheim’s OB series and Yamaha’s DX series
The patches within Vintage/Classic have been carefully designed to be suitable for many different genres including House/Techno, Synthwave, Disco/Funk, Classic Rock, Ambient, Soundtrack/Soundscapes.
So if it’s those nostalgic 70’s, 80s and 90s that you’ve been looking for then Vintage/Classic could be your kind of thing!
On purchase you will receive step by step instructions on how to load the sounds and how to back up any of your existing patches should you wish too."
"XAOC Devices Odessa is a - wait for it - Variable Spectrum Harmonic Cluster Oscillator. An interesting FPGA based module. Edd takes us on a 5 Minute journey through it's sonic landscape.
It uses the principle of additive synthesis controlled by a set of carefully tailored macro parameters to harness thousands of sinusoidal partials that altogether form the resulting sound. The series of harmonics can be squeezed or spread apart, tilted, and pruned by a comb-like frequency response, resulting in a variety of unearthly sounds. Furthermore the VCO provides Through-zero linear FM and detuneable clusters of up to five voices."
"I've got my hands on another Nord Drum 2 and I now want to make a deeper exploration of its synthyness. In this test vid I use the Midibro in dispatcher mode to send single channel midi notes to the multiple channels of the ND2, turning it into a polysynth. I used the Edit Group settings to link all six channels and edit them as one.
What are you seeing in this vid? Well, digging through the manual led me to this (wtf) description of the "Scl Pre" mode:
"Use the Scl Pre feature with an Edit Group
to quickly set up different pitch relationships
between pads.
The pitches will begin at the set pitch on the
lowest numbered channel in the Edit Group
and increase with a factor determined by the
selected scale on the selected channels.
If a Scale has been used to set a pitch
relationship, you can change the pitch of one
channel without breaking the pitch relationship.
This will move all the other pitches until
one of the pitches reaches the maximum, or
minimum pitch (“0” or “127.5”)."
"Routing is important, utilities rule - so let's get into it! Here's a standalone vid to explore the merits of multiples, Tiptop Stackcables, Hosa hopscotch cables, (Doepfer) Switched Multiples, and the new Doepfer A182-2 Quad Switches."
"This is a live performance of Billie Eilish's song "No Time to Die" from the James Bond movie with the same name, on an Elektron Model:Cycles.
I really liked the original arrangement and wanted to see how far I could take it on Model:Cycles, trying to replicate every (well, almost) single harmony and note.
This was achieved by sequencing a background consisting of beats, bass and a combination of chord machines with all kinds of harmonies and intervals p-locked. On top of this I use the trig keyboard to play the lead melody live."
