Oberheim Matrix-12 Presets Demos by synthmaven

Published on Apr 26, 2020 synthmaven

Patch Notes: Paul Cousins

Published on Apr 26, 2020 FACTmagazine

"Patch Notes is a series that explores modular synthesisers and the art of making electronic music with hardware.

Paul Cousins is a producer, engineer and ambient composer from London who uses vintage synths, reel to reel tape deck and effects units to create meditative compositions. For the past month, he’s been getting through quarantine by posting a series of ‘Isolation Loops’ to his Instagram.

In this extended session, Cousins creates a dreamy 10-minute track using a Roland SH-101, KORG Poly-800 and various hardware effects."

Superbooth 20HE: Blipblox Afterdark Edition

Published on Apr 26, 2020 sonicstate

"We first saw the original Blipblox a couple of years ago at NAMM. We also caught up with Troy at NAMM this year where he was announcing the BlipBlox Afterdark. Billed as the toy synthesizer you’d want to play with once the kids have gone to bed…

With a completely re-engineered hardware and software, the BlipBlox Afterdark features; A new multimode resonant filter, multi-tap stereo delay, new oscillator section with 256 custom wavetables, 100 new kick and snare samples."

Superbooth 20HE: AVPSynth ADS mk2 - Analog drums from Russia

Published on Apr 26, 2020 sonicstate

"AVP Synth have been making analog drum synthesizers for a number of years now the ADS MK2 is the latest addition to their unique analog drum machine line up. With a complete through hole design the ADS mk2 features 7 drum sounds 4 of which are designed with specific drum sounds in mind; Bass Drum, Clap, Closed Hihat and Open Hihat. The other 3 are designed to give you a wide ranging drum synthesizer that can cover everything else you might need from snare drums to drone synths.

The sequencer is a 16 part sequencer which has record mode, step programming and pattern chaining of up to 16 parts. Patterns can be up to 256 steps. The extra tracks can be used to sequence external gear via MIDI or trigger outputs. Each individual drum synth can also be triggered via external triggers.

The ADS MK2 has been manufactured for the past year or so and AVP Synth are now coming up to their second batch. You can order directly from AVP Synth or from suppliers around Europe."

AVP Synth ADS-7 mk2

Superbooth 20HE: Softube Introduce Vermona Random Rhythm

Published on Apr 26, 2020 sonicstate

"Softtube Modular has introduced a new module from renowned modular manufacturer Vermona. Nick reviewed Softtube Modular a while back and was impressed with the resolution of the software.

Vermona Random Rhythm is an 8 channel random gate/trigger generator for your modular synth, in this case Softtube Modular. You have two different sides to the unit, real time randomness and Dice mode. Realtime means that the module is continuously generating new random values for each note value whereas in dice-mode it generates them for a complete 3/4- or 4/4-bar. In both modes, even if a bar has been diced, the sliders still influence the resulting sequence.

Softtube Modular makes these modules much more accessible to the wider world. We caught up with Tod to take a look."

Superbooth 20HE: 4ms Ensemble Oscillator and Percussion Interface

Published on Apr 26, 2020 sonicstate

"We actually gave the Ensemble Oscillator from 4ms an award at NAMM this year so we were happy to hook up with Dan Green to take another look at it and see how things were progressing with production. We also took a look at their new Percussion Interface module.

The Ensemble Oscillator is a unique Eurorack oscillator cluster, it blurs the lines between waveshaping and polyphony in some very interesting ways. You can quantize the oscillators to scales or a series of harmonics to get crazy and interesting combinations."

Superbooth 20HE: WMD Axxent, Time Warp and Sl3kt

Published on Apr 26, 2020 sonicstate

"In this video we hooked up with WMD’s Alex to check out their new modules for 2020. First of all we looked at Axxent which is an expander for WMD’s Metron trigger sequencer. Axxent gives you 16 extra accent tracks for the Metron sequencer. Taking the trigger count of Metron up to 32!!

Time warp is a two channel gated slew module. When a trigger is present the module will slew a cv signal, it can also be switched so that instead of slewing when a gate is present it can slew all the time and not slew when the gate is present. It also has a host of other features, let Alex walk you through it all…

We also took a look at WMD’s new 3 channel switch module S3lekt. All three modules are below $200. For more information check out WMD."

Superbooth 20HE: ALM System Coupe - Complete Eurorack System

Published on Apr 26, 2020 sonicstate

"ALM Busy Circuits System Coupe is ALM’s first foray into a complete modular system. The System Coupe ships with an arrangement of some of ALM’s most popular modules including; Pamela’s New Workout, Squid Salmple, MCO, Tangle Quartet and more. It also features a couple of unique modules to the system including a simple Mult and utility module called Milton.

The idea of the system is designed to create a full palette of modules for music making. The Squid Salmpler can be used in a variety of different ways from simple drum sampler triggering to a weird sampling delay and much more.

The System Coupe comes in a unique colour scheme, grey background with white writing and magenta and blue knobs. It is housed in ALM’s own case design and comes with their own power supply. The system should be available imminently and will cost £1899."

Superbooth 20HE: DBS Music and Omsonic Introduce New Eurorack Module

Published on Apr 26, 2020 sonicstate

"DBs Music and Omsonic have collaborated on a new module that takes the idea of probabilistic voltage control and puts it into a eurorack module. It is part sequencer, part random voltage source. Drawing from the John Cage idea that the job of the composer is to create the situation where complexity can occur.

The idea is that every aspect of a note; pitch, duration, portamento, envelope etc is under probabilistic control. So the idea is that instead of programming it like a sequencer or playing it like an instrument you set up the constraints for it to make music and then let it do its thing. As it is creating sequences you can interact with it and loop certain phrases.

For a deeper understanding of the module Phin gives us a demo of how you would build a sequence."

Superbooth 20HE: Future Sound Systems Recombination Engine

Published on Apr 26, 2020 sonicstate

"Just down the road in Bristol we managed to catch up with Mr Finlay Shakespeare at Future Sound Systems. Having just released his sophomore album Finlay has also found the time to release his second VCO the Recombination Engine.

The Recombination Engine is a triple oscillator design that has some very unique features for creating waveforms. Built around a new generation of CEM3340 VCO chips the Recombination Engine uses a novel novel wave-splicing technique to create waveforms.

In this video gives us a full rundown of the Recombination Engine. If you’d like to know more then head on over to Future Sound Systems"