MATRIXSYNTH

From DAW sketch to DAWless song with the Elektron Octatrack MkII

Published on May 30, 2020 Jay Hosking

"A live, semi-improvised track, performed entirely on the Elektron Octatrack MkII. Still in the island cabin, I decided to load some old stems into the Octatrack and see what happened.

Before I got into this all-hardware approach, I stalled out for years making fragments of songs in DAWs; it was really only the immediacy and performability of hardware that got me finishing electronic music with any regularity. So I thought I'd find something not too dusty and transfer it from DAW to DAWless. These are the results.

All the loops are my own, and made primarily with Maschine. Sounds come from a variety of Maschine-compatible formats, including Arturia's V Collection and the Korg Gadget series, as well as the Maschine sample library (the 808, in particular). The main loop of the song adheres pretty closely to my original DAW sketch.

But it's really the Octatrack that takes this from a sketch to a finished song. First, I created an entire second section with the Octatrack, a 'chorus' where the samples are chopped and pitched to a new progression. Second, and critically, I use the Octatrack's scenes to add variation to the samples, to progress through the song from a beginning to an ending, and of course to make things get wild and weird. Scenes are Octatrack magic.

Performed live and uploaded as is, with some limiting on the master (I used the Octatrack's master-level compression for most of the dynamics-shaping).

https://jayhosking.bandcamp.com/"

Three Body Prototype Sounds

Published on May 30, 2020 SCHLAPPI ENGINEERING

"A brief exploration with the Three Body, a triple digital FM/PM oscillator based on an FPGA platform.

I kind of drifted into harsh noise by cross modulating all three of the oscillators but it is also capable of the prettier side of FM.

No processing is used and all stereo FX are generated by phase modulation, two Maths (not shown) were modulating the phase and frequency indexes (build in analog VCAs).

The Three Body is expected to be available late fall/winter 2020, price TBA."

LoFi Beat at the Sunset

Published on May 30, 2020 Audio Wanderer

"A chill track made just with the Yamaha QY70 and the Sound~Relax Machine. Recorded Live. No post-production. Enjoy"

Brums, a Max For Live Drum Synthesizer.

Published on May 30, 2020 suis-je fou

"Brums is an advanced drum synthesizer.
4 Operators creating 4 differents drum sounds.
Each Operator have three sound sources with short envelope. Two oscillators, one noise source with 3 different resonant filters, a tape delay, a little reverb, an overdrive and many other abilities like random panning, unstability, gated random delay time, FM possibility between the two oscillators, dephasing, 4 different waveforms for each oscillator, LFO, many velocity routing possibilities etc.

Brums is close to the famous and great Microtonic by Soundcharge, but more focused on sounds.
This device is able to send Each Operator sounds to separate audiotrack, which is useful to add audio effect and mix only one Operator.

Brums is a free Max for Live device, it’s thousands hours of work, but fuck audio capitalism, we want to make music, not money !

You can download it for free here : https://www.s8jfou.com/maxmsp

if you want to support my work and help me feel free to donate what you want via paypal to : s8jfou@gmail.com"

Sound Design; Fractal Bits and Unfiltered Audio Byome random sounds

Published on May 30, 2020 Uros Stojnic

"Interesting combination for creating random glitchy sfx. Using Ipad app Fractal Bits and Unfiltered Audio Byome."

1:47 preset 2
3:00 preset 3

Just a Minute - MOOG SUBHARMONICON

Published on May 30, 2020 Stefan Tretau

"This is one my first patches with the Subharmonicon.

External Modules:

EFX - Make Noise Mimeophon
Manual Sequencing - ST Modular PUSH
LFO - ST Modular TRYFELO"

Modular Synthesizer Ensemble

Published on May 30, 2020 Modular Synthesizer Ensemble

Doepfer based eurorack modular system.

Barely recognizable tunes on the Jupiter's quirky Intelligent Arpeggiator

Published on May 30, 2020 Woody Piano Shack

"All-playing no-talking boring demo of the ROLAND JUPITER Xm preset sounds. Let's enjoy the preset scenes and play the pads, drums, synth bass, brass and various other patches. We'll put the arpeggiator through it's paces and play some barely recognisable iconic 80s synthpop riffs. Same synthesizer ZEN CORE engine and patches as the ROLAND JUPITER X, FANTOM, MC 101, MC 707, RD 88 and more!"

SynthScaper LE Adds Random Scene Generator & More

SynthScaper LE scenes demo Igor Vasiliev
Published on May 30, 2020 Igor Vasiliev

"Lush pads, psychedelic synths and atmospheric soundscapes in an easy to use app with a powerful sound engine."

Update details via Motion Soundscape:

"New version SynthScaper LE 1.3 has been released with several updates and improvements.

New option Random generates scenes from existing presets.
Added a lot of new presets and scenes.
Optimization for the new iOS requirements.
Some improvements of the user interface.
and more"