Simple synthesizer sound making: Siren head?

Nunomo LLC

"This is a simple synthesizer sound-making demo. No after processing for the audio.


This time I picked very simple one to show the basic usage of QUN synthesizer.

I hope it's helpful.

You can find more complicated patches at

https://github.com/raspy135/Qun-synth..."

Nicholas Semrad's Sequential Prophet 6 Patch Set (Demo)

Nicholas Semrad

"Here is a demo video for my available-for-purchase Sequential Prophet 6 Patch Set. You can purchase these patches at my website, www.nicholastsemrad.com/shop.

I've specifically made 50 patches (10 basses, 10 leads, 10 pads, and 20 aux key patches) for this set. Thanks for Emily Hoerdemann for the cover design!"

live synthpop ! w/ Circuit3

Circuit 3

"live synthpop & space synth from Ireland"

http://www.circuit3.com/

Matrixbrute/Duophonic: "Fleurs du mal"

Kris Lennox

"Saturday night fun on the MB. Playing for a change, given most posts recently haven't involved keyed performance. Interesting arpeggios/harmony."

antimatter annihilation and modular synth

Giorgio Sancristoforo

"For the first time in history, antimatter is used for music.

All the sounds of this piece are triggered by positron annihilation from a Na22 source. For the task I've programmed a custom gamma spectroscope that outputs the annihilation gamma peaks at 0.511MeV, these pulses are sent in realtime to a MIDI to CV converter.

A positron is the anti-particle of the electron, having positive charge instead of negative. Positron emission is a special case of beta decay. Inside the unstable nucleus, a proton is transformed into a neutron, and in the process, the nucleus emits a neutrino and a positron.

As soon as the positron encounters an electron on its path, they attract each other and finally annihilate, transforming all their mass into energy (2 entangled gamma photons at 0.511MeV), following E=mc^2.

I'll film the process in the next weeks.
Use headphones for best listening experience.

Sound generation: Shuttle Endorphin.es synthesizer.
MCA software written on Cycling '74 Max/MSP

Dedicated to the memory of Iannis Xenakis."

Super Sixteen: How to Program a Sequence (Tutorial Part 1)

Extralife

"By popular request - a quick tutorial on basic sequencing workflow and fundamentals. Early backers get 15% off on Kickstarter:
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/...

In this video I dive into the sequencing UI including rhythm programming, pitch and octave selection, adjusting gate duration, and velocity CV. We also take a look at motion recording, multi-bar sequencing, copy/paste, and patch memory.

While this doesn't cover everything the sequencer does, it's all you need to get started making great melodies, basslines, and rhythm patterns on the Super Sixteen. In the next video we'll get deeper into advanced sequence settings and real-time mutations.

Become a supporter on Patreon to get bonus content and early access to new videos!
https://patreon.com/extralife"

DAY DAY by chaircrusher

chaircrusher aka kent williams sent in his latest release along with a promo code. First person to click here and enter tz42-6hcb gets it.

A handfull of chaircrusher's pics were featured here on the site, one all the way back in 2005, the 1st year of the site!

Details on the release:

"Electronic music is absolute and abstract, so if you don’t have a particular narrative idea in mind - which I usually don’t - the choice of title is arbitrary. So for the past year or so, when I finish a track, I google “what national day is today?” and choose the “national day” I like best. The tracks are presented in chronological order, beginning with “St Nicholas” which I finished on St Nicholas Day: December 6th 2019. The album title, “Day Day” imagines a national Day Day, where the idea of national days celebrates itself.

All of these tracks are exploration of compositional experiments done with the software modular synthesizer VCVRack (www.vcvrack.com). The core idea is to generate extended permutations of a small set of melodic tones.

Traditionally, composers wrote their music one note at a time, and the written representation mapped directly on the performance. Jazz musicians freed themselves from the score, using the bare bones of a song as a launchpad for improvisation. In electronic music, especially when working with modular synthesizers, you construct a custom machine to generate the music you want to hear. The goal - or my goal at least - is to make a modular ‘patch’ capable of interesting complexity and surprise.

A sufficiently convoluted patch is barely under the composer’s control. There are controls to pilot the patch into musically meaningful territory, but the patch runs whether you steer it or not, potentially forever. Most of these pieces are live realizations, where I tweak knobs and settings as I record. As I’ve refined and practiced, the amount of editing and augmenting of the original live recording has diminished. Some tracks, like the album closer “Rotisserie” is exactly the live ‘performance’ of the patch with no edits or overdubs.

The album art is the work of Alex Mugford, who is 10 years old and lives in the UK. His father, music critic Joe Mugford, has been posting his drawings on Twitter & Facebook for a couple of years, and I’ve admired the riotous invention of his work. His drawings look as though Keith Haring and Joan Miro spent a long afternoon drinking Beaujolais & doodling on each other's placemats.

Thanks to:

My wife Melissa for the best music review in human history (“Is there something wrong with the stereo?”).


My mother, composer Linda Worsley, whose feedback was invaluable. (“There’s a sound that’s like when I chop onions that I don’t like. I resent when it comes in and I’m relieved when it stops.”).

Andrew Belt for creating VCV Rack, Rack. developer.

Musician Jeremy Wentworth, who implemented an idea I had for combining sequencer clocks with boolean logic.

COVID19 for isolating me in musical pocket universe for the past few months.

… and anyone who has given me feedback and encouragement over the years."

Using the Tracker for Midi Sequencing // Well that was confusing...

Ricky Tinez

Odd regarding the USB cables.

"First time trying to utilize the midi out on the polyend tracker. I wish i would have explored more to see if it had a some midi effects but maybe next time!

Overall, utilizing a Tracker sequencer to sequence an analog synth was pretty straightforward! Minus figuring out that the TRS to 5-pin adapter was the wrong standard.."

House jam recorded straight to 4-track tape

Alfonse

"Fairly fat FM bass from a Yamaha PSS-580 played live over an 8-bar drum pattern from the Yamaha RX11, with overdubs from the Casio HT700, making plenty of use of its resonant analogue lowpass filter. A Zoom MS-50G multi-effects stompbox was used for a reverb send during mixdown. Everything was recorded to four-track tape on a Tascam Porta05 Ministudio.

(C) Copyright 2020 Alfonse"

Chill Funk Jam on the Novation Circuit

Gabe Miller Music

"A chill funk jam on the Novation Circuit / a semi-cover of "Slide" by Calvin Harris. Made with the Vapor Dream pack by Yves Big City."