Currently, it isn’t clear yet how Brexit will impact my business as of next year. Because of Brexit getting near, I’ve decided to set up another production run for Steve’s MS-22. This way, all of my friends in the UK are able to get their hands on Steve’s MS-22 before Brexit happens. I think it’s quite possible that as of next year I won’t be shipping to the UK until I have all the extra administration figured out.
Don’t wait too long to get yours, as usual, the size of the batch is limited! Any orders made before November 23rd should ship before half of December, reaching the UK before New Year with some margin.
Synth spotting with Venus Hum. This one is in via Tony Miracle, member of Venus Hum, and the man behind the Orlando Electronic Meetup featured in previous posts here.
"Live performance of Look for the I Voted virtual music festival.
"DrumComputer is the new specialist for synthetic drums, combining classic and modern synthesis with flexible modulations and luxurious sequencing. Intelligent randomizers, elegant pattern editing and import of your own samples are just a few of the mind blowing possibilities. Enjoy new drums everyday and get inspired by all the creativity that DrumComputer sets free. Just because, there still is all the unheard of.
Sound Engines 8 individual sound engines contain all the DSP goodies and share presets, so you can exchange sounds between engines. 3 synthesis layers cover a broad variety of timbres, from a classical analog Resonator to Wavetable, plus the awesome Resynth, which brings you liquidized cymbals, snares and synths. We also added a Sampler Mode to play back your own sounds.
"Zynthian - DIY Raspberry PI synthesizer setup tutorial and sound demo. Table of contents and all the links you need below! In this video, I'm walking through all the steps necessary to build your own "Zynthian" Raspberry PI DIY synth, and play some patches, too. I'll show the sequencer and audio tools in another video next week.
#zynthian is a #linux distribution specifically designed for running synthesizer and audio software on the #raspberrypi. It comes with a specialized, streamlined user interface and a lot of apps preinstalled. You can buy an assembled kit online, but that doesn't come cheap, so in this video, I'll use some standard components to make it work. This build does not include the 4 encoders and buttons, so if you want me to have a go at these, please write a short note in the comments!
Table of contents 00:00 introduction / overview 00:38 demo 1 (detuned pads & lead) 01:30 hardware needed 02:27 software installation 03:05 assembling the hardware 03:35 basic configuration using the web interface 04:30 screen calibration 05:37 hidden UI gestures 05:57 adjusting the output volume 06:20 other important things to consider 07:11 patch showcase: "Arpeggio 3" (filter tweaking and stuff) 08:06 "echoed synth" 08:56 "wah bass" 09:48 "synth strings" 10:16 "another reso pad" 10:55 "Grotrian/Steinway Piano" 11:20 "aeolus organ" 11:37 outlook/bye bye
Index: 0:00 - Beginning 0:25 - Features Listed (with example of two voices interacting) 2:20 - Basic Tests 9:30 - Using an EG to modulate gain 12:06 - Example 2 of two voices interacting 12:53 - Simple percussion sound design 14:49 - Melodic example 1 of subtle warming/mild distortion 18:03 - Processing complex sounds with heavy distortion 20:38 - Melodic example 2 of subtle warming/mild distortion 22:43 - Example 3 of two voices interacting 23:49 - Drone modulation 26:32 - End
Models of modular gear used in this video (that I can remember!): Club Of The Knobs: C914B, C964, C966, C969, C1660 Grove Audio: G714 Marienberg: VC Sine Phase VCO Modcan: 31B, 40B, 55B, 58B, 60B, 73B Moon Modular: 517, 526, 564, 565, 565E, 569, 592 STG Soundlabs: EG, Oscillator Synthesis Technology MOTM: 101, 300, 320 Synthetic Sound Labs: 1530 Tube VCA / Timbral Gate
Other production gear used: Roland: A-88 MIDI keyboard MOTU: MTPAV Mellotron: M4000D Rack Strymon Engineering: Timeline and BigSky pedals Lexicon: MX400 effects rack Samson: S-Patch Plus patch bays Allen and Heath: MixWizard 20-S Canon: C100 cameras, CN-E lenses Dracast and Fotodiox: LED lighting Tascam: SD-20M flash recorder
Post production gear used: Lavry Engineering: Blue DA converters Little Labs: Model 5 AES router Coleman Audio: M3-PH audio switcher PMC: dB1+ monitors, XB1-A sub Neumann: KM120 monitors Avantone: MixCubes Microsoft: Windows 10 Pro Sony: Vegas Pro 13 NLE software
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"The Tasty chips GR1 And the Elektron Octatrak are doing sample feedback loop the out of the gr1 go to the inpute of the octatrak the octatrack sample it and it go back to the GR1 (the gr1 is continualy sampling audio with a 2sec buffer)
It resulte with probability sequencing and randown modulation, of a pseseudo generative track, and i thinck i can realy push this concept much more further :)"
"Last weeks I made some nice music but none of it was good enough to record in my opinion or I could not play it without hitting the wrong keys...
This week I came up with this track. On the Cirklon there are 5 monophonic sequences. The bass is played on the Synthesizers.com Modular. The other voices are played on the Synthesizers.com and Eurorack Modular, the Tom Oberheim SEM and the Korg ARP Odyssey. One polyphonic sequence is played on the Roland JD-800 doing a strings sound. The manual keyboard interaction is done on the Polymoog, which is fed through a Behringer VP1 Phaser, and the Minimoog. In the video I have placed some pictures so you can see which modules and instruments are playing.
The track was recorded live to multi-track on the Behringer X32 Compact and mixed in Studio One afterwards. I hope you will enjoy it.
"This Memorymoog was serviced last year. Not a single thing wrong with it. Aesthetic signs of use visible, but other than that, it's a great monster of a synth."
