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Friday, January 29, 2021

Corona Session 1


video by Jörg Schaaf

Jörg Schaaf is the man behind Radikal Technologies.

"Little improvisation with the following machines:
2x Delta CEP A
1x RT-1701 EFFEXX module
1x Accelerator
1x Spectralis
1x Doepfer Analog Sequencer A-155 (just for a LED animation)
2x Keystep keyboards. One of them plays the sequence, that runs on Delta CEP A 1.

Live MIXED on 1 Atem MINI PRO Video Mixer
Cameras and lenses:
Canon EOS-80D with Walimex Cine Lense 35 mm/1,5
Canon EOS 250D with Sigma 10-20 mm/4
Canon EOS 200D with 18-55 kit lense
Elgato Streamdeck for camera switching and macro recall.

Meanwhile the album is available on my bandcamp page:
https://joergschaaf.bandcamp.com/albu..."

Exploring the Nanoloop FM device


video by Vague Robots

"Note: kinda cuts off at the end, I had some connection problems. I'll talk about that technique next time!"

Update:

Exploring the Nanoloop FM device - part 2!


"Another live track building and chat session :)

https://www.nanoloop.com/fm/"

See the Nanoloop label for additional posts.

Best Ambient Synth Shootout #105: Hartmann Neuron VS - Song 2


video by Christian's Sonic Spaces

Song 1 here

"This is the second song with the Neuron VS. It's the software (VST) version of the Hartmann Neuron, a novel hardware synthesizer introduced in 2001 based on artificial neural networks used for sound synthesis. The software version of the instrument, was released in 2005.

I used for the recording just on the opening pad an Eventide Blackhole. All other FX are directly from the Neuron VS.

To create the complete song I recorded consecutively several stereo tracks. The final song was then mastered with a bit EQ and compression on some tracks and some limiting on the master track."

The Radiotone X-Rays Synthesizer


video by Giorgio Sancristoforo

"Taking inspiration from the discoveries of William Crookes and Wilhelm Röntgen, the Radiotone is a one-of-a-kind music synthesizer that uses X-Rays to control and shape the sound. More info: https://www.giorgiosancristoforo.net/..."



Taking inspiration from the discoveries of William Crookes and Wilhelm Röntgen, the Radiotone is a one-of-a-kind music synthesizer that uses
X-Rays to control and shape the sound.

The Radiotone is divided in four sections:

High Voltage generation
X-Rays generation
X-Rays detection
Sound synthesis

You can find full details on the Radiotone X-Rays Synthesizer on Giorgio Sancristoforo's website here.

Giorgio brought us the experimental Gleetchplug line of synths, Berna and more.

MARS Musical Audio Research Station Iris Farfisa Bontempi - Ares Software


video by Museo del Synth Marchigiano

You can find an additional post from 2012 featuring the MARS Synthesizer here.

"In this video we demonstrate how the Ares software allows you to program the Mars card, Isa card inserted in the computer, connected via Scsi connector to the Ics816 audio output card.

The Musical Audio Research Station (MARS) is a programmable specialized digital machine for real-time audio applications which has been entirely developed by the Italian Bontempi-Farfisa research institute IRIS.
The MARS workstation is composed of:

• one or more sound boards, called NERGAL connected to one or more audio units;
• a PC running the graphical interactive development environment called ARES.

The first version of MARS, which has been presented at the ICMC92 was running on Atari computers.

The sound generation board is a full size standard IBM ISA card running at a sampling rate of 44.1 kHz.

The board may be divided into three main sections: DSP, control and mixer sections.

The DSP section contains two dedicated IRIS DSPs called X20 with their respective program and sample memories. These DSPs are memory mapped onto the microcontroller memory area.

The X20 is a fully programmable DSP. Its architecture is highly parallel and allows pipelined operations.

Its internal arithmetic is 2’s complement fixed point with a 16 x 16 bit multiplier and a 24 bit arithmetic and logic unit.

Each X20 has two blocks of internal data memory which may be addressed in parallel. It also contains a 512 x 64 bit words of external program memory, and may access to external sample memory. The sample memory is supported by SIMM modules with 4 up to 32 megabytes of DRAM.

Each X20 provides four audio input channels and four audio output channels. The audio signals are managed on 16 bits. The X20s may be used in parallel or in serie, by sending the four outputs of the first one to the four inputs of the second one.

The control section is managed by a proprietary real-time operating system, called RT20M, running on a MOTOROLA MC68302 microcontroller. The RT20M manages all the MARS objects described previously, and all their interactions with the DSP section, the mixer section and the external world. It also controls any communication through the three ports available on the board: MIDI, RS232, and a special parallel one for high speed connection to the PC’s ISA bus.

The mixer section controls a set of predefined audio mixing operations among boards and audio units.

Each board have one connector to/from the audio-unit, and four connectors (two inputs and two outputs) which allow multi-board links. This last feature allows to create a MARS boards network with a parallel, a serial or a mixed configuration using one or more audio units.

Two types of IRIS audio units are available for NERGAL: low-cost and professional.

The low-cost unit is a small external box (1/3U) with two monophonic input lines, four monophonic output lines, and one stereophonic headphone output.

The professional audio unit is a 2U standard rack module. It is modular and may pilot up to 8 input/output analog channels and 8 input/output digital channels. Each unit can be shared between two different NERGAL boards."

Serge modular & voice experiments 2 - Vocals FMing the NTO


video by Förstaden

"Another experiment with the modular synthesizer and vocals. The voice is frequency modulating the oscillator, and via an envelope follower controlling the Q and frequency of the VCFQ filter.

Check out our track 'Soon'"


video by Förstaden - Topic

Follow-up to this post.

YAMAHA YC61 DEMO - All The New Pianos


video by Woody Piano Shack

"Relaxed demo of the acoustic pianos on the Yamaha YC61, YC73 and YC88. We'll play the CFX, C7, S700, Nashville Grand, U1 Upright and more. We'll Include of course the new pianos released last week in firmware 1.1 so you can hear them for yourselves. As a bonus we'll play some tunes on the CP80 electric pianos and layer in some synth sounds.
Recorded in one take, bum notes sound right if you play them twice, or maybe they were right notes but in wrong order, as the saying goes :)
Same sounds as the CP73 and CP88, if I'm not mistaken.
Electric pianos, Rhodes and Wurlis coming soon!"

MORE WOODY PIANO SHACK
► WEBSITE https://woodypianoshack.com - additional links there.
► PIANO INSPIRATION SERIES http://bit.ly/inspiration_welcome
► SUPPORT http://bit.ly/wps_support

Elektron Analog Four MKII Solo Performance


video by Patchwerks Seattle

"In this video resident expert Matthew Piecora (aka EZBOT) performs on the Analog Four MKII by Elektron.

Four synth tracks and an intuitive step sequencer enable you to easily create and layer melodies. Then play back your composition and immediately reshape it. Change notes, alter sounds, add effects. Make it as glistening and airy or dark and dense as you desire. Something beautifully unique will emerge every single time.

Not only a splendid synthesizer, the Analog Four MKII can also make other gear sing. Thanks to the CV/Gate sequencing and DIN sync outputs, external analog gear can be controlled in great detail. Make any modular or vintage synthesizer rig come truly alive.

Take a deeper look at the Analog 4 MKII here: https://bit.ly/elektron_analog4mk2​

https://patchwerks.com/
Video by: Matthew Piecora (aka EZBOT)
https://www.ezbot.live"

UNO Synth Pro performance Part 2 - Luca Zabbini


video by ikmultimedia

**ALL SOUNDS FROM UNO SYNTH PRO (no DAW/post processing)**

Roland Jupiter-6

Note: Auction links are affiliate links for which the site may be compensated.


via this auction

"Roland Jupiter-6 in mint condition.

Everything work perfectly. The synth has been serviced a year ago for almost 1000$."

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