How to connect a modular synth to your body with the ADDAC 303 Muscle Sensing Module

video by Bertolt Meyer

"The ADDAC303 Muscle Sensing module brings EMG muscle sensing to the eurorack format. It allows you to control a modular synthesizer with muscle signals that the module picks up with medical electrodes that you can stick to any muscle. I used two of those in my last generative ambient piece [posted here]. I felt that the module doesn't get enough love on YT, so I followed up with an introduction to this quirky module. I explain the overall principle, the best way for electrode placement, and the optimal settings for getting a clean signal."

Also see the Unborn Baby MIDI Controller in Luca Yupanqui's Sounds of the Unborn posted earlier today.

ASM Hydrasynth a fondo: orgullo digital

video by Hispasonic

"Pablo Fernández-Cid analiza en detalle uno de los sintes digitales más interesantes del momento: ASM Hydrasynth. Disponible en teclado de 4 octavas y módulo de escritorio, es una máquina con un amplísimo despliegue de recursos, que nos permite generar con sorprendente facilidad sonidos atractivos y variados."

Googlish:
"Pablo Fernández-Cid analyzes in detail one of the most interesting digital synths of the moment: ASM Hydrasynth. Available in a 4-octave keyboard and desktop module, it is a machine with a wide array of resources, which allows us to generate attractive and varied sounds with surprising ease."

Runningonair - Lunar Lander (Music Video)

video by Runningonair

"Like many people of my generation, I grew up in a world where I genuinely thought the moon would be inhabited and it would be possible for anyone to visit by now. This has proved to be a complete pipe dream, but one which I can’t completely give up on. When I found these videos online, it rekindled my optimism, and I felt the need to set them to music. In a world that seems to be increasingly saturated by stupidity and greed, I hope we continue to find room to appreciate imagination and ingenuity.

All video courtesy of NASA & ESA. Simulations based on planned missions for 2020s and beyond."

1983 Roland "We design the future" MC-202 Microcomposer Brochure

via Retro Synth Ads where you'll find the rest of the scans and a write-up.

"Happy 2/02 day! And I got a doozy for ya. Behold the magnificent MC-202 'We design the future' brochure."

Cool How to Use cheat sheet in the brochure pictured below.

Noise Engineering Blog: Using aux sends: Reverb | Distortion | Compression

video by Noise Engineering

"From the blog: https://www.noiseengineering.us/blog/...
Here, we’re using the Desmodus Versio in the aux loop of the WMD Performance Mixer post fader. Note that the Blend control is fully clockwise: since our dry signal is already present in our mixer, we don’t need any more of it in our aux loop. Also note that since the send and return loop of the mixer is mono, but the DV can work as a mono-to-stereo device, we’re using the normal aux out but coming back into a stereo channel. It works and sounds exactly the same as using an aux return, it just gives us more stereo loveliness!"

Blog: Using aux sends: Distortion


"From the blog: https://www.noiseengineering.us/blog/...
Here, we have the Seca Ruina in the aux loop of the WMD Performance Mixer processing a distinctly unfriendly patch. Who doesn’t love some hardcore every once in a while, though? This is a really fun way to patch if you’re in the mood for something incredibly distorted and messy as you get some really interesting interactions from multiple signals running through the single distortion circuit."

Blog: Using aux sends: Compression


"If you’ve been reading the blog for a while you may remember our post on compression. We talked a bit about parallel compression in that post, and wouldn’t you know it, you can do some fantastic parallel compression routings with aux loops, too. Here, we have a percussion patch running through our mixer, and we have a compressor in the aux loop. The compressor has very aggressive settings, but since it’s also mixed with the uncompressed copy, it sounds nice and balanced."

Electro Beats - Eurorack Percussion Jam ft. Transistor-82

video by gstormelectro

http://reverb.com/shop/gstormelectro

"Audio + Video by G-Storm Electro c. 2021

Transistor-82 lo-fi analog is back!
And this time brought along some friends.
Gettin' down with a nice electro jam. Crank that.

Recorded straight to Tascam DR-05.
No additional processing or mastering.

Patchnotes : timestamps where each layer is best heard.

| Bass sweep + Noise | 0:00​, 1:45​ dry
GSE Transistor-82 to Pittsburgh Florist
2xADSR mod OSC pitch

| Kick | 0:08​
Pittsburgh Synth Box [ping LPF] to Feedback CP3-

| Snare | 0:16​
Future Retro Transient+ 808 Snare to GSE DC571 to Big Sky

| Hats | 0:00​
Tiptop Hats 909 to Feedback CP3-

| Metallic Noises | 3:10​
Noise Engineering Basimilus Iteritas Alter

| Additional Noises | 3:34​
Pittsburgh Synth Box Tri Out to OSC2 Dannysound Timbre
GSE Pro VCF self-osc to OSC1 Timbre
GSE SH2-VCF self-osc to Timbre CV

Transistor-82 is now available again, check my Reverb store for availability.

Additional Transistor-82 posts

Gotharman's LD3/Tiny LD: The new digital filters

video by gotharman

"Playing a bit with the new digital SVF filters...
www.gotharman.dk"

From Goa to Psytrance - A Force Truly Evil for the Novation Circuit

New soundset from Isotonik Studios for the Novation Circuit priced at $21.67.

We’re back with another essential Novation Circuit sound pack for all Psytrance and Goatrance fans.

After the successful packs "A Force Truly Evil Vol.1" and "Bass Pressure" A Force Truly Evil brings us now "From Goa To Psytrance", an impressive collection of Psychedelic Trance sounds with superb patches and astonishing drums to get the best sounds you know and trust to create Psytrance tracks.

This pack is perfectly for all sub genres of Psytrance whether your style is Full On, Classic Goa, Nu Skool Goa, Dark Psy, Progressive Psytrance, Psy Ambient, and anything in between.

An exhaustive selection of 64 patches including hypnotic basslines, evolving synths, infectius FM type distorted leads, mindblowing acid lines with
dozens of 303 patches that pounding your brain, and much more...
A truly refined Psytrance samples covering snappy synthesized kicks, hard hitting snares and percusion, and some of the best psychedelic FX/one shots for technical drum beats.

28 high quality sessions with the most used production techniques in Psytrance. Some arrangements are included to make the most of the sessions, with intros, drops, breaks and variations of main parts.

Parameters assigned with the easiest controls for in-depth customization, and get as many sound variations as possible.

Knob 1 Modulation knob (could be LFO modulations, OSC morphing, etc)
Knob 2 Amp Envelope Release
Knob 3 Filter
Knob 4 Resonance
Knob 5 Filter Envelope Depth (first half for negative modulation, and second half for positive)
Knob 6 Filter Envelope Decay
Knob 7 Distortion
Knob 8 Chorus

Check out the Video Playlist, this pack is a banger!!

LINK: FROM GOA TO PSYTRANCE"

100% Arturia Polybrute Tracks by Michael Geyre

Spovtnik (Arturia Polybrute - Multi track demo) by Michael Geyre

"Demo 100% made using an Arturia Polybrute, with no additional FX"

These spotted and sent in via Soviet Space Child. All three are 100% Arturia Polybrute, with no additional FX.

La Barbe (Arturia Polybrute - Multi track demo)

Cool Brute (Arturia Polybrute - Multi track demo)

Unborn Baby MIDI Controller in Luca Yupanqui's Sounds of the Unborn

video by Sacred Bones Records

World's youngest electronic musician? It is interesting, when you think about generative music creation.

From 'Sounds of the Unborn,' out April 2.
Preorder: http://sacredbonesrecords.com/product...​

Video directed by Victoria Keddie.

Sounds of the Unborn was made with biosonic MIDI technology, which translated Luca’s in utero movements into sound. With the help of her parents, Psychic Ills bassist Elizabeth Hart and Lee Scratch Perry collaborator Iván Diaz Mathé, Luca’s prenatal essence was captured in audio. They designed a ritual, a kind of joint meditation for the three of them, with the MIDI devices hooked to Elizabeth’s stomach, transcribing its vibrations into Iván’s synthesizers. They let the free-form meditations flow without much interference, just falling deeper into trance and feeling the unity. After five hour-long sessions, the shape of an album began to emerge. Elizabeth and Iván then edited and mixed the results of the sessions, respecting the sounds as they were produced, trying to intervene as little as possible, allowing Luca’s message to exist in its raw form.

Iván Diaz Mathé explains their new video for first track "V4.3 pt.2"
"We did some Super 8 footage during the recording sessions and later we teamed up with artist Victoria Keddie because we love her approach an aesthetic. She processed the film with analog gear and created a visual trip that summarizes what we felt while creating this album."