VAI 9. Siel Cruise / Roland TR77 / Vermona DEG500

video by Vintage Audio Institute Italia

"A little space ballad with the Siel Cruise piano section run through the Vermona DEG500, that fast vibrato modulation is the reason we're keeping this machine.
The Roland TR77 drum machine is going through the DEG500 as well, with some Mu-tron Phasor II, while the bass line gets the Roland Space Echo treatment."

Roland FANTOM 4x4x4 Challenge using 4 NEW MODEL EXPANSIONS!!!

video by gattobus

"I accepted the 4x4x4 challenge that consists in building a song in just 4 minutes, using 4 Chords, playing 4 new Model Expansions for Roland FANTOM:

SH-101, Jupiter-8, JX-8P and JUNO-106.

I decided to raise the bar a little by doing this starting from scratch, using 4 INITIALIZED PRESETS!
Will I be able to do it?
Watch the video and see for yourself!!!
Hardcore synth nerds only!!!
(Headphones recommended)

#444xchallenge​"

Kebu takes on the Fantom 4x4x4 Challenge

video by Kebu

"The idea of the challenge is to create a song with the Roland Fantom synth in 4 minutes, playing 4 chords only, and using the 4 new Model Expansions (vintage synth emulations of the Roland JX-8P, Juno-106, SH-101 and Jupiter-8).

Somehow I misunderstood the challenge and thought you ALSO had to compose the tune in 4 minutes ("create" = "compose"?). This made the challenge quite difficult! Not to come up with ideas, but to actually have it made in 4 minutes! I didn't succeed until my 14th attempt! Also, I decided to shoot everything in a single take and forced myself to come up with new musical ideas for each take, as I didn't allow myself to start with any ready-made ideas. In the end I decided to choose which synth sounds to use in advance, because otherwise it would have been impossible for me, because I couldn't get past the sound selection in 4 minutes. I'm so picky with my synth sounds. :)

Next, I challenge my friend Ludvig Olin with the #444xChallenge​! And, of course, anyone with a Fantom can give it a go! Remember to use the tag #444xChallenge​ when you post your video.

Table of contents:
0:00​ Preparing for the challenge
1:57​ 4x4x4 Challenge!
6:25​ Jamming
9:57​ Passing on the challenge"

IME Hertz Donut MK3 Piano

video by HEAD DRESS

"2 short, looping 'piano' sketches with the Industrial Music Electronics system. Stillson Hammer MK2 instructing Hertz Donut MK3, fed to Tyme Sefari MK2 through Bionic Lester MK3.

My latest releases:
Head Dress - Languish (Neologist Productions)
https://head-dress.bandcamp.com"

Roland System 8 Juno 60 Plug-out patches (demo)

video by MIDERA

"A selection of System 8 Juno 60 plug-out patches I created tonight. All internal FX.

So, why did I buy this synth? I don’t know. It wasn’t a great reason. I own a JX3P, and have been sick of trying to figure out how to hook it up with my gear. It only works via OMNI mode (listens to every midi channel). This forced me to use other sequencers that I didn’t want to use. I could upgrade to KIWI, but that would cost me well over half the cost of a S8, so I decided to try that. Good news is - they sound identical (except the JX3P PWM goes through zero and the S8 does not).

So, I had the Juno 106 plug out in it and found I didn’t like it. This is no surprise. I had a 106 and didn’t like it, back in 2012. Of course, I wish I hadn’t sold it, because I sold it for $350. Ouch. However, you have to remember back then there weren’t replacement chips, only the acetone fix, with reports that it didn’t always work. So I sold it. Anyway, I replaced it with the Juno 60 plug out and wow it sounds really good. Way better than the 106 plug out, which I thought was exceedingly boring.

Everyone talks about how great the System 8 and 106 plug out are, but I actually like the Jupiter 8 and JX Plug outs the most. The S8 is good too, but now that I have the J60 in there, I honestly think they’re all really good. I think maybe people are just so used to Juno’s that they just don’t explore the JX or Jupiter 8? I’m not sure. Or maybe it’s that people scan presets? I never use them. I start from scratch. Every preset in this thing just sounds too processed and I don’t like it.

Now I sorta wish I’d have picked up a J6 or J60, but the prices have skyrocketed so I guess so long and thanks for all the fish. I’ll keep this green hitchhiker from another sector of the galaxy. It’s ugly, but it’s like a towel - you may automatically assume that I am also in possession of a toothbrush, washcloth, soap, tin of biscuits, flask, compass, map, ball of string, gnat spray, wet-weather gear, space suit etc., etc."

LIVEN XFM XFORM engine experiments [SONICWARE VLOG]

video by SONICWARE

"I shot Jam and an experimental video of the XFORM engine.
This engine can transform one sound into another sound over a period of time you like.
You can also specify the time it takes for the transformation to start.
We experimented with a variety of sounds, so please check it out.

今日はXFORMエンジンの実験動画とジャムを撮影しました。
このエンジンはある一つのサウンドから別のサウンドへ任意の時間をかけてトランスフォームさせる事ができます。
また、トランスフォームが開始までの時間も指定できます。
様々な音で実験したので是非ご覧下さい。"

See the SONICWARE label below for more.

Waldorf Streichfett plays Bach

video by Marcus Padrini

"Alguns minutos do sintetizador Waldorf Streichfett tocando uma peça de Bach, enquanto eu faço algumas alterações de parâmetros para ajudar o timbre de formas diferentes."

Googlish:
"A few minutes of the Waldorf Streichfett synthesizer playing a Bach piece, while I make some parameter changes to help the tone in different ways."

SoundsDivine 'The Sweet Spot' - BX_Oberhausen

video by SoundsDivine111

"This is a demo of the presets from 'The Sweet Spot' soundset for BX_Oberhausen.
For more information, please follow the link below:
https://soundsdivine.com/product/bx_o..."

Novation Circuit Tracks - Deep Dive with -CALC- (Part 2) // Novation Live

video by NovationTV

"In this second session -CALC- continues the deep dive exploration into the Novation Circuit Tracks groovebox. During the session we’ll explore more of the powerful new features in the device such as external synth sequencing and using Scenes to create whole arrangements and tracks.

--- Discover Circuit Tracks:
https://bit.ly/CircuitTracks"

Part 1 here

Mutable Instruments Beads: First Look

video by Patchwerks Seattle

"In this video resident expert Nick Bigelow takes us on a first look at the highly anticipated Clouds successor: Beads.

REINVENTING A CLASSIC
Beads is a reinvention of Mutable Instruments’ Clouds.

The concept is the same, live granular processing of an incoming audio signal, and the labels on the panel remain familiar.

The similarities stop here. The hardware and software have been redesigned from the ground up, with several goals in mind: a crisper and broader sound palette, more control, better playability, and direct access to exciting new features.

DOTTING THE I’S AND CROSSING THE T’S
Beads’ vastly improved specifications allow a higher audio quality, a longer buffer, the use of better interpolation and anti-aliasing algorithms, and key DSP blocks to run at a faster rate. Granular processing can now go to new territories, such as formants, wavetables, hard-sync-like sounds, or crispy noise.

The range of parameters, their response to the turn of a knob or a CV modulation have all been refined, for new possibilities such as reverse playback or percussive envelopes.

CONTROL, CHAOS AND CHARACTER
Control. To trigger or schedule grains, Beads provides new features to divide or randomize an external clock or trigger stream, spray bursts of grains in response to a gate, or get the grain rate to track a V/O CV or the frequency of an external oscillator.

Chaos. Each key parameter of a grain comes with its own attenurandomizer, which allows direct CV control, CV control of the randomization (spread) of this parameter, or internal randomization using some of Marbles’ algorithms.

Character. Beads provides four audio quality settings, which go well beyond buffer sample rate and bit-depth: they affect the clock of the converters, the amplitude limiting and saturation of the signal path, the tone of the reverb, and additional media-emulation effects. From a pristine digital device to a dirty cassette, through a mode reproducing some of Clouds’ characteristics.

MODES?
Beads can operate as a delay without the need to switch to a different mode: just ask it to play a never-ending grain. Its DENSITY, TIME and SEED controls are repurposed to allow various features such as tap-tempo, beat slicing, time-stretching, or comb-filtering at rates tracking V/O.

Without any audio input, Beads will granularize 8 internal banks of wavetables.

All parameters have a dedicated knob.

Learn more about Mutable Instruments Beads here: http://bit.ly/mi_beads​

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

Par - X (Sesión 01)

video by Nacho Adda

"Live ambient performance with the 0-Coast and the Digitone.
(No talking)

► BANDCAMP: https://parmusic.bandcamp.com/​
► SPOTIFY: http://bit.ly/par_music​
► INSTAGRAM: https://www.instagram.com/par_music​"