MATRIXSYNTH

Strymon Zelzah with an OB-6 (no talk noodling)

video upload by Richard DeHove

"True stereo in and stereo out phaser pedals are reasonably rare - there's the Twin Lazers, Helix, Lunar and a handful of others. Some, like the MXR Phase 99 are potentially great but don't have stereo inputs. Others like the old Digitech SP-7 are technically stereo in and out but don't make any use of the stereo field. Which is the long way for me to justify buying my first Strymon pedal. Since it cost me Au$579 I had big expectations. So I'm very happy to report it's lived up to my hopes. As a bonus it does excellent flanger and very good chorusy sounds as well. The vibrato-style wobble effect is also very useful with the OB-6 since the synth only has one LFO.
Here I just noodle about trying to give a fair feel for the range of effects. I didn't play with any of the secondary functions, so they're all fixed. Specifically I had it on stereo line input, barberpole on continuous fall, maximum stereo width, and the 6-stage feeding into the 4-stage (which is the default routing).
The OB-6 is going direct into the Zelzah, from there to the Erica Synths Zen Delay, and from there into the DAW. No other processing or effects are used. The Zen delay makes it hard to distinguish the stereo field effect of the Zelzah, but that's how I'd use the pedal in real use so I thought I'd present it that way.
Timestamps are a bit fuzzy since I'm constantly tweaking the settings.

0:00 Phaser and Env
0:52 Chorusy wobble
1:40 Flange
2:20 Barberpole stereo
3:10 Wobbles
4:17 Unison phase & flange
6:40 Pulses with chorus, flange
6:50 Chorus
9:30 Flange
10:00 Wobble chorus
10:30 Flangy phase
11:00 Double phase
11:40 High barber

My site: https://richarddehove.com/
Lots of downloads for supporters on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/richarddehove"

Noise Engineering Releases Three Free Plugins

You can find demos in previous posts here.

via Noise Engineering

The beta is over! Noise Engineering moves to full release of three free powerful plugins

Los Angeles, CA — Noise Engineering is happy to announce the end of the public beta and move to full release of three free plugins: synths Sinc Vereor and Virt Vereor and distortion Ruina.

Asked why the move from Eurorack to software, the Noise Engineering team said that it was inspired by several things: first, they’d been bombarded with requests for plugins from modular synth users who love the sound but needed portability or repeatability. They were also extremely aware of the barrier to entry to a modular system and really wanted to make their products more widely accessible (which is partly why this release is free, and will remain free). Finally, they have no plans to stop making modules, but a core value for this small team of six self-described nerds is to keep challenging themselves to learn new things, and making plugins fit the bill. They anticipate further plugin releases based on Eurorack favorites (including a VST3/AU release of their currently AAX-only bundle) coming soon.

Sinc Vereor is an intuitive and powerful synthesizer loosely based on Noise Engineering’s beloved Eurorack module Sinc Iter. Sinc Vereor’s wavemorphing/wavefolding Tone control makes sound design a breeze. Blend between familiar waveforms like saw, triangle, and square. Super mode adds 6 phase-offset oscillators. Use Noise mode to generate self-similar noise for percussion, effects, and more.

Virt Vereor is a powerful synthesizer based on a unique set of synthesis algorithms. Bass is a quadrature algorithm described in Bernie Hutchins’ seminal series Electronotes. Sawx is a supersaw-inspired beast. Harm is an additive algorithm with spectral control and distortion of partials. Virt Vereor makes a tremendous amount of unique sounds with an immediate and usable interface.

Some readers will recognize the names of these algorithms, and indeed they come from Noise Engineering’s contribution to Arturia’s Microfreak V3 firmware and the upcoming Virt Iter module.

Both the Sinc and Virt oscillators are paired with Vereor, Noise Engineering’s easily manipulated dynamics section using an ADSR envelope controlling a variable slope and analog-inspired multimode gate/filter. Add to that a vintage-inspired chorus and a over 1000 presets each, and these synths have something for everyone: bridge the gap between traditional subtractive sounds and modern synthesis techniques, or design innovative basses, leads, or whatever your project calls for.

Ruina is a creative stereo distortion plugin built on digital distortion algorithms: no emulations here. Intuitive and fully automatable controls make it easy to get a gentle, nuanced color, to obliviate a signal, or to dial in anything in between. Don’t feel like tweaking the parameters? Ruina comes with over 500 presets to fit any need, a Random button to generate new sounds, and a Nudge option to just give the parameters the tiniest bump.
Ruina has a wavefolder, a multiband saturator, a chaotic suboctave generator, octavizer, and phase shifter. It also features a notch or bandpass filter with adjustable tracking, and a control to set the order of the distortions in the signal flow to further customize your sound. Last but not least, Overdrive adds up to 128x gain for maximal destruction.

Run any sound through Ruina for warm, lush distortion, or crank the sliders to unleash complete ruin. With seven distortion types, it’s easy to turn your sounds into something singular with Ruina.

All three plugins are free to download: just make an account at the Noise Engineering Customer Portal (https://portal.noiseengineering.us/) and download the installer from the Plugins tab. And while they will remain free, the NE team has big plans to keep developing these. They have a substantial roadmap for future features, some of which were suggestions from the beta users, including introducing extensive internal modulation, more advanced randomization, MIDI learn, MPE support, and more.

Notable features:
• AAX, AU, VST3
• 64-bit Intel + M1
• Mac and Windows
• Intuitive interfaces to easily and quickly manipulate sound
• Use the Random button to generate new patches in one click
• Easy to automate, user-friendly controls. No prior synthesis experience needed, but
synth enthusiasts will also be inspired by the simple-yet-powerful interface
• Fully MIDI-mappable
• Tons of presets included
• Three unique synthesis algorithms inspired by little-known synthesis techniques
(quadrature, supersaw beast, and additive)
• Huge number of distortion possibilities with wavefolding, octavizing, multiband
saturation, suboctave generation, phase shifting, and overdrive

Links:
https://noiseengineering.us/products/ruina
https://noiseengineering.us/products/sinc-vereor
https://noiseengineering.us/products/virt-vereor

Availability: Download or update installer at the Noise Engineering Customer Portal Price: Free"

Noise Engineering Introduces Lacrima Versio

via Noise Engineering

Bring guitar-inspired effects into your rack with the devil’s autowah from Noise Engineering:

Lacrima Versio firmware

Los Angeles, CA — Lacrima Versio is Noise Engineering’s take on the classic autowah, in stereo, and with a twist.

Lacrima’s roots are in analog Autowah pedals. As a fan of the wah-pedal sound, Noise Engineering’s Doer of Many Things Kris Kaiser wanted to do a NE version of a wah as part of the Ruina line of analog distortions. The team was the better part of the way through a schematic when they realized that this would fit well on the Versio platform, and changed course.

Lacrima Versio features an envelope follower that controls a high-resonance filter. Morph the filter between lowpass, bandpass, and highpass slopes, and Lacrima covers all the sounds you’d expect from a typical wah – but this is not your typical wah. Route an adjustable distortion pre, post, or pre+post

filter for some saturation crunch. Add width and motion (and just a little otherworldly tone) to your sounds with a stereo chorus. Last but not least, use the Mod parameter to add audio-rate modulation and octavizing to your signal.
Lacrima Versio is way more fully featured than the module it started as, and even better, it’s available as a free download to anyone with any Versio module at the Noise Engineering Customer Portal (https://portal.noiseengineering.us/). Beautiful panel overlays will be available soon through Noise Engineering’s collaboration with Winterbloom.

Notable features:
• Stereo autowah with unique features: for everything from classic sounds to extreme filtering
• Adjustable and routable saturation distortion
• Juno-inspired chorus
• Octavizer and audio-rate modulation
• Guitar-inspired effects take your rack into a new realm

• Free to Versio module owners
• Availability: Download at the Noise Engineering Customer Portal starting on October 14, 2021

Moog Grandmother Demo

video upload by Oblivion Corner

"A demo of various sounds from the Moog Grandmother:
1. Moog Grandmother played with the PG-8X VST 00:00
2. Moog Grandmother played with the Prophet-5 Rev4 00:35
3. Moog Grandmother - looking at various waveforms 01:22
4. Moog Grandmother's spring reverb 02:14

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