Tangible Waves - Halloween

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"Using the AE Tangible Waves system to create a Halloween themed patch. Main voice is the Multi-FX module in a feedback configuration to create those dissonant out of tune sounds."

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Jeannie Polyphonic DIY Synthesizer Part 6: Sound Demo

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New Systems Instruments Releases Inertia, a “Universal Movement Simulator”

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https://nsinstruments.com/modules/inertia.html

"New Systems Instruments announced today that Inertia is now shipping and available. Inertia is a new take on a complex function generator. It models physical motion with analog electronics, adding a rise and fall "momentum" parameter to the more familiar rise and fall rate controls. This extra parameter radically expands on what a function generator can do, with the most obvious addition being lush, resonant filtering.

Inertia’s physical model produces exponential envelopes that are extremely natural, comparable to a vactrol ping but much more configurable. The inclusion of rise momentum gives an easy way to get an ADSR type signal from a gate input, with momentum adding a peak or accent to the initial rise. It has two types of output curves as well, with the second phase delayed from the first.

Unlike a traditional function generator, Inertia doesn’t generate LFOs by cycling its envelope. Instead, you just turn up the momentum until it self-oscillates. As an LFO, it has a useful skewed sine shape. It’s also very syncable, either with the trigger input or just by plugging another LFO into the input.

At audio rate, it makes an excellent VCO, tracking 5+ octaves. Plus it has a second interface mode that allows you to control the frequency and the skew independently, instead of having to fiddle with rise and fall to get a particular frequency and timbre. Skewed all the way to either side, Inertia is as bright as the best sawtooth wave.

Where this module really shines, however, is in use as a filter. It produces anything from subtle to squelch to glitchy scream, depending on how big you let the resonance get and—since it’s got a skew control—what waveshape you give to the resonant frequency. You can skew the resonance itself as well, making Inertia respond with different resonances to the rising and falling edges of an audio waveform. All of this makes Inertia into a filter with the same level of complexity and configurability as a complex oscillator.

The function generator space is pretty crowded in Eurorack, but Inertia is not just another DUSG clone. It stands out as a unique and capable implementation, giving you a huge variety of control curves, an excellent oscillator, and a wild and distinctive filter, all in a single module.

New Systems Instruments is a modular manufacturer located in the San Francisco Bay Area, focusing on creating new, analog designs based on different ways of thinking about music and synthesis.

Inertia retails at $329 USD."

New Systems Instruments Babel w 3 OSCs & 2 LFOs

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"Babel doing a rhythmic thing as the result of various interferences between 3 oscillators and 2 LFOs. See https://nsinstruments.com/modules/bab... for details.

Output is Babel’s XSOME to attenuator to mixer, with a bit of reverb.

Babel’s input is 1 triangle, 1 saw tracking the keyboard, and the Harmonic Shift Oscillator VCA’d with an envelope triggered by the keyboard. A second LFO feeds Babel’s center CV input."

via New Systems Instruments

"$135

Babel is a tool for creating massive intermodulation, and a workhorse for analog logic, depending on your use and interpretation of its function. It provides three inputs, which can be arbitrarily increased with the chainable expander (see below). For each of those inputs, Babel outputs the maximum value (ANY), the minimum value (ALL), and the balanced middle value (XSOME), which follows along the center values of the input waves. What CENTER means is adjustable via knob and CV control. XSOME is particularly interesting, as it has the same general shape as a multiplication function, but with sharper edges. What this means it that Babel will create ring-mod like intermodulation—but with extra harmonics like those produced with a wavefolder, and with an arbitary number of inputs, instead of just two.

When viewed as a logic module, Babel takes any group of truth values and tells you whether any of them are true (ANY, the equivalent of “or” with just two values), whether all of them are true (ALL, the equivalent of “and” with just two values), and whether some, but not all of them are true (XSOME, the equivalent of “xor” with just two values). Turn CENTER all the way to the right for 0–+5V logic, or leave it centered for −5V–+5V logic—handy when your “logic” modules are really LFOs"

New Systems Instruments Harmonic Shift Oscillator

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Drone Piece (Harmonic Shift Oscillator)
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Note the New Systems Instruments Harmonic Shift Oscillator was featured back in April here.

Details via New Systems Instruments

"$355The Harmonic Shift Oscillator (HSO) produces harmonic and inharmonic spectra through all-analog electronics. It provides similar capabilities to FM synthesis, but with a more direct relationship between the parameters and the resulting spectrum. You can separately control the tuning, the level of the harmonics, and the harmonic stride—the spacing between consecutive harmonics. When the harmonic stride is integer valued, you can get tones that sound similar to the traditional sine, triangle, square, and sawtooth, although the waveform will be different. If harmonic stride is non-integer valued, you'll get a complex inharmonic waveform.

The Harmonic Shift Oscillator has CV control over all parameters, with carefully chosen ranges. It responds well to self-modulation. With frequency, harmonic stride, and harmonic level modulation available, even a single HSO can produce extremely complex, evolving soundscapes with no other input. See the drone video, below, for a demonstration.

The HSO produces two outputs with all frequency components one quarter turn out of phase, making different wave shapes for the same harmonic content. However, because they reach their peaks differently, they'll distort differently. At higher harmonic levels, the HSO itself will produce warm and gentle distortion. While you have to be a little careful of phase issues, these two outputs are a great starting point for stereoizing a signal."

Roland SH-201 Panel & Knob Upgrade Kit

via the comments of this post featuring a CustomSynth.UK overlay:

"Hello I am now producing black overlay panel stickers very high quality with 17 brushed steel and black Bakelite sh2 style knobs in a kit. People can contact me at Jonnyhead66@gmail.com"

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Love Hultén LOB-61 Custom Synth

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New creation from Love Hultén.

Curious what this one is based on. You can find previous posts featuring Love Hulten's creations here.

Some pics for the archives:

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Kawai S-100F: First check up of basic functions

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"I recently purchased a new friend for the Synthcave: The Kawai Synthesizer 100F. This gem was born around 1980 and for many synthesists it is an instrument they would never give away because of its unique sound. Basically my device is in a good overall condition but it desperately needs a service. Many faders don't work as they should and I'm not sure if I want to know what I'm going to find when I open it up 😳 In this video I'm checking some basic features and try to figure out how the signal flow works."

YAMAHA CS-30 Vintage Analog Synthesizer Sequencer SN 2782

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via this auction, also on Reverb

"This unit is 100% perfect working. All Knobs, Keys are fully functional.
This unit is in EXCELLENT condition as vintage because it has been kept in the case.
This unit is for 100Voltage. You may need the voltage converter to use it."

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Marius Leicht - Der Prophet / Der Schwarm (live in studio)

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"The song 'Der Prophet', along with 'Der Schwarm' of my debut album Weltmaschine. Recorded live at the release concert summer solstice, 21.06.2021 at Weltklang Tonstudio.
Claim a free high resolution download of the whole album and lots of unreleased making-of material at: http://www.weltmaschine-album.com"