MATRIXSYNTH

Arcane Firmware Update - 3 Jams Snippets

video upload by SPHERICAL SOUND SOCIETY

"So Im updating the ARCANE firmware. Now the buttons do some byte operations directly to the registers of the Yamaha chip, making the thing way more playable in a logical or musical way. I have also tweak the ranges of the pots and added a totally new feature to the 'sequence' pot that I will document when its ready

Here I have some audio jams recorded in better quality in soundcloud:

Spherical Sound Society · Arcane new firmware audio jams

The firmware update will be free for existing ARCANE users and new units will ship with it.

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ARCANE is a generative synth that lies somewhere between a synth, a sequencer and a drum machine, depending on how you interact with it.

It is based on an authentic Yamaha YM2413 FM chip; the one used in some arcade coin ops, MSX and in the japanese version of the Sega Master System.

To control it it has 6 potentiometers and 3 buttons. The pots are:

-Tempo. It controls the tempo/speed

-Base Register. It determines if the machine is more musical or glichy

-Intensity. The higher this pot, the more amount of notes and percusions sounding. This is a veru playable way of alter the generative composition by transitioning between the simple and complex sound explorations

-Sequence. It let you browse between sequences.

-Dispersion. the higher this pot, the most registers that we are writing on the chip, so the sequences get more complex and chaotic

-Combination. It multiplex, demultiplex and recombines sequences, keeping the output related but always fresh and different

It has 3 buttons, Left, Right and Reset. Reset is located in the arduino and is self explanatory. Left and Right buttons are to be determined as the firmware is still in development.

It has Clock In and Clock Out so you can synch it with external gear

It comes fully assembled and ready to play.

You can get assembled units, kits and PCBs at:
synth/">https://www.tindie.com/products/jc204...
https://www.etsy.com/es/listing/94101..."

Polyend Play + Novation Peak

video upload by sucik

"a little of jam with Polyend Play sequencing Novation Peak"

Michael Whalen A Major improvisation on a Yamaha DX-1 synthesizer.

video upload by Michael Whalen

"MW does a improvisation on the legendary Yamaha DX-1 FM digital synthesizer."

Chaotic Pressure Array Synthesizer

video upload by Peter Corbett

"This was my team's submission to our 4th year EE Capstone project. The synth features chaotically phase-modulated oscillators (Lorenz Attractor), and a dynamic and expressive 2 dimensional pressure input device:

X-axis = pitch
Y-axis = filter cutoff + chaotic mod index
Z-axis (pressure) = amplitude + filter cutoff

The pressure pad is comprised of a sheet of Velostat sandwiched between vertical and horizontal strips of conductive tape. Shift registers apply voltage to each column sequentially, and analog multiplexers scan each row to build an array of pressure readings for all the cells. This is driven by an ESP32, which in turn transmits UART data to a Raspberry Pi 4B.

A python script receives pressure data and parses it into note events. Higher order interpolation methods are employed to capture inter-cell peaks and improve positional resolution. The DSP synth engine is built in PureData with a TouchOSC front end."

Yamaha QY70 - battery powered mini synth workstation

video upload by Floyd Steinberg

"The Yamaha QY70 is a battery powered mini sequencer / XG/GM standard synthesizer workstation. In this video, I take a brief look at it's features and create a pattern. Table of contents:

00:00 intro
00:23 hello
00:45 hardware overview
02:05 QY Data Filer Software
02:15 sequencer and UI overview
03:52 recording a pattern
04:18 chord tracks
04:47 selecting a sound
05:00 step sequencer
06:44 effects setup
07:01 effects send setup / mixer
07:31 bass track demo with filters & distortion
07:57 important considerations
08:19 demo track
10:22 conclusion
10:34 bye bye

Yamaha QY Data Filer: https://usa.yamaha.com/support/faq/mu..."

Support: https://www.paypal.me/alexselck

OP-1 Field's Dimension Synth Presets

video upload by EZBOT

"In this video I share a clip of the new OP-1 Fields Dimension synth presets. This video clip was sent to me by a friend who is a beta tester for Teenage Engineering. He plugged his OP-1 directly into his iPhone and filmed these presets for me to share with you. I always thought the OP-1 needed an easy to read subtractive synthesizer, this engine appears to be just that."

Step up your game with 1 on 1 lessons: https://www.ezbot.live/

Music: https://soundcloud.com/ezbotmusic
Store: https://www.modbang.com/
IG: https://www.instagram.com/ezbotmusic/

Mamotreco OP-1 Mixtape Diary #2 | Teenage Engineering Synth

video upload by Mamotreco

"Welcome to another entry in my synth music diary with the Teenage Engineering OP-1. This time is eschew the radio samples from the last mixtape ([posted here]) and focus on the internal TE OP 1 synth sounds. No external sounds were added. Everything you hear is 100% Teenage Engineering OP-1. #op1 #teenageengineering #synth

I then played live over the top of the tape in one take, using further OP-1 synth sounds on top of what I had done before. There's also a couple of times where I use the Memory 1 momentary button to change the overall sound. Apologies if the final product is a bit rough, but that's how it goes with the OP-1, it's immediate and not everything is perfect but that's why I love it, great to break through writers block and get making music.

Current channel music compilation: https://mamotreco.bandcamp.com
Previous music releases available here: https://synthandsundry.bandcamp.com"

Acids RAVE - Realtime Audio Variational autoEncoder

video upload by Realtime Neural Audio Synthesis - embedded RAVE #2 Acids Team - Ircam

From the makers of Neurorack.

"Official implementation of RAVE: A variational autoencoder for fast and high-quality neural audio synthesis (article link) by Antoine Caillon and Philippe Esling.

RAVE comes with two command line utilities, resample and duration. resample allows to pre-process (silence removal, loudness normalization) and augment (compression) an entire directory of audio files (.mp3, .aiff, .opus, .wav, .aac). duration prints out the total duration of a .wav folder.

Once trained, you can reconstruct an entire folder containing wav files"

"Demonstration of realtime embedded RAVE models on different platforms:

- Raspberry Pi 4 8GB
- Nvidia Jetson Nano 4GB

With RAVE + nn~ you can embed realtime neural audio synthesis inside single board computers !

RAVE project: https://github.com/acids-ircam/RAVE
nn_tilde: https://github.com/acids-ircam/nn_tilde

Antoine Caillon - ACIDS team - 2022

Special thanks to Victor Paredes for his help with the motion sensor"

Realtime Neural Audio Synthesis - RAVE + nn~ #1

video upload by Acids Team - Ircam

"Demonstration video of the RAVE model integrated inside nn~

Use RAVE with Max/MSP to perform realtime timbre transfer, latent exploration and autonomous generation !"

Patch Diary 001: Korg MS2000

video upload by Bloom Music

"Let's make this patch.

This is a new video series where I create a patch from scratch and explain it (with subtitles) along the way.

The synth for today was the Korg MS2000.

The effects used were:
Hungry Robot Wardenclyffe Deluxe
Mid-Fi Electronics For Parts or Repair
Ibanez Echo Shifter ES-2

This time, I made a lo-fi, Juno style patch."