PWM Malevolent Synth Review - Sonic LAB

video upload by sonicstate

"How can we not have Nick review a synth made by PWM (Paul Whittington Music)? The Malevolent is an analog 2 oscillator synth with a Sallen-Key filter (same as MS20), two envelopes, single LFO, post filter drive, apreggiator and joystick.

NOTE: We will have some extra content from questions generated by our Patreon supporters and any others that come in via the comments on here or Youtube. Those points will hopefully be addressed in that exclusive video - but we also had a visit from Finlay Shakespeare of Future Sound Systems, who collaborated with PWM to make the Malevolent: PATREON.COM/sonicstate
for more information on this read this post.
https://www.patreon.com/posts/pwm-malevolent-70638725

Bad Gear - Waldorf Streichfett

video upload by AudioPilz

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Welcome to Bad Gear, the show about the world's most hated audio tools. Today we are going to talk about the Roland Aira MX-1 Mix Performer. Is this digital mixer, home studio backbone and live performance centerpiece the final boss of Roland's Aira range?

Chapters:
00:00 Intro tune
01:05 Overview Waldorf Streichfett
01:26 Strikefat??? Where does that name come from?
01:46 History of String Machines; How do they work???
03:16 Waldorf Streichfett - Structure
03:34 String Section - Waveforms, Octaves, Envelope
04:12 Ensemble Effect
04:28 Solo Section - Waveforms
04:58 Tremolo Effect
05:05 AD/AR Envelope with a twist
05:23 Splits, Multi mode
05:35 Effects section (reverb, phaser, animate)
06:05 Limitations, clipping, hidden gate
06:22 Patch memory, Connectivity
06:30 What else???, Pricing
06:53 Hate
07:18 Jam 1
08:12 Jam 2
09:01 Finale
09:33 Verdict
10:42 Vocoder Shoutout"

⌛Time Past ⌚ ~ First OP-1 Field Jam

video upload by Postmodern Machine

"Hello 🏄🏼‍♂️

My Teenage Engineering OP-1 Field arrived two weeks ago. 🍾

I have never had or used one of these in the past and I'm building lots of thoughts on it, most of which are positive! Overall it's a super inspiring machine if you are keyboard based for being creative wherever you are. 🌿

I started exploring it by building this track. One small gripe I have is the lack of crossfades when editing with cuts, which is very simple to do in a DAW and remove all clicks and pops. There is really no reason that cuts to the tape should create clicks and pops. My main synth loop on this had a click in the edit at each loop, but when I built the other tracks, I used some more savvy techniques to cut the loops as far from sounds as possible, to prevent clicks and pops. This did work well and when I brought everything into the computer, I only had to fix my one loop. 🤲🏼 That said, it's a bit cumbersome to work around loop points to get the result I want.

The OP-1 so far is a really really fun way to be creative. It was still a blast despite any quirks. If you can accept of the limitations as just something to work around. I used the vintage 4-track simulation for this. 📼

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Ensoniq ZR-76 64-Voice Expandable Keyboard w/ Pedals

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"This ZR-76 has been completely reconditioned. All keys removed, cleaned or replaced. There has been work on the main boards to reinforce some weak connections, but it currently functions perfectly.

The expansion is full with the following boards.
01 Real World
03 Urban Dance
04 Perfect Piano
(The keyboard comes with 02 Drum expansion built in)

The floppy drive has been replaced with a usb based multi-floppy image that contains the original floppies and extra demos. Original removed floppy drive is included in the sale.

Original working expression and volume pedals are included."

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Clavia Nord Rack 1 with 12 Voice Expansion

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"First of all, it can sound like them all, an ARP 2600 or a Minimoog or a Roland Jupiter. This synth is polyphonic and multitimbral, it has a very flexible filter, LFO and Envelope control, portamento/legato, a great arpeggiator and analog-like dedicated knobs for quick and easy synthesizing! Everything is MIDI'd up and controllable, there's a great pitch bender and a 'morphing' feature."

Nord Lead A1 Virtual Analog Performance Synth With Custom Tote Bag

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Access Virus Ti Snow Desktop Synth w/ Original Box

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Continuum voice on the Onde

video upload by La Voix Du Luthier

"Short demonstration of a user defined audio analysis played from a Continuum on an Onde from La Voix du Luthier (audio recording: you can hear the friction noise on the Continuum surface ;-) ).

The original audio sample that was analyzed was kindly provided by Deep Forest (can you guess what song it is coming from ?). It was analyzed with the tools we are currently working on at Haken Audio (demonstrated at last Superbooth) and played realtime as an additive set by the Eagan Matrix (synth engine of the Continuum, also shared with Expressive-E Osmose). Only a very small part of the analysis is used here.

The left hand (that you barely can see) is on an Osmose...

https://www.hakenaudio.com
https://www.la-voix-du-luthier.com"

Mike Mareen - Love Spy (1986) Instrumental Cover

video upload by KOSmusic

"I have been wanting to recreate this beautiful Euro-Disco music for a long time and I finally managed to make it come true!! I loved 'Love Spy' of 1986 ever since I heard it for the first time (along with other great Mike Mareen songs from the 80s like 'Agent Of Liberty' and 'Dancing in the Dark', but also the 70s). Check out his official channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCGpnwyllnz10CAwVbWBku9g

As is often the case, for many songs/soundtracks there is no information available on what the composers used to create these music. It is not the first time that I have relied on intuition, experience and in particular my ear to try to understand with what and how to recreate all the sounds of this track. I worked hard on each sound to try and make my version as authentic as possible. In the end I was very happy with the final result and I hope you enjoy watching this video :)

You can hear the sound of the CS1x (preset 105_Jupiter) at minute 0:15 and at minute 0:48.

Unfortunately there is no official video of the 1986 song (there is only the one created for the version "Love Spy - Reloaded 2004"), but a user here on YouTube uploaded the video with the original track of "Love Spy" and the result is great!! A little curiosity: in the video you can see 2 fantastic synths... a Roland JP-8000 and a Yamaha CS6x."

Dreadbox Nymphes and Linnstrument and Hologram Microcosm MPE Exploration

video upload by riotbell

"Don't know if anyone is still interested in these Nymphes MPE explorations with the Linnstrument. Here's yet another with the Hologram Microcosm.

Overall I am very impressed by how big the Nymphes sounds when compared to other six voice polysynths. Makes me wonder a bit if I overestimate the importance of oscillator per voice.

Thanks for listening!"