TROOPER Synthesizer for iOS

video upload by YonacSoftware

"TROOPER Synthesizer is available now on the App Store! Universal app for iPad and iPhone: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/trooper...

Thick basses, buttery leads, feathery pads — Trooper is a total synth explosion that crams it all and more in a neat little package. It sounds HUGE, yet tweaks easy. It’s coated in analog “fat,” yet bursts with tonal surprises nestled across its controls. Get ready for an all-out sonic assault, because Trooper is here and it's our meanest, beastliest, user-friendliest synth yet!

Many of Trooper’s parameters are meant to interact and meld together in novel ways. For example, the oscillator volumes —beyond just acting as mere blend knobs— vary the characteristics of the basic signal depending on how far they are 'pushed'. The emphasis is on providing warm and round basic tones with lots of variable harmonic content.

The primary oscillators are backed by an audible LFO that is both a sound source and a wide frequency range modulator. This lets FM-based sounds to combine with traditional waveforms. A pink/white noise generator helps out pads and percussions, and insidiously changes tonality when added in small amounts.

A new filter implementation complements the pugnacity of the signal generators. In its middish settings, the resonance can be characterized as “throaty.” The filter is capable of self-oscillating, and can be controlled via the keyboard. The mated ADSR envelope is shaped to provide tonal ‘immediacy’ and smooth frequency shifts. The amount knob has a wide range that changes the feel and shape of the envelope, especially when pushed above the mid-level.

The output stage features a virtual VCA that imparts tones colloquially termed as “fat”. Extra modulation is provided by a non-audible LFO and a dedicated envelope. The LFO offers numerous wave shapes, BPM syncing, and key tracking. Its output is controllable via the mod wheel, velocity, or aftertouch.

The Esprit parameter helps deploy some of the Trooper “special sauce.” Highly interactive with the stages preceding it, Esprit is known to be handy in tightening up bass tones, and in adding the "je nais se quois” to presets at large. The Get6 parameter is a one-touch ticket to big, mix-filling synth sounds. So whenever you’re lost in an empty mix…it’s got your six.

The arpeggiator inspires rhythms with five algorithms, variable note value, octave range, and gate. The 'Texturizer' purveys a wide range of modulation effects that include chorus, flanging, variable comb, resonant delay, and stereo imaging. The BPM-syncable two-tap delay has time and feedback controls per channel, and is tuned a little darker than our usual offerings. Trooper can run in monophonic or polyphonic mode, the latter providing up to 12 voices. Legato is available in either mode.

The robust MIDI implementation also includes MPE support, and the synth is able to I/O MIDI performance data. The 'MagTouch' virtual controller lets you to play and record (in AUv3 hosts so enabled) over the MPE protocol. MIDI learn is made easy via a visual interface, and users can save, patch-link, and share MIDI CC maps. Bluetooth MIDI input is also supported.

The AUv3 implementation lets you to run multiple instances of Trooper in DAWs. Trooper’s fluid UI accommodates a wide variety of screen sizes and view configurations. Feature navigation is designed to be nonintrusive so that parameters can be accessed easily. The iPad implementation supports portrait layout, so that pretty much all is on one screen.

Included are over 250 presets that range from deep basses to weird so-and-so's, stopping by many other sounds along the way. The powerful YPAT2 system helps you save, catalog, and share presets with ease.

The standalone app provides a “Tapedeck” to record, save, and share your ideas on the quick. It features a built-in looper, and a metronome with configurable time signature. The standalone also features tap tempo, and MIDI clock syncing. DSP is in high resolution 64-bit, with native processing at up to 96kHz."

A DB-01 love song: 'Dreaming of Perkons'

video upload by Richard DeHove

"What do you do when you're waiting for Perkons the God of Thunder to appear on Earth? You summon a pair of lesser deities and attempt to invoke the spirit of the God. So here we have two DB-01s, one playing pure percussion (on the left) through an EQ and mono reverb (Boss RV-6); and the other playing a droney percussive noise thing through overdrive (B3K) and stereo delay (Strymon DIG). And it's not so much a song as an extended noodle but it was a spur of the moment thing mostly inspired by Girts saying in a recent interview that the main surprise about the DB-01 was its percussive ability.
The second half of this video is me giving a short mumbly explanation of the two patches. As usual what you see is 100% of the sound - no post-production EQ or compression, no other effects etc, only a little chopping up since I was pretty sure no one would want to hear 20 minutes of noodling. What I did especially like was the low bass drone of the right-side machine. I was originally intending to have both machines doing percussion, but the drone was so satisfying I had to capture the moment.

0:00 No talking noodle
3:15 Right-side ettings explained
5:00 Left-side settings explained
6:25 Altogether again

My site: https://richarddehove.com/
Lots of downloads for supporters on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/richarddehove
Many thanks to my kind patrons who keep this channel ad-free"

Groovebox & Modular Hybrid Performance Setups with redstripedown

video upload by Perfect Circuit

"Our in-depth look at Cory's techniques : https://bit.ly/3xHgSCj
Which Elektron box is perfect for you : https://bit.ly/3Rds2WB
Cory's Music and more : https://redstripedown.bandcamp.com/

Follow Cory on Social : https://www.instagram.com/redstripedown/?hl=en

Cory Sterling, AKA redstripedown, is a modular wizard, synth-nut, educator, and versatile performer. Join us as he walks us through some of the finer technical aspects of integrating Hardware and Eurorack synthesizers and drum machines for a dynamic and expressive performance!"

New REON Muton Semi-Modular Desktop Synthesizer

video upload by reon jx

"REON Muton セミモジュラーシンセサイザーのデモ演奏です。新開発のFAMエンジンの特徴である偶発性と、アナログ音源の強力なシンクサウンドを組み合わせたアンビエント系のパフォーマンスです。
Demonstration performance of REON Muton semi-modular synthesizer. This is an ambient performance that combines the randomness of the newly developed FAM engine with the powerful sync sound of analog sound sources.
製品説明：https://reon-music.co.jp/product/muton"

Note the following is Google translated from Japanese to English:

-Features-

Muton is a completely new sublimated semi-modular synthesizer equipped with a driftbox-like sound source. It is the second synthesizer in the Fusion series after Cistron.The two models are very compatible and can be freely connected to other REON products such as driftbox and Libertas, so it can be a core synthesizer of REON products. This machine is equipped with a completely new REON original Flexible Advanced Multiplier (FAM) engine. By freely controlling the multiplier, you can evolve the REON sound into something new.

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PatternBud Multitrack MIDI CC Sequencer w/ Unlimited Steps

via Cem Olcay

"I released my new app PatternBud MIDI CC sequencer for sequencing the patterns of your Audio/MIDI apps. You can create multiple tracks for each app you want to sequence, assign a MIDI CC number to the track and add as many steps as you want for sequencing the patterns.

You can set a step’s duration in bars, beats, note values, seconds or minutes. Each step could send a MIDI CC value or a MIDI Program Change message. Also, the steps can trigger “actions” such as jumping to a random step or a random pattern, sending extra MIDI CC, Note or Program Change messages etc.

PatternBud also has its own patterns. You can actually introduce generative sequences with the random pattern actions."


http://keybudapp.com/patternbud

https://apps.apple.com/us/app/patternbud-midi-cc-sequencer/id1608966928"

TLN-712 Doomsday Machine Demo # 2

video upload by Lower West Side Studio

"Short demo of this versatile and powerful quad LFO and waveshaper module.

For more information visit lowerwestsidestudio.com"

Demo 1 posted here

FILTH IS EASY IF YOU BELIEVE

video upload by Red Means Recording

"Wow. Pretty lights and two cameras. Must be a video about ripping a hole in the fabric of spacetime with modular.

This video features Noise Engineering Manis Iteritas through The Endorphines x Andrew Huang Ghost with a ton of modulation from the Acid Rain Maestro.

00:00 intro
02:04 sequence start
03:09 beat start and ghost
04:10 modulation start
05:46 complex modulation start
06:29 jam
07:23 faster modulation start
09:37 parting words
09:48 jam"

Modor DR-2 Drum Machine ,two ideas ( drums improvisation no talking )

video upload by Dziam Bass

"In this movie is some fun from hands with Modor DR-2 Drum machine.
two ideas from hand and mind .
small drums improvisation but of course this is incredible machine for programming up to 128 step .

First of all: although it's digital, the DR-2 is not about sampling. It's a drum synthesizer, like a classic analog drum machine, but it uses digital sound synthesis algorithms instead of analog circuitry. There are no samples in the DR-2, and there's no sample memory.

Just like the Modor NF-1, the DR-2 is not build to recreate the classics of the past. The DR-2 uses digital sound synthesis to innovate drum sounds and rhythms. Many sounds will be recognizable. It is possible to make classic sounding bass drums, snares and rimshots. It's not difficult to program classic floorfillers with the DR-2. But with 12 synthesis parameters per drum, you'll easily find yourself creating your own individual sound."

360 Systems Digital Keyboard

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via this auction

See this post for a demo of one.

"Made in California in 1982. Only 200 of these ever made. This has all the sounds. Those that know how cool it is already know….

But for the uninitiated… the GoldDigger sound of the Sax is this exact keyboard. Was rented for session work and used all over that hit record.

Now for the work needed to be done. Keyboard needs internal cleaning on the touch pads to trigger faster and some key leveling on the white notes. Selling as is. You get to own a piece of recording history that sounds excellent."

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Crumar Spirit Synthesizer Designed By Bob Moog

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via this auction

"Here is an absolute killer!
If you ever wished for a Minimoog with a ton of modulation and routing, arpregiator, sample & hold, red noise, added overdrive, bandpass and high-pass to the filter as well as 12 or 24 dB slopes, a shaper matrix mixer, etc. Etc!-- then the ultra rare and amazing Spirit has to be experienced.
This unit is in very nice shape, tight and right. Just serviced to the tune of $640 at Electronic Innovations. 100% perfect operation, zero excuses. One mod- pitch bend in. Serial #42-- there were only a few hundred made and the number still out there in this exquisite condition has to be very low.
As for the sound, this is one of the most top tier pro sounding synths I've owned and I've owned a lot. I would place this beside the Minimoog, Prophet 5, CS50 and CS80-- units that sound so solid and healthy and pure that they are in an upper echelon."

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