"Nocturnal" for Sequential OB-6

video upload by Antonio Antetomaso

"A demo of my "Nocturnal" library for Sequential OB-6- A library of 36 timbres inspired by the the Synthwave genre and, in details, dedicated to the sounds of 'The Midnight'.

The library is available on https://www.gprmusic.com/product-cate... and on https://www.synthonia.com/marketplace....

00:20-MN-Daytona
00:55-MN-Innocence
02:03-MN-JohnHughes
02:39-MN-LightInTheDarkness
03:16-MN-SoftMemories
03:56-MN-ShadowsPad
04:28-MN-TearsInRain
05:06-MN-DarkStar
05:28-MN-MemoriesHardBass
05:44-MN-Jason
06:15-MN-ShadowsBrass
06:38-MN-Kids
07:00-MN-Collateral
07:26-MN-RiverOfDarkness
07:50-MN-ComebackKid
08:12-MN-SyntheticBell
08:40-MN-MighthawkBell
09:11-MN-MemoriesBell
09:35-MN-ComebackBell
09:55-MN-VeniceBeach
10:13-MN-SyntheticArp""A demo of my "Nocturnal" library for Sequential OB-6- A library of 36 timbres inspired by the the Synthwave genre and, in details, dedicated to the sounds of 'The Midnight'.

The library is available on https://www.gprmusic.com/product-cate... and on https://www.synthonia.com/marketplace....

00:20-MN-Daytona
00:55-MN-Innocence
02:03-MN-JohnHughes
02:39-MN-LightInTheDarkness
03:16-MN-SoftMemories
03:56-MN-ShadowsPad
04:28-MN-TearsInRain
05:06-MN-DarkStar
05:28-MN-MemoriesHardBass
05:44-MN-Jason
06:15-MN-ShadowsBrass
06:38-MN-Kids
07:00-MN-Collateral
07:26-MN-RiverOfDarkness
07:50-MN-ComebackKid
08:12-MN-SyntheticBell
08:40-MN-MighthawkBell
09:11-MN-MemoriesBell
09:35-MN-ComebackBell
09:55-MN-VeniceBeach
10:13-MN-SyntheticArp"

@Sequential Take 5 Factory Presets Part. 1 | No Talking |

video upload by DKS SYNTH LAB

DKS SYNTH LAB Sequential Take 5 Factory Presets

Timeline
0:00 Intro
0:10 80s Cali Dreamin
1:39 Orchetype
2:12 Prophetic Sync
3:08 Fly By Bass
3:37 Sparkledust
4:15 Freeway Drivin'
6:15 Everything Bagel
6:49 Matrix Brass

Subotnick: Portrait of an Electronic Music Pioneer to Premier November 3rd in Berlin

See the update in this post for details.

Time and Space by Jay Wires

You can find the release on various platforms on Distrokid here: https://distrokid.com/hyperfollow/jaywires/time-and-space

"‘Time And Space’ is the second single from Jay Wires.

‘Time And Space’ follows the debut Jay Wires single, ‘Candle In The Night’, and continues a story that began there. Filled with frank honesty, longing and unrequited caring, ‘Time And Space’ was written after an argument between Jay Wires and his ex-girlfriend. “We approached arguments differently,” he reflects. “My solution to arguments was always to talk things out as soon as possible in order to move past them, whereas hers was needing to be alone, taking time and space before coming back.” The song was written during one of those periods of post-argument separation.

In spite of its lyrical themes, ‘Time And Space’ highlights Jay Wires’ knack for creating towering, ascendant intricately-detailed electronic pop tracks, full of personal emotion and reference points. “The argument happened in December 2019,” remembers Jay Wires. “That month, we saw a live jazz band perform songs from the ‘Charlie Brown Christmas Special’ soundtrack in a hotel lounge in Williamsburg. For the instrumental break, I created the sound of brushed cymbals to capture the atmosphere of that performance.” ‘Time And Space’ concludes with a powerful, stirring, uplifting synth-orchestral segment, offering a fragile sense of optimism that this was just a temporary parting, not something more permanent.

‘Time And Space’ is the second song to be taken from the debut Jay Wires EP, ‘Kaboom!’.

-Mat Smith of Further.

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Jay Wires testing the Korg ARP 2600m

video upload by Jay Wires

"Tone Tweakers just got a shipment of Korg ARP 2600ms in. We’ve got a couple real vintage ARP 2600s in the studio (and in inventory), but this new clone is pretty cool. It’s not quite the same, but it sounds great regardless. Plus, it’s tiny and super cute. We sold out fast, but this one was purchased for the studio and we won’t have time to use it for a few months, so if anyone wants one here in the US, get in touch via the website. For sale or swap for cool vintage gear. Thanks for reading and listening."

Traveler: A Korg Retrospective

video upload by Alex Ball

Alex Ball Retrospective

"In 1963 two young men stepped into a factory next to the Keio railway line in Shinjuku, Japan. Their ambition was to make a new autorhythm machine, but over the next six decades their company would become one of the biggest players in music technology and would help define the sound of music around the world.

A huge thank you to all at Korg and to all the people who gave up their time and expertise to make this film film happen. A full list of credits is at the end of the film.

0:00 INTRO
1:34 FORMATION
6:19 SEVENTIES
19:34 EIGHTIES
32:38 NINETIES
40:21 NOUGHTIES
47:12 TENS
51:09 SO TO NOW
52:25 OUTRO / CREDITS"

KEITH EMERSON'S SETUP '74 ELP TOUR - Handmade Miniatures 1/6 scale

video upload by Ronaldo Lopes Teixeira ROLT

NEW Moog Powered Eurorack Cases (60HP & 104HP)

"The new Moog Powered Eurorack Case, available in both 60HP and 104HP formats, invites modular artists to expand their setups and serves as the perfect jumping-off point for anyone interested in constructing their very first Eurorack system.

The intuitive plug-and-play unit features 10 Eurorack-compatible 16-pin power connectors and is designed for low-noise performance, high efficiency, and convenient input voltage compatibility.

Featuring a durable aluminum case with wood sides, this case offers a versatile solution for expanding your setup of Moog semi-modular synthesizers (Mother-32, DFAM, Subharmonicon, Mavis) and the case’s angled extrusion mounts into Moog 2-Tier, 3-Tier, and 4-Tier Rack Kits. The 60HP case allows for easy expansion of Mavis alongside smaller Eurorack modules, while the 104HP option perfectly fits Mavis plus one Mother-32, DFAM, or Subharmonicon.

Learn More about Moog Powered Eurorack Cases"

United Plugins Announces Availability of JMG Sound Cryostasis SPECTRAL INERTIA Effect

video upload by United Plugins

Press release follows:

United Plugins announces availability of JMG Sound Cryostasis SPECTRAL INERTIA effect enabling progressive audio smearing until infinitely frozen in time

PRAGUE, CZECH REPUBLIC: independent development teams federation United Plugins is proud to announce availability of founding partner JMG Sound’s highly-creative Cryostasis plug-in — an appropriately-named SPECTRAL INERTIA effect enabling progressive smearing any audio of until it is infinitely frozen in time, thanks to spectral effects and controls that shape the character of the frozen tail to blur audio into atmospheric soundscapes — as of October 6…

Cryostasis itself is defined as being the reversible cryopreservation of live biological objects; on the face of it, then, it is also an appropriate name for an effect plug-in placing music into a state of inertia — if it is possible to imagine such a thing. Thankfully, the imaginative team at JMG Sound have come up with a spectral freeze effect called Cryostasis to do just that, so users can concentrate on taking their music into a different direction, both speedily and easily, thanks to its spectral effects and controls that shape the character of the frozen tail to blur audio into atmospheric soundscapes. All are controlled by a continuously variable ‘freeze’ knob or an auto switch that can be timed in milliseconds or musical measures. Manually control the freezing process with the aforesaid knob or tell Cryostasis how quickly to take the sound from normal to frozen, in other words.

What is more, though, is that there is more to the superficially simple-looking Cryostasis plug-in than might first meet the eye. Examples of this include the SIZE parameter, which will change the time length of the spectral window, which will in itself completely change the sonic character — lower values sound unnatural and robotic, while higher values sound smoother and atmospheric. And balancing out the easy-on-the-eye GUI (Graphical User Interface) is WASH, which controls the amount of reverb that is used to diffuse and smoothen the ‘freeze’ effect into a lush and smoothly modulated reverb tail. Try creating spaced-out ambience and soundscapes that dissolve into the ether — surely sweet (ambient) dreams are made of this, while it can even be used as a sound design tool to create frozen vocal loops to load into a sampler!

Saying that, users can quickly fine-tune the resulting frozen sound colour with four filter controls — PITCH (controls the depth of pitch shift scaled by the ‘freeze’ control, with a range of -24 to +24 semitones); FILTER (controls the HP — high-pass — and LP — low-pass — filtering depth scaled by the ‘freeze’ control); LOFI (controls the amount of BITS and RATE reduction scaled by the ‘freeze’ control); and SHIFT (controls the frequency shifting scaled by the ‘freeze’ control, with a range of -1kHz to +1kHz) — to achieve even more unique results. Creatively coupling that LOFI magic with lower SIZE values makes creating dirty robotic glitches to washed-out dusty soundscapes a breeze. It is also possible to create a tape-stop-type effect — whereby the sound appears to slow down over time until it is completely frozen forever — by coupling the ‘freeze’ effect with the built-in PITCH shifter.

And as if that was not enough to get Cryostasis users shaking with excitement — and hopefully not from an energy crisis-induced cold when working with Cryostasis in colder climes, it is well worth noting that it also has continuously variable freeze functionality — unlike most other freeze plug-ins, so users can smoothly transition between freeze states, or even partially freeze to create time-smearing effects.

As always, JMG Sound’s highly-creative Cryostasis plug-in shares several admirable attributes with fellow family members now numbering 26 plug-ins, each playing their part in United Plugins’ proliferating product portfolio, providing maximum audio quality by using internal 64-bit audio processing as well as being able to handle any sampling rate — why not try it at 192 kHz (or even higher)? — and also the fact that it intelligently detects whether it makes sense to perform any processing at all; if not, it temporarily turns on sleep mode, meaning it requires virtually no CPU power at all, thereby saving computing resources for other processes. Putting a photorealistic 3D yet flexible GUI to the test with Cryostasis, likewise, leaves its users with the impression that they are working with real world hardware; however, it easily adapts to their needs since they can always drag the arrow at the bottom-right corner to change its size — smaller to save precious ‘screen estate’ or larger to make it easier on the eye and, as a result, even easier to use than it already is.

It is fair to say, then, that there are (almost) endless possibilities for Cryostasis users to craft creative transitions that are applicable to single tracks or whole songs in the studio or on stage. Surely getting frozen has never been so much fun — or so quickly reversible!


JMG Sound’s Cryostasis is available to purchase for a time-limited introductory promo price of only €19.00 EUR until November 13, 2022 — rising thereafter to its regular price of €79.00 EUR — as an AAX-, AU-, VST-, and VST3-compatible plug-in (using internal 64-bit audio processing capable of handling any sample rate) directly from its dedicated webpage (https://unitedplugins.com/Cryostasis/), where a 15-day, fully-functional trial version for macOS 10.10 and newer and Windows 8/10 can also be downloaded for free.

Note that no iLok, dongle, or internet access is required for Cryostasis activation. (All United Plugins software uses license files for activation and owners can freely use purchased software on all their computers as long as they are the user.)

CubuSynth Engine

video upload by CubuSynth Modular

"Pure Sound Demo for the CubuSynth Engine.
Warning! Loads of annoying sounds only for demonstration!

100% Sound from the Engine / only ADSR and VCA used for the demo of the Gate Out on expander module.

https://cubusynth.com/products/cubusy...

Chapters:
00:06 - Basic Waveforms
00:54 - Wavefolder
01:28 - Combined Outputs
02:48 - Chaos Output
05:03 - Expander Sub octaves
05:53 - Expander Mix Output
07:43 - Lin FM
09:28 - exp FM (Chaos)
11:15 - external clocked chaos / Noodling
16:20 - Expander Gate Output (with ADSR / VCA)"