MATRIXSYNTH

Freq Shifter and Panning

video upload by Todd Barton

"What if we pan and audio signal before sending it to a frequency shifter?
My Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/synthtodd"

Behringer Teases the "Groove Keys" Ultimate Groove Machine

Like a suped up Arturia KeyStep Pro.

"The ultimate Groove Machine.

We’re super excited to have completed the first working prototype called Groove Keys. The casing is still 3D printed but all functions are already working.

Groove Keys comes with very cool features such as:
- 4-Channel Sequencer
- Dedicated Drum Sequencer
- Internal Polyphonic Sound Engines
- Tons of I/Os and CVs

We don’t have a delivery date or price yet, but as always it’ll be very affordable. While we’re still waiting for chips, our many engineering teams are working on close to 100 exciting products to come.
2023 will be a great year. Stay tuned."

Original LINN LM-1 drum computer version 1 Rev.2 machine demonstration

video upload by Con Brio Synthesizers

Opal - rhythm machine & drum synthesizer

video upload by Fors

"Opal is an instrument made for intricate pattern creation. With parameter locks, probability, conditionals, ratcheting, independent track length, time division and traversal, it’s a breeze to program exciting patterns.
Opal comes with four distinct, highly malleable, synthesizers and two sequenceable effects. While the synths are tailored for creating drum sounds, it’s up to you to choose where, or if, the line between percussion and melody is drawn.

As always, every single sound and effect in this video is made with Opal."

via Opal

To sum it up

Step-sequencer with:

Parameter locks
Probability
Step logic
Ratcheting
Per-track length
Per-track direction
Per-track time division
Five tracks with:

Gem FM Synthesizer
Mass Modal Synthesizer
Dust Pulsar Noise Synthesizer
Slate Granular Sample Player
Void Reverb & Flux Sampler

+ Modulation

Gem
Gem is an FM synthesizer capable of a wide variety of sounds, from deep and heavy bassdrums to glistening lead melodies. At its core, Gem consists of 2- Operator sinewave-based phase modulation (commonly referred to as FM) that has been fine-tuned to sound rich and punchy.

With bipolar modulation and feedback, it's possible make a vast range of different waveshapes- including common analog shapes such as square, triangle or sawtooth. It's a highly malleable form of synthesis that has been boiled down to its essentials, with an emphasis on the sheer quality of execution.

Mass
Mass is a modal synthesizer, which is a type of physical modeling synthesis that employs a bank of bandpass filter to generate its sound. Typically, physical modeling is used to mimic real-world sounds, but with Mass the essence of the synthesis method is used to make all sorts of wildly synthetic sounds, often with an otherworldly quality due to its physically-inspired origins.

The sounds possible with Mass ranges from semi-realistic percussion, bells, textures, noises, strange phase-y melodic sounds to clean and precise timbres reminiscent of additive synthesis.

Dust
Dust is a noise generator that is based around the concept of Pulsar synthesis, which is a method adjacent to Granular synthesis. The sound is composed of very short particles of sounds that creates a texture when played fast and/or dense.

Dust combines concepts from all kinds of different types of synthesis methods to create anything from pure white noise to perfectly soft spectral washes. By layering multiple oscillators Dust can also generate classic electronic metal sounds which is very useful for making hi-hats and cymbals.

Slate
Slate is a sample playback engine equipped with a granular mode that can wildly transform any sample. At its core is a high quality sample playback engine with edge smoothing (click-less playback and looping), single cycle waveform support and a flexible loop mode.

The granular mode let’s you go deeper in sound design by playing back small particles in a pattern that essentially reconstructs the original sound, but with the possibility to dramatically change the speed and pitch independently

Void & Flux
The FX (effects) track hosts two different effect engines: Void and Flux.

Void is a reverb that has been fine-tuned to sound great with a wide variety of input sounds, with an emphasis on delivering good transient response. With in-depth EQ:ing of the input and reverb signal, it’s possible to greatly shape the overall tone of the effect.

Flux is an automatic sampler that continuously records the output of all the other tracks and divides it into 16 slices that can be played back by the FX track. Think of it like an always-recording tape loop that you can use to repeat or transform sections of your pattern by playing different snippets as single shot samples.

Modulation
Each engine has a dedicated modulation page with four different modulation sources that can be routed to any parameter via a modulation matrix. The different sources are Vel - velocity received from the sequencer steps (or a MIDI note), A dedicated LFO and Envelope per track, and a random value (Rand) that is received on each trigger of a step or MIDI note.

How to make some guitar lofi beats on the Dirtywave M8.

video upload by Avrilcadabra

"Workflow for making some lofi with guitar on the Dirtywave M8

#m8tracker

I guess this is intermediate skill level, I gloss over a few things most people familiar with the M8 should know, but feel free to ask in the comments if you need help with any of this.

My presets can be found here wowflutter (broken walkman preset) - https://www.dropbox.com/s/hk600odh69i... Avrilcadabra preset packs - https://www.dropbox.com/s/tt22qvn6o4v...

The M8 ships with some of my presets but I have made a truckload since the M8 was released."

verstaerker "Broken Forms"

video upload by verstaerker

"my latest industrial-track 'Broken Forms'

to listen more music by me please visit
https://verstaerker.bandcamp.com
https://verstaerkerahead.bandcamp.com"

Manecolabs grone wave promo

video upload by Manecolabs

new from Manecolabs

Grone Wave is the latest addition to Grone family , this incarnation is based on a lo fi sample player engine with 4 banks of up to 16 samples ,in glorious 8 bit and full of aliasing noise , you’ll find all kind of textures and accidents useful for ambient, musique concrete , noise and whatever nightmares you imagine.

You can control pitch , sample start and end points, and reverse them.There’s an external trigger input for retriggering from sync signals , gates or clocks.

Sample then passes through a MOJ transistor ladder low pass filter with resonance, filter is also modulated by a multi waveform LFO.

Effects section is taken care of by a special Clouds version , with dedicated feedback, pan blend and reverb sliders for intuitive and immediate control.

M13 MINI DEMO, AGAIN

video upload by Peter Grenader

"Another demo of the Model 13 Mini Vactrol Low Pass Gate. Here two slightly detuned Model 15 VCO are being gated by the Mini, then through a phaser and finally through the EAR Model 27 After Effects Generator (Delay)"

Simmons Digital Clap Trap Handclap Synthesizer

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"Here we have a Simmons Digital Clap Trap Synth. This is straight from the 80’s in very excellent condition, works perfectly. Own a piece of the 80’s today whether you’re a musician or a collector! Here’s some info about the Simmons Digital Clap Trap -

This version of the Simmons uses a sampled clap plus noise that is controlled/manipulated by an analogue circuit. Can sound pretty realistic, or not if you push the settings.

Can be triggered by audio or trigger in. Has the Humanizer function (making the claps less precise) and pitch and decay control of the clap and the noise."

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