MATRIXSYNTH

PWM Malevolent: A selection of raw sounds (no talk, no FX)

video upload by Richard DeHove

"Who likes grinding, grating, howling, scraping, buzzing, screaming, inharmonious detuned filth? I'll tell you: The harder, cooler more experimental edge of the synth world - and that's you :D So here they are from the PWM Malevolent and all completely raw. No pesky effects to mask the horror and wash away imperfections. Why experience 'pleasant, lush or smooth' when you can have 'random, resonant and cross-modulated' ?
Experience the vicarious fun of ugly, dirty noodling on one of the world's most ugly synths! Yes, the Malevolent is ugly, and not even catwalk-weird-ugly, just plain ugly. From its bug-guts-green color scheme, messy layout and annoyingly small filter, resonance and drive knobs, ugly. But ugly is as ugly makes, so see how easily the controls can tip from one sound into something completely different. Then add some careless CV patching in utter disregard of pitch.
And as fun as it is to tweak it'd be a brave (or spiteful) soul who'd play this live without a beefy limiter or some other device to catch the inevitable volume peaks, piercing resonances and unexpected low-end swells. It is not a tame lion. In the video I tried to keep the volume under control and have made only minor overall volume adjustments to individual sound clips in the DAW. But there are absolutely no effects, EQ or post-processing.
I might replace all the knobs - but the layout will still be awful :/ But what about that sound?!

0:00 Formant insect
0:48 Box of dirt
1:18 Zappy McZap
1:40 Space Cow
3:00 Tuned toad
3:27 Allsorts
4:39 Wobbler
5:08 My ears!
5:36 Android vomit
6:10 Tuna
6:33 Drummer Boy
7:20 Noise plonks
7:50 Paint scraper
8:54 FM digestion
9:50 Noise flavors
10:37 Bulldozer
11:12 Dying modem
11:50 Annoying clanks
12:37 Bag of cats
13:27 Oof
13:55 Let's get seasick

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

For what is missing | A melancholy improvisation with the Rhodes and AN1x

video upload by MIDERA

"Tonight I was moving stuff around in my studio and came across an old photo of me when I was 1 or 2... But I noticed that there was another photo behind it. I took it out and saw myself, at what must have been 6 months? I can't really tell. I was a baby. Seeing this photo made me feel strange in a way that's hard to explain - part of me felt bad for my parents, who don't have that little baby anymore, which I understand - as I watch my own babies grow into their older selves. You just see time ripping it away from you. So I see this picture of me and think that I went through that process. I guess time is to blame, not me. And then I just look at that photo and think a whole series of timelines could have happened - I wondered where it possibly could have gone based on all sorts of inputs (whether we moved or did not move to different places), I just had this potential that, as I get older, fades away.

I think that's what spurred my sentiment as I wrote this song."

Trigon 6 Review // Sequential's take on an old, monster soul: a 3 VCO, ladder filter polysynth

video upload by loopop

TIMELINE:
0:00 Intro
1:45 Overview
3:55 I/O
5:55 Oscillators
9:40 Mixer
11:25 Filter
13:45 Distortion
15:00 Effects
18:00 Modulation
18:20 Amp env
19:00 Filter env
20:15 Polymod
24:15 LFO
25:30 Aftertouch
26:15 Clock
26:45 Arp
28:20 Sequencer
29:40 Unison
31:30 Vintage
33:05 T-6 Editor
34:50 PATCH IDEAS
35:05 Amount=Oct
35:55 Multi-trills
36:10 F Env 2 Freq
36:55 AftTch 2 LFO
37:30 Chords
38:00 Drawbars
38:20 Additive bell
39:20 Saw PWM?
40:05 Randomize
40:45 Pros & cons
44:05 More Sounds

Oberheim OB X8 - first patch (Jan 2023)

video upload by Default Corporation

"Hi,
finally i've got the Oberheim Ob-X8 and this is my first patch on it.
There is a shimmer reverb by Korg NTS1 Nu-Tekt

Thanks for watch"

SoundsDivine 'Wonky Tapes Vol.1' - Sequential Prophet 5/10

video upload by SoundsDivine111

"Preview of the presets from the 'Wonky Tapes - Vol.1' soundset for the Sequential Prophet 5/10.
https://soundsdivine.com/product/prop..."

SoundsDivine 'Wonky Tapes Vol.2' - Sequential Prophet 5/10

"Preview of the presets from the 'Wonky Tapes - Vol.2' soundset for the Sequential Prophet 5/10. https://soundsdivine.com/product/prop..."

11 Con Brio - Bizarre Sequence

video upload by Con Brio Synthesizers

"These sounds play atonally with this sequence, seemingly ideal for a weird film scene."

See the Con Brio label below for more.

CRUMAR Composer - Vintage Italian Synth (1982) HD

Note: Auction links are affiliate links for which the site may be compensated.
video upload by Alberto Napolioni

This one is currently for sale on Reverb here. Pics captured below.

"FREE Improvisations on this rare and amazing synth
made in Marche (1982)

00:00 Jazzy INTRO
00:21 Graffiti
00:36 Child Love
00:55 Magic Laziness
01:18 Pixel Falls
01:33 Plantasia
02:00 Gargoyle's Bites
02:29 Pearls
02:48 Ennio's Breath
03:35 Clubbing
03:49 Angry Wasp Bass (with Aftertouch)
04:15 New Game
04:31 Ascension (Filter)
05:15 Cloud's Lullaby
05:39 Strings Hoodoo
06:09 The Owl (doubts)
06:33 Holy Grail Pad
07:23 Jazzy OUTRO

FX used on some parts:
OTO Bam Reverb
OTO Bim Delay"

via this auction

"This is a great opportunity to get your hands on a one-of-a-kind piece, a unique sounding synth...the Extremely Rare "Italian Trident":
The CRUMAR COMPOSER!!
I made a DEMO video to show this synth in action...
Only 500 were made... this is Serial N.69!
In 100% perfect working conditions."

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Erica Synths to Resume Production of Hexinverter Électronique Modules

via Erica Synths

"Erica Synths is honoured and excited to announce taking over manufacturing and sales of several of the iconic Hexinverter Électronique modules.

In September 2022 Stacy Gaudreau - the founder of Hexinverter Électronique, announced closing down the operations at a yet undetermined date within 2023. [posted 9/12/2022] Unfortunately the recent supply chain issues have created an unsustainable climate for small scale electronics manufacturers.

Following their announcement Erica Synths in cooperation with Hexinverter Électronique saw a way for their incredible and truly unique music instruments to keep on inspiring musicians and finding home in countless studios to come. We strongly believe the effort and innovation incorporated in Hexinverter Électronique eurorack modules is far too great to prematurely become history.

Erica Synths will take over the manufacturing, sales and support* of the following Hexinverter Électronique modules: Mutant Brain (now available @ SHOP), Mindphaser and Mutant Machine (within 2023).

*While retaining all functionality of Hexinverter Électronique modules, Erica Synths redesigned the hardware of modules and will provide support for reissue modules only."

NGEN – Algorithmic MIDI Workstation – Overview Video

video upload by Spektro Audio

"NGEN – Algorithmic MIDI Workstation is a unique 16-track MIDI sequencer created by Spektro Audio that lets you combine 12 different algorithmic generators and 10 MIDI FXs to sequence multiple hardware or software MIDI instruments.

It offers a completely new way of creating and performing music by abstracting the composition process. Instead of writing sequences from scratch, NGEN lets you quickly generate a new sequence for your drums, basslines, melodies, and chord progressions with a push of a button.

For more information about NGEN, check out our latest blog post at: https://spektroaudio.com/blog/2023/1/..."

NGEN is a 16-track MIDI sequencer that lets you combine 12 different generators and 10 MIDI FXs to algorithmically generate drum / percussive patterns, basslines, melodies, chord progression, arpeggios, and much more.

Besides our already released generators (ACDGEN and Polyform), NGEN also includes completely new Generators such as Drumgen, Samba, Arper, POP, and MARP and MIDI FXs like Humanizer, Glitch, Chord, and Shaper.

You can use NGEN to generate a MIDI sequence to a single track in your DAW, multiple tracks, multiple hardware MIDI instruments, or anything in between.

It's easy to get started with NGEN but you're always invited to explore and take things deeper.

Combine different generators and MIDI FXs, route tracks internally (to get Polyform to react to ACDGEN, for example), set specific MIDI program changes per track, set generators to auto-variate automatically, save and recall different patterns, change the key and scale of all tracks in real time, save projects to the microSD, or control multiple tracks via the Performance mode.

After releasing the first Spektro Audio hardware product ACDGEN – Hardware Edition, a standalone MIDI sequencer based on our algorithmic MIDI generator ACDGEN, I started working on my next idea: a new hardware platform that could host multiple generators so they could be combined to create and perform an entire song / music idea algorithmically.

So after working for over 3 years on 6 different prototypes, experimenting with different feature sets and hardware layouts, the NGEN is finally ready.