The Iridium does beautiful bit crushed pads!

video upload by Crybo Synth Sounds

"Just the sound of Bitcrusher on the digital former on the Iridium adding some lovely distortion to this pad. I absolutely love this synth, it can just do so much."

Synth East 2024 - Synth and Modular festival in Norwich

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"Synth East is a festival of synths and modular in Norwich from Friday the 23rd of February to Sunday the 25th. Brought to you by the Norwich Arts Centre, Electronic Sound Magazine and Molten Modular.

Tickets are available for each event separately. There's a discount if you order the Saturday Expo and evening gig at the same time.

Friday: Subotnick documentary [trailer here], Adam Buxton interviews Steve Davis and music from Luke Sanger.

Saturday daytime: Synth Expo with performances

Saturday evening: Blancmange, Ultramarine and Molten Modular

Sunday: DIY Workshops from Thonk and Befaco.

http://www.syntheast.com"

Update: press release follows:


"Pouring from the heart of Norfolk, hosted by the Norwich Arts Centre, curated by Electronic Sound Magazine and run by Molten Modular, Synth East is back. After a devastatingly successful 2023 show the sold-out Norfolk-based festival of synthesizers returns in 2024 but this time it's been widened into a full weekend experience.

The all new Friday evening Synth East event is curated by Electronic Sound Magazine and kicks off with (possibly) the UK premiere of a documentary on electronic musician Morton Subotnick, who at 90 years old, is known affectionately as the Father of Techno. It’s called Subotnick, Portrait of an Electronic Music Pioneer by Waveshaper Media who brought us the intoxicating 2014 documentary, I Dream of Wires.

Following the film we have writer, broadcaster, comedian and musician Adam Buxton chatting with Synth East alumni Steve Davis about music, life and modular synths. Finishing off the evening we have an ambient set from modular musician Luke Sanger as we relax into some beers in preparation for what’s to come for the rest of the weekend.

Saturday’s Synth East Expo is a carnival of control voltage, a festival of synth sounds and a party of epic performances. Dozens of manufacturers will be filling the Arts Centre with synths and modulars to give you an opportunity check out their marvellous machines and bask in the glow of synthesiser technology. You’ll be able to chat with the makers about the gear and even have a personal demonstration. Simply walking through the auditorium in the company of such exciting gear is completely thrilling.

Throughout the day we’ll be having some performances from local artists Hardwired and Tristan Burfield before we once again embark on the awesome modular experiment of the all-star patch off. This year, joining Robin "Molten Modular" Vincent, Steve Davis and Gaz Williams will be Mylar Melodies, Nina Richards, and Jason Jervis. These are unique, improvised performances that you’ll never see anywhere else.

Saturday night’s synthesiser explosion features the 80s synth legends Blancmange who have kindly agree to fit us in before their extensive Everything is Connected: The Best Of Blancmange tour of the UK. Supporting Blancmange we have eclectic electronic music duo Ultramarine featuring Ian Cooper and Paul Hammond. And in the warm up slot is our own Robin “Molten Modular” Vincent and a special guest.

On Sunday we are hosting some Eurorack DIY workshops presented by Befaco and Thonk. They will be held at Electronic Sound HQ at Capital House over a few hours. The idea is that you buy a ticket for the workshop and then order the kit that you hope to build directly with Befaco or Thonk.

Synth East 2024 runs from the 23rd to the 25th of February. Each event is available as a separate ticket and there's a bundle deal on buying the Saturday Expo and evening performance together.

Our intention is to revel in the world of synthesizers, modular and electronic musical boxes. We want to explore sound through performance, discussion and hands-on interaction. It's a lot of fun and open to anyone with an interest in bleeps, tones and noises."

Dual Layer Hi Hats, Samples in Eurorack & Performance Mixer Updates // AMMT & WMD at Knobcon 2023

video upload by DivKid

"It's always an utter pleasure to see and speak to Alex (ALX-106*) and it was great to get an update on the new AMMT Synthesis dual layer hi hat module and some updates on the WMD Performance Mixer v2 which has had a massive load of new features added!"

16 psyche + czochralski cells demo

video upload by Petajaja

"not had either of these long really but already so impressed with them, this is a really simple patch just messing around learning it but already capable of some wild sounds between the two of them"

See the Destiny label below for more.

Eurorack / Modular Music - Cables

video upload by Jeanie

Jeanie is the woman behind the Beanie Bunnie Moo Moo Oscillator introduced in September. You can find additional Beanie Bunnie posts here.

"All the sounds in this song are made by my dual oscillator module, it’s available at website below. Thank you for your support.

www.beaniebunnie.com

Cables

orange yellow blue red green purple black white
plugging into a colorful dimension
left right turn around go forward or back
floating me in boundless undulations

like entangled netting
intertwine your universe with mine
knots in love united
time and space sublime

new and old curved and straight low and high
routing cross the parallel connections
sad and happy bad and good you and I
lighting up the sparks moment by moment

like entangled netting
intertwine your universe with mine
knots in love united
time and space sublime"

Diving into the Cosmos eurorack module

video upload by Stazma

"Hey there! Here is an intro of how to use the Cosmos, a pretty crazy eurorack module, a patch programming interface or platform, as I like to call it, from Black Noise Modular. It does so many things that I'm just going to show you a few that enjoyed the most.
It is a very deep and complex module but that encourage experimention by trial and error in a very nice way, there's two input and a lot of outputs to choose from.

Have fun!"

Cosmos : Universes at your fingertips
video upload by BLACK NOISE

via Black Noise Modular

"Cosmos is a new kind of module that will help you to creating complex modulation, sounds, patterns with ease and will lead you to new sounds territories.

Inspired by early analog computers, Cosmos is a unique, innovative, very flexible and fully analog module allowing it to be used as: VCO, LFO, Ring Mod, Polarizer, “VCA”, “LPG”, Phase Lock Loop, Cross-Modulation, Minimum, Maximum, Logic Gates, Waveshaper, Complex gate generator, Fuzz, Distorsion, Gate extractor, Trig extractor, Gate generator, Voltage generator, Trig Generator, comparator, window comparator, complex comparator, Half-Rectifier, Full-Rectifier, Inverter, Buffered Multiples, Mixer, Difference, Compressor, Sidechain, compressor, VC Clipper, VC Switch, Clock doubler, Envelope follower, and more.

With its wide fields of application Cosmos can replace many modules but it will also bring new colors to your palette thanks to its unique character. This makes Cosmos the ideal module whether you have a small case or a big system. 100% analog and with an intuitive interface Cosmos is also very easy to use, no menu and button combo problems.

Inspired by the past and crafted for the future, 100% analog Cosmos was not only thought to be the center of any system but also to blend perfectly with the rest of your case to form a consistent and coherent system.

Cosmos was designed not only to be a swiss army knife module but also to push you to explore and you help create new sounds and explore sonic territories that were previously unattainable."

Designing Sound With Shapes // Vector Synth

video upload by Jorb

0:00 Intro
2:09 Orbiter Screen
10:45 Overtone Generators
19:49 Filters
28:55 Sound Gen Summary
30:24 Arppegiator
34:37 Post Effects
37:24 Where it Shines
40:02 Conclude

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The orbiter reminds me of Moog's Animoog.

NextTuesday | by This is Not Rocketscience (TiNRS)

video upload by Cinematic Laboratory

"Tuesday was a procedural sequencer, introduced around 2017. It was forced into history because of the Covid-19 part shortage. Fortunately TiNRS decided to revive it because it's a super handy 'patch buddy' when time is short and you're facing a composer's block. NextTuesday is faithful to the original but adds a root knob and a second quantized 'mod' output.

Procedural sequencing means it's a bit like a jukebox or radio station. It has 14 built in algorithms and each algorithm can 'walk' a map of melodies like Mutable Grids did for rhythm. You can use X/Y coordinates to navigate the map and ! controls the note density. There's clock/reset to sync other gear, and master 'ticks' for ticks, beats and end of loop. These are super useful as masterclocks and triggers (e.g. synced delay, etc).

Procedural sequences may give you the impression that you're stuck with factory melodies. And that's true. But it's fun to accept the limitations and expand from there. After all, it's modular, and Tuesday is a great day for patching."

Additional NextTuesday posts.

Take Your Sound to the Next Level: Best Pedals for Synthesizers and Eurorack (W/ MFB Dominion 1)

video upload by pitch patch

"Pedals are an exciting and fun way to take your sound design to the next level. In this video, I present four pedals you should know if you play synthesizers or Eurorack. All sounds played with the MFB Dominion 1."

00:00 Introduction
00:22 OTO BAM
01:02 Vongon Polyphrase
02:03 Chase Bliss Generation Loss MKII
02:31 Empress Effects ZOIA Euroburo

Everything in its Right Place - Radiohead - Korg Volca Sample 2 Cover Tutorial

video upload by jumpwav

"Learn how to recreate "Everything in its Right Place" by Radiohead using the Korg Volca Sample 2. This tutorial takes you step-by-step through the process of programming the synth parts of this electronic classic using only the factory samples. No additional samples or external gear needed – just the power of the Volca Sample 2!

'Everything in its Right Place' by Radiohead

Instrument: Korg Volca Sample 2

Key of F minor
BPM: 124
Swing: 25
Reverb Mix: 60*

*Note: I forgot to turn the reverb on! But I think it sounds fine either way ツ

Factory Samples Used:
Part 1: Sample 001 - Kick Dusty - Hi-cut 60; Decay 60
Part 2: Sample 102 - Vintage Pad - Hi-cut 90; Decay 90
Part 3: Sample 127 - Bass UnisonSyn - Hi-cut 90; Decay 90
Part 4: Sample 127 - Bass UnisonSyn - Hi-cut 90; Decay 90
Part 5: Sample 127 - Bass UnisonSyn - Hi-cut 90; Decay 90
Part 6: Sample 127 - Bass UnisonSyn - Hi-cut 90; Decay 90

00:00: Full Song
01:38: Intro
02:17: Sample Setup
02:45: Patterns 1 & 4
12:29: Patterns 2, 5, 8 & 11
16:00: Pattern 3, 6, 9 & 12
20:38: Pattern Chaining - A Section - Patterns 1-6
22:07: Patterns 7 & 10
23:41: Pattern Chaining - B Section - Patterns 7-12
24:35: Pattern 13
27:28: Pattern 14
30:00: Patterns 15 & 16
31:12: Pattern Chaining - C Section - Patterns 13-16
32:46: Song Structure
33:25: Outro"