Micrologue video tutorial (Cubasis 1.5)
In this video, Steinberg product specialist Sebastian Mönch teaches you how to use Micrologue inside Cubasis 1.5.
All the details on the new Covenant album ‘Leaving Babylon’
Out on September 6 will be the new Covenant album “Leaving Babylon”. The release will come as a normal CD and as a limited edition digipak 2CD. Written and recorded by Eskil Simonsson, Joakim Montelius and Daniel Jonasson (of Dupont) the album will have 9 tracks while the limited 2CD version will feature a bonus-CD consisting of a 76 minute piece called “Jag är fullständigt tung” with text and vocals by Swedish poet Helena Österlund.
The track list for the normal CD is as follows:
- Leaving Babylon
- Prime Movers
- For our Time
- Thy Kingdom come
- I walk slow
- Ignorance & Bliss
- Last Dance
- Auto (Circulation)
- Not to be here
Listen here:
LushOne Inca module
A nice add on to the LushOne. The Inca module arrives.
The LushOne Inca module provides features to generate percussive, random and multi-source effects from the LushOne synthesizer. The LushOne Inca also provides features to make it easy to connect the LushOne to Eurorack or other external modular systems. Finally the module contains a “thumbstick” to allow fully analog control of the synthesizer.
Full details here.
The LushOne Inca provides:
- Four input signal mixer/signal processor
- Combine up to four inputs to create new signals
- Works with audio signals or control voltages
- Can be used to match LushOne signal levels to interface to Eurorack or external systems
- Two non-inverting and two inverting inputs
- Independent control of levels of all inputs
- Control of DC offset
- AC and DC coupled outputs
- LED indication of output signal polarity and level
- Noise source
- Analogue noise source with signal level and CV-level outputs
- Excellent for drum and percussion sounds
- Can provide control voltage input to any other module for random effects
- Variable level control
- Sample and Hold (S&H)
- Capture the level of an input signal and hold it under the control of an external clock
- Great for time quantizing the noise source output
- Generates weird effects on audio signals
- Utility Low Frequency Oscillator (LFO) with square wave output
- Primarily intended to be used as a clock input to the Sample and Hold
- Can also be used as a control voltage feed to any other LushOne CV input
- Gate input can be used to stop oscillator under external control
- Analogue thumbstick input
- Fun way to manipulate multiple control voltages simultaneously
- Game console-style joystick with X and Y control voltage output
- Button press and output
- Signal breakin/breakout
- Connect the LushOne 2mm patch leads to mono 3.5mm socket to allow easy interconnect to external systems, particularly Eurorack
- Can be used in conjunction with the mixer/signal processor for easy interfacing to external systems
- Single board design including all controls and connectors (except power-in) providing straightforward construction and neat presentation. A laser cut case is available that contains the LushOne base and the Inca or it can easily be housed in a project box.
- Open-source access to schematics
Station X Analogue Synth Demo
Station X , is the amazing cute little monophonic analogue synth from Analogue Solutions. There are 6 sequences in total, status indicators show fx’s when used.
Fx List
Sonalksis Stereo Tool ( convert mono to stereo )
Arts Acoustic Reverb
X-Delay (Orion native DAW fx)
Tube Distortion (Orion native DAW fx)
AUFX:Space – real-time reverb audio effect for AudioBus
Kymatica has introduced AUFX:Space – a real-time reverb audio effect for AudioBus.
Features:
- High quality 32-bit DSP engine.
- A multitude of parameters to tweak to get a wide range of sounds.
- Process hardware input/output
- Process other apps through Audiobus (input/filter/output slots supported).
- Ready for the future inter-app audio standard.
- Save and load user presets.
- Comes with several bundled presets.
- Fully MIDI controllable, including Virtual MIDI.
- Background Audio.
- Record the result directly in app.
- Email recordings or export to AudioShare audio document manager app.
- Access user presets and recordings through iTunes File Sharing.
AUFX:Space is available for US $3.99.
Alesis Andromeda A6 – Synth Demo – Ambient sequencer / chillout drone music / soundscape
Alesis Andromeda A6 synthesizer demo — playing ambient electronica soundscape / chillout drone / space music using a custom sequencer pattern.
This performance starts out with a catchy repeating motif, followed by live improvisation ending with a nice sustained drone and live fadeout. This music was created using 2 oscillators, filter and envelope adjustments, delay, LFOs, resonance and various other parameters on the Alesis A6 Andromeda synthesizer. Performed live, no external processing. Excerpt from a longer session.
About the machine:
The Andromeda A6 is a true analog synthesizer using two analog oscillators per voice, sub-oscillators, hard and soft sync and more! It features 16-voice polyphony. With the Andromeda, you’ll find a huge range of tonal possibilities: searing leads, warm pads, fat bass lines, extreme sound effects and more. And of course there are plenty of knobs (72) and buttons (144), even an assignable ribbon controller for addictive hands-on real-time control! The large high-resolution LCD display is excellent and shows you actual rather than relative values of parameters. Andromeda will integrate seamlessly into any studio with its total MIDI control and sync, individual voice outputs, stereo outputs and several audio inputs.
Andromeda is completely analog – no emulation! It features two analog filters per voice that sound great! They are a multimode 2-pole and a 4-pole lowpass. External audio can be routed through these filters too (three 1/4″ jacks)! As for modulation, Andromeda has three LFOs, each with six waveforms and they can be synced to MIDI clock. And there are three 7-stage envelopes with very creative and flexible functions. Also onboard is an extensive mod matrix for enormous freedom in configuring Andromeda’s sounds!
No analog synth would be complete without a set of classic effects and features. Andromeda also offers Portamento with nine slopes and legato functions. A built-in arpeggiator and analog-style sequencer are available, with MIDI sync! There are also some high quality digital effects such as reverbs, chorus, echo, distortion and more! Andromeda comes with 256 breathtaking preset patches plus 128 user. A PCMCIA-format memory card slot allows for additional programs and mixes. Andromeda is pure analog bliss, with all the features, stability and widgets of modern digital synths.
Time machine: KORG DW-8000 Synthesizer 1985
Synthesizer demo of the vintage synthesizer Korg DW-8000 from 1985.
The Korg DW-8000 is a expanded version of the DW-6000. It is 8 voice polyphonic, has digital waveforms and analog resonant filters. Velocity sensitive keyboard. It has a built in digital delay and a really good arpeggiator, which can be synced via MIDI.
Additional info:
The Korg DW-8000 synthesizer was released to the buying public in late 1985 along with the cheaper model Korg DW-6000 synthesizer. The DW-8000 was an eight note polyphonic hybrid digital-analog synthesizer instrument. By the time of its launch Korg had already begun a common trend in 80s synthesizer design of using numerical parameter access as with the Korg Poly-800 eschewing the heavily laden control panels of earlier designs.
A more unusual feature of the instrument for the time was the use of sampled waveforms as the basic building block of sounds, and the inclusion of a digital delay effect. This latter feature was one significant factor in the relative success of the DW-8000 compared DW-6000 released the same year.
Given a well-programmed machine, what are the highlights that might be expected? Basses are probably one of the DW8000’s strongest suits. The low end is generally thick and powerful and sits under a mix with confidence. Chunky mid-range sequence sounds are also particularly appealing, especially given a tweak of the data slider to modulate the filter as it plays. Lead patches are capable of both aggression and subtlety, as required. There are certain characteristically ‘nasal’ lead sounds that I have never managed to recreate on any other synth — a kind of ‘oboe on acid’ for want of a better description. Autobend adds a certain slurring to note attacks that is inspiring to fool around with.
The DW8000 is very much a synth, not a sample playback device, so don’t expect the acoustic piano waveform to render anything much like a Steinway! The waveforms are essentially raw material to be mangled by the synthesis engine. Pad sounds are thick and rich, but never seem to sit in a mix particularly well in my experience. String sounds are also warm and powerful, but just don’t seem to cut it when other sounds are around. I mention these points not as damning aspects of the machine, but as a reminder that no synth will be all things to all players. Utilise a device to exploit its strengths, forgive it its weaknesses, and it will pay you back accordingly.
Sub Phatty | Modular Control
Suit & Tie Guy of STG Sound Labs brought his modular synthesizer by the Moog Sound Lab and controlled four of our Sub Phatty Analog Synthesizers with his labyrinth of analog modules.
Synthesis Technology Morphing Terrarium as LFO
A short demonstration of the Synthesis Technology Morphing Terrarium E350 as an LFO.
Sound and Video by Raul Pena .©2013 Raul Pena.
Mungo Enterprises v0 spectral processing
Reversing the typical analysis/synthesis order to show off some alternative uses of fine band vocoding.
DATAMASKIN
