Chrome Brulée – In a world that has become irrelevant to music
Not sure what is going on here and you do not get any wiser from the background description:
In a world where music has become irrelevant, in a time where quantity comes over quality…a new force rises from within…armed with magic machines of ancient times…driven by pure passion and devotion…..fueled by the craft and skills of their forefathers….they will fight to make music free again…they will rage until the spirits of old will have their revenge….they go by the name….Chrome Brulee
“Time Synthis” a tour inside the Ensoniq SQ-80 Hidden Waves
Jack Girouard explores hidden waves on the Ensoniq, here are the details:
An electronic piece called “Time Synthis” explores some of the hidden waves of the SQ-80 “Cross Wave Synthesizer”. Photo slide show of pictures I took showing the steps of the upgrade as well as other shots inside and outside. This is a very special synthesizer, super clean inside too! (its not for sale).
I bought this synth from an ebay member: thomasb93. I don’t want to give a source away, but he does a great job refurbing synths! I found this one, and was well worth it!
Here is a description of what he did with this SQ-80: “All buttons, wheels, faders, keys and disk drive work as they should. It has a new 3V lithium installed. The power supply passes the correct voltage at all test points and the CEM 3360 analog filter sounds great. This synth also features polyphonic aftertouch. The insides of the synth look new and the key contacts, foam pads and keyboard pcb look new as well.” I feel proud to own this well cared for instrument! Thanks Tom!
I did the upgrade when I got it. Had a little scare, I put the Hi Lo eproms in backwards, for the record, when doing that and restarting your SQ-80, the display shows nothing but a single digit 3 off to the very left bottom corner of the display. Note: in the dark angle view shot of the main board, if you look closely enough you’ll see the eproms in reversed. I wouldn’t recommend doing this but fortunately taking them out and putting them in correctly brought me to the Soft Reset screen seen here. Press one button and the new OS version can be read…none of the patches were lost because it was a soft reset and had the latest eprom previously, 1.8. These eproms, Oshi and Oslo, are designated as version 1.8HW, I believe it can be refered to as version 1.83 as well.
This is an improvisation done on two tracks, all SQ-80 with a Lexicon MX-300 doing some effect processing. Note: these are patches I’ve created, the upgrade to 1.8HW doesn’t give you a new set of patches, it just gives you 52 more wave types that can be used for the three oscillators. They simply add to the list of waveforms simply as numbers 75-127. The patches used in this video used hidden waveforms 78, 79, 80, 82, .
Introducing Cosmosƒ synth – ‘Parallel Universes’
CosmosV2 introduces a novel feature in polyphony construction and emergent sonic design. “Paralel Universes” not just extends the polyphony of Cosmosƒ but also offers peculiar sonic phenomena by integrating the same stochastic event generation system with two parallel running synthesis engines. The output buffers of Cosmosƒ take both sound outputs of these ‘parallel universes’ and feed back or freeze them for further processing in those universes..
Cosmosƒ is priced at 89.00€. Details and a demo version are available at the Sonic Lab site.
Cosmosƒ is a real-time dynamic stochastic synthesis engine, which does generate sonic textures with a complex event distribution process. Discrete sonic events of certain density are distributed in a time space with their onset time and duration parameter calculated with stochastic/deterministic functions. Each macro event defines the duration of a meso space, and the sub events are distributed inside it. The overall goal of these functions is to achieve control on each event space and perform the process of change on the appropriate operation level. The user intervenes with the system in real-time by inputting a sound source or accessing different type of synthesis/modulation generators and by controlling the parameters for the sonic event distribution on different time scales.
TANSU – new modular synth with the sounds of YMO
Developer Music Airport has released a new virtual analog modular synthesizer for iOS, TANSU.
The sounds that were sampled and used for the VCO (Voltage Controlled
Oscillator) come from the actual “TANSU” owned by Hideki Matsutake (Yellow Magic Orchestra, Logic System).
Primary Functions:
- LOGIC BOX – Sound effects such as Shepard Tone and rhythms from music by LOGIC SYSTEM
- have been made directly into the sound source.
- MUSIC – You can use your iPhones own music library as a sound source. (However,
- certain tracks which are covered under DRM may not be used).
- Microphone function – You can use sounds which have been recorded with microphone.
- Preset function – You can explore the potential of the TANSU Synth from various demo patterns. Moreover, it can be utilized as a tutorial for beginners.
- VCO (Voltage Controlled Oscillator), VCF (Voltage Controlled Filter), VCA
- (Voltage Controlled Amplifier), LFO (Low Frequency Oscillator), EG (Envelope
- Generator)
- Enhance the basic functionality of an analog synthesizer. (Various sound
- processing is possible.)
- 2 channel 8 step analog sequencer!
- Connect patch cord to create original sounds
- Three sound sources can be mixed by a three-channel mixer
Note: TANSU has a major downside because of it used of sampled material. The developer notes “Commercial use of the works created by using this application is subject to the copyright clearance from right holders.”
Tiny TV and the Raspberry synth
“I hooked up a USB bus-powered tiny TV to Piana. Now the little children of Stonehenge can play synthesizers. Or they could if I could find a similarly tiny keyboard.”
Impaktor Drum Synthesizer app for iPhone & iPad with Drum Sticks! – Demo and Looping Jam
Impaktor for iPhone and iPad (universal app) is a drum synthesizer that you trigger with your device’s built in microphone. The app is EXTREMELY accurate in perceiving the volume (velocity) of the notes you play, and even can trigger different tones from the synth with different sounds. “The real acoustical impulses from the built-in microphone are used as an excitation source for advanced sound modules that simulates behavior of membranes, cymbals, metallophones or strings. This makes Impaktor a highly responsive and expressive instrument.”
Glow in the Dark Etherwave Theremin
It’s almost Halloween again, time to drink witches brew with creatures of the night and let the unearthly sounds of the Theremin float through the ether. In celebration of the holiday Moog has created a glow in the dark version of their Etherwave Theremin. Play at night and let the unearthly glow guide your hand. Only 200 exist so act quickly.
For more info and available dealers go to:
http://www.moogmusic.com/products/etherwave-theremins/etherwave-theremin-stan…
Alesis and Moog – Analog Collage
A collage of video clips of the Alesis Andromeda A6; Moog Voyager, Little Phatty and Slim Phatty and Ableton’s Operator softsynth. Filter CV modulation by a Moog Multi-Pedal. Step sequencing by Koushion iPad app fed into Ableton Live.
Learn more at www.experimentalsynth.com
Flute Sounds | Moog Little Phatty: Subtractive Synthesis
In this video Arjen Schat demonstrates how to create flute sounds with the Moog Little Phatty. He starts from the calibration patch (CA CALIBRATION) as usual and create a flute sound as he goes.
Experimental: BASSBOX Loudspeaker Installation
BASSBOX inaugurated with the piece by Francisco Lopez “untitled 0808” created specially for ohrenhoch. The loudspeaker installation is a construction conceived especially for acousmatic tape pieces with strong basses., realized by Knut Remond. The video is just a little
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