Moog Sub & Little Phatty Improvisation
Background video description:
This may appear that isn’t an improvisation, but it is. The thing is that after hours playing with both, I was inspired! 
Sub Phatty
Little Phatty
EHX Cathedral
Focusrite Scarlett 2i2
The Korg MS-20 Mini’s filter being overdriven is a monster
Within the last year a new generation of analog mono-synths have appeared on the market from larger manufacturers like Korg, Moog, Novation, Arturia, etc. This is indication that people are re-discovering the beauties of crafting sounds via analog subtractive synthesis in the 21st century.
These recent designs retain the quality of a pure analog signal path but control voltage elements (EG, LFO, Keyboard, Midi to CV) are reaping the modern benefits of advanced micro-controllers and smaller components. One design feature that has been included within almost every synth within this new wave of monosynth is some form of overdrive to give the sound an extra aggressive, growly, shrieking distortion. The Arturia Minibrute has the “Brute Factor”, Moog Sub Phatty has the “Multi-Drive”, the Novation Bass Station II has onboard filter distortion, and so on.
Trends in music shape the features of musical electronics and vice versa, but we wanted to highlight a quality of the new Korg MS-20 Mini that is inherent in the original as well. The sound of the MS-20 filters being overdriven is legendary and thus many clones in various formats have been spawned. This is especially heard in techno, IDM, dubstep, noise, and experimental music.
This demo shows off just how the MS-20 mini growls, shrieks, hisses, gets nasty, and is the real thing. The patch we have setup is audio from the headphone jack being fed back into the signal processer section and the routed to the total control up top. Having the flexibility of a resonant high pass and low pass filter allows you to fine tune the grit and sputtering distortion this synth is capable of and always was. These are certainly not the only sounds it can make, but a finer point worth mentioning.
Moog Sub Phatty – Custom Presets
‘synthway’ has shared a teaser of upcoming presets for the Sub Phatty:
Just a little sample of the 32 presets programmed for the Sub Phatty Editor v0.94. I don’t know if all sounds will be included, but I shared them with Amos from Moog Music.
TBdriv3
Sweet Meow
Drive N Sync
Lady in the Wind
False Echoes
Singing Sync
Cyclodrone
Delicate Horn
Gear comparison: Korg MS-20 Vintage vs. Mini
This is a demonstration of the MS-20 Vintage vs. MS-20 Mini. They both sound amazing, but the age and other factors show that there are definitely differences. Information about each comparison is listed in text on the video. Enjoy.
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Cubasis 1.5 with Micrologue virtual analog synthesizer and more
Cubasis is Steinberg’s streamlined, multitouch sequencer for the iPad. Specially designed for quick and easy operation, Cubasis makes recording, editing and mixing a breeze. Record tracks in CD audio quality, and edit your music with the Key and Sample Editors, while the included mixer and audio effects polish your song to perfection. Cubasis comes loaded with dozens of virtual instrument sounds which can be played in real time using the virtual keyboard and drum pads. Cubasis’ projects can be even opened in Cubase under Windows and OS X! Cubasis places touch-intuitive production tools in your hands, opening up a new world of possibilities for your creativity.
Short demo of the brand new Micrologue synth in Cubasis 1.5 update
Micrologue looks nice! Here’s what’s in the update:
- Micrologue virtual analog synthesizer incl. 50 factory presets
- 16 Allen Morgan Signature drum kits incl. 80 MIDI loops
- Open/close hi-hat problem solved
- Instrument track freeze for internal instruments
- Instrument rack to load and edit Cubasis’ instruments
- Modulation wheel support for Micrologue synth
Checking out the Moog Sub Phatty
‘synthway’ has shared a new video featuring the Sub Phatty, details below:
First video of my new synth, the Moog Sub Phatty. Just a basic monosynth improvisation with a nice amount of reverb!
Gear:
Moog Sub Phatty
EHX Cathedral
Focusrite Scarlett 2i2
Tweaking a few knobs with the Moog Sub Phatty… using mainly lower register sounds. I wasn’t very creative with it because nothing was planned. Playing random licks in C minor (mostly) and randomly tweaking the knobs.
I’m planning on making new videos like this (but smaller!) that show a few special features of this great instrument.
In the studio with Analog Four, Waldorf Rocket, and NI Maschine
Khantipol Kasemsant has shared this video from his studio, details below:
Curious (with Analog Four, Waldorf Rocket, NI Maschine)
The Octatrack was used as an effect processor for Waldorf Rocket.
Midi was sequenced with Ableton Live 9
Studio Electronics Code 8 Moog Filter
Source Code Unknown , a song made only with sounds from the Studio Electronics Code 8 analog synthesizer. Also only the Moog filter is used on this song.
Note: The song is included on the second Firechild album Beyond The Stars released April 2013.
Time machine: Roland SH-101
Vintage synthesizer demo track by RetroSound
“Therapy”
The SH-101 is very cool, especially for techno, drum&bass and ACID! It’s a monophonic bass synthesizer. Its sound lies somewhere between the TB-303 and a Juno bass sound. It has a lot of simple but cool features. You can control the VCF, pitch, LFO or all from the pitch bender. It has a white noise generator, arpeggiator with up, down and up/down patterns and a simple real-time sequencer. The LFO offers random, sine, square or noise waveforms. And normal or auto portamento effects give you that elastic bass sound. There are external clock inputs for the sequencer and arpeggiator, CV/GATE inputs and outputs and a CV hold pedal.
Unfortunately there is no patch memory storage and although it has no MIDI there are upgrades available for it from many analog service companies that will allow you to incorporate it into any MIDI studio environment. It can also be controlled by MIDI using a CV/MIDI converter. It’s great for bass sounds or bubbly analog effects. They come in three different flavors – gray, blue or red (there was a VERY rare white version too)! It can also be strapped on like a guitar for live performance using the optional Hand Grip.
all synthesizer sounds: Roland SH-101 Analog Synthesizer (1983)
drums: Roland TR-808
recording: multi-tracking without midi
fx: a bit reverb and delay
more info: http://www.retrosound.de
Korg MS-20 Snare drum demo + Pro~One, Yamaha CS-30 and Synthesizers.com
Background video description:
Why use samples or drum machines if you already have the necessary equipment to create drum sounds. Making your own drum sounds is both fun and more personal.
In this video I’ve used a Korg MS-20 for snare drum. The MS-20 is perfect for making snare, clap sounds thanks to the resonant hi-pass filter. The kick is programmed on a Sequential Circuits Pro~One by Jonas Sjöström. The Pro~One is great for kicks and can do Speak&Spell (Vince Clarke) kicks and all the way up to 909.
Hi-hats are made by a Yamaha CS-30, the CS synths hi-pass/band-pass filter is perfect for making hi-hats. The best CS synth for making hi-hats is the CS-10… hard to find snappier envelopes. I don’t own a CS-10 anymore so I had to use a CS-30. The trigg to the CS-30 seems to be messed up, the hi-hat some times starts and stops…
Since the MS-20 was occupied making snare-sounds I had to use a Synthesizer.com to make the hand-clap. Not as easy as making a hand clap on a MS-20 but I think it sounds pretty ok. I will record another video when I create a hand clap on a .com.
Effects used in the video is a Klark Teknik DN-780 and a Sony MU-R201
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