Alma redemptoris mater
This is Alma redemptoris mater, composed by Orlande de Lassus (1532 – 1594) and performed by Richard Galbraith on a modular analog synthesizer (by Synthesizers.com), with a Grove Audio PM Resonator. Visualization is Magnetosphere.
Better audio quality here: http://soundcloud.com/spinach-pizza/alma-redemptoris-mater-orlande
Modular Analog Synthesizer
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oQolpjCZZeE
Modular Analog Synthesizer prototype. No external (other brands) effects, just our delay module.
touch.modularDemo
The full demo of multi-touch synthesis application touch.modular.
Shared by Bridget Johnson
Analog Drums (Modular Univox SR-55)
Here’s a modular Univox SR-55, AKA Korg Mini pops 3. I’ve removed it from it’s odd-shaped case and reworked the circuitry to fit into my second modular synth cabinet. The pattern producing circuitry has been removed, as the drum machine has been fitted with proper trigger inputs.
Each trigger input uses a simple op-amp inverter to produce the negative polarity triggers this machine requires. By varying the pulse width of the trigger, different sounds can be produced.
This sequence is produced by a clock divider, as well as a sample and hold circuit.
See more at: http://seaweedfactory.blogspot.com
Voltage
Nice animated video featuring synths and more:
Just like modular synthesizers, people connect with each other in order to achieve diverse objectives. In Voltage, robots, half-human and half-synthesizer, powered by a huge amount of energy, connect to each other in an electric and chaotic trance.
Directed by:
Filippe Lyra e William Paiva
Modular Percussion
Yet another video has popped up from inside the Moog labs, enjoy.
Analog noise + Snappy analog envelopes = Tight percussive synthesis
To achieve this sound:
-Noise as sound source
-Filter resonance high
-Filter cut off low
-Modulate filter cut off with ribbon controller
-Volume envelope: -Attack short -Decay medium to short -Sustain = 0
-Filter envelope: -Attack short -Decay short -Sustain = 0
-Amt = ~2.5
-Trigger mode = multitrigger
Presenting to you – the BugBrand Modular system!
UK synth designer Tom Bugs issued these photos of new Bug Brand modular synth modules, along with pricing.
Bugs has this to say about his modular:
The design approach for this system really stemmed from my personal building and playing, both in terms of how to work with the circuitry and all the production aspects. The aim is for a powerful, yet relatively compact sonic system and for a creative flow through functionality, control and presentation.
The system is also colourful! Not only do the great feeling banana plugs help with the workflow of dividing signal chains, but the colour coded knobs also really aid intuitive use and interaction. Even the panel material is a lush deep blue, making use of 3mm PCB material, screen-printed with white lettering, to provide great looks and strength.
At the start of 2009 I announced that I was beginning to offer complete and powerful modular systems using 4mm banana patching and based on the FracRack size format. Back then I introduced around 12 brand new modules and since then the range has grown considerably, covering most of the traditional synthesis bases, but also incorporating many unique twists.
Costings: All prices are exclusive of shipping and VAT (@ 20% – applicable to all UK & EU sales)
Frame – £70
Desktop EndCheeks (Pair) – £20
MiniPower (inc UK or EU PSU) – £75
ENV1 Attack Decay – £100
SYN2A Utility VCO x 3 – £270
DD2 LFO / DC Mixer – £80
DD1 Modulator / LPG – £90
DD3 VCA / Drive – £90
PRC3A SV Filter – £90
PRC1 PT Delay – £95
UTL2 Output Mix – £60
Starter Cable Pack (24 Cables) – £40
TOTAL = £1080
For System Type 2 (PRC5 replaces one SYN2A) – add £5
For 19″ Rack EndCheeks – subtract £5
For worldwide sales (120V operation) MiniPower is discounted due to self-sourcing PSU – subtract £7.50
Typical Shipping Costs –
UK – Special Delivery – £22.50
EU – DHL – £40
Worldwide – DHL – £50
Bugs is offering two system types. They’re identical other than Type1 has 3xSYN2A Utility VCO while Type2 has one SYN2A replaced by a PRC5 Wavefolder.
See the Bug Brand site for details
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Monomatic – Modular Music Box, Electromagnetic Music Sequencer 2010
Strange sounds but nice, here´s what the author has to say about it:
The Modular Music Box consists of several interconnected, plug-and-play devices that collectively reproduce the functionality of the familiar 19th century clockwork musical instrument.
At the heart of the piece is a custom-made electro-magnetic rotary sequencer. Melodies are stored on a series of interchangeable, acrylic, 10″ disks embedded with small magnets arranged in a regular circular grid. In the same way vinyl records are located on a turntable these disks are centered on a spindle and rotate over a ‘play head’ made up of a line of magnetic field sensors — effectively replicating but superseding the set of pins on the revolving cylinder that pluck the tuned teeth of a steel comb in the traditional device. Additional units are ‘daisy-chained’ to each other via single cables and include a self contained and controllable sound source (to hear and effect the musical output) and an animated representation of a dancing ballerina automaton — realised as a modern-day interpretation of the praxinoscope (the successor to the zoetrope — the popular visual parlour toy of its era — but which improved on it by replacing its narrow viewing slits with an inner circle of mirrors).
Monomatic : Nick Rothwell and Lewis Sykes
http://www.monomatic.net/
Why we love the SERGE
This amateur tutorial shows how to get some sound out of a Serge Modular with only one 8step SequencerA and a clock. Klaus Gstettner put together this three-part tutorial that shows why he loves the Serge
Buchla 223e scroll
Here’s what the author has to say about it:
This configuration of a Buchla 200e 12-space system with 222-223e Multidimensional Kinesthetic Input Port was suggested to me by Giorgio Sancrsitoforo last month. Thanks Giorgio–a brilliant design. Here is a little (low rez) video of scrolling through 9 freshly-made patches. Enjoy!
For a better audio file go to:
soundcloud.com/user7621213/buchla-223e-scroll
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