Monster Formant Modular
This is the mega big DIY Formant Mudular Synthesizer of my friend Siegfried Brückner from Duesseldorf/Germany. Many Modules are prepatched on the rear into 3 systems. The red one for the Sequencer, the yellow one for the Basspedal and the green one for the melody solo. Everything is reconfigurable on the front.
Thanks for beeing everytime your guest, Siggi
Shared by tomabeman
Intimacy
Synthesist Martin Peters‘ demonstrates his take on Berlin School space music with this live modular + keyboard synth jam, Intimacy.
Here are the details:
Hello my YouTube and Modular synth friends. It’s been some weeks since I uploaded my last video. But I was looking for a way to record the music of my video’s in multitrack. Multitrack recording allows me to develop the live recorded music later on by adding, altering, removing individual audio tracks for each instrument and mixing the tracks properly. So I was busy investigating the various possibilities to do this. I ended up upgrading my Pro Tools LE 8 software, which I did not use much anymore, to version 9 to be able to broaden the scope for audio interfaces. Then I was lusted for a Mackie Onyx 1220i because this integrates a mixer and an audio interface for each channel. But the remaining budget was to tight for that. So then I bought a second hand Alesis MultiMix 16 FireWire which is capable of more or less the same for a smaller budget. Now I can record up to 16 channels and the stereo main mix in one go. I used the stereo main mix for this YouTube video so this is still a live recording. If I develop this recording further I will upload it to the music section of my website.
This improvisation is in essence somewhat minimal. There a four sequences going on. I manually alternate between rows 1 and 2 of the Synthesizers.com Q960 which is driving the Synthesizers.com Modular. I also use 2 presets on the Doepfer MAQ16/3 to alternate the sequences for the self-built Modular with a 4- and 6-step sequence and the Ian Fritz Teezer Through-Zero VCO with the Blacet MiniWave with two 8-step sequences. The Waldorf Q Keyboard does a 2-step sequence for the bass. Chords are played on the Roland XP-80 and the Waldorf Q Keyboard. The solo is performed on the Clavia Nord Lead 1. The MIDI clock for all this comes from Pro Tools 9 to keep it in sync with the Pro Tools bars and beats. Pro Tools also transposes the sequences on the Synthesizers.com Q960 and the Doepfer MAQ16/3.
You can download/see/hear the video and music from my website. I also provided a pre-recording made on the 24th of February.
Metasonix R54 + Z8000 + Polivoks & others!
Using the Metasonix R54 as the rhythm track for some new ideas with the modular synthesizer. 3 tracks were recorded into cubase. Reverb, panning effects & compression added.
Chip Modular
Self generating chiptune. Level 99 ultimate power.
Shared by crudface
Rack Performer – modular host for Windows
Abeem Live Technologies has released version 0.96-alpha of Rack Performer, a modular host for Windows.
In this new version we mostly focused on the feedback we got, and the most important fixes revolve around VST support and VST scanner improvements. Application is now way more stable and usable.
We still managed to add new features and this time the Keyboard Mapper got pimped up and is now completely functional, including all submap types, new simplified mapping types (control focus vs action keys) and a brand new configuration dialog to select layout and numeric pad mode.
Module Control Focus has also been improved with the addition of Keyboard Control Focus, making it bi-directional: keyboard follows global module control focus, but keyboard can also change focused module or focused parameter.
Under the hood, there are new global control ports for Scene Snapshots, Virtual Screens and Audio Monitor, meaning all those parameters can be mapped (MIDI, keyboard..) like any other parameter in the patch.
Rack Performer 0.96-alpha for Windows is available to download for registered users (registration is free).
More information: Abeem Live Technologies
The Moog Lap Steel
Moog engineer Cyril Lance and lap steel virtuoso Billy Cardine introduce the Moog Lap Steel, taking a look at what the Moog Guitar technology means for the lap steel player.
The Moog Lap Steel combines award-winning Moog Guitar technology with the unique expressive capabilities of the Lap Steel guitar. All the innovations of The Moog Guitar; Full Sustain, Controlled Sustain and Mute modes, Harmonic Blends and the onboard Moog Ladder Filter are seamlessly integrated to enhance new and traditional playing techniques.
http://www.moogmusic.com/moogguitar/?…
Modular Drum Programming
Zoog is working on new Angelspit material. In this video Zoog explains in detail how he processed the drums (played by Chris Kling) his Doepfer Modular Synth and a Metasonix D-1000 Valve Drum Machine.
Zoog Uses: Doepfer A-190 MIDI-CV SYNC Interface, Doepfer A-160 Clock Divider, Doepfer A-154 Sequencer Controller, Doepfer A-155 Analogue Sequencer, Doepfer A-174 Joy STick Controller, Doepfer A-132-4 Quad VCA, METASONIX D1000 Valve Drum Machine, KORG Kaoss Pad 3
DOEPFER.DE
METASONIX.COM
ANGELSPIT.NET
Snapdragon – modular synth ambient music
Apart from being a nice ambient video, here’s what they have to say about it:
4 melodies generated from Numerology software to a MOTM 650 MIDI-CV converter and selected with a DIY switcher. Mostly synthesizers.com system with Modcan VCDO and Digital Delay, MOTM 440 filter and MegaOhm Delta filter and Suit and Tie Guy Wavefolder. Music, including Drumaxx drums generated in real time, no edits or overdubs. Noisy sounds generated mostly by cross-FM’ing filters. This is my first HD video with new cameras and lights with some effects from Final Cut Pro all in a new bigger studio space. Thanks for watching!
Modular Evila synthesizer – an evil girl
This is my modular Evila synthesizer I built in 2011. I finally had the time to record an audio demo of the evil girl. She is capable of some very wicked sounds.
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The modular music box by monomatic
Monomatic’s Modular Music Box on display at the Kinetica Art Fair, February 2011.
Thanks to Kamila for demonstration duties.
More information: monomatic.net
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 – realized as a modern-day interpretation of the praxinoscope.
Inspired by the design of the second generation monome controllers these modular components draw on their minimalist design aesthetic and utilise a similar restricted material palette of walnut, brushed aluminium, translucent acrylic, and orange LEDs.
The work explores exhibition themes such as the ‘materialisation of data’, ‘the tactile digital’ and the ‘invisibility of technology’ while attempting to recapture something of the sense of craft and workmanship, refined aesthetics and genteel appreciation of the iPods of their day – refocused through the minimalist design aesthetic and tactile ergonomics of the monome.
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