Livid Elements – new completely modular MIDI controller platform
Introducing Livid Elements, the completely modular MIDI controller platform. Now you can finally create your own controller layout without any soldering, electronics, or complicated assembly required. Element modules come in many different configurations and layouts so you can rearrange, replace, and mix modules, creating your own MIDI controller with ease.
Each module connects to the Elements Brain for easy plug-and-play configuration and setup. Elements modules are housed in one of our custom Eurorack cases for total plug and play integration. The standardized, modular format allows for an incredible amount of flexibility and expansion. More info at lividinstruments.com
seqSQUARED: The Analogue Pattern Generator
seqSQUARED is a programmable voltage controlled switch used to generate complex patterns with multiple analog step sequencers. It is designed to be used in a modular synthesizer and will be available in Eurorack kit and assembled form, as well as many other DIY formats.
For more information, and to preorder, check out the project funding page at Indiegogo:
http://igg.me/p/89405?a=227451
TABLETOP – now in its 3rd generation
quick look @ ‘Tabletop’ via a 3rd generation iPad. great workstation / creative outlet for music-making in iOS. base-version comes with a significant amount of devices. if other big-name synth / plug-ins were invited to submit devices to this, it would definitely have potential to explode.
Brief introduction to the Audulus user interface
Audulus is a minimalist modular audio processing application. Design sound from first principles. With Audulus, you can build synthesizers, design new sounds, or process audio. All with low latency real-time processing suitable for live performance. Audulus’s user interface is clean, simple, and easy to learn, allowing you to focus on sound.
Features include:
* audio unit hosting – use your favorite plugins
* fluid interface – smooth animated interaction
* midi control – use your midi control surface or keyboard
* presets – quickly change between settings
* unlimited history – everything you do is stored
* polyphony – process multiple voices
* encapsulation – group nodes into sub-patches
* diverse nodes – from ADSR to ZeroCross
* audio unit version – run Audulus as an Audio Unit inside other apps (free download)
Playing Monnix synth app over modulars
Description from chrisjeffs.com/monnix :
“This live performance synthesizer uses three points of touch to control the distribution of up to 16 harmonics, allowing for unique sound effects.
Movements can be played back in the Replay page and the pitch altered by tilting the device forward. The Sample & Hold screen freezes the partials according to the selected tempo. FM ratio, jitter and envelope parameters can be set in the remaining pages, allowing for a wide variety of sonic mayhem.”
Nordic Red – the new Modular G2x ReFill from SoundCells
Modular Pedal Test – 18 Mooger Fooger modular synth
You can never have too many 😀
Session #3, Take #2 with the Shout Out Mooger Fooger modular table top synth.
http://www.shoutoutoutoutout.com
http://www.auxgang.tumblr.com
Combining all of the Shout Out Out Out Out collective mooger foogers to make one biggish, patchable tabletop synth.
Inside Synthesis – Introduction to Modular Synthesizers
Episode 3 from the original series – a very basic introduction to modular synthesizers.
Correction #1 – I refer to modulating the amplitude of an audio signal with another audio rate signal as Ring Modulation (RM). I should have said Amplitude Modulation (AM).
RM is certainly related to AM, but there’s a distinct difference. RM is implemented in such a way that the carrier and modulator’s frequencies are eliminated from the signal. You only hear the sums and difference frequencies of the carrier and modulator, but not the original carrier and modulator frequencies.
Interestingly enough, the AC-coupled circuitry that does RM is ring shaped.
Correction #2 – Neither RM nor AM add harmonic frequencies. They add sidebands of inharmonic frequencies – hence the metallic and dissonant sound.
Pittsburgh – A brand new analog delay module
Here’s a new modular from Pittsburgh:
A brand new analog delay module designed around a pair of 4096 Bucket Brigade Delay Line (BBD) ICs to produce a distinct analog delay effect. The maximum delay time when shipped is set at 9/10ths of a second but this can be adjusted up to 2 seconds. The Analog Delay offers voltage control of the delay time, feedback, and wet signal. A true bypass switch allows the delay to be enabled and disabled quickly.
PPG modular demo
Before Mr Palm of PPG made his famous blue PPG Wave polysynthesizers he made some analog modulars and mono synths. On the video is a small PPG modular system including a step sequencer shown at the Frankfurt Musik Messe. Very few where made and Tangerine Dream is the most notable user in the late 1970’s.
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