Kequencer 2.0
The original Kequencer got way more attention than I expected, so I’ve built another one and done a more comprehensive build report to make it easier for people to replicate. This time round I’ve taken a much cheaper and visually more interesting route, by doing away with the front panel altogether. (This build style was inspired by sndbyte’s amazing work.) I’ve also added a fine-control pot to each oscillator to making tuning a bit easier. I cleaned up the output section a bit with a LM386 amp set up in such a way that it plays nicely with the onboard speaker, external headphones, and line-out. I don’t think this is the best way of doing things but it works. The other big change is the addition of a LM317 adjustable voltage regulator, allowing you to drop the voltage from 7V all the way down to about 1.3V, when it sputters to a stop. In some settings, you can hear the regulator in action, vibrating the audio like an LFO.
Shared by rdbartlett
Quantized Chords from the Tip Top Z8000
Full track with WAV audio here:
http://soundcloud.com/ritchiedrums/sad-sunday
~The 4 horiontal steps from the Z8000 sequencer are going through Synthesizers.com Quantizers to 4x Q106 VCOs, then a Mattson Mixer & filter to create chords. The 16 step vertical Z8000 steps are receiving a rotated & skipped clock from the 4MS multiplier & going to a COTK quantier to 2 BlackJack VCOs, then to the STG Mankato filter. The Blacet Binary Zone is sending divided clock to my MFOS rotary sequencer which is sending CV to the MOTM e340 generating clouds to the EHX memory boy delay
Kebu – The Lunar Effect (Yamaha S30 demo)
This time I wanted to explore the limits of my Yamaha S30, so I decided to compose, arrange and record a whole tune only by MIDI sequencing the S30.
The song was programmed/performed using Cubase SL solely as a MIDI sequencer controlling the S30 (in “Performance” mode). The song was then recorded straight to 2-track tape in one go. No overdubs, multitracking or external effects were used. Only mild EQ and limiting was used for the digital master. The video was later compiled showing how the various parts were played or programmed.
Many of the patches used are from JayB’s free bank of sounds for the S80, which are also compatible with the S30 (and most of them works also on a CS6x):
http://www.jaybmusic.net/
Teenage Engineering OP-1 Drums, Sampler Info & Pattern Sequencer
Teenage Engineering OP-1 Drums, Sampler Info & Pattern Sequencer
OP-1 Drums, Punch FX & Grid FX
Free Yamaha Rm1x Sequencer Retro Sample
Ambient netlabel 4D Records has released a free Yamaha Rm1x Sequencer Retro Sample package, filled with 923 drumkit samples, from 14 different drumkits and music styles.
Features:
- Release: 923 Yamaha Rm1x Retro Drumkit Sounds
- Content: 14 Drumkits / 923 Samples
- Format: 16bit WAV / CD quality
- Size: 89 MB compressed / 215 MB decompressed
- Download: rm1x_14dks_923wavs.zip
via 4D
GameLan sequencer
Published some time back but worth revisiting:
Just a preview of a new sequencer I’m working on… it’s based on a Gamelan and can be used on a network for group composition. It shares some code with Políssonos: vimeo.com/853673
This will also be used to play the Robotic Gamelan shown in vimeo.com/8228439
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/
Intua Beatmaker 2 Review
Take a look at the Beatmaker 2 iOS app. Drums, synth, samples and sequencer
DXi FM synthesizer for iPhone Multi-track Matrix Sequence Play
Please visit the URL for more information: http://itunes.apple.com/app/dxi-fm-synthesizer/id370138065?mt=8
DXi is a FM synthesizer application inspired by 80’s most popular synthesizer. Enjoy making music and creating sound by FM synthesis engine easily.
The movie show you the new great features about DXi version 2. DXi version 2 loads new powerful synthesis engine and brushed up preset voices.
MVIP with sequenced oscillator
Made with the Jones MVIP and a sequenced AFG oscillator. The MVIP is a Euro module for image processing. It was controlled by a Z8000 sequencer that changed the speed of the AFG oscillator. A pair of A-110 oscillators and a multi-mode filter were also controlled by the sequencer to make the sounds.
Info on the MVIP (Mini Video Image Processor) can be found at www.jonesvideo.com
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