Posted on 23/07/2016
Frequency Modulation – or FM – is a key component in virtually all types of synthesizers, and has been an integral part of analog synthesizers from the very beginning. FM is a 2 component process, consisting of a modulator signal and a carrier signal. The modulator signal influences the frequency of the carrier signal. The […]
Posted on 11/07/2016
Acquired Date: May 2016 A new plugin for treating (mainly) vocals. Running alongside other vocoders in the studio: Logic EVOC-20.
Posted on 02/07/2016
You may know the problem. A plethora of VST/AU soft synths and effects, all with different user interfaces, that forces you to adapt your working style to every new plugin you use. Existing generic controllers (Novation Automaps, Mackie Controls etc) are helpful, but often with a confusing adaptation and limited functionality. Logic’s built-in Channel Strip […]
Posted on 12/06/2016
The EML Synkey is an analog monophonic synthesizer from Electronic Music Labs, launched in the late 1970s and branded as “the first synthesizer you could program”. The synth featured basic synth parameters, and sounded … well, alright, without being a Moog/Arp killer. But it’s big and innovative thing was the Punch Card interface, that could […]
Posted on 24/05/2016
ANA is definitely a well-equppped subtractive synth, capable of producing all standard virtual analog flavours. Plenty of everything, and a large modulation matrix caters for some very complex possibilities. I acquired it mostly because of the randomizing feature, which is very much in line with my current generative music experiments. And ANA does deliver some wildly unpredictable […]
Posted on 23/05/2016
Metaphysical Functions is a part of Native Instruments’ Reaktor package – currently at version 6. So you need to have Reaktor installed to use the instrument. It has been a part of Reaktor for a long time, so even early versions of the program may contain it, since it is part of the official NI […]
Posted on 06/05/2016
I have always had an interest for randomness when creating synth sounds. Some of the very early DX-7 editors for the Commodore-64 computer featured a randomizing feature that produced completely unpredictable results. Most of it was useless, but every once in a while you would come up with a sound that you had not heard […]
Posted on 31/03/2016
Posted on 03/02/2016
Acquired: September 2015 This excellent Eurorack module can be used and abused in many interesting ways. It is featured quite heavily in Fluxic Live Studio Concerts. The unit can read WAV samples off a USB memory stick, and grainify them under voltage control. Check it out on MuffWiggler
Posted on 19/02/2015
FM or Physical Modelling or…? The Mysteron Eurorack module from MakeNoise is a very potent sound source – especially for hard, percussive and plucked tonal sounds. It can be used by completely itself, simply by triggering the “Excite” inputs. In fact you must trigger the Excite inputs to get sound out of the Mysteron. The sound […]