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Eighth in an ongoing series of live sound & visual improvisations by Abre Ojos, using a modular synthesizer, Dave Smith Evolver, Nord Micro Modular and Quartz Composer on a MacBook Pro.
You can preview satrae sant chugre below; check out the Abre Ojos site for more free music and experimental electronic music videos.

 
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Nice subtle demo of the Analogue Systems Rs240 Bode Frequency Shifter via Stordahl Musikk.
Rhodes piano thru Rs35 External Source Processor picking up the dynamics of the piano and modulate the depth of the Rs240 creating a nice panning effect.

 

This video, Karplus Funk, demonstrates Karplus-Strong synthesis with a modular synth.
Patch details:

Doepfer A-188-1 512 BBD, A-131 VCA, and A-140 ADSR (foreground).
Doepfer A-121 filter in low pass modulated by another A-140 (background).
Percussion is Doepfer A-111 and A-117.
Sequencing is A-152 and A-160/161.

Karplus-Strong string synthesis is a type of physical modelling synthesis that feeds a short waveform through a filtered [...]

 

At the new Buchla Tech blog, Mark Verbos offers 14 reasons why the Buchla 200 is “the best modular electronic instrument ever made.”
Here are a few highlights:
1. Don Buchla designed the front panel of his instruments first and the electronics second. A musician himself, this means that each module was an idea for a musician’s [...]

 

In this video, Damaged Meat shows how to control a modular synthesizer with Nintendo’s Wiimote gamepad, using Doepfer A-100, Doepfer MCV24, Wiimote and computer.
Softwares used are Bluesoleil, Glovepie and midiox.
via Hackaday

 

This how-to, from Stretta, demonstrates how to use a modular synthesizer to create a vocal “aahh” sound.

 

DJ Thomas White has created this 8-part introduction to the Music From Outer Space 16-stage modular analog sequencer. 
MFOS Modular Analog Sequencer 1 of 8

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A short video demonstration of a ModCan Dual Quantizer in action.
This module can take a sequencer, noise or any other signal and map it into musical scales and perform transposition. Both scales and transpose are voltage controllable also.
This particular module is a custom black one. Most are white.