DJTechTools‘ Ean Golden demonstrates how he uses white noise “to create build ups and drama in your dj sets.”

Last week, Bleep Labs introduced the Thingamagoop 2 with a teaser at their site.

Now they’ve put together this video showing the Thingamagoop 2 in squelchy action.

The Thingamagoop 2 is a DIY kit that sells for $100.

Here’s what’s new in the Thingamagoop 2:

• Analog VCO controlled by analog or digital signal from Arduino. (A separate Arduino board is not required)
• Sample and hold, Arpeggios, noise, and bit crush effects with open source code so you can program your own sounds!
• All the analog sounds of the original Thingamagoop.
• Controllable LEDacle – Ramp and random waveforms with rate control.
• New modulators – Square wave amplitude modulator and triangle wave pulse width modulator.
• Tough, stomp box type body with silk screened graphics in 3 different styles.
• Easy to access battery – No more screws!
• Much fuller and louder speaker.
• CV in and out.
• Arduino Programmer jack. Easily hook an Ardunio board up to the Thingamagoop 2.
• Kit now comes with a pre-drilled enclosure.
• Still assembled in Austin, Texas by Dr. Bleep and friends.

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Analog + Arduino noise madness. More info at bleeplabs.com

Sunday Synth Jam: Voltage Controlled Passacaglia, Pages 1 & 2, by Paul Hembree (Premiere)

Performed on the CRuNCh lab 1972 Moog Modular synthesizer, with video projection of an attached oscilloscope.

Executed from a score with parametric envelopes assigned to different performers. Rough synchronization is achieved with stop-watches, and four short sections in the piece (each about a minute long) allow for some controlled improvisation.

Paul Hembree, Chris Rippey, Steve Snowden, and Curtis Peel, performers.

Click here to view the embedded video.

Voltage Controlled Passacaglia, Pages 3 & 4, by Paul Hembree

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Can anyone figure out what the ground-bass theme is?

Also thanks to Brandon Vaccaro and Sean Brady for help with the MAX panning patch (the only digital aspect of the work… sadly we didn’t have enough voltage controlled amplifiers, nor enough mixer channels on the Moog to produce 4 channel spatizalization).

This has been on MySpace video for a while because they do not have a ten minute time limit. However, I figured I should expose this work to YouTube, so I cut the piece in half and I’m posting both chunks.

This is a Bourne-o-vision demo video of the new Monotonic Labs Type-N38 Synthesizer.

No details are available yet at the Monotonic Labs site.

via monotoniclabs

Noise Soft has released Break Filter, an industrial / breakcore filter effect plug-in for Windows.

They describe it as a custom stereo “all band” filter effect, with noise-based distortion that can take your sound from natural gain to frequency and phase shifted chaos.

Break Filter is available now as a Windows VST for $29.

Features:

• Gain — Lowest setting is pure bypass and highest setting is extreme distortion, almost to the point of white noise. *The filter also works great even when the distortion GAIN knob is set to “0? or bypass.
• Pitch — Adjusts the affected pitch of the filter from low bassy drones to high pitched ringing.
• Resonance — Adjusts the resonance of the filter, from minimal effect to drone sound and everything between.
• Freq — The frequency control for the filter has custom coded extreme frequency shifting, capable of lo-fi filtering in the low knob settings, all the way to harsh industrial/punk effects.
• Left and Right — These are separate controls for left and right phase shifting. These control panning for the different layers of our complex resonant filter layers.

This is a demonstration of some of the sounds and features of the DAED Feedback Synthesizer.

via legionhwp:

It is not a song but rather a walk through of this little simple noise box with a powerful array of sounds. Handheld buzzes, drones, chirps, rumbles galore.These are now available for sale on a very limited basis. Please visit Helpwantedproductions.com/Salez/FS.htm for this and other synths and circuit bent electronic instruments and effects.

Jazzmutant Lemur Weird MIDI Sequencer

via lostinetwork:

This video shows some applications from Lemur Breakpoint Object working like a MIDI sequencer, nodes triggering notes and fix them to a selected scale, minor, major, penthatonic, etc.

Also there´s a cc automation page to remote synth/sampler parameters.

The Main idea was to use it for soundscapes, and some pseudo random melodies.((Still in progress))

Audio WeEvil explorations by Prometheus Burning.

via telladictorian:

Making noise in the Prometheus Burning Studio as Nikki improvises a song with the Audio WeEvil during a Four Pi Movement warm up session.

Hardware signal path: BugBrand AudioWeevil08, Boss FZ-2, Digilog Delay, Alesis mixer, M-Audio Delta.Special guest appearance by Diesel the cat.

Synth Porn Saturday: Here’s a sneak preview of some new modular synths from Malekko:

The next two Wiard modules being put out by Malekko are the Anti-Oscillator and the Noisering. These two should be available around the end of July.

The Noisering is the same as the Wiard 1200 series but with the addition of a toggle switch that will make the jack above it a clock input or clock output.

The Anti-Oscillator is a new analog oscillator from Grant Richter with some very interesting waveshaping capabilities.

The new Melekko versions of the Wiard modular synth line is available via Analogue Haven. The Anti-Oscillator & Noisering aren’t available yet, though, so all you can do is drool.

kanukanakina – one of the odder electronic music videos we’ve seen lately, features the circuit bent sounds ‘of comemelinhos‘ hacked noise machines, including some sort of torso-tron and a crawling baby synth.

Sunday Synth Jam: touch.listen.synth is a demo of a gorgeous touch-contact synth/noise machine.

Check out Alex Inglizian’s cliplead blog for detailed pictures.

via cretin4321

Sunday Synth Jam: spunkytoofer’s circuit bent yamaha tg33 vector synth and akai ewi 4000s is a circuit-bent synth jam, featuring Akai EWI.

Synth & patch details below.

via spunkytoofers:

circuit bent tg33 vector synth with akai ewi. the dave smith evolver is used to filter and amplify the tg33 synthesizer only.

the vector synth features a db25 breakout box that connects to the tg33 unit. approximately half of the 300 or so waveforms are circuit bendable so it is possible to stack traditional synthesizer waveforms with voices that are circuit bendable allowing you to morph from the known to the aleatoric landscapes , weird tones, sounds, and patterns as well as the bizzare responses from a circuit bent synth.

i just got done bending it and this is my first run through after setting up a patch.. but once i get that vector remapped to pedal controllers, now we’re talking.

The Quintrigger, by Mr.Ugly, is an interesting suitcase style, steampunk-esque noise machine:

It’s a quintoscillator feeding into a Hex-Schmitt Trigger that I fed back into itself. The first of many projects where I design something from scratch then circuit bend the shit out of it. The quintoscillator triggers the Schmitt Trigger, then the Schmitt Trigger feeds back into itself via all of those lovely switches! Each switch has 3 positions of modulation, so the number of drone combinations is amazing! And there’s 4 separate outputs. I think that if each output was run through effects into a mixer, you could create some pretty intense walls of symphatic drone. And it all runs off a 9V adapter.

Have fun getting this through TSA inspections!

via doctorultra

Here’s another Sunday Synth Jam for you, featuring the Ciguar, a cigar box synth, fed into Ableton Live.

via BrianWilliamGreen

This video demos MONK ROCKER, a circuit bent Buddha Machine.

via asmhaxor:

This is my first attempt at circuit bending.Made from an authentic (not FM3) Buddhist chanting machine (as seen). Recorded with external analog rev/delay. Concept and design by Kevin K Chen. Not for sale.

This is a demo of a semi-modular noise generator made using 4 simple circuits:

• toy keyboard
• filter > fuzz > noise oscillator >, circuit bent pre-amp (removed from toy karaoke)
• loud object >>>
• flashing lights circuit. Works as 2 step seq, lfo modulator, noise oscillator (removed from toy)

via Vtolus

This tutorial, from Andreas Wetterberg (The Covert Operators), demonstrates a bunch of things you can do with noise using Ableton Live.

via WireToTheEar

The only control is a slider that controls a low-pass filter.

According to the site, noise can help you block distractions, sleep and “find your zen”.