Developer Jan Ostman let us know that he’s released source code for an Arduino-based Minipops 7 clone. The Korg KEIO Minipops was featured prominently in Jean Michel Jarre’s classic electronic album, Oxygène. Ostman says that the code should work unmodified on any Arduino.
This video, via Daniel Davis, captures a live ambient improvisation with a Korg Minilogue analog synthesizers.
This video offers an audio sneak preview of the upcoming Zephyr Hybrid Synthesizer – described as ‘the best of the digital and analog worlds’. According to the developer, the Zephyr-1 brings you the flexibility of digitally controlled synthesizers, combined with the ‘warm sound from the analog multimode filters on each voice’. And it has no fixed modulation… Read More Zephyr Hybrid Synthesizer Sneak Preview
This video, via HardtekStudios, captures a demo of the sound of the Akai Pro Tom Cat drum machine. It’s not a technical overview, but instead focuses on exploring the tweakability of the Tom Cat’s sounds.
The latest episode of the Modular Monthly video series takes a look at getting started making DIY Eurorack modules.
Optigan.com has introduced two new sound discs for the vintage Optigan, Glitchdelica & Guitarscape. Glitchdelica is an experimental rhythmic pattern generator. Forgoing the usual drums/chords/keys convention entirely, each button and key features a different loop, drawn from Optigan.com’s Pea Hicks’ archive of oddball instruments, electronics, and other sound sources.
Low-Gain Electronics today shared this video overview of the 2-Bit Binary Sequencer Module. Here’s what they have to say about the module:
This video, via SyntheticThings, is a head-to-head comparison of the Dave Smith Instruments OB-6 and the Dave Smith Instruments Prophet 6. “We compare the same patch on both the DSI Prophet-6 and the OB-6 to compare the similarities and differences between these two great synthesizers.”
This short video, via zack dagoba, captures a quick demo of using a Moog Modular 960 Sequential Controller to control a Simmons SDS200 drum synthesizer.
Can the Dave Smith Instruments OB-6 do classical Oberheim sounds? That’s the question that synthesist Peter M Mahr explores with a series of audio demos of the new synth:
