To the handful of people who invent #modular#eurorack#synthesis modules: PLEASE, for the love of all that is holy, include an "Examples of how to use this thing" in your documentation (which appears to be geared to other electrical engineers).
This is what some of your fellow inventors do for the software they devise, that would be otherwise incomprehensible.
A great overview of FM synthesis with lots of examples:
"How to use FM synthesis to design sounds you'll actually use in your music: "Shift your thinking from a subtractive mindset to an FM one and its potential for unique sound design will open up"
Next time someone contends that clojure is not a lisp gently remind them that allowing the comma as white space actually proves direct descent from lisp 1.5. #clojure#lisp#drama#controversy#heresy#synthesis
Ok. So I bought a Behringer System 55. Some may mock the thing as not being as powerful or expressive as modern gear. But I couldn't figure out what to get for less than a mortgage or two. But it's really really cool imho. Also I love Tangerine Dream - Haha! 😅
“Pluralistic is… an experiment in retaining control over my destiny—but not my work. Rather than hitching my ability to reach an audienceindieweb a platform that can be enshittified at the whim of a mercurial, infantile billionaire or their venal, callous shareholders, Pluralistic is published web-first, on a site I control, and then syndicated to every platform that matters to me.” @pluralistichttps://pluralistic.net/2024/02/20/fore/#synthesis#indieweb#publishing#blogging#writing
"The Bezzle," @pluralistic's new book, is out today. My local independent bookseller will get a visit this afternoon.
By coincidence, yesterday was the 4th anniversary of his self-hosted, self-published blog. He's written an interesting retrospective on that project. This is the open web many of us thought we were building in the 1990s:
Four years ago, I started pluralistic.net, my post-Boing Boing, solo blog project: an ad-free, tracker-free site that anyone can republish, commercially or noncommercially. It's been a wild four years, featuring over 1,150 editions, many consisting of multiple articles:
If you'd like an essay-formatted version of this thread to read or share, here's a link to it on pluralistic.net, my surveillance-free, ad-free, tracker-free blog:
This is probably not the recommended thing to do for Jamuary but I don't care and I want to! I've posted the entire experimental session on my modular synth up on Youtube, with markers and patch notes. I hope it may be helpful to you, and please feel free to ask how I'm doing anything you see in the video and I'll try my best to answer!
"Buckets of Modular": playlist where I dump whole albums by modular synth artists mentioned in articles about the synth scene. The opposite of tweezery curation, hence the buckets. Best listened to on shuffle.
Prompted a while ago by a post by @mattgemmell on #atomicity, Sascha writes about that #learning also requires #synthesis (which may sound obvious, but sometimes goes under the radar)
#HowToThing#015 — A special one: Creating a polyphonic & multitimbral synth with stochastic sequencer to generate offline audio (not WebAudio!), rendered via fibers (co-routines) and exporting the result as WAV file. Each synth voice uses a randomized config & FX pipeline for each note played (osc → adsr → SVF → filter delay line). Generated audio is attached.
This project is also available as new example #130 in the thi.ng/umbrella monorepo (originally based on a workshop exercise @ University of Applied Sciences, Augsburg, Nov 2022)
One each of Spectrally low noise, pink noise and white noise into a VCA
Split a slowly fluctuating source of random voltage into three attenuators, then send to the CV in of each of the above VCA.
Mix the three outputs. A passive "tone" control found on some eurorack mixers allows you to manually accentuate the low or high parts of the waves as they come in and recede. Adjust to taste!
I used a NLC Sauce of Unce (based on the Buchla 266 Source of Uncertainty) and a zlob modular Vnicursal 6 channel VCA, into the ST Modular Knead mixer.
Finally, capping off this thread here with one more #ambient and #Piano heavy EP with a gentle slope up into more energetic #synthesis, flavors of #glitch as an accent rather than the focus, @yougenius gives us the "EPHEMERRATA" EP, which also includes a bonus recording of a wonderful piano performance at the end! As he says, be kind, make music! #BandcampFriday