#synthstrom

[spnyrd]

Thank you so much for the holiday greetings @synthstrom, what an overly nice packaging!!! Happy holidays for you as well! 🫶 I‘ll spend my time during the holidays to deep-dive into my brandnew #deluge & create some music with it. 😍 Can‘t wait to get started… ____________________________________________ #spnyrd #synthstrom #synthstromaudible #synthstromdeluge #deluge #waagenbau #residentdj #techno #melodictechno (hier: Hamburg, Germany) https://www.instagram.com/p/CmWkgfnqvZh/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

[zetacarinae]

Never sure how to tag my compositions...dark ambient?

[experimental-reminiscence]

Experimental Reminiscence [8:52, .WAV, 48 kHz, 24-Bit] Final task of course at Elektronmusikstudion EMS 2022.

Presentation:

Due to my work with graphics and digital imagery, I early became curious about AI-generated images. When the Midjourney service became available, I signed up for the beta version and started exploring what was possible. I quickly got hooked on rendering images of different environments with elements of plants, appliances, and synthesizers, among other things. The rendered pictures gave me a sense of "phantom nostalgia" – a sense of a place and time that never really existed. These images have been the basis – as a reference point and source of inspiration, a feeling to start from – in my exploration of the Buchla and Serge systems at EMS, and in the recording sessions in my own studio.

To have a structure to relate to, I asked the artificial intelligence for a graphical score for the instruments I intended to use and the AI ​​responded with an image of various blocks and little squiggles. To further concretize and set up a framework, I decided that the piece should stick to the C Minor scale, keep a tempo of 72 BPM and last about 8-9 minutes. I measured the blocks in the score to 159 Bars and divided them into color-coded sections in my DAW. This became the map that I related to in the cutting and mixing process.

The recordings were done as individual explorations and improvised jams. Instruments and effects used are: Serge System in Studio 6, Buchla 100 Series and small 200 system in Studio 3, Buchla 200 in Studio 4, EMS SYNTHI A, Buchla Easel Command, Korg MS20 mini, Synthstrom Audible Deluge, Empress Reverb, Roland Space Echo RE20, Earthquaker Grand Orbiter, EHX Bad Stone, Meris Polymoon, BOSS BX16 mixer, Reason 12, Eksperimental Sounds Ouroboros, Reverb AK11, and FX3180, FabFilter ProQ 3 EQ, field recordings of crackles and bubbles with Zoom 4Hn.

The hardest part during the process has been letting go of the idea of ​​"traditional" music and finding a form that feels good. I wanted to explore all the instruments involved and let them have a role in the piece which easily became cluttered and bordered on chaos, but I think in the end I managed to balance just right on the edge of cacophony.

[baymud]

Performance clips from the vault

My new EP (out everywhere now) is full of tracks that have been marinading for a long while. The second song, "Dreamt I Was a Private Detective", started out as a submission for an early Deluge compilation (it did not get chosen) before being refined into one of the more popular songs on the EP. Here's an early version being worked out on the Deluge (where it was written and arranged).

Speaking of early versions, the performance video below is from one of Synthstrom's online video festivals during the pandemic, where I first tried out "The Living Bells". The song has evolved a bit since then, but the bones are there.

[frenzone]

Synthstrom Deluge 3.0 USB host mode demo with Arturia Microlab and more!

[postex]

Recorded March 2023 with Synthstrom Audible Deluge, Empress Zoia, Arturia MicroFreak, Koma FieldKit & FieldKit FX - cut, eq, etc in Reason12

[hackernewsrobot]

Deluge – sequencer, synthesizer and sampler – goes open source

https://www.synthtopia.com/content/2023/05/10/synthstrom-deluge-goes-open-source/ Comments

[kd8bxp]

Liked on YouTube: Analyzing KRAFTWERK's BEATS - minimal DRUMS for maximum EFFECT | Drum Patterns Explained

Analyzing KRAFTWERK's BEATS - minimal DRUMS for maximum EFFECT | Drum Patterns Explained ► Support us and get access to lots of drum patterns, cheat sheets and more! https://www.patreon.com/captainpikant/​ The evolution of electronic music like Hip-Hop and Techno can be directly traced back to one common ancestor: Kraftwerk. Join us on a journey through their best albums as we analyze the beats behind the minimalistic masterpieces. Featured drum patterns (transcriptions available on Patreon): Kraftwerk - Autobahn Kraftwerk - Radioactivity (Radioaktivität) Kraftwerk - Trans-Europe Express (Trans-Europa Express) Kraftwerk - The Model (Das Model) Kraftwerk - Spacelab Kraftwerk - The Robots (Die Roboter) Kraftwerk - Computer Love (Computerliebe) Afrika Bambaata & The Soulsonic Force - Planet Rock The Egyptian Lover - Egypt, Egypt Gear used: Synthstrom Audible Deluge Vector Synth Elektron Syntakt Hologram Microcosm Vermona DRM-1 MKIV Cyclone Analogic TT-78 Korg Monologue Behringer RD-8 Behringer RD-9 Dübreq Stylophone Beatbox Dübreq Stylophone Arturia Keystep Native Instruments Komplete Kontrol M32 ► Instagram https://ift.tt/xWmDup9 #kraftwerk #analogsynth #synthesizer #analog #drummachine #beats #electronicmusic Produced by Jean-Claude Dirckx and Sophie Hoppstädter via YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2qhcp6iVWbw

[hoergen]

Staub by Odo Sendaidokai (Live Performance) / Deluge Synthstrom & Bitwig

Staub by Odo Sendaidokai (Live Performance) #Deluge #Synthstrom #Bitwig #Music #Synthesizer #Sequencer https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xHcg7SiyUyU

[popgoblinsound]

Checking out the Google NSynth, sequenced by the awesome Synthstrom Deluge - with additional backup noise from Teenage Engineering OP-1

[catsynth-express]

Meelee with Deluge, Moog, Mutable Instruments and More

The adorable Meelee joins us today from Hong Kong with quite a setup. She has a Synthstrom Audible Deluge, a Moog Mother-32 and Subharmonicon, and sundry Eurorack modules including several from Mutable Instruments, Make Noise, Endorphines, Expert Sleepers, 4ms, Electro-smith, and more. Submitted by Jan Hohmann via our Facebook page.

The Deluge from Synthstrom Audible is a new one for us. It is a portable synthesizer, sampler, and sequencer. A very popular combination these days as we see many instruments that combine these features in different ways.

Meelee with Deluge, Moog, Mutable Instruments and More was originally published on CatSynth

[zetacarinae]

This track features a synthesized bell-like sound modeled on the harmonic partials present in the Dumery bells of the main belfry in Bruges, Belgium, cast in the 1740s. I took the information on these bells from the fantastic article "Sound, Pitches, and Tuning of a Historic Carillon" by Albrecht Schneider and Marc Leman.

[vroenis]

Feature: Jeremy Blake aka Red Means Recording

I’ve been distracted this week because I received two excellent gifts; a 1010 Music Blackbox and a Novation MiniNova. The Gear Notes page has been updated accordingly. This does mean eventually remapping my midi channels which I’ve actually already done in the spreadsheet, I now just have to turn everything on and physically make the changes, but for the moment I’m happy noodling on the new noodlers (J calls the Circuit the original Noodler but now everything is a noodler - I like the adjective especially given the cables resemble noodles so much <^.^>).

I’m also feeling kind of burnt after Uncharted 4. I really didn’t like that game.

It’s time to be positive and while I’ve been enjoying a bunch of Rooster Teeth videos, I wanted to promote someone who could do with the views and content and is an amazing and wonderful person. Rooster Teeth is also brimming with amazing people, especially Funhaus, but Jeremy is one person and is a Synth Lord (hail Chromeo) so if I only get one opportunity to direct you somewhere, it’s going to be to Red Means Recording.

Here’s one of his most recent videos;

Topical, but also absolutely amazing. Very revealing of his character, I feel. Not only in its content but the presentation. He has a lot of videos in this format that are of a much lighter nature, more comical. They’re also fantastic and I encourage you to watch them. They’re entertaining and I hope you can enjoy them even if you’re not a muso or tech-head, but if you are a fellow Synth Lord, I hope that makes Jeremy’s videos all the more entertaining. He’s done a whole bunch of videos with the Teenage Engineering OP-1, it’s one of the ways he became most popular, but I feel like it’s his style and character that bring his videos to life and the OP-1 only facilitates those things.

Case in point, when he does demo/tutorials for new pieces of kit;

Jeremy’s video is my favourite for the Model: Cycles and the one that sold it to me. I didn’t want one until I saw his video. I don’t always make the styles of music he makes, but I do almost always enjoy listening to the styles of music he makes. We do seem to have a lot of stylistic cross-over tho, so that probably helps. I definitely dig his flavour and sense of sound design. I don’t have a space for the Digitone in my setup, I feel like it demands too much prep and attention for what I would want it for and then how I might implement it in my sonic texture, but the Cycles strikes the right balance of being approachable and being dynamic/able to be manipulated with surface controls from a performance perspective. This is my approach with Circuit, MiniNova, Gaia and for the most part Force, and Jeremy really nailed demonstrating that in the video. It’s also entertaining as always. His character always shines thru and I fux with it.

He does these types of videos for a lot of different bits of kit, the Zoia one was great, and definitely the Synthstrom Deluge. No question, I am getting a damn Deluge, it is right up my alley. Here’s a slightly different kind of video he does often, somewhere in-between a full demo and the OP-1 videos where he doesn’t do a full tutorial, but does narrate building a track on the Deluge;

Most of the tracks he builds, he exports into Ableton Live and Patrons who supports him on Patreon get the full finished tracks as downloads. I’m not a Patron just yet - we had to pull all our patronage due to family medical reasons as you can imagine which yea isn’t great and doesn’t feel great, but if there’s anyone I feel like I’m going to pick up first, it’s probably going to be Jeremy.

What I always do tho, is buy his new albums on Bandcamp, and when I can afford it, pay just a little more than the asking price - that’s one of the things I like about Bandcamp. You can find him right here at this super convenient lazylink or by searching for Jeremy Blake at Bandcamp.com - it’s literally soundvision.bandcamp.com. I started buying from Juvenile Hyperobject forward tho for some reason skipped hewwop1 as it’s just OP-1 tracks. Might go back and have another listen. Still - Juvenile Hyperobject, Pataphysical, Soft Music To Do Nothing To and Object Permanence are becoming four of my most listened-to albums of 2020 as I work from home. Even before all hell broke loose in the world, I fell in love with Soft Music... and Object Permanence when they were released.

But for the sell, I can’t help but posting one of the most popular tracks and I have to admit, a favourite of mine from Pataphysical... but I’m going to post the full construction video because it’s absolutely joyous;

This was recently arranged by orchestral composer David Bruce, who reached out to Jeremy to do an awesome swapsies while Jeremy did an electronic arrangement of one of David’s pieces in Ableton with phat synths and beats and just quietly I thought the orchestral arrangement of Aquamarine was good but Jeremy’s synth version of David’s music was ACEGOODPHENOMENAL orders of magnitude better. I mean I’m biased, but that doesn’t mean I’m not also objectively correct.

There’s a whole lot more to Jeremy Blake aka Red Means Recording to discover, but I don’t want to mass-post it here, I think it does him a disservice and you should go exploring and find it for yourself.

You can watch his videos on YouTube here.

You can buy his music on Bandcamp here.

You can support him on Patreon here.

You can buy cool shirts with his graphic designs on them here.

You can listen to his music on Spotify here.

You can look at his photos on Instagram here.

You can follow him on Twitter here.

As always - it’s the internet. You could be an arsehole, or instead, you could be awesome and kind and we could do amazing things together.

[baymud]

New EP On a Brick Speedboat

My new EP, On a Brick Speedboat, is out now wherever you listen to music. This one has been in the works for a long time, with some tracks haven been initially started as a means of just learning how to use my trusty Synthstrom Deluge way back when (all 5 tracks were created on the Deluge).

Feels good to have these songs out in the wild and the reaction has been great so far, so if you like sprawling electronic bops that don't particularly conform to a sub-genre, give it a listen.

Bandcamp is also great if you feel like throwing some dollars behind the tunes.

[frenzone]

Beats From Scratch - Synthstrom Deluge (Deep House)

[mutedio]

😎 Released a pack of free presets for the Synthstrom Deluge: https://muted.io/deluge/