Divan Chyld HWJ Weekend Challenge David Lynch Dr. Synth 2025-01-20 | This week's HWJ theme was a jam in honor of David Lynch.This jam features pad textures from the my other favorite child, the Yamaha DX7II. Run through a Strymon Mobius for the tempo tremolo effect and the Specular Tempus for some nice shimmer reverb. It still sounds fricken' great and unique.Supported by the SY99 for the sequenced backing tracks, enhanced in spots by the Moog Muse for some fat synth bass sustained notes.
Modulatium HWJ Weekend Challenge FM Dr. Synth 2025-09-28 | This week's challenge was a jam incorporating FM. So I whipped up some nice sonorities in analog FM using my TipTop Buchla rig. Using the 259t Complex Oscillators right up front, opening with a plain sine wave and off we go. Backed up with a couple of 258t Dual oscillators.I'm soooo over the digital thing ;). But if you want to check out that kinda thing, this track is 100 % RefaceDX: youtube.com/watch?v=v2avZQmcjBs
Minuet In Violet Dr. Synth 2025-09-20 | InkyFest 2025 JamGear:1887 Steinway B TipTop Buchla Rig w/Verbos Electronics Touch Keyboardadded modules: Weston Precision Audio AD110 Analog Drums; Tobinski Sequencer & Expander; Erica Synths Pico VCF 3; Roland 531 Stereo MixerEffects: Erica Synths Pico Reverb, Dreadbox Nostalgia, Happy Nerding FxAid XL and GFI System Specular Tempus
Fo Faux LFO HWJ Weekend Challenge LFOs Dr. Synth 2025-06-08 | This week's challenge was to feature the use of LFO's. So I'm thinking which synth has the most LFO's with lots of options -- Hydrasynth !There's 5 dedicated LFO's for patching, multiple wave forms, tempo sync and a 'step' mode, the performance LFO for vibrato, plus another 5 LFO's if you consider loopable envelopes are also LFO's with variable waveshapes.So threw that all in a blender using them to control pitch and volume of every available audio sources - 3 Oscillators, the Ring Modulator and noise -- to turn the Hydrasynth into a controllable groove box with drums, baseline, melody line, clanky rhythm synth.
Celestial Meditations Dr. Synth 2025-05-27 | Dusting off the archives here -- this is probably my first "Hardware Jam" going back to 1986 !!DX7 solo Improvisation over C-Lab's Commodore 64 Sequencer MIDI tracks controlling a Yamaha TX7, a Kawai K3, and (via Roland MPU-401) a Sequential Circuits Pro One & ARP Odyssey. Drums are a Sequential Circuits DrumTracksEffects are a Yamaha REV7 (reverb) & DeltaLab Effectron II (delay)Live recording to Nakamichi 480 cassette.DX7 - Synthy vocal formant lead (A Section & reprise) & brassy lead synth solo (B section)TX7 - Rhythmic bells (Intro, A section & reprise) & rhythm synth comp (B section & reprise transition)K3 - Reedy melody (Intro) & sustained synth choir ( A section, B section & reprise)Pro One - Synth bassOdyssey - Noise whooshes
The Buchla Pop Bop Dr. Synth 2025-04-07 | Extended modular jam for Symptoms of Reality Popcorn Night TopTop/Buchla Rack & Yamaha SY99
Ahzymanika HWJ Weekend Challenge Hypnotic Dr. Synth 2025-04-06 | This week's challenge was to do a hypnotic jam. I went with the TipTop Buchla Modular with Montage processed vocalizations
Four Way Four Yay HWJ Weekend Challenge Old New Borrowed Blue Dr. Synth 2025-03-30 | This weeks theme was 'something old, something new, something borrowed, something blue' -- here's an ambient/semi funky-bluesy/electronic textural mashup jam using:Something old - the old faithful SY99 for drums, keys, synth pad & leadSomething new - my newest TipTop Buchla gear for unique electronic texturesSomething borrowed - the Montage using a borrowed Performance of synth rhythms secondary drums from my "When Will it be Summer" jamSomething blue - why the 3rd Wave of course !... it gets a little atonal in parts towards the end, sometimes the TipTop Buchla stuff doesn't do what you expect !
TipTop Buchla Mini Jam Dr. Synth 2025-03-23 | Testing out the updated TipTop Buchla rack, with the recent additions of the Programmable Pulser Model 242t and the Tobinski (Dannysound) Sequencer+Expander. They join:266t Source of Uncertainty Model; Two 245t Sequential Voltage Sources; Two 257t Dual Voltage Processors; Two 281t Quad Function Generators; Two 258t Dual Oscillators; Two 259t Programmable Complex Waveform Generators; Two 292t Quad Lopass Gates; 285t Frequency Shifter; 296t Progammable Spectral Processor; 207t Mixer/Pre-Amplifier, a Verbos Electronics Touchplate Keyboard and Happy Nerding FX Aid XL
HWJ Weekend Challenge When Will It Be Summer? Dr. Synth 2025-03-16 | This weeks theme is "When Will It Be Summer?" -- to celebrate the end of winter doldrums and bringing in spring and summer energy in our jam.Using the trio of the Yamaha Montage, SY99 and RefaceDX
Threestylin HWJ Weekend Challenge Power of 3 Dr. Synth 2025-03-08 | This week's challenge was to create a jam using three elements, or base it around the number 3.My take is using three synths making a jam built on three melodic motifs, and limit it to no more than 3 minutes.I had to knock it out in a hurry, able to pull off an only slightly sloppy jam based in my favorite C/Fmaj7 progression.SY99 - Drum pattern RefaceDX - Rhythmic, echo synth accentMontage - Layered Piano with aftertouch morphing FM pad
Three No Three Dr. Synth 2025-03-03 | This weekend's challenge to stream on March 3, i.e. 3-03, was to do a jam honoring the Roland TB303. As I sold my TB303 back in the 90's for a price I couldn't refuse, this jam uses the SY99 for the various 303 sounds backed by the Montage for arpeggios and textures(the clips of the Tobinski sequencer were just for show...)
Dr. Synths Phase Time Playhouse Ep.3 Dr. Synth 2025-01-13 | On this voyage I'll dive into the 'long feedback' loops of Algorithms 4 & 6... the Operators must be growing 'cause the feedback keeps on glowing, and harmonics are not showing any signs that they are slowing !Link to the mentioned "Escher Algorithm" video : youtube.com/watch?v=pFNhTTs8MXU
Dragons Labyrinth HWJ Weekend Challenge Tolkien Dr. Synth 2025-01-06 | This week's challenge theme was JRR Tolkien, so I'd figure I'd go on a quest to find a Dragon.A quick and dirty VL1 & NiftyKeyz/Befaco improvisations over TipTop Buchla modular textures and sequences. This was take 4.
Dr. Synths Phase Time Playhouse Ep. 2 Dr. Synth 2024-11-11 | In Episode 2, I'll dive into RCM synthesis of of Yamaha SY77/99
Wisps in the Aether HWJ Weekend Challenge Noise Dr. Synth 2024-11-11 | This week we had a Noisevember challenge theme of incorporating noise into our jams. Here's my improvisational noodling on the SY99 backed by the TipTop Buchla 200 series modules going thru a Meris Mercury X.The modules used are in the video title pop ups...
Quick TipTop 259t test Dr. Synth 2024-11-05 | Quick test of a pair of TipTop Buchla 259t Complex oscillators.It been 40 years since I spent much time with the originals back in college, there's a LOT to remember all the crazy things they can do. And, they very much remind you that 'a little goes a long way' with all the timbral modulation and shaping possibilities.
SawCorePWM edits for stereo Dr. Synth 2024-10-01 | This video shows the various pitch/phase tricks for stereo imaging for the SawCorePWM patch I couldn't demonstrate in Dr. Synth's Phase Time Playhouse EP.1 live stream due to audio issues (Live stream here: youtube.com/watch?v=HyGpGPm_hAo ).It also lets you hear how the final patch sounds !
Dr. Synths Phase Time Playhouse Ep. 1 Dr. Synth 2024-09-30 | ** Sorry for poor audio. I uploaded video with proper audio to showcase the stereo patch edits mentioned**youtu.be/cyK-GIQLmY0Nerding about with FM synthesis demonstrating some phase modulation tricks for virtual analog oscillator behaviors.
Asphalt Ascension HWJ Weekend Challenge Road Trip Dr. Synth 2024-09-02 | This week's challenge was to come up with something you might listen to while taking a road trip... Fired up the Muse, PolyBrute12, Hydrasynth and (mostly) got them synced up; Revved up the AX80 for some sweet synth strings, and did three takes of live improvisations, This is take 2
Moog Muse 9 Selected Patch Demos Dr. Synth 2024-07-31 | I run through a few of the Moog Muse presets to showcase the sound quality, timbral range and some of the real time control capabilities.The continuously variable Oscillator waveforms, the Mod Oscillator options, and bi-directional Oscillator FM cross modulation gives a lot of sonic possibilities. The Macro Knob can be used for multiple simultaneous modulations to create Patch morphing.Every Patch has two separate A and B Timbres, so with the Macro Knob you can have '4 Patches in one' !Recorded direct with no additional effects.
Cryptic Whispers Dr. Synth 2024-07-30 | After this week's HWJ streamthrough, I decided to try a 'darker' take on the 'claustrophobia' theme.All the gear used:TipTop Buchla 200 series: Two each: 245t, 258t, 281t, 257t, 292t with a 266t & 207tTwo Weston PA0's, one TZ0Cre8Audio Capt'n Big-OMutable Instruments PlaitsDoepfer: A-126-2 Frequency Shifter, A-143-2 Quad ADSR, A-135-2 Quad VCABlack Corp RachaelKlee Sequential Shift Summation ArrayVerbos Electronics Touchplate KeyboardErica Synths PicoDSP & Dreadbox Nostalgia
Klauztrophonetik HWJ Weekend Challenge Claustrophobia Dr. Synth 2024-07-28 | This week's theme was a jam having the sense of small places, tiny twisting passages, the walls closing in on you etc., giving the feeling of claustrophobia.Based on simultaneous rising and descending pitch modulations of different sonic elements to give a creepy 'closing in' feeling.Using the new kid -- TipTop Buchla rack w/ the Klee Sequential Summation Array for the heavy lifting. Using the Weston Precision Audio based analog FM rack for the drone and pitch shifting elements -- two Weston PA0's and a Cre8Audio Capt’n Big-O controlled by a TipTop Buchla Sequential Voltage Source playing a 5 over 4 pattern. All oscillators being cross PM'd & FM’d, plus pitch EG modulated, triggered with the gate switch on the Doepfer joystick. Weston AD110 for the snare and cymbal/hi hat.And the SY99 of course, sounding lush and awesome as usual...
SY99 Parameter Deep Dive for Worlds Fattest Synth Pad Dr. Synth 2024-07-21 | *For SY99 and SY/TG77 owners*Deep dive of all the parameters settings for the patch
Worlds Fattest Synth Pad Dr. Synth 2024-07-21 | The world's biggest, fattest, best sounding synth pad sound... realized on the Yamaha SY99 from 1991 using all FM synthesis and no effects! Just the power of the AFM synth engine. Excuse the click-bait title LOL! That said, pick your favorite vintage or modern analog or digital synth and the SY99's core AFM engine can still slap it silly... ;)This sawtooth synth pad patch sounds bigger, fatter & better than the best synth pads you can conjure up without effects from the:Oberheim OB-X, OB-Xa & OB-8x, Xpander, Matrix 12, Matrix 6, Matrix1000; Yamaha CS80, Montage 8M;Rhodes Chroma, Polaris;Moog Polymoog, Memory Moog, Moog One;Roland Jupiter 8, Juno 6, 60 & 106, D50;Korg M1, Oasys, Kronos, Nautilus;Kurzweil K2000; K2500, K2600, PC4, K2700Elka Synthex; Sequential Prophet 5 or 10;Behringer UB-Xa, Deepmind12;Novation Peak & Summit;Arturia PolyBrute;ASM Hydrasynth;
Labbarhythm HWJ Weekend Challenge The Maze Dr. Synth 2024-07-14 | This weeks theme was doing a jam of what you might be hearing as you navigate through a maze. For whatever reason I thought of the old mainframe text game "Adventure" ( later 'Zork') and the part where you encounter "A maze of twisty little passages, all different..." So I put together a jam of subtly shifting, variable patterns... "A maze of twisting little passages, all different..."; "A twisty maze of little passages, all different..." etc....Different gear this time -- a little SY99 (of course !!) but this is first time using my recently completed '4 Voice' NiftyKeyz eurorack based on 4 Befaco Pony VCO's driven by the ZetaOhm FLXS1. The Pony VCO's do through zero FM, and there's also 4 filter variations in the rack: EricaSynths' VCF1 & VCF3 and 2HP's LPF and MMF.There also 4 Morphor Dual ADSR's, a bunch of Doepfer -- A135-2 Quad VCA, A145-4 Quad LFO & an A183-5 Quad Attenuator & A138s Stereo Mixer. Finishing it up the case are two 2HP Unity mixers, two SynthroTek Buffered Mults and a Frequency Central WaveRunner LFO. Another very cool feature of the Befaco's is they have a built in VCA, so a lot of versatility in just 4U.The drums are the Weston AD110 Analog drums. Also using a Dreadbox Nostalgia delay & EricaSynths Pico DSP (Reverb) for effects.If you're wondering why no snare? I ran out of gates !!
Tropo Phononia HWJ Weekend Challenge Wrong Patches Dr. Synth 2024-07-08 | A very interesting theme this week -- do a jam based on the concept that the 'wrong patches' are playing the parts ! Now THAT'S a challenge for someone who's always looking to make the right patch :) !!So he's my jam with a lot of 'wrong' sounds -- blended with some 'right' ones so it's not a cacophony catastrophe ! Threw in some other random 'wrong' (or at least very unexpected) things as well. Hope you enjoy!'Talking Bass' -- 3rd Wave'Not Strings' FM Pad & Organ -- C15'Piano' Drums, 'Drum Roll' Lead, 'S/H Rise', 'Arpeggio' Sync lead, synth pad w/ bass (and 'normal' drums) -- SY99'Not a lead' Synth percussion -- EuroMini, which is a NiftyKeyz case with Befaco Pony oscillators, and assorted EricaSynths & 2HP filter types
Turtletopia HWJ Weekend Challenge Giant Space Turtle Dr. Synth 2024-07-01 | These weeks challenge was an interesting one: “There is a theory that we are all living on a giant turtles in space!! As he swims about the universe rather lonely (unless he meets space whales) I wonder what thoughts and music goes through his mind?”Whipped up some spacey textures on the 3rd Wave, SY99 and C15, and this is what manifested from the Cosmos….
Techno Babbles On HWJ Weekend Challenge Techno Dr. Synth 2024-06-24 | This weeks theme was 'Techno' -- whatever that would mean to us. Well, when I was a kid this is what techno was like for me....3rd Wave - doing the old school analog drum machine thing and basslineSY99 - everything else and reliving the vintage experience having fun finding a tempo that mostly synced up with the SY99 LFO's...Apologies again for the few audio glitches. Still never sussed out why OBS studio will randomly glitch when recording, thought using SSD drives would help, but not so.
OstinatoChronic HWJ Weekend Challenge 200 or 100 Dr. Synth 2024-06-16 | This weekend's challenge was to crank it up and do a jam over 200 BPM or under 100 BPM. I settled on 204 BPM with a nice atmospheric intro...Using the 3rd Wave, SY99 & C15
Funkshun Junkshun Dr. Synth 2024-06-10 | This weeks HWJ challenge was to bring the funk, and this is what I brought.99% SY99, with 3rd Wave synth brass and a bit of C15 clavinet.(was up waaaaay to late sorry to the simple vid)
TriProblifunk HWJ Weekend Challenge 3 Body Problem Dr. Synth 2024-05-05 | The theme this week was a jam based around the 3 Body Problem. For my take I decided to set up 3 different bass sequences on the Moog/BARP modular, with quarter, eight and sixteenth note patterns. Then switching between the sequences by taking a S/H from a mix of 3 different rate LFO's for some random unpredictability. The Drums from a Weston AD110 shifts rhythm patterns along with the bass sequences.On top of all this I attempt some improvisations on the Nonlinear Labs C15 and the Hydrasynth, with the Hydra have 3 LFO 's interacting to select a random wave position in the wavetables with every note-on.There you have it!
Live Unboxing Customized C15 Dr. Synth 2024-04-28 | About a month ago I received my custom purple C15 and between busy work, programming and holiday schedules finally getting it into the Studio !I really enjoyed doing my Voice Bank for it and truly appreciate Stephan, Tim and the gang at Nonlinear Labs indulging my request for a unique color for a unique instrument !Check out all the videos in my C15 Playlist to hear examples of the patches in my Voice Bank, which are downloadable from the Nonlinear Labs website:https://www.nonlinear-labs.de/support/presets/sound-designer-banks/sound-designer-banks.htmlAlso check out this segment from @Doctormix at NAMM 2024 youtu.be/lwA9NMctUWE?feature=shared&t=1641
TickTockTuplets HWJ Weekend Challenge Polyrhythm/Polymeter Dr. Synth 2024-04-28 | This weekend's challenge was to play around with polyrhythm & polymeter. Not totally sure of the music theory technical differences, so I just played around with 4/4 bars having subdivisions of 9th, 8th & 6th note riffs/arpeggios interacting with each other with added stereo fun.99% SY99, featuring some Hydrasynth at the end.
Bassy McBass Bass Dr. Synth 2024-04-21 | This week's theme was bass, bass & more bass to bring out your Bass Face. Recruited the SY99, VL1, 3rd Wave and PolyBrute.Live improvisation over the bass and drums. Did three takes, this sucked the least LOL. Good to be back and jamming, though quite a bit rusty... only forgot where I was twice in this one :)
99 or 3rd to 4 HWJ Weekend Challenge 4 Elements Dr. Synth 2024-04-21 | This week's challenge was to use 4 elements in the jam - arpeggios, big reverb, 'amen' style breaks and playful stereo imaging.Here's my take, with the SY99 doing most of the heavy lifting & a little flavor from the 3rd Wave and Hydrasynth
Nardis - HCM FM Piano test Dr. Synth 2024-03-20 | Reworked Harmonic Component Modeled acoustic piano. Goal is improving the tone of the mid-harmonic spectra and reduce the number of Operators/Performance Parts for better polyphony.Still a work in progress, but I'm getting happier with the tonal results over the whole keyboard range. Ultimately I want to try to get it down to 4 Parts.Decided to test it on a little homage to a Bills Evans take on the classic Miles' tune. I did not play this in real time; Was pieced together each hand separately usually 4-8 bars at a time after studying & playing along to a MIDI file. Took me the weekend to get it together LOL. I apologies to all my accomplished pianist friends!Watch my original video series here on the synthesis approach:youtube.com/playlist?list=PLcMphamGDM_I_QL9tVCufOukjjRsEgDKC
UB-Xa PAT Test (with Blackhole Reverb) Dr. Synth 2024-01-30 | Behringer UB-Xa polyphonic aftertouch test. Followup to the UB-Xa string test. Using the Medium AT curve with the AfterTouch Flt set to 71 (which basically a slew rate control)A few tricks that make this sound so fat -- it's not just detuning the Oscillators and/or putting a lot of drift in the atrophy settings for the Oscillator pitches. First trick is LFO 1 is doing a low and slow pitch mod of Osc 1 simulating a chorus; The second trick is using keyboard modulation of Detune so the tuning Oscillators are sloppy (more of detune) in the low notes, but tighter (less detune) in the high notes. Not quite the same as a fixed Hertz detune but similar, I think I have it set for like 1 Hz beating in the low end and around a half Hertz at the top. And then the atrophy settings for the drift are on top of that.Recorded into Logic, then added the Eventide BlackHole reverb Plugin. Used an edit of the "World's Largest Reverb" preset
Behringer UB-Xa basic patches sound test Dr. Synth 2024-01-22 | Fresh out of the box and running through the presets of the Behringer UB-xa, my first impression of the sound of the UB-Xa was that it was very reasonably Oberheim-y, but but no more so than what I can achieve on a number of other hardware and soft synths I already own. Meaning it didn't jump out and immediately make me think "Oh yeah baby, _that's_ the Oberheim sound!" like a vintage Obie or the OB-X8 which I had for a while. And my first impression was a solid 80-85% grade in successfully hitting the 'Oberheim Sound.'Spent a few days digging into progamming it to capture what to my ears was missing, and rolled my own Saw/PWM string pad, which is one of the classic standout special sounds of the OB-X and OB-Xa for me.I'm happy to say I'm MUCH more pleased with the result, sound is much closer to the the special character of vintage Oberheims in the string pad timbres. I revise my grade to a 90-95% emulation success of the OB-Xa and OB-8 sound. The original OB-X is quite a different synth than the -Xa and -8, For the emulation of the OB-X sound, I'd still say 80-85%. Key reasons, the resonance isn't quite right, and the filter is too clean to my ears.One unexpected disappointment -- I'd mis-interpreted the spec of the Mod Matrix, expecting Osc Cross Mod as one of the enhancements. I thought the "OSC1Fr" was the Osc wave output, but it's the sum of all controlling voltages _to_ Osc 1 frequency via the Frequency Knob & Mod Section settings like LFO to pitch etc. DOH! So, while having Hard Sync is good, lack of Cross Mod is definitely a let down.I tried to make an "FM" patch anyway ;)
Jolladilly Jam HWJ Weekend Challenge Festive Dr. Synth 2023-12-17 | This week's theme is 'festive' jamming for the holiday season. Here's something that will hopefully give you some jolly holiday vibes!I tried to channel the bouncy, cheery feel of "Baroque Hoedown" which always puts me in a good mood.SY99, VL1, Montage, 3rd Wave, MatrixBrute and Kobol Expander join in the fun.Sorry I went a little crazy with the video, and forgot some dissolve transitions.....
kobol xpansion HWJ Weekend Challenge G.A.S. Jam with the Behringer Kobol Expander Dr. Synth 2023-12-10 | The Kobol Expander satisfied my latest episode of G.A.S. - the well known gear acquisition syndrome. Some of us more susceptible than others... This week's challenge is do a jam in any style, but using your latest G.A.S.-sed piece of gear. So, my Black Friday treats were the Behringer kobol Expander and Cre8 Audio's NiftyKEYZ. The kobol expander is the main featured synth, backed by usual suspects Yamaha SY99, Waldorf Iridium, Groove Synthesis 3rd Wave and Yamaha Montage.Needless to say the Iridium & 3rd Wave were prior G.A.S. additions !** Apologies for the titling typos -- they're ADS style envelope generators, ADR**
Cookin @ 190 HWJ Weekend Challenge Full Speed Dr. Synth 2023-12-04 | This week's theme is SPEED -- cranking jams faster that 180 bpm. Something different for me, here's my take. A lot of the usual suspects:3rd Wave - opening repeating bass synthIridium - intro arpegggiosMatrixBrute - synth bassHydrasynth - textures and middle section arpeggiosVL1 - synthy lead bitsMontage - intro 'gong', ending extra drums and Shepard tone effectSY99 - everything else - drums, synth pad, stabs, bells
5th ClassiX JammY HWJ Weekend Challenge Classic Banger Dr. Synth 2023-11-25 | This week's challenge was to make a jam using a well known classical theme -- so I put together a medley of sorts of some well know classical riffs.Using SY99, VL1, Hydrasynth, 3rd Wave, Montage and featuring the MatrixBrute on 'lead bass' in the opening section.(Apologies, the dang audio glitch bug is back in OBS studio, I thought I'd had it sussed out )
Muse 302 HWJ Weekend Challenge Heroes Dr. Synth 2023-11-20 | This weeks theme was 'heroes' so I went with a jam giving homage to a few of my favorite influences.3rd Wave - solo string and power synthMatrixBrute - synth bass 1Hydrasynth - vocal textures, synth bass 2, rhythmic texturesSY99 - everything else; synth strings, tinkly bits, synth pad, drums & percussionI had grand plans for this, but time got short :(
Moments of Content HWJ Weekend Challenge -Feel Something Dr. Synth 2023-11-13 | This weeks challenge theme was 'feel something'. I was feeling content, so this is the jam that resulted.Super late so had to go with the first take... so moments of content ;)Using the Montage, Hydrasynth, 3rd Wave & SY99 (playing my favorite super-secret massive FM pad patch)Sorry about the audio glitch halfway through, gotta figure out when what happens sometimes with OBS Studio....
Reflections of Index HWJ Noisevember 2023 Dr. Synth 2023-11-06 | Bonus HWJ in celebration of Noisevember 2023. Lots of modular textures, unique FM, and a smattering of melodic bits...
Hellengelix HWJ Weekend Challenge Heaven and Hell Dr. Synth 2023-11-05 | This week's challenge is pads form Heaven, beats from Hell. Here's a go at it, let's see how it goes!MatrixBrute - Baseline with some fun front panel & Mod Wheel tweaking Montage - 5- Wispy note padSY99 - Morphing FM square wave riff, Hellish (for me) beats and three Heavenly pads
Spectralis Dissolvis HWJ Weekly Challenge Spooky Dr. Synth 2023-10-30 | Back with a HWJ submission jam after a little sabbatical. This week’s theme was to do something “spooky”. The analog FM Eurorack does the drone and a fun 'radiophonic' workout - using 2 Weston PA0's, a Weston TZ0, a Cre8 Audio Capt'n Big-O, and Black Corp Rachael, controlled by the Doepfer joystick and a Dreadbox Noatalgia & EricaSynths Pico DSP for effects.The MatrixBrute lays down the bass.The SY99 does everything else.
Analogica Sonica HWJ Weekend Challenge Six Steps Dr. Synth 2023-09-03 | This week's challenge was to do a Jam limiting our sequences & patterns to 6 steps instead of the typical 8, 16 etc.Here's my take, stepping out of my usual with an all analog synth Jam using:Arturia PolyBrute;A bunch of Behringer Moog 55, ARP 2500 & Roland 100 stuff;Weston Precision Audio PA0, TZ0 and Black Corp Rachael;Effects are Erica Synths Pico DSP and Dreadbox Nostalgia.Yeah, yeah I know... no FM, just a T-Shirt ?!? Get it here:zazzle.com/non_stop_6_op_fm_synthesis_appreciation_tee-256002088592002387
Syncromanic HWJ Weekend Challenge Porch Jam Dr. Synth 2023-08-28 | This week wasn't a specific style per se, just do your Jam on your porch - in this case, the backyard patio. All Yamaha MontageFirst take, had two minor goof ups, but the mosquitoes we're being a bit too aggressive to try to get it perfect
