Exploding Shed also has some very nice black rails to build 1U + 3U tabletop systems with. I enjoy them being open in the back, it's super easy to rebuild these and also show people who come see us at trade shows some behind the scenes of how these are put together.
The sequencer is Making Sound Machines Stolperbeats (front, module on the table). In the front row the modules used are Mutable Instruments Elements, Rings, Streams, Befaco Lich. In the back is Making Sound Machines Heart of Gold, an unreleased prototype drum module.
These sounds are awesome! Total noob question: why are these sounds SO "modern" sounding - meaning that it doesn't sound like something straight out of the 80s. All of the hardware synths I have looked at sound like they are from that era. This doesn't. Why? Is it that it is a wavetable synth or is it some other type. Or am I missing something else completely? I mean, the bells sound like a sample, not a synth. And the synth-y sounds sound well... not ordinary. Is it a modulation effect that's on otherwise ordinary sounds?
I wanted to come back to this but then got massively sidetracked (by work haha). First of all thank you for your kind comment. I'd say the thing you should look into if you like to explore these sounds is physical modelling in general - the flavour employed in Elements is an exciter through a reverb / feedback type resonator, that creates modes or overtones from that initial excitation. Essentially this simulates a collection of structures, including plates, strings, tubes and bowls depending on how the verb is tuned and dampened. If you are interested in a bit of background of how this more freeform approach stems from modelling real existing instruments, check out the work of Julius O Smith: Julius Smith - Sound synthesis based on physical models ruclips.net/video/dUcNzPhZdwk/видео.html&ab_channel=CIRMMT If you are looking to play around with physical models like this, a great start would be to check out Mutable Elements and Rings in VCV rack. The ports are called Audible Instruments library.vcvrack.com/AudibleInstruments On the software side it might be worth looking into AAS Chromaphone - it's a pretty deep VST with nice visualisation. AAS also cooperated with Ableton on the synth Tension which comes with Live Suite, so if you use Live you might already have that to play with.
Can't wait to learn what the Heart of Gold is!
The idea of using the TipTop Racks as skiffs is super clever. Sure to be stolen.
Exploding Shed also has some very nice black rails to build 1U + 3U tabletop systems with. I enjoy them being open in the back, it's super easy to rebuild these and also show people who come see us at trade shows some behind the scenes of how these are put together.
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whats the sequencer and the modular？
The sequencer is Making Sound Machines Stolperbeats (front, module on the table). In the front row the modules used are Mutable Instruments Elements, Rings, Streams, Befaco Lich. In the back is Making Sound Machines Heart of Gold, an unreleased prototype drum module.
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These sounds are awesome! Total noob question: why are these sounds SO "modern" sounding - meaning that it doesn't sound like something straight out of the 80s. All of the hardware synths I have looked at sound like they are from that era. This doesn't. Why? Is it that it is a wavetable synth or is it some other type. Or am I missing something else completely? I mean, the bells sound like a sample, not a synth. And the synth-y sounds sound well... not ordinary. Is it a modulation effect that's on otherwise ordinary sounds?
Rings and elements are both digital physical modeling synth voices/ocs. Neither use wave tables.
I wanted to come back to this but then got massively sidetracked (by work haha). First of all thank you for your kind comment. I'd say the thing you should look into if you like to explore these sounds is physical modelling in general - the flavour employed in Elements is an exciter through a reverb / feedback type resonator, that creates modes or overtones from that initial excitation. Essentially this simulates a collection of structures, including plates, strings, tubes and bowls depending on how the verb is tuned and dampened.
If you are interested in a bit of background of how this more freeform approach stems from modelling real existing instruments, check out the work of Julius O Smith:
Julius Smith - Sound synthesis based on physical models
ruclips.net/video/dUcNzPhZdwk/видео.html&ab_channel=CIRMMT
If you are looking to play around with physical models like this, a great start would be to check out Mutable Elements and Rings in VCV rack. The ports are called Audible Instruments
library.vcvrack.com/AudibleInstruments
On the software side it might be worth looking into AAS Chromaphone - it's a pretty deep VST with nice visualisation. AAS also cooperated with Ableton on the synth Tension which comes with Live Suite, so if you use Live you might already have that to play with.