Prototype Jam! TINRS Fenix IV, mmalex Plinky and Faust on Teensy 4.0
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- Опубликовано: 15 сен 2024
- Here's a little prototype #jam, using all the lovely modular gear and hardware we've been testing these last weeks! The granular glockenspiel is made with This is Not Rocket Science's Fenix IV Eurorack compatible system-in-a-box - this is a beta machine but production hardware is actually done! TiNRS’ Stijn and Lauri built in an awesome way to load sample banks into the digital oscillator in wavetable mode, so we were able to use a recording of my childhood glockenspiel as grains in this synth sequence, with beautiful warbles from the onboard delay! TiNRS Fenix' sequencer allows for each of its four channels to have its own rhythm subdivisions and to be transposed via MIDI - this is exactly what's happening here using the Arturia keystep pro. Fenix' extra seq channels are triggering a kick from GHzTomash Callisto teensy arduino DIY drum module, and gating some noise percussion using the Fenix' VCA. The lush swell of reverb at the end is coming from a combination of Fenix built-in verb and using our beta unit mmalex #Plinky as an FX processor - DIY kits and the expander will soon be available again from Thonk.
The stereo organ pad is made on a Teensy 4.0 arduino, running an additive synth patch made with Faust DSP and the teensy audio library, controlled via MIDI with the Arturia Keystep Pro and patched into the Eurorack with our own Multiplikand module. It's rhythmically chopped using This is Not Rocket Science's Wobbler complex LFO into Mutable Instruments Streams dual dynamics gate, using the #TiNRS Fenix' sequencer to reset the LFO in time with the sequence. The bass is Moogs DIY voice Werkstatt 01, a CV-controlled voice with a ladder filter and that lovely Moog sub.
The beats in the ending come from our circuit bent e-licktronic NAVA TR909 clone, sequenced using the Roland Aria TR-8 drum machine. While the NAVA is an exact copy of the famous TR909 circuits, hacked by us with 34 mods to vastly expand the sonic palette of the instrument, the TR-8 is a digital emulation of the same synth and somewhat shunned for its color scheme. If you look beyond that, it's a very practical and lovely machine.
❤️ Huge thank you to everyone sending us stuff to test and build! This is extremely fun! 
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Beautiful performance and song!
Heyy!! Glad you like it! We are of course big fans of your work! Picked up some good tricks for sure.
Awesome jam, great visual and audio quality.
Thank you! so glad you like it!
Yip ✨Yip ✨Yip ✨ Hurray! Love how you guys are bringing to many things together
Haha yeah! really just checking out all those patch points on Fenix - and so far it has been happily playing along with everything we throw at it! So fun!
This is awesome! Not only the performance but also the different camera angles and production. It inspires me to push my own production into new territory. You deserve more views and subs!
Thank you so much! We are glad you like it and are always happy to get people motivated!
👏👏👏👏👏👏Extremely good sound 😌✌️❣️✨
Thank you! So glad you like it!
Yeah! What a great track and an inspiring setup. Thanks for the reminder that I need to use my keystep into the modular more
Thank you! really glad you enjoyed it! Our favourite thing is having a sync arpeggio on a Keystep transpose a free running arpeggio in the modular! crazy fun things happening every time!
Finally online on RUclips! *dancing*
Whoop whoop! Living room party :)
this was awesome!
Thank you! so glad you enjoyed it!
nice Jam! :) really excited for the plinky!
Yay! thank you! Plinky is ace, so much smart and surprising stuff in there! You can even record and slice audio with it : )
how are you enjoying Plinky? I'm on the waitlist and reallllly look forward to exploring
It's super fun - it packs a lot of punch for that small a form factor, it sounds really nice (both synthesis and FX) and it has a really neat sampling / granular engine built in as well! The next build will be easier as well, the LEDs will come presoldered so the fiddly part of the build will already be done.
Are you guys affiliated with syntonovo and Felix Visser ( original synton fenix developer )
This is rocket science company has no info about any of that >
Did Felix Visser design any of the new fenix 4 ?
Hi! We are friends with Stijn, Pris and Lauri at This is Not Rocket Science (TiNRS) and helped them beta test the Fenix IV. TiNRS are helping Syntonovo develop their Pan synthesizer (it's really cool, check out the Superbooth videos here on RUclips!), and through that collaboration Bert and Felix decided TiNRS would be the right company to carry on the Fenix legacy and add an instrument - the Fenix IV - to the familiy.
Development of Fenix IV started from the blueprint and circuitry of Fenix II - from that Stijn and Lauri, who have decades of music hardware and DSP experience between them, decided which characteristic Fenix modules to leave as-is, and which additions would complement the instrument.
Some of the Fenix VI's submodules are very very close to Fenix II: Fenix oscillator, Ladder filter, analog parts of the Noise module, Wavefolder, Wavemultiplier (with some Bert fixes in here), LFO 1, LFO 2, LFO 3, ADSR 1&2, and the Low Pass Gate. TiNRS rebuilt them from the ground up but they are schematic copies of the Fenix II, with added extra features.
I hope that answers your questions! You can read up on the development via TiNRS' blog entries, it's quite fascinating:
www2.thisisnotrocketscience.nl/?s=fenix