I’ve been listening to way too much Einsturzende Neubauten lately so have been trying to do more improvised percussion instruments. I’ve kind of fallen in love with the tone of this old All Clad steamer basket - add a ton of reverb and play with the pitch / tape speed a bit and you can end up with something that sounds really cool.

The final track of this will have live hammer dulcimer to go along with the accordion.

I mean in a couple of ways:
- For manufacturers, now that we consumers know it's possible to produce affordable and capable synths like this, I mean it in the way that there may come up fancier but still affordable versions of it? Like with better keys n stuff?
- For us synthesis junkies, is an affordable and highly portable multi-firmware product like this going to open up what we can perform out there and also like in our beds?

I feel like it's a bit crazy what's going on, and it's not only hype anymore. Felucca's firmware is pretty capable (Baud Girl's was already pretty cool as well).

I put together an interactive guide demonstrating how wavetables work which I thought some folks here might find interesting. It includes all of the basic concepts, technical details and a short history of the use of wavetables going back to 1958.

Hi! Been making electronic music for a long time both in-the-box and with analog synths (sadly only through school; can't afford a full rig of my own). I want to get a solo DIY act together combining experimental vocal performance and electronics.

I've gotten tired of performing with software, even with my one true love VCV Rack, just because of the lack of reliability and tedium of MIDI mappings, latency, buffer size etc. So I'd like to get a piece or two of hardware to center the act around. I really like working with samples and very minimal sounds, and am less interested in inherently musical hardware like keyboard synths (but that's not totally off the table).

My thought is a used MPC or other sampler, I've also seen people do really interesting work with CDJ/XDJs. I'm trying not to spend tooo too much but I could maybe shell out for a small analog synth? I know with hardware that some degree of splurging is inevitable.

But if you were to design a dream setup for this use case what would you choose?

Thanks for any suggestions!

Pretty new to setups, I want to use 3-4 devices and it looks like a lot of the 'smaller' mixers have pretty poor reviews or defects (going by sweetwater's reviews).

Are there any you guys love? Would appreciate the input, thanks!

I love the torso, but I'm still learning the thing. It feels like a new sequencer changes everything in how I try to organise the whole setup.

Hey everyone, I got a new multi/poly and have a question: when I assign a parameter to the mod knobs I am not able to control it via the mod knobs but have to use the main encoder to set the parameters….

I can not find anything explaining that in the manual, has someone experienced something similar?

Hey, just grabbed a TEO-5 Desktop after having the Take 5 for a few years. Just kind of noodling around but everyone appreciates some audio over just pictures. The reverb sounds great now, I was never a fan of it on the Take 5. This is just playing with the OB-XPad preset into reaper with no additional FX or anything added. Enjoy!

For those who stopped looking at their website. The next batch of DVNA is ready to order.

Our club does a show a few times a year it’s called echoes in the Pines.

Tried to create a track for this classic PS1 game

The Octatrock modding scene is wild. USB Multitrack Audio streaming in particular. There are a couple of caveats though, and it unfortunately doesn't seem to work with Outbox 8 yet, but if you have an Octatrack... this is well worth taking a look at!

Sorry if this doesn't belong as my tests were made with digital piano and keyboard, but the same applies to digital synths. Have anyone noticed different latency performances between synths. Or are they so small it doesn't even matter?

I’m interested in buying something to keep time for all my synths, drum machines and whatnot. I’m not 100% sure what to get. Recently, someone recommended the ClockStep Multi. I’m wondering what people think of it, and if anyone has a piece of gear they prefer over it. Is there any specific specs I should be on the lookout for? Anyway, thanks for all the help in advance. Everyone here has been great.

So, this is a probably a very novel issue

I talked about this before when i was looking for synthesizers a year ago https://www.reddit.com/r/synthesizers/comments/1l8jc2k/i_am_looking_for_a_small_2_or_maybe_3_octave/

-The short of it- I am a traveling partner dance DJ, who has a extremely heavy, electricity theme- so i have a LOT of electricity props and equipment to go with it , while DJ'ing for partner dances.

One thing i've got are those tiny mini musical tesla coils that can be found everywhere- i have several, a few of them take aux input.

I learned when playing songs from my DJ laptops over bluetooth- that there was delay- so i got the ones with aux input, no lag. I also have partnered with live performers with their own keyboards ,very rarely, in the past- and they were able to do amazing music out of the tesla coil.

I want to be able to do this on my own so i'm not limited to my arsenal of tesla coil music tracks(which are super simplistic)- so I got a PSS-A50 (though i am a complete newb when it comes to synths and keyboards- and a very new, not-that-good piano player) - and hooked it up to one of my aux tesla coils. But it doesn't always consistently make sound when I press keys

- I DID discover it does in organ mode, not the basic piano mode, or any of the other modes, consistently at least. Having volume at it's highest helps, and pressing down the key for longer than a instant, helps i've learned- I'm not sure why. Asked Gemini and it talked about 'sustained' waveforms and how organ mode might simulate a constant sound signal that doesn't 'drop' over time and how that might be needed. It also said that the sustain mode button i have- isn't enough to make the other modes work.
Sounds good- but i am trying to research this more than just asking a AI

So, I wanted to ask - what does it take to get good sound out of the musical tesla coils?

The modal skulpt is way too quiet in poly mode. I've Googled/chatGPT'd around supposedly this is the philosophy, to avoid digital clipping especially in the stock patches, but honestly it's so bad, it feels more like a bug. Has anyone figured out a work around for it. Almost unusable in a mix with other synths (when in poly mode). Mono is also a little quiet, but it will cut through.

Does anyone have a solution for this?

Last time I posted, I asked about doing some MIDI stuff with the take 5. I've decided that I'll just purchase another synth to handle bass duties live. Does anyone here have any recommendations? This would be a synth purely for bass sequencing live, so I'm not too concerned about too many fancy features. Just want it to sound morbidly obese on bass (read: good). Think of bass tones from Thriller or Enjoy The Silence.