@Virtual_Flannel Oké thanks. Glad you have good experience with this synth. You are right about the presets, was just curious. The review of Sonic State was also positive, said it’s a “lifetime” synth so I think it’s a good buy.
I would love to have one of the instruments that Noystoise.com makes. What he does is more than circuit-bending. He designs entirely new electronics to extend the capabilities of some very low-tech keyboards, all with some very musical results! His blog makes for fascinating reading too!
http://www.noystoise.com/
I’d love to have the money to commission some sort of unique keyboard instrument. There are other designers who do terrific work as well, some of whom can be found on ebay but Noystoise seems to be cream of the crop!
Pierre
Hey thanks govnah!
My Bastl Instruments MicroGranny 2.0 arrived today and I’ve been playing with it tonight.
Look forward to getting this hooked up to my OP-1 and other gear for a jam.
Hopefully get some time this weekend to shoot a jam video when all is up and running.
The MG is a great little sample mangler.
Awesome packaging too! 
OMG the noystoise synths are AMAZING. Seriously, I’ve never heard sound like those out of anything that wasn’t modular (though, in some respects, he’s kind of building some self contained modular-esqu devices). Wow though, what cool stuff. I’m so inspired (I want to start building some myself).
Regarding Noystoise, everytime he posts something new to his YouTube channel I make it a point to tell him that he’s more than just an engineer and circuit bender, he’s a true artist. The keyboards he designs are really attractive, sound great (rather than just generating random noise) and feed into that desire to twist knobs and explore sound. He’s a very talented person and again I hope to be able to purchase one of his products if I ever have the money to burn.
^wow just checked out noystoise really blown away. Every summer When I vacation to my summer home I spend all of that time circuit bending. I really need to spend more time on casing and labeling. His Builds are amazing@!
thanks @masterofstuff124 now i’m GASing for a friggin’ “summer home”
I’m actually sort of anti-GASing right now and looking for more stuff to sell off.
I just went through a big sell off, lots of stuff I just wasn’t using that needed to go like older headphones and way more cables than I’ll ever need again.
My latest GAS is travel tools… I just grabbed the H6 with the extended dual input. I am very happy.
After listening to this https://soundcloud.com/smokyfrog/bank-f and other A4 demos, i had to order it…Sub37 is on preorder…oh an that Shruthi XT as well as Ambika from MI keeps smiling at me…baaaaad GAS.
I missed out on the Shruthi deal… So now I am gassing for a Kraftzwerg, its 350 EUR, any advice? go for it?
Fuck Me! It’s priced at $5,200!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v7Hdb0hDL4E
Pulled from Creative Music!
It’s been a while since Britain produced a polysynth with analog filters. So perhaps it’s fitting that SonicState gets up close with the modulus.002, in a lavish, nearly half-hour tour of the instrument, as this luxury instrument goes head to head in a very select club (including Dave Smith’s Prophet 12, as far as the New World goes).
And the modulus.002 has some more surprises, as the creators show off their analog tradition-meets-modern design production. It looks very high-end indeed, and has a slick, modern layout to match (though they’ve still included wooden end panels). There’s a joystick for the wavetables. There are pretty text labels. And there’s a bright, crisp AMOLED display, a bit reminiscent of the Teenage Engineering OP-1 (but still something of an rarity in the cut-cost world of synths). There are “animator” features for sequencing parameters, and deep options for mucking about with all those digital oscillators.
All in all, it looks like a luxurious instrument you’d want to pin to your bedroom wall and lust after, girls and boys.
It’s a great tour with Paul Maddox, Philip Taysom, and Luca Mucci – was a pleasure to meet Liam Lacey, as well, recently, in London.
And extraordinarily, developed in just 12 months.
And about the cost – brace yourselves – £2995 +VAT / $5200 / €3750. Yes, watching this video seems a bit like seeing the synth equivalent of Top Gear. There’s a thing of absolute, total beauty that my wallet can’t quite fathom at the moment.
Which brings me to an obvious observation: I’d love to see a monosynth version, a modulus.002.mini, if you will. Sure, the layering is great, but there’s still an awful lot of fun that could be had with a single voice, the joystick, and some parameter animation, for those of us on a budget.
But it’s phenomenal to see something high-end like this in wide production, and it seems the birth of a great new maker. Can’t wait to give you folks a visit soon, and definitely will be on my agenda for any UK tour.
http://www.modulusmusic.me
Modulus.002 PolySynth Exclusive First Look
Also, some specs to summarise for you:
12 voices, 2 oscillators + 2 sub oscillators per voice
Subs with switchable waveforms (either square or the waveform of the main oscillator)
4-pole transistor ladder filter with “pole sweeping”
One LFO per voice, one global LFO
“No menu options” – everything on the front panel
16-track, 12-row, 32-step sequencer with dedicated controls
MIDI sync
Arpeggiator with sequence storage, hold mode
Animate any control parameter (like morphing that filter)
4.3″ display with wide viewing angles
Recall banks
Two audio inputs
XY joystick
Ethernet port for updates plus “cloud features” (guess we’ll see what that is – assume it’s for presets and the like)
Clarification: I should be particular in saying that there have been a number of polysynths out of England (hello, Novation!), and we can’t quite say this is unique in being an “analog” polysynth – as it isn’t. But it is an analog hybrid polysynth, and that’s unique.
Actually, maybe I shouldn’t be echoing SonicState’s exceptionalism at all. It’s not that this is a polysynth that’s extraordinary. It’s that it’s a freakin’ high-end polysynth.
Pedal delay anyone?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b0bkPZHHVrA
pulled from Synthtopia!
Korg has introduced the SDD-3000 Pedal, a new delay pedal, based on the classic 80′s SDD-3000.
Here’s what they have to say about it:
The SDD-3000 PEDAL packs all of the SDD-3000?s functionality into a convenient pedal unit. Featuring a pre-amp with ample headroom, a filter circuit that modifies the feedback sound, and modulation waveforms that allow a diverse array of delay effects, it covers all of the SDD-3000′s important elements.
In addition to specifications that will satisfy SDD-3000 users, it provides many new functions such as eight delay types, long delay times up to 4,000 milliseconds, selectable modulation waveforms, stereo input/output, and MIDI compatibility. The user interface has also been updated for dramatically improved ease of use.
Features:
- All features of the SDD-3000 digital delay, packed into a pedal unit.
- Eight distinct delay types including SDD-3000, Analog, Tape, Modern, Kosmic, Reverse, Pitch and Panning.
- The preamp that defined the sound of the SDD-3000 is faithfully reproduced.
- Selectable filters that alter the sound of the delay repeats.
- Choose from five types of modulation waveforms that modulate the delay time. You can also create waveforms that interpolate between two types, and make fine adjustments to the waveform.
- Use flanging, chorus, vibrato, doubling, and Doppler effects.
- A wide range of delay times is available, from 1 millisecond to long delays with a maximum of 4,000 milliseconds.
- Sync mode lets you specify the delay time in terms of 11 different note values ranging from whole notes to 32nd notes.
- A total of 80 programs (40 banks x 2 channels) can be saved.
- LCR function lets you create multi-tap delay effects.
- MIDI connectors are provided, allowing you to trigger program changes from an external device, or to transmit program data as a bulk dump to and from other units.
- Seamless bypass and program changes allow you to retain the reverberant sound when switching sounds.
- Reliable true bypass design.
- An optional expression pedal can be used to control multiple effect parameters simultaneously.
korg just cant seem to stop winning…
Thought I’d just leave this here…
I don’t see these working well on the smaller iPads/tablets, unless you’re using apps the let you customize the size of your virtual knobs.
$15 a piece is pretty fucking expensive for some knobs, though, but part of that is the exchange rate. but that doesn’t make them cost me less.
An interesting thing, but that price is hard to swallow. You can get them for about $12 each if you buy 10 at once, but I want to say most tablets can do about 10 touch points max so you couldn’t use any virtual faders.
I can also pay $150 for a Behringer B-Control BCR2000 and have 32 endless encoders, though it isn’t near as portable. And being Behringer, I might only have 10 working knobs eventually >.> (being cheeky, don’t need some Captain Save A Ho leaping to Behringer’s defence :p)
Still, pretty cool concept and I wouldn’t mind having a few of them on hand.
Thought I'd just leave this here...https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/samuelverburg/tuna-knobs-stick-em-to-your-tablet-and-its-a-contrI don't see these working well on the smaller iPads/tablets, unless you're using apps the let you customize the size of your virtual knobs.$15 a piece is pretty fucking expensive for some knobs, though, but part of that is the exchange rate. but that doesn't make them cost me less.An interesting thing, but that price is hard to swallow. You can get them for about $12 each if you buy 10 at once, but I want to say most tablets can do about 10 touch points max so you couldn't use any virtual faders.I can also pay $150 for a Behringer B-Control BCR2000 and have 32 endless encoders, though it isn't near as portable. And being Behringer, I might only have 10 working knobs eventually >.> (being cheeky, don't need some Captain Save A Ho leaping to Behringer's defence :p)Still, pretty cool concept and I wouldn't mind having a few of them on hand.
10? G-zeus. Man you only got 2 hands mate. You don’t need 10. If you don’t let go of the knobs you only need 2. Remember they are not fixed 
Oh BTW the ipad that it is showing is a Mini. I really like the idea but still doesn’t solve multi page synths
Not fixed, but that are affixed and don’t seem to be easily moveable. It looks like they’re basically meant to convert your tablet into a hardware controller.
I’d never buy ten of them and really don’t see myself buying any. That was just to point out the cheapest per knob price, really. The Lemur app is awesome, but having physical knobs sort of defeats the purpose of a “do anything you want” interface.
It’s one of those “that’s really cool” sort of things that if it was half the price I’d buy a few just to try the thing out.
@KrisM, yeah they have these suction cups, but those are easily sabotaged. But after I saw the intro vid I realised you really need the cups because there is quite some friction generated by the touch sensitive part.
So I stand corrected.
The video also showed how flimsy and wobbly they are, will not buy. I’ll keep to my BCR2000
I brought my Bass Bot TT-303 to my bud’s place and he ran it into his newly acquired Moogerfooger MF-104M Super Delay (the, well “super” version of the regular MF-104M). We were both shocked how good the two sounded together, even when he started mucking about with the LFO section to get some whacked out sounds.
I’m in no position to grab a MF-104M Super Delay or even the regular version, but I was inspired to try running the 303 through one of my analog delays - either the EHX 550-TT or the Way Huge Echo Puss.