Some Tests and Experiments with my Eurorack Modular Synth

Modular

Giro in bici per la Valle Isarco in Alto Adige, ispirato da una natura apparentemente incontaminata ma con in lontananza le auto di una valle molto trafficata.

Luca Frigo aka Knobalchemist.
Smartphone.

Giro in bici per la Valle Isarco in Alto Adige

Luca Frigo aka Knobalchemist - Giro in bici per la Valle Isarco in Alto Adige

an extract from kvsu's live performance at the making stories exhibition opening on february 5, 2015.
the set was played using this setup:
arturia microbrute, modular synthesizer (music thing mikrophonie, make noise echophone, hexinverter.net jupiter storm), jomox t-resonator, circuit-bent casio sk-1, sonic potions lxr, boss rc-505, circuit-bent pikachu, circuit-bent toy megaphone, groovesizer tb2

live @ making stories (extract)

"When the light is so strong you can even feel the pain and your eyes might bleed..."

DSI Evolver Desktop
Valhalla shimmer
Recorded and mixed in Ableton Live 9.5

The Bleeding Sun

live version of our track soap opera, performed 8 july 2016

instruments:
microbrute, op-1, shruthi 4pm, volca keys, electribe 2 sampler + several fx pedals and loopers

soap opera – swimming pool version (live)

Testing my few modules....2 VCO Synced and modulated by LFO and ADSR + some envelopes on Self Oscillating LP & HP .....

FM, Envelopes, Resonance

Maths doing some modulations, scaling, invertings ecc :D

Testing Make Noise Maths

Maths doing some trilling, bouncing, modulating FM and filter

Added a little bit of Delay and Reverb....

Maths Trilling....

Circuit bent Speak & Spell into my Modular...modulated by Maths...

Trying to put my Bent-Speak&Spell into my Modular

Ableton Live + Kenton Modular Solo + Maths

Knob alchemist live improvisation

This is a distortion module that you can build for your analogue synthesizer. It is intended to be used for distorting acid basslines or otherwise waveshaping your synthesizer textures. It is based on the infamous MXR Distortion Plus and sounds pretty rad for such minimal components.

It sounds excellent on a TB-303 or x0xb0x (as you can hear here, playing the famous bassline from New Order - "Confusion" Pump Panel acid remix. It is also useful for anything else coming from your synth. Some really cool timbres can be found in this easy to build little circuit!

PCBs will be available at hexinverter.net as well as panels from Re:Synthesis for the popular eurorack modular format.

hexinverter.net batteryACID distortion module demo

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Demo I created for Retronyms Tabletop 2.0 release. 

Glitch Breaker Demo - Made with TableTop 2.0 iPad app.

Eurorack Odyssey Oscillator + Stg Sea davils filter (test)

Oddy 3

I try to do some sound experimentation
Bolzano, South Tyrol, Italy
www.knobalchemist.net

Maths Trilling....

knobalchemist

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