Synth Kit Sounds

Acid

Bass

Delay Loops

Delay

Filter Bass

FM Synthesis

Lead

Long Bass

Sequence With Beat

A series of live jams with the new littleBits Synth Kit, a simple modular system made in collaboration with KORG using magnets to connect modules.

All recorded live with only light edits and no post-processing, directly into an iPad via Sonoma WireWorks' (very nice-sounding) GuitarJack and Sonoma StudioTrack.

In Etudes 1-3, you'll hear some variations on a two-oscillator synth with (MS-20) filter, envelope, and delay. (Etude #3 makes use of the noise source for modulation.)

Etude 4 is an example of a frequency modulation setup.

Etude 5 uses the random oscillator for percussion.

These use the step sequencer, occasionally triggered from the keyboard.

CC-licensed, so please feel free to download and sample! (I'll be sampling them into some songs.) Just send a note if you make something, as I'd love to hear it!

littleBits Synth Kit Etude #1

littleBits Synth Kit Etude #2

littleBits Synth Kit Etude #3

littleBits Synth Kit Etude #4

littleBits Synth Kit Etude #5

a quick remix I did of the littleBits x KORG synth kit performance from reggie watts 
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reggie watts - say so REMIX

I got two littleBits Korg synth kits in the mail today. This is playing around with them. I used the sequencer module, two oscillators, two filters, two delays (one is before the envelope on one of the oscillators), one envelope generators positioned after the filters as VCA envelope, and a mix module. Recorded directly into audacity with no other processing.

I didn't change the sequence during play because those pots are really temperamental. I haven't made peace with them yet in a way where landing on a specific note (without accidentally disconnecting the power and resetting the whole thing) is happening. Maybe the pegboard from littleBits (the one shown on the box, but not included) will help.

littleBits Korg Synth Kit First Try

Second run. This time I built a two oscillator, two envelope synth. Repeating pattern but I play with the filter and vca envelopes as well as mix levels and much more. There's a fair bit of distortion and noise, all coming from the kit. I wasn't trying to be tame. :)

Also added some spare knobs to the modules.

littleBits Korg synth second go 'round

Crazy resonance sound effects. 

Logically two synthesizers in use here.

Patch included two oscillators in series used to modulate the filter applied to a third oscillator. 

The second synth had another oscillator with a noise source before its input voltage and then had a sequencer modulating its filter. 

Each synth had its own delay which then fed into the mixer and then the output module.

Crazy sounds abound. Recorded directly into Audacity with no effects other than the littleBits themselves.

littlebits / Korg Synth Crazy Resonance Sound Effects

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littleBits Korg Synth Kit + MaxForLive Convolution Reverb

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