PolyBrute -Juvenile  Demo Preset

Australian magpies are unrelated to magpies of other continents.  Their vocalisations include extraordinarily complex and varied calls during the day, simple shrieks of alarm and attack, a plaintive begging call of juveniles which look bigger than their parents and beak-clapping.  Some of them sing before or at dawn, and this can be delicate, melodic and highly individual.  There are a lot of magpies in this area, and my impression is that only a fraction of them call at dawn.

My wife Tina and I used to enjoy listening to a magpie singing before dawn when we lived in Rosanna.  At times he or she seemed to be singing most mornings - and it was clearly the same one over months or years, since the song was distinctive.

In Daylesford we have occasionally heard one calling at dawn nearby.  Here are two recordings of this bird made with a Sony PCM D50 and its internal microphones.  

This first recording was in night-time darkness, with dawn an hour or more away.  The air was still and foggy.  I was not with the recorder at the time.  We can hear the magpie flying close, and he or she begins calling after about a minute.

The second recording https://soundcloud.com/robin-whittle/australian-magpie-singing-at-dawn-6am-16th-september-2016 is clearly the same bird (we have not seen it since it was dark on one occasion and he or she was obscured by leaves on the second).  The morning was still and dawn was in progress, with more noise from distant cars and from running water thanks to recent downpours.

More information: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Australian_magpie#Vocalisations


Australian Magpie singing before the dawn, 5AM 11th August 2016

April

My first little analogue bass drum. Watch your woofers, please!
This is Mr Thomas Henry's Bass++ with Electronic Peasant's mods but with the pitch CV intact. Here are some examples of it's bass drum capabilities with various settings.
The  breadboarded circuit was recorded dry, straight into a Roland Octa-Capture.

I'm not sure if the circuit has a reset(sync) of the VCO by the trigger but with certain settings it will sync anyway.

This circuit was the perfect first module to build for me as it will produce usable and controllable sound from a reasonably simple circuit and you just need to feed it a trigger pulse from a simple 555 circuit.

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RD8 Roadshow New

Happy TR-808 day everyone !!!! Today this classic piece of gear turn 40, so let's celebrate !

We are very happy to share this sample pack, made with love using Stazma's Yocto drum machine (a very faithfull clone of the TR-808), recorded at the very nice JFX Studio under the supervision of Celine Frezza, using pristine studio gear to add some vibes to the already lovely sound of the machine itself.

On top of that you get some funky tracks made by artists from the label to demo the kit as usual.

Enjoy !
credits
released August 8, 2020

Samples recorded by Celine Frezza & Julien "Stazma" Guillot at JFX Studio in Lyon.
Mastering by Julien "Stazma" Guillot
Track one by Anorak : johnanorak.bandcamp.com
Track two by Lee : leeboiacid.bandcamp.com
Track three and four by Julien Guillot, three as Stazma and four as Repeat Eater : stazma-the-junglechrist.bandcamp.com

Free

Stazma - YoctoBot

SD MOD 808SnapLevel

SD MOD Snapdrop

SD MOD Snapdecay 560nf 1uf 1560nf

RD6 JAM2 Postprocessed

Video version : https://youtu.be/P6MrpcTeAcg

Read about how I use the Tracker and download the full project & samples over here soon:
polyend.com/whats-up/stazma-voltage-song/

The Voltage Songs EP on Bandcamp (name your price): Bit.ly/voltagesongs

About the Voltage Songs EP:

The origin of this project was to compose a full song on the Tracker, using mostly modular synthesizers. I use a CV.OCD midi to CV converter so the Tracker can speak directly to my eurorack systems. My first experiment with this set up led to this.

Original Tracker + Modular session: youtu.be/P6MrpcTeAcg

Once this track was done I multi tracked it to my computer and polished it a little bit, added some details to make it a little bit more interesting. From there as I wanted to be able to share this with other users on the Polyend Scene, I made a bunch of samples using all those sounds from the modular and decided to make another track out of it. This is the track you have here, feel free to use any of those sounds in any way you like.

I used mostly the Slice play mode here, so I could make different chunks of audio, sequence those back in any orders that felt right (or wrong) and play those at different speed easily.
The time stretched version of the breakbeats were made using the Akaizer (but as I write this there is a very potent time stretch included in the Tracker).

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