Archive for April, 2025

Behringer Wave Digital Synthesizer User Review

13 Apr, 2025  No Comment


The latest video from gstormelectro offers a review of the Behringer Wave synthesizer.

Video Summary:

“Today I am giving a user review of the new Behringer Wave. My personal thoughts and opinions. I bought this synth with my own tax refund money. So nobody has input into what I’m posting here today.

The Wave is promoted as a faithful reproduction of the PPG Wave 2.3 digital synthesizer in all its lo-fi glory. With a touch of some modern feature additions. While I have tried a friend’s original PPG, this is not a comparison to the original. Nor is this an exhaustive how-to, nor covering all features.


Topics covered:

0:00 Introduction and Brief Overview

1:01 Build Quality

2:23 Features, Sound

4:39 User Interface and the Synthtribe App

6:10 Final Thoughts

7:59 One more thing

 

Berlin School Synth Jam With SynthR10 Synthesizer

13 Apr, 2025  No Comment


Synthesist Kurtz Mindfields shared this Berlin School style synth jam, featuring the Synthr SynthR10 synthesizer, which is expected to be released later this year.

Here’s what they shared about the performance:

For this final demo, I’m using only the SynthR10 in two live sessions:

1 – Left-hand sequencer / / Right-hand melodies and effects

2 – Xpad polyphonic pad accompagment.

All reverb and delay effects are internal.

 

Details on the SynthR10 are still to come at the Synthr site.

Octatrack Performance Mixer In-Depth Demo

12 Apr, 2025  No Comment


The Elektron Octatrack is notoriously difficult to wrap your brain around – because it can do so many things and be used in so many ways, but you have to configure it.

Fortunately, Elektron guru Matthew Piecora (aka EZBOT) has released a new tutorial that digs into the idea of using the Octatrack as a performance mixer. It’s an hour+ deep dive, with lots of musical examples.

If you’re an Octatrack owner, you’ll want to check this out, because Piecora shares lots of great insight. Check it out, and share your thoughts on the video and the Octatrack in the comments!

Topics covered:

00:00:00 Start!

00:01:35 How the ‘Performance Mixer’ works

00:03:53 Demo of using some effects for Techno

00:04:54 Using the beat repeats

00:05:58 Significant changes to this template from prior templates

00:08:45 Why I am making these templates

00:10:14 More changes from previous versions

00:10:38 Performance Mixer 3.0.6B – The DJ Template

00:14:24 4-bar loopers are now on all template variants and why

00:15:20 Why we use 4-bar loopers instead of 8

00:16:16 How I clock the Octatrack and why

00:18:26 I’ve adjusted the noise riser volume and now you can too

 

 

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