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New Sounds for Old Synths: 300 Patches For Waldorf Blofeld


Lfo.store has introduced NK Bundle, a collection of 300 original patches for the Waldorf Blofeld keyboard & desktop synths, along with the recently introduced Waldorf Blofeld Plugin.

The collection features sounds in the following categories:

  • Deep Soundscapes
  • Sparkling Arpeggios
  • Cinematic Sequences
  • Lushiest Pads
  • Massive Strings
  • Analog Basses
  • Analog Leads & Solo’s
  • Edge Plucks
  • Rhythmic Grooves

The official preview video:

The NK Bundle is available now for €21.

Live Space Music Performance on ARP Solina String Ensemble


Synthesist Craig Padilla shared this live space music performance, featuring the sound of the ARP Solina String Ensemble.

The Solina is a classic string synthesizer, originally introduced 1974, but based on the string section of the Eminent 310 from 1972. The Eminent 310 is the string sound of Jean-Michel Jarre’s Oxygene.

This performance is part of Padilla’s 2024 space music album Solina. The album was improvised live using an ARP String-Ensemble SE-IV synth, with Source Audio Lunar and Collider effects pedals, running through a Solid State Logic BiG SiX mixer, with an Elogoxa ElotTronix XL delay / echo plug-in.

Since the Padilla’s album uses the ARP Solina as its sole sound source, the album is an excellent showcase for the synthesizer.

Solina is available via Bandcamp, and Amazon site. You can preview the album below:

Making Music With The Oldest Running Computer In America


The latest episode of Usagi Electric explores making music with the oldest running computer in America, a Bendix G15 vacuum tube computer.

Though it’s not especially impressive musically, but it’s a fascinating journey to see what was needed to get the ancient computer to output sound.

Watch the video and share your thoughts on this in the comments!


Topics covered:

0:00 The oldest running digital computer in America

4:47 Repairing the modified typewriter

9:42 What was modified?

12:16 Punching a new tape to properly test this beast

13:48 First test of the new tape

17:30 Modifying a one of a kind machine…

18:07 What do the mods do?

20:12 Okay, what just happened?

24:41 Merry Christmas y’all!

26:18 Get after it Kono!