Single Synth Berlin School Synth Jam with Korg Wavestate Synthesizer

The video, via Waveformer, captures a single-synth Berlin School-style synth jam, featuring the Korg Wavestate Digital Synthesizer .

 

What they shared about the technical details:

The performance has four layers that are used as four individual parts/tracks – two independent melodic arpeggiators, one bass layer and one pad layer. During the jam, I play with the arpeggiators and do live sound design. The complete jam was recorded in one go with no post-processing except some light compression.”

Wavestate performance mod knobs:

Knob 1: Layer A (arp melody 1) Octave

Knob 2: Layer B (bass) Octave

Knob 3: Layer C (pad) Octave

Knob 4: Layer D (arp melody 2) Octave

Knob 5: Layer A (arp melody 1) Amp Level

Knob 6: Layer B (bass) Amp Level

Knob 7: Layer C (pad) Amp Level

Knob 8: Layer D (arp melody 2) Amp Level

ModWheel controls the decimator effect for Layer A, and makes layer B and D softer.

Joystick X controls Reverb Effect Level.

Joystick Y controls Layer C (pad) Bandpass Filter Cutoff Frequency.

The audio is recorded to SD card on a Zoom R-16 recorder and normalized in Audacity. Video is recorded on a Canon EOS M50 mk2 with the included EF-M 15-45mm lens. Audio and video is synchronized in DaVinci Resolve 18 (free version).

 

Sunday Synth Jam : One Synth Jam session with Roland Jupiter-Xm

 

Sunday Synth Jam: Synthesist and sound designer Alba Ecstasy shared this one synth jam session, Tangent One, featuring the Roland Jupiter-Xm.

 

“This morning at 4:00am, I suddenly woke up and made this track on the Jupiter-Xm,” he explains.

 

The live performance makes use of the Xm’s I-Arpeggio function, which uses artificial intelligence to analyze your performance and create rhythms and sequences that react to your playing.

 

“The I-Arpeggio is amazing, offering me the drummer I always wanted,” he notes. “It’s like I’m controlling this drummer with my mind!”

Roland Jupiter-Xm Digital Synthesizer

‘Switched On’ Live Bach Performance

 

Synthesist Dor Heled shared this ‘Switched On’ style live performance of Bach’s The Well Tempered Clavier Book 1 – Prelude and Fugue in C minor.

 

While the arrangement is inspired by Wendy Carlos, it is one that can be played live on a single Dave Smith Prophet Rev2 synthesizer.