Moog Spectravox Analog Spectral Processor – Shut Up & Play

26 Jun, 2024  No Comment


Alex Theakston of Mylar Melodies – In his lastest video – offers a series of creative audio demos of the Moog Spectravox, introduced ahead of Superbooth 2024.

The video demonstrates using the Spectravox to vocode, as a filterbank, as a synth voice, as an effects processor and more.

The Moog Spectravox is an analog spectral processor based around a 10-band filter bank. Spectravox can create lively drones and colorful tonal sweeps on its own, or add resonant depth and “psychedelic spectral movement” to any external sound. Connect a microphone, and Spectravox becomes a 10-band analog vocoder, with innovative integrated modulation of all of its filters.

The Spectravox was originally introduced as the Engineering Workshop project at Moogfest 2019. A key difference in the updated design is that the sliders of the original have been swapped for a row of pots, making room for additional patch points.

Here’s an index of the examples in the video:

00:00 Sneak preview of examples
00:45 Explaining How Spectravox Works
02:04 Spectravox as a Filterbank
04:14 Vocoding a DFAM
05:11 Spectravox as a Synth Voice
07:17 LFO to Spectrally Shift my Voice
07:41 Turning Drum Sounds into Hellscapes
09:35 Completely Remapping My Voice
11:09 Turning my voice into a bassline & snare
12:59 Integrating Eurorack

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

 

Inside Korg Berlin with Tatsuya ‘Tats’ Takahashi

7 Jun, 2024  No Comment

This video, via Reverb, offers a behind-the-scenes tour of Korg Berlin with CEO Tatsuya ‘Tats’ Takahashi.

Takahashi is probably best known for his work as Chief Engineer of Analog Synthesizers at Korg, Takahashi helped create the Monotrons, Volcas, Korg’s ARP and MS-20 reissues, the Minilogue and more.

For the last four years, though, Takahashi has been leading Korg Berlin, which they have described as a sort of ‘engineering playground’ for electronic instrument design.

Korg Berlin has previewed a new acoustic synthesizer, the Phase8, that they say they expect to debut next year.

 

How To Create PPG-Style Sounds On 3rd Wave Synthesizer

7 Jun, 2024  No Comment


Groove Synthesis shared this tutorial on how to create PPG-style sounds on the 3rd Wave synthesizer.

In the video from Superbooth 2024, Groove Synthesis’ sound designer Kurt Kurasaki demonstrates how to create a beautiful and lush PPG-style pad sound from scratch, using some of the basic concepts and features of the 3rd Wave.

Utilizing the 3rd Wave’s multitimbral capabilities, Kurasaki then creates a stack of sounds that he can spread out into the stereo field by panning and detuning them.

You can find out more about the 3rd Wave at the Groove Synthesis website.

 

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