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Madrona Labs – Vocoder Virta (Proto)

Ich mag Aalto (1.7), eine Art buchlaesquer Synthesizer, sehr intuitiv und gut gemacht und auf das Wesentliche mit West-Coast Philosophie konzentriert – das gibt es auch für Samples (Granular!) als Kaivo (1.2) – es scheint ein Vocoder in Planung mit der gleichen Idee… Übrigens gibt es massive Updates für die beiden bisherigen Synths.  I love Aalto, the Buchla-style Synth – and Kaivo is sort of the granular-sample based Aalto. Seems the same concept applies to the  new plans of Virta, found this little sketch.. very much the structure of the…

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Glitchmachines – Quadrant – Aalto inspired semimodular?

Glitchmachines‘ Quadrant (renamed from „Scope„). has a lot of being inspired by Madrona Labs Mod-Concept – trying to make a simple structure effective as hell. so this time it is a moog-coast (not buchla/serge west coast thing) – having 2×2 FM OSCs – stop – isn’t fm again more the other coast stuff? you are not getting what I try to tell? right – let’s forget about this categories-stuff – in fact it has a lot of things in common with Aalto but tries to be more FM and less…

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Soundplane Controller

yxou do know, that I am a big fan of Aalto, the Software synth – this controller is not new to those, who have been following my posts on Madrona. A different approach to the Haken Audio thing or the Linnstrument – and other Controllers that simply try to add more pitch control or at least more or different touch/control in general.. they have a new software out – still in search for no-keyboard-keyboard? get your ass on the Madrona site..

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Aalto looks Buchlaesque – Softsynth

This one reminds a lot of Buchla 200e’ish sound design. in fact it has a main OSC modulated by another „Mod OSC“ plus Waveshaping which isn’t a bad idea, still. They say they did it for expressiveness – true, tho‘ – so.. and here’s the link to them – and the SynthDB entry about Aalto says.. to me very usable at the smallest possible component number at maximum output and efford to get interesting sounds as fast as you can beside a very classic structure of a – say – Nord Lead…

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