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Frequency Central
Приєднався 23 сер 2011
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Frequency Central feat. Gnatophilidae Oxfordii, EDP Gnat style VCF with LP, BP, HP, Notch responses
If EDP had produced Eurorack modules, they would have been quirky, garish and killer. This is my homage. An expanded Gnat VCF with Lowpass, Bandpass, Highpass and Notch Reject responses as well as Drive and Clip options. The LFO is based on the ‘Enhance LFO’ from the Gnat, again its been expanded with multiple waveshape options. Yes, at 20HP it is twice as wide as it needs to be - you do you.
frequencycentral.co.uk/product/gnatophilidae-oxfordii/
In September 2023 I was lucky enough to acquire an EDP Gnat synthesiser after questing for one for many years. I’m already the owner of an EDP Wasp, and had always wondered about the Gnat, which is a smaller version of the Wasp in many ways, but with a character all of it’s own. After decades lying unloved in an attic for decades, my Gnat required a little love to get it in full working order, so I set to work on it, after looking up the schematic. The Gnat came to life, and we fell deeply in love with each other.
There have been a few remakes of the Wasp VCF, but never one of the Gnat to my knowledge, so with an original on hand I set out to remedy this sorry situation. The original is strictly lowpass, but it’s easy enough to add bandpass, highpass and notch reject - so that’s what I did. The Gnat VCF uses 3 gates from a CD4049, leaving 3 unused gates, so I used them to create an LFO based on the enhance LFO of the Gnat, which was used exclusively for a fixed rate PWM of the Gnat’s DCO. The LFO is expanded to offer multiple waveforms via it’s SHAPE control as well as it’s two outputs - saw/tri/ramp and pulse/square.
The Gnat was 9V battery powered, to get close to this in Eurorack I’ve given Gnatophilidae Oxfordii it’s own onboard +/-5V power rails. This helps keep it’s character close to the original. Gnatophildae Oxfordii is big and garish, a little whacky and a little leftfield. That’s it’s joy.
DRIVE: The two audio inputs pass through the DRIVE knob before hitting the filter itself. Higher levels of drive will clip the input waveforms to the filter, as well as reducing the available resonance.
CLIP: There’s a little circuit post-filter which will simultaneously amplify and clip the filtered signal.
The combination of pre-filter DRIVE and post-filter CLIP can get you into some pretty gnarly territory! Yes, at 20HP it is twice as wide as it needs to be - you do you.
frequencycentral.co.uk/product/gnatophilidae-oxfordii/
In September 2023 I was lucky enough to acquire an EDP Gnat synthesiser after questing for one for many years. I’m already the owner of an EDP Wasp, and had always wondered about the Gnat, which is a smaller version of the Wasp in many ways, but with a character all of it’s own. After decades lying unloved in an attic for decades, my Gnat required a little love to get it in full working order, so I set to work on it, after looking up the schematic. The Gnat came to life, and we fell deeply in love with each other.
There have been a few remakes of the Wasp VCF, but never one of the Gnat to my knowledge, so with an original on hand I set out to remedy this sorry situation. The original is strictly lowpass, but it’s easy enough to add bandpass, highpass and notch reject - so that’s what I did. The Gnat VCF uses 3 gates from a CD4049, leaving 3 unused gates, so I used them to create an LFO based on the enhance LFO of the Gnat, which was used exclusively for a fixed rate PWM of the Gnat’s DCO. The LFO is expanded to offer multiple waveforms via it’s SHAPE control as well as it’s two outputs - saw/tri/ramp and pulse/square.
The Gnat was 9V battery powered, to get close to this in Eurorack I’ve given Gnatophilidae Oxfordii it’s own onboard +/-5V power rails. This helps keep it’s character close to the original. Gnatophildae Oxfordii is big and garish, a little whacky and a little leftfield. That’s it’s joy.
DRIVE: The two audio inputs pass through the DRIVE knob before hitting the filter itself. Higher levels of drive will clip the input waveforms to the filter, as well as reducing the available resonance.
CLIP: There’s a little circuit post-filter which will simultaneously amplify and clip the filtered signal.
The combination of pre-filter DRIVE and post-filter CLIP can get you into some pretty gnarly territory! Yes, at 20HP it is twice as wide as it needs to be - you do you.
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Frequency Central feat. DARK STAR - Super compact full voice bursting with character and features!
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frequencycentral.co.uk/product/dark-star/ Dark Star consists of 4 sections: -Voltage Controlled Oscillator based on AS3340 with sawtooth, triangle and pulse waveforms -Voltage Controlled Filter with lowpass and highpass options, Drive control, Sweep control which attenuates amount of Release CV -Release generator with CV input for voltage control of release time. Option for sustain via jumper o...
Frequency Central feat: Asteroids - exorcise your arcade stylee!
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Here’s a quick demo showcasing a few uses for Asteroids. The Asteroids on the left is allowing audio from Radio Music to pass when button #1 is pressed. Button #2 changes the station of Radio music when pressed. The Asteroids on the right button #1 is being used to trigger Cosmic Background which is producing electronic percussion sounds. Button #2 is being used to extend Cosmic Background’s re...
Frequency Central Feat. AKROPOLI advanced generative sequencer
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Akropoli is an extension and enhancement of our successful Little Melody and High Towers modules, offering the features of both of these modules as well as some of it’s own unique features such as mute buttons per channel, manual transpose knob and 1V/oct transpose CV input. Akropoli operates using our proprietary TOOL V2 code, and can count in integers as well as multiples for even more subtle...
Frequency Central feat. SHAPES - wide ranging multi waveform LFO!
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Shapes is a wide ranging and fully analogue oscillator which can perform duties as both auxilliary VCO* as well as VC-LFO. Shapes can be configured to cycle continuously, or to provide one-shot shaped outputs. When set to one-shot mode, Shapes may be used as an ersatz envelope generator. In this video, one Shapes is used in the audio range, while another (together with a Blades of Ingenuity) is...
Frequency Central - Populating a NiftyCASE with FC for CFON2 in Coventry, UK
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Today, Dominic and I populated a NiftyCASE with FC modules for the forthcoming CFON2 event at the Herbert Museum and Art Gallery in Coventry, UK: www.theherbert.org/news/291/the-city-is-full-of-noises-meet-rick-holt-from-frequency-central?Rick Holt interview Modules featured: frequencycentral.co.uk/product/tempograf/ frequencycentral.co.uk/product/berlin-school/ frequencycentral.co.uk/product/l...
Frequency Central feat. Horror Show - 4HP filtered noise generator/digital ring modulator/sub osc
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Horror Show is a 4HP combined noise generator/digital ring modulator/sub oscillator. frequencycentral.co.uk/product/horror-show/ Here’s a few of it’s features: - Noise generator with filter frequency control. Filter is twin-t type. The noise output is normalised to RM X Input and also to the Sub Osc Input, so that 5 types of noise are simultaneously available, all of which can be further affect...
Frequency Central: MU format Berlin School sequencer advert!!
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Hey MU format crowd! Here's a little advert for our MU format Berlin School digitally controlled analogue sequencer! frequencycentral.co.uk/product/mu-berlin-school/ Please comment "I didn't know you did adverts" if you've read this far.
Frequency Central feat. ThermoNuclear sub-miniature tube overdrive!!
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Ladies and Gentlemen, please allow me to introduce you to ThermoNuclear! frequencycentral.co.uk/product/thermo-nuclear/ ThermoNuclear is a sub-miniature vacuum tube based overdrive. The first stage is a MOSFET with switchable mu-amp. The second stage is a self biased sub-miniature pentode with switchable triode/pentode modes. Then there’s a tonestack based on the EH Big Muff. Finally, there’s a...
Frequency Central stars in "Resistor matching for Berlin School"
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Our forthcoming Berlin School module requires 3 x 100K resistors matched to within 1% of each other. They don't have to be exactly 100K, they just have to be close to 100K and match each other. Actually, I'm matching to 0.1%, but hey. Seeing as how I had to match bunch of different sets, I thought I'd video the process. Enjoy! The music is a montage of a few previous video outings overlaid with...
Frequency Central stars in "Subscapes" with Klang Stadt, Continuum and Arley Dynamics
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Salut! Today I'm playing about the soundscapes using my fave wavetable VCDO a.k.a. Klang Stadt, having patched both the Main and Sub 2 output to Continuum for a bit of subtle phasing. I've added interest by using Arley Dynamics ADSR on a slow fade in/out patched to the Density CV input of Stasis Leak (off camera) in delay mode, so that notes that are held for longer get rather dense compared to...
Frequency Central feat. 3 x Cosmic Background analogue drum module rhythmic workout
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Hey solitary viewer! We've been messing around with this analogue drum module Cosmic Background for far too long, so this week we decided to do a quick video putting it though its paces. The design concept of this module was that it should be able to analogue BDs, SDs and HHs and everything in between of course. As well as being fully modular. Judge for yourself, there are 3 x Cosmic Background...
Frequency Central: atmospheric droning soundscape of doom feat. MU format modules
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I wanted to explore creating an atmospheric droning post apocalyptic dystopian sci-fi soundscape of doom using this little MU system together with a looper. I would like to think that I have achieved it in some small way. I do hope that you find it disturbing. Please comment "atmospheric droning post apocalyptic dystopian sci-fi soundscape of doom"
Frequency Central in 'MU-looping' feat. our forthcoming MU format VCO, VCF, VCA and ADSR modules
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I'm still exploring this little MU voice system consisting of: 2 x MU CEMosc (Curtis 3340 based VCO) MU Whiteface (ARP 4023 style VCF) MU Arley Dynamics (Curtis 3310 based ADSR with ARP style VCA) MU Stasis Leak (Belton chorus/delay/reverb) At this time, the first three modules are not available yet.....but they're coming very soon.....how exciting! This week I've hooked it up to a looper set t...
Frequency Central feat. forthcoming MU modules CEMosc, Whiteface, Arley Dynamics - Part One
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We've been working hard here at FC to bring you some brand new MU format versions of our popular CEMosc, Whiteface and Arley Dynamics modules. Together, they create a super compact synth voice and the perfect intro to MU for new users. These modules are not on our website quite yet, as we are now awaiting the final PCBs and panels. Have a listen.....how do they sound to you? They will all be re...
Frequency Central: Complex Sequencing, Part Two a.k.a. Into The Unknown Country
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Frequency Central: Complex Sequencing, Part Two a.k.a. Into The Unknown Country
Frequency Central: Complex Sequencing, Part One. With Berlin School (notes) and Little Melody (keys)
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Frequency Central: Complex Sequencing, Part One. With Berlin School (notes) and Little Melody (keys)
Frequency Central feat. High Towers addressable clock divider and Logic Bomb star in "insects"
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Frequency Central feat. High Towers addressable clock divider and Logic Bomb star in "insects"
Frequency Central stars in "Twittering Device" feat Blades of Ingenuity (4HP AR generator and LFO)
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Frequency Central stars in "Twittering Device" feat Blades of Ingenuity (4HP AR generator and LFO)
Frequency Central feat. 'Berlin School' preview - analogue sequencer with quantiser and CV of tempo
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Frequency Central feat. 'Berlin School' preview - analogue sequencer with quantiser and CV of tempo
Frequency Central stars in "Loopeetronix" feat. Monograf Synthesiser - live looping
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Frequency Central stars in "Loopeetronix" feat. Monograf Synthesiser - live looping
Frequency Central stars in "Sultans Of Ping" feat. Whiteface, Continuum, Raging Bull, State 700 VCFs
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Frequency Central stars in "Sultans Of Ping" feat. Whiteface, Continuum, Raging Bull, State 700 VCFs
Frequency Central in "Experiments With Random Boolean Generative Polyphony" 2 x XVCO TWO, 3 x CEMosc
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Frequency Central in "Experiments With Random Boolean Generative Polyphony" 2 x XVCO TWO, 3 x CEMosc
Frequency Central Tempograf build video at x4 speed! Music by Ricky Radiation & the Resonant Rejects
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Frequency Central Tempograf build video at x4 speed! Music by Ricky Radiation & the Resonant Rejects
Frequency Central feat. Little Melody, Turn! Turn! and Arley Dynamics in "Recursive Serendipity"
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Frequency Central feat. Little Melody, Turn! Turn! and Arley Dynamics in "Recursive Serendipity"
Frequency Central feat. Tempograf and Reset Simulation, starring in "Generative Predictive"
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Frequency Central feat. Tempograf and Reset Simulation, starring in "Generative Predictive"
(MU) Frequency Central - in the style of Tim Blake feat. Stasis Leak chorus/delay/reverb
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(MU) Frequency Central - in the style of Tim Blake feat. Stasis Leak chorus/delay/reverb
Frequency Central feat. "All I wanna do is noodle on my little MU"...
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Frequency Central feat. "All I wanna do is noodle on my little MU"...
(MU) Frequency Central feat. Little Bass Machine - MU systems don't have to be huge to sound huge!
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(MU) Frequency Central feat. Little Bass Machine - MU systems don't have to be huge to sound huge!
(MU) Frequency Central feat. "Give me 3 oscillators and an echo chamber and I will rule the World"
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(MU) Frequency Central feat. "Give me 3 oscillators and an echo chamber and I will rule the World"
brilliant patch!
super amazing. like an arpeggiator, only better. instabuy. keep up the good work FC.
Returned to this video In 2024.. Still one of the Best sounding Analog Modules🎉
creative f*ck!
Perfect
Hello
Been waiting for an opportunity to hear this dirty thing. Very impressed
Teasing us with a bunch of other new modules off to the sides. When will those see the light of day? 😁
Wicked
Sounds crazy good
Gnats got some Gnads!
Raspy, or rather waspy, wasps in the rain squelch ... sounds good!
whoa this sounds amazing...must have one
Now available!
Oh my...... 😍
Been out the S(DIY) loop for a decade give or take. When did Frequency Central catalogue and quality get so amazingly good!!! No jeers just cheers meant. AWESOME JOB! (and when did MuffWiggler become ModWiggler😮😢🥹🫡👍✌️🤟)
(And when did MuffWiggler become ModWiggler 😮😢🫡👍✌️🤟)
So kind, thank you!
@@frequencycentralfor real need to show some shopping cart self control, so impressed. (I don’t really know how to UA-cam comment correctly, as I’ve rarely been motivated enough to, so yeah)
@@thereignofoswin6138self control is such a curse. Would have loads more synths without it.
Dude, Dark That's Man!
Awesome stuff mate.
What is the name of the Frequency Central module just to the left of Stasis Leak? I can't make out the name due to the cables in the way and you didn't mention the name of that one in the description.
Left to right: Wave Runner CEMosc Whiteface More VCAs CEMvelope MuMu (Is this the one you mean? Just a multiples module) Stasis Leak
@@frequencycentral Thanks much, yes that is the one I was asking about. Much appreciated!
Man, that's dark dude!
Man, that's dark dude!
Man, that's dark dude!
New one?
Yep!
Dude, that's dark man!
Man, that’s dark dude!
Wow, more to Akropoli that I thought. Lil Melody user, and I thought I knew what High Towers did. Where are the bursts coming from?
The 'bursts' are one of Akropoli's gate outputs to the Time input of Stasis Leak. We just uploaded a Dark Star video which features Akropoli in Cues mode.
I really miss that bottleneck, best I ever had.
THIS IS AMAZING !!! your ear for orchestration/voicing really nails this, especially since it is i am guessing at least mostly improv
Low drone at the end is definitely awesome.
I'd like to hear some more Cosmic Background demos because the dedicated video for them has almost sold me but I'd like to hear more
When will that whacky Gnat module be available please please please? Really looking forward to building the Gnat filter, I hope the development of it is going well 🌟
When will that whacky Gnat module be available please please please? I've already ordered and received my gold Davies 1510 knobs from Tayda in anticipation of the release. 🙂
What's the Dusseldorf Academy module on the table? Something forthcoming?
Omg this is so cool, I think I'll definitely get this after I get a drum machine
Come on!
Let's hear that Gnatty thing.
Here for the wacky Gnatty
When will that whacky Gnat module be available please please please? Asteroids look cool and very useful too Rick!
Incredible !!! I love the sound, variety and approach of Frequency Central to modular synthesis. I am absolutely intending to build some of their modules soon. I have been fascinated by synthesisers for most of my life and always lean towards analogue systems. I like the MU format because of the size and old school feel/look of the modules, however I see that there is a lot more variety in the Euro Rack format. you know what, I'm going to build both !! There has been a huge proliferation in modular synth offerings in recent years, however I have the impression the the FC offerings are more musical than many, and sound great. This asteroids module is just out of this world ! As someone who used to be a Radio Operator as my job, this is irreistable. I'd like to investigate what FC can offer in the realms of white noise generation, which is a fascination of mine. The possibilities are maybe infinite !
Gnat the fcuk?
Lovely work on this F C !
Subscriber 1000! I also have a Wasp. This is a great video. Would you recommend the Ditto x 4?
Congrats on being our 1000th subscriber!! DM or email for special discount code! I also have a Gnat - must do a similar video to this with the Gnat! Thanks for the kind words. I like the Ditto X4 for this Frippertronics type stuff. For more conventional looping I use an EH 45000. I've even MIDI'ed the two together for the best of both.
Now we just need it in the store so we can play too! 😄
It's alive !😄
This seems like a lot of fun.
Very interesting 🧐
There needs to be a 5U version!!!
best sounding post punk patch ever, I would have bought the vinyl. What's making the stretched cowbell like sound? it corresponds to the highest pitched klangstad note, but it really sound like an added percussion, other than the seismograf snare
The flickering is really annoying.
Completely!
I see! I need a berlin school! hahahaha damn you guys
nice
MM