Future Sound Systems OSC2 Recombination Engine // a UNIQUE triple analogue Eurorack oscillator (Patreon)

Hello and good Friday, on an actual good Friday as it's Easter this weekend. May your weekend be egg shaped chocolate filled and all that ... Today the utterly excellent Recombination Engine from Future Sound Systems is launched and here's the demo video! Details for the and module below but the short version is that's it's a unique triple oscillator and switching VCA bit of loveliness. I've been really taken by this thing and very impressed. 

You may have caught my post here last night but I wanted to remind you that I'll be streaming with Finlay from Future Sound Systems tonight at 8pm UK BST time. That's 12pm on the west coast of the USA, 3pm on the east coast, 9pm CEST for Europe ... I hope to catch plenty of live here - https://youtu.be/e1E9wvbBVmQ  - we'll of course be taking questions live so ask away with anything you want. 

As a another reminder I'll be live streaming episode 2 of 'Feeding the Monster' with Chris Meyer looking at oscillators, samplers and wave shapers for his monster case tomorrow (Saturday) at 7.30pm UK BST right here - https://youtu.be/bd_JvL8YSlU

Finally my daily updated streaming resource has had a lot of new things added which you can check out here https://bit.ly/coronastreams - that's worth a look to see what's going on. I'm trying to keep the community engaged and support each other live as much as we can. 

All the best for now and hopefully see you tonight. 

VIDEO DETAILS

Here we have a total unique triple analogue (or analog for our stateside friends) oscillator for the Eurorack format from Future Sound Systems. The OSC2 Recombination Engine has a master ‘Scissor’ oscillator that can audio rate switch, sync and glue waveforms together from separate positive and negative DNA oscillators. The Glue section is a VCA that merges the positive and negative waves at the rate of the Scissor with options for additional level modulation and mixing internal or external sounds with an added input.   It’s a massively varied unit with everything from soft and sweet sines and triangles working independently to a totally mad as a box of frogs noise oscillator and everything in between. Coaxing out digital DX style musical FM has been easy, it’s a total wizard with AM synthesis and the unique wave the waveform level VCAs work. So I look forward to further exploration.   

Future Sound Systems website - https://bit.ly/FSSuk  

Other Future Sound Systems demos  

From Brunswick to Portland - https://youtu.be/r6D1Coe1nKI  

Gristleizer range  

TG4 VCA Modulator - https://youtu.be/VI8ariAxA3Q 

TG3 Filter - https://youtu.be/FlVkQOwwmaw 

TG2 LFO / VCO - https://youtu.be/j6n2A4LK_tE   

TIMING INDEX // SECTIONS  

00:00 hello & patch previews  

01:46 Unique feature run down  

04:02 Thick bass sound design  

04:41 Unique DNA oscillators, VCAs, waveform levels, switching and mixing.  

08:07 Scissoring arpeggios  

08:20 Modulate everything! LFO central.  

09:08 AM synthesis tutorial  

12:43 Unique dynamic AM synthesis  

13:35 The last breath of a PT Delay …  

13:44 A bee in a Prosecco bottle through a sub woofer - through the magic of AM!   

14:12 Detuned triangle stacks & synthesising soft harmonic overtones  

14:56 A trick to cancel out internal DNA wave switching   

16:49 Simple 4 voice drum synthesis  

17:30 Complex drum synthesis  

18:02 3 note saw chord stacks  

18:28 PWM (standard and audio rate)  

20:26 Nasal band pass vibe with no filters.   

20:51 Dynamic audio rate PWM  

21:15 PW Skew tutorial   

23:16 Vocal talking oscillators  

23:48 Recombination Engine as a complex LFO source  

25:45 Mad as a box of frogs noise oscillator  

27:39 FM synthesis tutorial (linear & exponential + double modulation)  

29:48 Chasing stable ‘DX’ style digital FM tones  

30:30 Pushing feedback FM synthesis into noise led to this  

31:13 Wavetable like FM and terminator overtones  

32:31 Pseudo downsampling / aliasing for a glitchy top end  

32:40 Super stereo drones