Hainbach & sonicLAB 'Fundamental' // Walkthrough & FREE DivKid presets (Patreon)

Hello everyone, 

I hope you're well and the week is shaping up to a good one relative to the global circumstances. I've been caught up working on the house in preparation for a major extension (new studio F'YEAH!) and load of work on the house which starts next week. This is going to make things difficult as noise through the day (and mess, lots of chaos and mess I'm sure!) will mean recording is severely limited. But I'll be trooping through (troops talk to cameras and watch themselves for hours before putting that content online right? ... Not that enjoy watching or listening to myself for hours) as there's lots to get through in the near future. 

The past few days aside from working on the house and getting things ready I've been following up on RND STEP with some stores selling out and re-ordering (not that I handle orders, but I'm often talking to the shops and of course Andrew at SSF) which has been great. Thanks to everyone that grabbed a RND STEP and even if you didn't I hope you've been patching your S&H options with some new musical ideas based on the video. 

And of course I've been working on this video too, a walkthrough demo and series of musical examples of the presets I've made (they're free download, all links below) for FUNDAMENTAL the new app from everyone's favourite long haired, Germand experimental music artist HAINBACH made in collaboration with sonicLAB. I was really excited when we started speaking about this and after testing for a while it's a pleasure to solidify musical ideas into presets and offer those out for free alongside the software release. It's been a rich and deep musical experience and I hope you at least grab the demo (and my presets!) and check it out. 

Details below but for now I will bid you farewell (I'm talking lots of rubbish in this post today ey!) and get back to work on more videos.

Cheers! Ben.

p.s. couple of on going reminders ... 10% of all merch at https://bit.ly/divkidmerch with the code 'divkidpatron', link your Discord accounts with Patreon to join the exclusive Discord group which thanks to you all is an amazing community of people to engage with daily. Thank you for everyone contributing and chatting on there.

VIDEO DETAILS

Here’s the new standalone and plug in instrument ‘Fundamental’ made in collaboration between Hainbach and sonicLAB. It’s a deep and rich machine learning model of the classic Rohdes & Swcharz RC Generator vacuum tube oscillator with a huge range of new modern features. This was famously used by Stockhausen at the WDR studio and here we see 8 versions of this oscillator based on polymorphing wavetable synthesis that models not only the core waveform of the original 1950s test oscillator but also models the tube amplifier stages which pushed the core sine waves into some unique rich tube based waveforms. Each of the 8 voices has custom frequency, gain, panning and a deep stochastic (LFOs, random etc) modulation section for animating the sounds. I could continue to list features here but check the link below, it’s rich and immersive with a lovely sonic quality that pulls the methods of working with test equipment into the modern era that with full MPE support is a powerful performance instrument too. 

I’ve made a bank of presets that are free to download below, these aim to explore building sonic tension, musical drones and bouncing melodies, abstract harmonic clusters and a range of sound design avenues to explore.  

FREE PRESETS // https://bit.ly/Fundamental-DivKid  

FUNDAMENTAL // https://bit.ly/sonicfund 

HAINBACH VIDEO // https://bit.ly/Fundamental-Hainbach   

TIMING INDEX // SECTIONS  

00:00 Hello & video previews  

00:43 What is Fundamental?  

02:47 Demo walkthrough  

10:45 DivKid presets in varying musical applications