Make Noise SoundHack Spectraphon | Overview & Exploration

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A demo & walkthrough of the new Eurorack module Spectraphon, by Make Noise. Spectraphon is a dual complex oscillator that explores additive synthesis and resynthesis-allowing you to analyze and resynthesize characteristics of other sounds to create super unique timbres and waveforms.
This video includes an overview of what Spectraphon is and how it works, along with a number of patch examples demonstrating Spectraphon as a dual oscillator, and as an effects processor to create rich, resonator / spectral-blurring type sounds.
Spectraphon’s design is inspired by the Buchla 259 Programmable Complex Waveform Generator, the Buchla 296 Programmable Spectral Processor, and the Buchla Touché-taking parts of each of these designs and combining them into something new and unique.
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TIMESTAMPS:
00:00 Intro
2:38 What is Spectraphon?
4:31 Core concepts: Fourier Theorem, Additive Synthesis & Resynthesis
8:10 Overview + Panel Tour
16:44 Spectral Amplitude Modulation (SAM) Mode
27:39 Spectral Array Oscillation (SAO) Mode
37:07 Patch Demos
Buchla 200 footage made possible by the University of Victoria's CReaTe Lab, School of Music.
Buchla Touché footage made possible by the Buchla Archives-check out Buchla Archives on Instagram: @buchla_archives

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@CinematicLaboratory Год назад

I guess this will always be the best Spectraphon walkthrough ever made. I've been working hard on 'my own' version, but your way of explaining, demoing, your sonic palette, your creativity, etc, etc, is just unrivaled. Respect!

@HoveyKraft Год назад

I am very much looking forward to yours! Your musicality is unrivaled! While I appreciate this experimental approach, I prefer your harmonious compositions!

@Qwiv Год назад

Yah, waiting on your take as well. I’m more a rhythm guy, but your cinematic approach will be interesting. So many ways you can take this thing.

@walrtbstudios5430 Год назад

Yours will be good in its own way Robert I have no doubt. And I can watch both yours and Sarah’s to distraction in the seven months until I can afford to buy one!

@CinematicLaboratory Год назад

@@HoveyKraft Sarah Belle helped me to find five huge bugs in my future video. There's nothing more frustrating than uploading and finding out later it has errors, and very pleasing to learn from Sarah Belle's art.

@sarahbellereid Год назад

Thank you for the kind words; I'm looking forward to your demo and seeing your unique approach with this module!!! :)

@ChumpyDumps Год назад

Man, you’ve become one of my favorite synth RU-vidrs. I love how quiet and focused you are in explaining everything and then we listen to your sound design and it’s this crazy off the wall noise shit. The contrast is hilarious but you’re a great presenter.

@sarahbellereid Год назад

Haha, thanks! Just being myself :)

@sentient1705 Год назад

I agree, great presenter. Phenomenal!! I got inspired by Underworld - Thing in a book. Great track! Now I'm into synths! You can use combination of frequencies to heal the body with frequency/ sound application

@Waldemar_la_Tendresse 11 месяцев назад

Absolutely true. I think I need to leave a sub here ...

@gaetan4164 Год назад

Can't believe I'm only discovering this channel now, what a goldmine !

@TheCALMInstitute Год назад

omg the way the shutter speed and string frequency align around 24:54 is just magical.

@SouryaSen Год назад

That ending vocoder patch was AMAZING, as was this entire video!

@StingrayOfficial Год назад

Thanks for the demo/explanation! Great stuff! What an insane module, I think most of us that have been in modular for a while are stoked to see something fresh.

@waivestate3783 Год назад

Absolutely fantastic demo! This is the first time in a long time that something genuinely surprising and exciting has come along in euro. Hats off to you and the MN team!

@NunyaB1s 6 месяцев назад

This is quite possibly the best demo of spectraphon (that isn’t explicitly in a song)

@metamyther Год назад

excellent video and breakdown. appreciate the up-front context as there are a fair amount of newer synthesis concepts represented in the module.

@saifeek Год назад

Great walkthrough, always enjoy your demos!

@0neTwo0neTwo Год назад

the some very BoC sounds at 21:12 area, dig it!! thanks for sharing

@theianboddy Год назад

Bravo. That was a very inspiring walkthrough of what, after all, is quite a complex module.

@toslinked Год назад

this sounds surprisingly unique. very cool. and I love the makenoise design. ❤

@mastermachetier5594 4 месяца назад

Coming back to this video now after I got my spectraphon . So much learned from this video! Also your presentation style is very soothing haha

@LarsBjerregaard Год назад

Awesome demo Sarah. This looks like some crazy module, will take a while to really wrap my head around it.

@richardjagodzinski1724 Год назад

Fantastic demo and explanation. I have to agree with other posters, one of the best overview/demo vids I've ever seen.

@BrailleSounds 18 дней назад

Just picked one up! Thanks so much for the overview! 💪🏽

@Qwiv Год назад

Thank for the great demo. Excited to try one of these with an input that relates to the pitch sequence played through the oscillators and enveloped on the input Sitka related gate input. The possibilities of this thing are endless.

@AlleyKatPr0 Год назад

I ♥ your videos, because I can play back any one of them at a random point and my computer starting making awesome sounds, like an episode of Doctor Who mixed with Skrillex

@Nick-kb6jd Год назад

A million points for that demo.

@carloschafin9144 Год назад

Excellent blend of information and clever and creative demonstrations. You are doing a great job and I'm really looking forward to your future videos. Make Noise and their users are fortunate to have you. Awesome Sarah.

@alanbg2278 Год назад

If your stats show I left partway through thats only because I had stop to breath. I’ll be back ! Fantastic. Much love all round .

@modmodell8897 Год назад

I ordered my Spectraphon after getting an introduction of Walker on the Superbooth and watching this video. Thank you Sarah, well done. 👏👏👏

@KordTaylor Год назад

Great video! Spectral synthesis can do so much so tWally appreciated. 👏🏻

@isaac.anthony Год назад

THanks for the breakdown! Using large amounts of sine wav is also one of the ways that DAW implement timestreching with loops, to fill in the gaps. I was watching a video about that the other day.

@telegraph_hill 10 месяцев назад

I am very impressed by your description of additive synthesis. thank you!

@sarahbellereid 10 месяцев назад

thank you!

@danielmcanulty1562 Год назад

Great video, the ending bit with vocals is my favorite part! Like a lovely mixture of Robert Ashley and Laurie Anderson!

@sarahbellereid Год назад

Thank you!

@paulmakl6282 Год назад

I like the explanation of the theory behind the module! I find that stuff really interesting.

@sarahbellereid Год назад

glad you found it interesting! :)

@caseyrocksohard 11 месяцев назад

Thank you for the vocal demoing, super helpful.

@sarahbellereid 11 месяцев назад

My pleasure! Glad you found the video helpful!

@Nick-kb6jd Год назад

This thing sounds AMAZING and I will have it. Well done make noise

@JxhnNichxlls Год назад

Holy moly just the first 20 seconds alone has me giddy for the sonic possibilities of this

@tru7hhimself Год назад

thaks make noise for making something really cool that i don't need. it's not the sound i'm after but i'll enjoy hearing others make nice music with it. and thanks to sarah for making such a clear comprehensive demo. it's not only interesting to watch and hear such a varied soundspace but also as if i had read the manual now. somehow i got a feeling that the spectraphon would pair nicely with qpas.

@snorrevonflake Год назад

My thoughts, this is clearly totally next level. For me, i have to catch up learning and using the last 50 modules i bought and will make equally interesting noise while doing that.

@Ebotronix 6 месяцев назад

hi Sarah Balla! this is the best Spectraphone vid!!!

@raktNewsletter Год назад

Thanks for this great demo.

@sarahbellereid Год назад

You're welcome!

@TheScreamingFrog916 5 месяцев назад

Got one of these, and with the new firmware, it is a beast ❤ Thanks for the wonderful demo, and best wishes for your continued fun/success with music 🎵 😊 🎵

@sarahbellereid 5 месяцев назад

Thanks, you too!

@jeffjfindley4802 2 месяца назад

Incredible vid.

@UnbekanntesSubjekt 7 месяцев назад

Great explanations. Love it.

@francescodicarlo4839 11 месяцев назад

Awesome content!

@peggyinstruments7549 3 месяца назад

Thanks, this was super interesting!

@mariomontreuil7097 8 месяцев назад

I like that it is with a small modules setup. I is more easy clear this way. Thank you

@vaaalsongs4867 Год назад

Amazing!

@TerekkiTerekki 10 месяцев назад

appreciate the detail - ty

@faastwalker2273 Год назад

Another excellent Sarah Belle Reid video. Informative, inspiring, GAS!! I'd like a Spectraphon ;-) Very cool module.

@jeffreyeden9751 Год назад

Very cool sounds and your very informative on how to create those sounds, great performance 🎼🎶👍👍👍😊

@KristianWontroba Год назад

Great video. Subscribed.

@addLADN Год назад

I wish my studio was that neat

@joshuamorganmusic Год назад

Never have I ever pre-ordered a module. The SECOND I heard the box sample thru this yesterday I stopped the vid and immediately went to my local synth store website and did the deed🤘I love resynthesis/additive synthesis but the hardware options have always been so limited. This thing is a game changer ! Edit: love seeing the hydrasynth in the background! Hail Hydrasynth🤘

@mastermachetier5594 Год назад

This video was wicked awesome

@sarahbellereid Год назад

thank you!

@cyberpunkbg140 Год назад

I like the new module :)

@kenniferlopez1 6 месяцев назад

Rad Ma'am!

@tlatsegms Год назад

Great sound⚡⚡

@jeffreyeden9751 Год назад

Really cool sounds great instrument 🎼🎶🎶😊👍

@edwardnixon1782 Год назад

"sounds very, very cool." Indeed! Well done on the Fourier stuff. Great patches. Am I right in thinking this was more fun than a barrel of Walkers?" Thanks so much!

@paraboxmodular 7 месяцев назад

That's a great module and demonstration. I'm considering getting one someday, could be awesome with my JMT Synth NoisyMic... Cool plug for that radio channel at 26min...haha

@m1tch3llphotos Год назад

I feel like I should pay tuition to watch your product demos.

@methyod Год назад

I'm 5 seconds into this video and this is the first I'm learning this thing exists and I'm pretty sure I'm gonna have to buy one =\

@FSK1138 Год назад

Make Noise has the best eurorack system , i think this would pair perfectly with GHOST

@stephenroldan5107 Год назад

Dude, Erica synths has better "systems"

@axis_8 Год назад

The Spectraphon, isn't it also very similar to Rossum Panharmonium..?

@suboptimalsynthesis Год назад

Thanks for the detailed overview, I now know where my next $599 + VT tax + shipping is going and am merely waiting for patchwerks or perfect circuit to be ready to take my money!!

@sentient1705 Год назад

I cant seem to find if any of the knobs on the Spectraphon are assignable or controllable via MIDI controllers.

@xsixsoundschool Год назад

Something Wicked This Way Cones 🔮

@mikenoface Год назад

Yeah. Running Morphagene through this is gonna be fun.

@urmumsbaps Год назад

40:20 that is insanely cool

@alderpublishingllc4702 Год назад

Making noise! Don’t know how I will fit one of these on my EM desk, though I will give it some thought!

@telumatramenti7250 Год назад

Which keyboard do you use for your ASM Hydrasynth? Asking because there aren't that many low cost keyboards that support polyphonic aftertouch, and the way you have the Hydrasynth racked up indicates that you either don't use its pads as input method or use them rarely. I currently use the CME X-Key for those of my synths which have PA capability, but I wish it came in at least a 4-octave format.

@jakubberan2720 Год назад

this looks great! any VST that can do something similar?

@WillCritesKrumm Год назад

21:06-46 sounds like you're referencing Requiem for Dying Mothers, Pt. 2 on vocoder very lit

@mikegeary8056 Год назад

A lot of these sound’s remind me of FM sounds available in IME/the Harvestman mk 2 oscillators. Not all of them for sure. This definitely is its own thing.

@PspiralifeTutorials Год назад

Great video, thanks :) Im just wondering what are the maximum amount of partials per oscillator?

@ThomasErbe-sf4zs 7 месяцев назад

64 sine and 64 cosine (64 complex partials) - in SAM mode there is a second set of 64 complex partials for analysis.

@andrewnancarrow Год назад

Awesome new module. Thanks for walking through it. One initial basic patch question I have is with the first few patch examples you are coming out of the odd and even outputs if the B-side of the module… but what are they being patched into? Is it directly being output clean or are those signals passing through anything else for processing?

@andrewnancarrow Год назад

Like at 9:45? When you say “external panners+ LFO “

@sarahbellereid Год назад

I was running the odd and even outputs into the SSF Vortices mixer - then to a Joranalogue Transmit 2, then to my interface. Otherwise, there wasn't any processing applied unless you could see the processors on screen.

@andrewnancarrow Год назад

@@sarahbellereid nice, thanks for that. Yea this module seems super unique and a versatile “new” addition to my setup for sure. Tons of sonic possibilities

@macbury18 Год назад

Can't help but think Maths, Morphogene, Sprectraphon and Mimeophon could be a very full and happy system.

@kactusefemerus Год назад

Finally, make noise with the help of Tom Erbe grab the concept of resynthesis, had the panharmonium for a few months, it looked like a gimmick, but this one really looks like something really interesting, eurorack appears moving foward, thank you Sarah for you usual in-depth review and brilliant sound demo

@sarahbellereid Год назад

you're welcome! I'm glad you enjoyed it :)

@soupforare Год назад

was going to comment; hey this is sounding like things I wanted to get out of my panharmonium :9

@WiredSpaceWizard Год назад

Spectraphon through QPAS at full filter resonance? Yes please!

@jt_climbing 9 месяцев назад

how are the pressure points connected without Brains?

@digicat247 Год назад

Can we talk about that monster wood case at the end? Who made that? Oh and the spectraphon is cool I guess?

@jacobm1594 Год назад

I’m trying to wrap my head around how this works so I can try to rebuild it in Max/MSP. I’ve done some resynthesis before with phase vocoding and FFT processing, but that is a very different sound. Do you think this is using convolution as well?

@ThomasErbe-sf4zs 7 месяцев назад

no - just lots of sine waves

@mrotaveria Год назад

Sarah talking👼 Sara's music👹

@danspound 10 месяцев назад

And it's wonderful!🤘

@3duder Год назад

Great detailed review. If you would have to choose between the 4ms SWN, a Spectraphon or a 2nd hand ADI-8 for extra audio inputs for €550, what would you choose? 😂😂

@efmmusik 5 месяцев назад

Hello,Great demo about the instrument,I saw some toys like this with Russian craft musicians,The device was design in US?,Nice to meet you👍🌌👋

@nobbystyles4807 Год назад

ill never get to this level of understanding

@tomp1585 Год назад

do you actually own one of the four touche's made?

@xRelyz 6 месяцев назад

I'm new to modular. What is that piano like instrument?

@sarahbellereid 6 месяцев назад

If you're referring to 3:37 it's the Buchla Touché

@xRelyz 6 месяцев назад

Ty very much.

@edwardnixon1782 Год назад

Of course, this video needs a second look. My question: let's assume I have Steinberg's Spectralayers open on a file: is it possible to describe the behaviours of Focus and Slide knobs in terms of, say, cursor movement over the SL display area? Or by comparing those knobs to an edit zone in one or another of the SL edit modes? I listen to the effect of your moving those knobs and I don't derive an intuitive sense of what is going on; maybe a visual analogy or comparison will help. Thanks again for this very complete and useful information. (I realize the lore is to just hack away at it to develop a kinesthetic sense of how to predict results; not my mode of learning I guess. And quite expensive in terms of time.)

@edwardnixon1782 Год назад

I came across quite a good high level answer to my question about Slide & Focus in an interview with Walker Farrell on the Sound on Sound channel; here's the link: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-9EcR-ww0lKc.html

@CatFish107 Год назад

BRB, gonna make a dogsnot knockoff version with a bunch of distings and APCs. Might still need a Khyber Pass Rampage, and about a thousand extra hp.

@JSprayaEntertainment Год назад

20:24 cool

@NicleT Год назад

It reminds me the Mindphaser from Hexinverter, am I right?

@sentient1705 Год назад

Underworld probably has one of these in their music gear.

@sonnyobrien 10 месяцев назад

Why…?

@FastRCToys Год назад

Works well to kill mosquitos 😂😂😂😂

@antfactor Год назад

umm... that thing is MASSIVE real-estate... LOL! Hope it's as cool/fun as it is WIDE.

@saren6538 Год назад

Kind of sounds just like everything else

@christdolphin69 Год назад

somebody put this thing in a desktop polysynth! or an 0-ctrl format thing

@pdbianchi1471 Год назад

38:46 🫠

@000aleph Год назад

I already have enough harshness in my life

@daneguitarist1 Год назад

haha "early unit" jk this sounds really cool, if it was in the strega form factor, i would definitely buy one really cool, really weird i did a presentation of eurorack stuff at a senior center thursday.............. it was horrible hahahahhaha

@Ecotechnologist Год назад

Weirdo

@n0tett Год назад

great walk through, still hate this thing.

@horowizard Год назад

The concept is very interesting but I find the general sound to be thin and harsh. Can they improve that?

@amycatass Год назад

No. The tone is like that because of the resynthesis method it is utilizing. If you don’t like the sound, you should find another voice module. Plenty of great ones out there

@Qwiv Год назад

You might wait for an example where someone is playing a musically related input, as that would fatten the sound. Like play both oscillators the same pitch sequence, slightly detuned and feed the module another oscillator playing the same pitch sequence also detuned, then run it into chorus… should fatter right up with a very complex wave shape.

@sarahbellereid Год назад

The module has a really wide range of sound, depending on what sources you are analyzing and how you have things set on the module (for example, not turning "partials" up all the way would reduce the overall brightness of the sound); I personally really gravitate toward the types of sounds I shared in this video, but it's not an exhaustive demo of everything it's capable of! I'd check out other demos when they become available to see different musical approaches at work :)

@andykandolf1948 Год назад

completely agreed. I had a walkthrough of the module this superbooth. And I felt exactly the same, it sounds thin and like plastic. Maybe for some artsy ambient music or film scoring, nieche soundscaping...? I mean it's an interesting Idea and maybe that's part of the MAKE NOISE appeal, some weird bleepsy bloopsy machine, with a manual full of obscure language that sounds like some french professor in the field of modern continental philosophy. It's definitely great marketing - got me hooked several times, but the thrill never lasted for long.

@ScottofOakland Год назад

My only real question is Can it make beautiful melodic pieces? That's all I"m interested in. I'll watch the entire video with that question in mind

@andrewnancarrow Год назад

Go to around 21:25 for your answer

@ScottofOakland Год назад

@@andrewnancarrow Not what I had in mind, tbh. This thing is definitely a weird device not really meant for melodic music. I'm a classically trained musician who appreciates melody and harmony and this device doesn't really scratch that itch for me.

@andrewnancarrow Год назад

@@ScottofOakland yea then not even sure why you’d be interested in any modules by Make Noise. They aren’t exactly known for making “classical” sounds. I think maybe classical acoustic instruments or a standard polysynth like a Prophet or Juno would be more up your alley. But regardless the beauty found in “melody” and “harmony” are obviously subjective, and what some interpret as “dissonant” others find captivatingly beautiful.

@ScottofOakland Год назад

@@andrewnancarrow I found some use for the Telharmonic! That thing could really make some beautiful sounds

@andrewnancarrow Год назад

@@ScottofOakland cool. Yea everything Make Noise makes can make beautiful sounds… just depends on your personal definition of “beauty”

@amazeus1980 Год назад

Sounds like lfo/fm farts 💨

@79keydet Год назад

i like how modular looks and feels but still can't get the point of spending so much money only to get the possibility to write only in ambient and power/rhytmic noise genres