REPLAY: MONDAY MUSIC – September 15, 2025: Knobcon and Sweetwater visit report! And, new graphics!

I went to Knobcon last weekend, and stopped at Sweetwater on the way home. I’ve got some thoughts about things!

TIMELINE:
00:00 Begin transmission
00:00 Opening Jam
09:50 Welcome
12:22 What’s in The Jam
20:40 Vaccination fallout: It’s only just begun
22:35 The Knobcon Report: Swag!
26:37 The Knobcon Report: Hotel elevators and fire alarm system
27:43 The Knobcon Report: Link to pictures: https://gerenm.net/knobcon-13-saturda…
28:40 The Knobcon Report: Entropy & Sons Recursions Studio
30:37 The Knobcon Report: ‪@thebreathalyzer‬ last minute performace opening night 31:15 The Knobcon Report: muSonic 4-voice Polyphonic Vanilla Synth 35:09 The Knobcon Report: Free Modular
35:57 The Knobcon Report: Synclavier Regen (brief technical confusion) (vs. Arturia Synclavier V)
41:15 The Knobcon Report: Conductive Labs Terrain (vs. Dawesome Kontrast)
44:45 The Knobcon Report: Entropy & Sons Recursion Studio (picture and more description)
46:00 The Knobcon Report: 4MS Meta Module
47:52 rauðvik new track up on Bandcamp (link below)
48:15 The Knobcon Report: Wrap-up
48:55 The “New” Kronos 3
57:20 Korg needs to combine the PiKorgs into a single “workstation” instrument
58:20 The Knobcon Report: But wait! There’s more! I WON something! Intuitive Instruments Dualo Exquis
1:00:55 The Sweetwater Report
1:01:42 The Sweetwater Report: Where’s the Behringer?
1:05:14 The Sweetwater Report: Arturia Polybrute 12 (vs Polybrute 6-vocie and Moog Muse)
1:10:43 The Sweetwater Report: Arturia AstroLab 61
1:11:40 The Sweetwater Report: Arturia Keylab 61 mkIII
1:14:10 Arturia Minilab mkII and mkIII
1:16:00 The Sweetwater Report: Moog Messenger (note: Moog have a loooong history of keyboards starting on F)
1:20:45 The Sweetwater Report: Moog Grandmother
1:23:47 Tariffs and Moog?
1:25:04 Modular? Here? Behringer Model 15 and ripping off ‪@synthseeker‬. I’ve wanted to do it since I was a kid
1:28:00 Rapid wrap-up, thanks, and goodnight
1:28:57 The Closing … Jam?
1:30:20 End transmission

Jeff’s channel:‪@JeffHopkinsMusic‬

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Links:
Knobcon XIII Pitcures: https://gerenm.net/knobcon-13-saturda…
Entropy & Sons: https://entropyandsons.com/
muSonics: https://musonics.square.site/
Free Modular: https://freemodular.org/
Karltron: https://karltron.com/synthesizers/
Synclavier Regen: https://www.synclavier.com/
Arturia Synclavier V: https://www.arturia.com/products/soft…
Conductive Labs Terrain: https://conductivelabs.com/terrainsyn…
Dawesome Kontrast: https://www.dawesomemusic.com/plugins…
4MS Meta Module: https://4mscompany.com/metamodule
rauðvik on Bandcamp: https://raudvik.bandcamp.com/
Korg Kronos 3: https://www.korg.com/us/products/synt…
Intuitive Instruments Dualo Exquis: https://dualo.com/en/exquis/
Arturia Polybrute 12: https://www.arturia.com/products/hard…
Arturia AstroLab 61: https://www.arturia.com/products/hard…
Arturia KeyLab MkIII: https://www.arturia.com/products/hybr…
Arturia MiniLab MkIII: https://www.arturia.com/products/hybr…
Moog Messenger: https://www.moogmusic.com/synthesizer…
Moog Grandmother: https://www.moogmusic.com/synthesizer…
Behringer Model 15: https://www.behringer.com/behringer/p…
Korg modwave: https://www.korg.com/us/products/synt…
Korg modwave native: https://www.korg.com/us/products/soft…
Korgs I’ve Owned: https://gerenm.net/series/korgs-ive-o…
Freelance Sound Labs Korg native NKS plugins: https://freelancesoundlabs.com/
My music gear: https://gerenm.net/about/music-gear/
Disaster Room Studio wiring diagram: https://gerenm.net/the-disaster-room-…
Visit me on the web: https://www.gerenm.net
Follow me on Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/gerenm.bsky….
My music is available at: https://gerenm.bandcamp.com
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