REPLAY: MONDAY MUSIC – Music, Musings, and More – September 16, 2024 – Yet Another Wavetable Synth: Babylon 2 VSTi, and More!

Monday night, and time for another Live Stream from the Disaster Room.

But wait, there’s more!

• Yet another wavetable VST has popped up, this time it’s Babylon 2, the sequel to Babylon from WA Production. This one does have a unique angle, so we take a quick look.
• Roland dropped the AIRA P-6. I’ve got some thoughts on that.
• Polyend Tracker firmware update.

Rumors?

• Zoom Livetrak L6?
• Korg Microkorg 2?

Watch here, or on YouTube to see the full live chat.

Here’s the rough timeline:

00:00 Commence transmission….
00:00 Opening Jam
12:27 Good evening! Helloes and what’s up for the evening
13:15 What’s doing what in tonight’s jam, including three new original Pigments presets
18:00 The Pigments presets in detail
26:20 A new opsix patch
28:00 Yet another wavetable synth: Babylon 2. Incredibly short demo and quick rundown of what it does. I have only the demo version, so it hisses every few seconds.Interestingly, the online demo from WA Production shows the mouse being able to move around in the “quad” oscillator, but we see during this video that it doesn’t work.
31:30‪@synthsamuraiproductions‬‘s stream starts and my phone volume is turned up…. let’s get back to Babylon 2
41:45 What’s the wavetable synth “gold standard”?
42:55 The bottom lines
46:10‪@synthsamuraiproductions‬‘s new synth: Roland Juno X
47:35 Thoughts on the new Roland AIRA P-6
55:10 Polyend Trackers all got a firmware update
56:45 New Zoom L6 digital mixer/interface. I’ve probably got the specs wrong ….
58:35 Zoom L-series mixers in general and use with iOS devices
1:02:55 Interfaces for iOS
1:05:30 Korg MicroKorg 2: Actually alive?
1:08:30 For next week: Flite by wavea… Looks interesting. Free preset player, pay version has complete synth engines available.
1:11:35 Back to Babylon 2 … and a foray into microtonal tunings …
1:25:10 Alternate tunings on the Take 5 (well, after the PTZ camera decided to stop working*)
1:36:00 Continued struggles with the camera … until I give up
1:40:25 Broke 200 subs! THANKS TO ALL! and Goodnights!
1:42:32 End transmission.

* I got the camera working. I had managed to hit the “Freeze” button, so it was showing me the last frame of video prior to bumping that button. Oddly, hitting the button again did not want to release freeze, and a power cycle of the camera does not reset the freeze mode. After a couple of attempts, I finally got it to release.

Babylon 2: https://www.waproduction.com/plugins/…
New Microkorg 2 video:    • KORG microKORG 2いよいよ発売！！音を出してみました【MARKS】  
Zoom Livetrak L6:    • ZOOM L6 Quick Tour  

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