Moin! I am a music and visual arts enthusiast with a technical background in electronics, software, and embedded systems engineering. Artistically, I am an electronic music producer and street live performer, mostly performing in the streets of Berlin. I strive to use my knowledge in pursuit of state-of-the-art ideas within the realms of music and arts. Additionally, I’m a strong advocate for the free use of public spaces and the open source culture. I believe that creativity flourishes best when shared openly and without barriers. ▌▌▌│▌▌│▌▌▌
The Chulek synthesizer is a 32-voice, 49-key virtual-analog synthesizer. The synthesizer features 2 complex oscillators, 1 sub-oscillator, a mixer, a complex arpeggiator, 3 fully-assignable LFOs, pitch and modulation wheels, as well as a multimode filter, stutter, formant, reverb, delay, and distortion effects. The back of the synthesizer offers connections for MIDI in, out, and through, as well as headphone and master outputs. Moreover, the synthesizer features different types of ADSR envelopes: amplitude envelope, filter envelope, and modulation envelope. The 2+1 oscillators can be set to varying waveforms via the touch interface, including sawtooth, pulse, triangle, white noise, and a combination of those. A mixer allows users to blend different waveforms, a sub-oscillator, and a noise generator. The built-in arpeggiator allows the control of: frequency, gate, and octaves associated with a wide range of patterns. The touch-screen low-frequency oscillators (LFOs) produce waveforms used to modulate any of the 50 parameters in the synthesizer, such example the micro-tuning pitch of oscillators, filter cutoff, arpeggios patterns, up to effects, such as reverb wetness or delay intensity. The oscillators' outputs are processed through a multimode filter, ranging from low-pass filters, up to high-pass filters including a wide variety of band-pass filters. The filter has a dedicated ADSR envelope generator which can also be modulated by LFO or the modulation wheel via the touch interface.
An autonomous bike soundsystem and studio that moves around Rio de Janeiro. It aims to support street artists and the use of bicycles.
A glass that allows you to control your DAW or Synthesizer.
In the music industry, sample libraries are digital collections of instrument recordings. In this context, a piano sample library provides the full range of sounds produced by a piano. Creating a piano sample library is a time consuming and repetitive process, which demands a trained pianist to play the 88 keys of the piano at as many as 20 loudness levels. Additionally, it requires achieving the different types of sounds produced by the piano, such as sustain resonances, sympathetic resonances, release sounds, and key-bed noises. The goal in this thesis is to describe, design, develop, test and discuss a state-of-the-art system to precisely trigger piano keys and aid the construction of piano sample libraries. The system is capable of triggering piano keys at multiple loudness levels as well as estimating temporal start and end markers used for sample cropping. Moreover, the system allows for achieving the multiple types of sounds produced by the piano. It focuses on acoustic pianos, but can potentially be used with other keyboard-based instruments, such as synthesizers and electric pianos. The detailed system is non-invasive, i.e. no sensors or actuators are inserted into the instrument mechanics. In short, a linear actuator is vertically positioned above the piano key with a noise-protected mounting rack. The position of the actuator slider is controlled by an embedded proportional–integral–derivative (PID) controller. In an upper level, a control software analyses the sounds captured by a microphone, both in the spectral and temporal domains. Finally, the system executes movements that mimic the finger of a trained pianist, meeting constraints in position, speed, acceleration and time.
The synthesizer has became an important instrument for music and arts. In this book, a comprehensive approach to Designing, Building, Programming, Playing, and Recording synthesizers is presented. Chulek, an Electronics, Embedded Systems Engineer and Music Producer, tells the complete story of the Synthesizer, covering its origins; evolution over time, different types of Sound Synthesis, Analog and Digital, anything you need to know to create your Hardware, Software and Firmware while building your own Synthesizer.
Eselina is mobile live act system.
An ultra-portable, self-powered suitcase with synthesizers for making and performing music in the middle of the city or in the nature.
The Chulek synthesizer plugin in VST3 and AU. Free download soon!
ΑΛΦΑΒΗΤΟ - Multi-Functional USB-Powered Eurorack Modules Each ΑΛΦΑΒΗΤΟ module is highly versatile, capable of functioning as different types of synthesizer components. By changing a simple switch combination, the module can transform into a VCO, VCA, VCF, ADSR Envelope, LFO, or Mixer. This flexibility allows one to build complete synth voices using the same module in different modes. Powered by 5V USB, the system can run entirely from a power bank, enabling mobile music-making in parks, on the go, or out in nature..
