Hardware Jams Weekend Challenge - Places (Palo Alto Baylands)

video upload by SynthAddict

"OP-Z
Bird sounds here are Clapper Rails and a Song Sparrow.
See the large, majestic white Great Egret in the distance here...

These special salt marsh areas are biological treasure troves producing a ton of oxygen and biomass and help to process pollutants that can run off into the bay and ocean.

Palo Alto Baylands was a great place to work and there I regained my love for microscopy, making me motivated to create my MicroAddict YouTube channel a few years later.

I had to redo this one as the first attempt yesterday was messed up, and I noticed after I got home. Sadly this morning's version has a stereo issue and my panning and other cool stereo FX were destroyed. oh well... also the volume is a bit low and I had no time to adjust before uploading."

Hardware Jams Weekend Challenge: Micro Jam

video upload by SynthAddict

"Maschine+
All rhythm samples are from my compound microscope and
accessories. All micro footage was shot by me for my
MicroAddict YouTube channel (but these quick renders aren't as good as the original livestream vids) - my channel has uploaded videos and
livestreams. Come join the fun with micro critters. :-)

The Petri dishes sound a little like an Angklung in parts ."

MicroAddict 001b: Bonus Material - Tardigrade and Paramecium Details

video upload by MicroAddict

"In preparation for video 001, these extra scenes were found and didn't fit with the gist of that views video. Music information added below...

Index:
0:00 Bonus Content Titles
0:11 Tardigrade anatomy
0:27 Tardigrade naming and claws
0:40 Tardigrade mouth
0:57 Tardigrade deceased - bacteria colony
1:24 Paramecium combo menu
1:33 Paramecium contractile vacuoles
3:36 Paramecium duo conjugating (reproduction)
5:56 Paramecium duo conjugating - dark field

More coming soon...

Brief info on the music:
Made in collaboration with a friend around 2008-2009 in a live jam style to a stereo recorder.
The synths we used that I can remember... Virus TI, JP-8000, Nord Lead 2x, MicroKorg."

Microaddict 001 - Various microscopy view techniques, specimen examples

video upload by MicroAddict

"music is from some weird jams I did with a friend on synths in 2008/2009

some of the gear used back then: Juno-6 (can miss that arp and edgy filter), JP-8000, Nord Rack 2x (great unusual filter sweeps and timbres), Roland JV-1080, JD-800, Alesis Micron, etc. recorded live in one pass to a stereo recorder with 2 people - no redos, real DAWless jammin' :-)"

0:00 Dissecting scope view- Tardigrade
0:30 Compound Scope view
0:38 Bright field view
0:44 Tardigrade
0:47 Amoeba
0:56 Rotifer
1:31 Paramecium duo conjugating
2:30 Oblique Lighting view
2:35 Paramecium feeding
2:58 Rotifer
3:26 Amoeba
3:55 Dark Field view
4:23 Tardigrade
4:29 Amoeba
4:39 Rotifer
5:39 Paramecium duo conjugating

MicroAddict: Synths & Microbes

video upload by MicroAddict

This one is in via supporting member SynthAddict who had the following to say:

"I started a new microscope life channel that will feature original synth music, mostly from modular to add to the mood.

My launch video today features some ambient space music from a Korg Wavestation A/D for all parts, made on an RC-505 looper (DAWless). For now it’s interesting visuals with synth music.

One of my upcoming videos will feature microbes found on synths and drum machines: cables, keys, pads, buttons, and strips... and chairs/floors. Should be fun 😀 it might get folks to dust and clean the studio more often."

And: "The critters here came from a local park and a pond.
The tardigrade came from dry moss and I brought him out of stasis by oaking the moss.
The spider was on the moss before I soaked it (extra bonus).

Tardigrades can survive very harsh conditions and 'resurrect'.
NASA even took them into space and they survived!"