What is Ovum? (And how might one use it?)

[@OscillatorSink]

I don't really mention it in the video, but the final performance while I'm summing up at the end of the video is all sounds from the Ovum, being looped, panned and shaped by a tape loop patch I made on the Zoia.

[@asynchronicity]

What a great way to slow down and meditate, explore, compose, and perform... all at once.

[@OscillatorSink]

Amen to that.

[@improziv]

Excellent. Right up my alley. Wingie2 arriving on Monday and Lyra 8 later this year. Excited already. Thanks for all the inspiring application demos!

[@OscillatorSink]

You're heading towards a very inspiring setup by the sounds of it. You should have a look at the Elmyra2 videos on the channel too - another instrument worth checking out.

[@improziv]

Yeah I’ll take a closer look. So many instruments out these days!

[@DavidChandekStark]

The pairing with Wingie2 is brilliant.

[@rickhopkinson]

Excellent video! Pairing the Ovum with those varied devices is a great way to showcase it, and as usual you do a great job 👏

[@OscillatorSink]

Thank you!

[@rickhopkinson]

@@OscillatorSink you’re very welcome 😊

[@Lo-Fi-Si]

I love messing with the Ovum when I just want to make sounds but can’t be bothered with menu diving, sequencing and linking devices etc. Just flop down on the sofa with headphones on 👍🏼The simplicity is what makes it instant and engaging.

[@dreamsofaberration]

beautiful! would love to see a deep dive on the wingie2

[@dedicatedspuddler7641]

Now I want one!

[@bricelory9534]

Not far in, but you are already making some beautiful and intriguing microtonal sounds. I am impressed how well you are able to take what is very potentially a truly ugly sound into something as beguiling as it is alien and, well, different. Lovely work! Your demonstration and performance make me want to explore drone perfromances far more than I normally do.

[@OscillatorSink]

Thank you for your kind words. It's nice to explore some slow music sometimes.

[@glitterballz101]

Sevish@@OscillatorSink just remembered his name so dropping here. master microtonal. found him early in my gamalan research

[@treeface5000]

Love the clip when it's running through the Monologue - I'll have to try that with mine. Ovum sounds lovely running through a nice delay too, when every little frequency tweak gives you a bit of feedback, it gives another interesting way of playing it... 🥚 ❤

[@OscillatorSink]

🥚

[@GizzyDillespee]

"Hey, get the dikfour!" "What's a?..." - Cheech & Chong

[@SRDhain]

Lovely sound 🌅

[@mathewpauljinks]

What I really want for this is 5 mono outs! then it would become a real instrument to mix with, stick it through a mixer and pan and send and really shape the voices, I feel like the Lyra 8 could also really do with this feature. Sticking a headphone out on it relegates it to less than it is. And also to the pitch and sliders comment just add knobs that are bigger and more tactile, easily purchased from Thonk.

[@hellf.o]

Stunning Checking store right now

[@OscillatorSink]

I hope you can pick one up and have a little drone for yourself!

[@hellf.o]

@@OscillatorSink Love drones a lot expecially the portable ones!

[@mr_floydst]

You made some great tones from this box of squarewaves :-)

[@OscillatorSink]

Cheers buddy, sometimes all you need are some square waves, a little distortion and some reverb.

[@iamboody]

Picked one of these up from Juno after seeing it in your previous video.

[@OscillatorSink]

I hope you enjoy it!

[@SonicVibe]

i was debating over Hana Desktop Drone Synthesizer or Ovum and the wingie 2 i have so ya kinda sold me on the Ovum wingie 2 combo ty

[@mynewcolour]

It would be very, very cool if one or more of the oscillators could be/switch-to noise and the pitch then swept noise colour. {edit - this thing is analogue! Noise would be easy if digi, but a lot of work to add to this - edit}

[@dyspatcher]

The one simple control i miss on the Lyra is a per voice level control. This looks lovely! For a drone synthesiser faders instead of keys makes perfect sense! Where did you manage to get it?

[@OscillatorSink]

Absolutely - that's why I love pairing it with the Lyra-8, best of both worlds! In North America you can buy direct from the manufacturer. I got mine from Juno in the UK who ship internationally (but are out of stock right now). Elsewhere it may be worth contacting Crows Electromusic and asking who stocks them locally.

[@the_glove]

I’d love your take on Strega if you ever get your hands on one. Thanks for the videos

[@OscillatorSink]

It's on my list - I almost got one instead of the Lyra-8, no regrets, but I do still really want one!

[@the_glove]

@@OscillatorSink seems like we live in a good era for key-less synths.

[@OscillatorSink]

@@the_glove if you are interested in esoteric electronic instruments, we have literally never had it better.

[@SouthShoreSonics]

If it would have CV control over the oscillators like the Dreadbox Antiphon I would be all in. This looks like it manual control only.

[@OscillatorSink]

It is.

[@davidl8094]

interesting little critter.

[@OscillatorSink]

A good friend to have around.

[@johnrichardson3297]

I'm a few cities away from Vancouver.

[@DJ_Cthulhu]

Kinda like a Shruti Box 🖖

[@DJ_Cthulhu]

You can sort of replicate the Ovum on a volca fm. Especially using an algorithm with five or six carriers. The Ovum is much simpler and more immediate though. I'm sold, will be looking to get hold of an Ovum 🖖

[@DJ_Cthulhu]

Think I'll make a virtual Ovum in Puredata 🤔

[@smicha1466]

I was thinking the same thing! Or more accurately, like multiple shruti boxes hooked up to a mixer.

[@DJ_Cthulhu]

@@smicha1466 Getting one shipped to the UK looks like a pain, I can buy the components to build an equivalent device for less than the shipping costs. Or just make one in pd. Sigh.

[@thenoise0001]

want one. but they only seem to be available in the us/canada :(

[@OscillatorSink]

Juno stock them in the UK and they ship internationally, that is where I got mine (although I just checked and they're out of stock there at the moment). It might be worth contacting Crows directly to see if there's somewhere near you that carries them? They were very fast to respond when I asked.

[@thenoise0001]

@@OscillatorSink cheers bud, I have emailed them, hopefully I can pick one up somewhere.

[@RedMeansRecording]

Egg?

[@OscillatorSink]

Always was.

[@MichaelRohaly]

Seems cheap and handy. Why not?

[@mooseyard]

Eliane Radigue in a box…

[@adamchisum2150]

YOUR VOICE IS TOO LOUD IN THE MIX

[@OscillatorSink]

OK, YOU DON'T HAVE TO WATCH THE VIDEO.

[@zoned7609]

I want pitch scale quantize and a glide knob but yeah it's pretty dope!

[@glitterballz101]

i liked the egg first time i saw you with it [and the lyra, few weeks ago drone tursday], but didn't pull the trigger cos I did not like the 3.5mm out only. in hindsight, volca, po33 etc etf stupid procrastinator i am :-)

[@OscillatorSink]

It is actually big enough that it could probably have just about fit a quarter inch in the back - but I've got SO much stuff that's 3.5mm and so many adapters that I don't even think about it these days. A lot of cool weird stuff is mini jack these days (not least thanks to the influence of eurorack.)

[@glitterballz101]

i hadn't twigged on the eurorack relationship, but yes the penny's dropped now hehe. nice one. love your vids and especially thursday drone@@OscillatorSink

[@glitterballz101]

back in stock at juno @@OscillatorSink

[@glitterballz101]

chaos is all

[@OscillatorSink]

chaos is egg

[@glitterballz101]

chicken chaos@@OscillatorSink