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Had to take my hardware synth to repair shop - thankfully, there are some great and crafty people around here. They have fixed power circuits, which, I've been told, were in absolute shambles. Not surprised, since it had been purchased already in heavily used shape, and our cats has done…
recent events
Two nights ago, after weeks of idling, played a full gig and then an extra hour with Sombra Del Mar, finishing around 1am. Got home an hour and a half later. Kind of sleepy throughout Saturday 🙂 This year starts with late-night gigs, as we have also played on the New Year night from…
the next move?
Having finished Rho Ophiuchi and after I finished two more tracks for a current customer I'll be taking some time away from the music, apparently. A hard problem needs solving soon, and all my attention will be likely dedicated to it. Still I'd be happy to hear suggestions on what…
rho ophiuchi
RHO OPHIUCHI is a full preset bank for Adam Szabo's VIPER - 128 patches, mostly dialed up from scratch or from each other. There is a few exceptions - more of them later. VIPER is a synth that makes a valiant attempt on emulating Access Virus A/B/C/TI hardware synths, and is partially…
adam szabo’s Viper
Bought this beauty just before New Year, and now rabidly stack new patches for it. While it can read (with limitations) patches and soundbanks from Access Virus TI, it goes way further: aside from VA oscillators there are Multisaw, Wavetable, Grain and Formant oscillators, and…
the site reworked and updated
Just relaunched and heavily updated the website, changing theme/design, removing the redundant section ('Soundware' is linked directly to Gumroad now), and making it more suitable for mobile users. So - welcome again!
MATRICES: A preset pack for Native Instruments FM8
MATRICES is a preset pack for Native Instruments FM8 software synthesizer, one of the absolute pinnacles of 6-operator FM-synthesis. The synth is old: next year it hits 20, but the only thing obsolete about it is its unscalable interface.…
Site update
Actualized quite a few pages here, including 'bands', 'solo works', and 'soundware' sections. Added all recent releases - it appears I had as many as four full-lengths this year, and the new items at blacksidedsun.gumroad.com. This was a very productive year, and more is in the works.
Absynth 5 Troubleshooting
Finally managed to revive Absynth 5 in my system. Native Instruments dropped it from their active roster, and even those who have purchased it earlier may have hard times installing it on Windows 10. In my case it was kinda outrage: Native Access (a…
Chromatography – new presets for Rhodes Chroma softsynth
'Chromatography' is the presets pack for Cherry Audio Rhodes Chroma software synthesizer. The demo below features several instances of Chroma. Other than a master bus limiter (ReaLimit from Cockos Reaper), no external effects are used.…
‘Summa Timorum’ LP is out
'The Day of Life Forgotten,' the experimental electronics net-label, have released black-sided sun's latest album 'Summa Timorum' (The Sum of Fears). As per label's message: 'Dark ambient, post-industrial, experimental electronics. New album by black-sided sun delivers…
Surge XT – patches contributed
Developers of Surge XT, a fantastic software synthesizer that I use religiously these days, have included a bunch of my patches into nightly builds, which means they will be featured in the next version of the synthesizer. Many of those patches have been used while…
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Autumn hits hard: temperatures are down, if it rains, it pours, and the intense live season is basically through, although Sombra Del Mar isn't going to slow down: we've booked for a month ahead. I believe over these recent months I've played more live shows than ever before - I mean, probably…
An anti-AI rant #…
I've blogged recently about the AI muzak from YouTube that I have to hear every time as our band's scrambling for live performing. It looks like there's kind of a development. Expectedly unexpected - or vice versa: the AI 'reimaginings' of classic rock music - or any other. I've…
Cold Foundry – a presets pack for Korg Wavestate and Surge XT
Metallic groans, clangs, tinklings, jinglings, blips, radio static with something alien coming through, - PHI MU LABS: COLD FOUNDRY is the soundbank for KORG WAVESTATE & WAVESTATE NATIVE assembled specifically for creating the…
Dronology – a new library after months in the making
PHI MU LABS: DRONOLOGY is a library of presets for KORG WAVESTATE hardware synthesizer and KORG WAVESTATE NATIVE plugin. This library's primary emphasis are multisamples and programs, as per WAVESTATE's nomenclature. 16 Performances are…
Status Update (I’m alive)
I've been pretty silent recently simply out of fatigue. A lot of things is happening, some good, some bad, some neutral. We had a hellish gig last Wednesday, when my keyboard's LCD display nearly died (I've kind of fixed this later), a loudspeaker standing on a subwoofer…
100WT – 100+ wavetables pack in .WAV format
100WT - 100+ wavetables in .WAV format created using Vital, by black-sided sun project. Most of them are resampled from the field recordings with bells and whistles added. Check it out here: Vital appears to export at 88.2kHz, so there is also a 44.1…
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An absolutely epic record from lockdown times.
Little they knew that they have essentially delivered a hymn of the world that is bygone now.
TAL U-NO-LX, Cherry Audio DCO-106 and Vital.
A new package is in the works too.
If you are into software/hardware synths, check out may bunch of presets at Gumroad.
So far presets are available (free and for low prices) for the following synths:
Korg Wavestate (2), Surge XT, Cakewalk Z3Ta 2+, u-he Tyrell N6, Full Bucket's WhispAir, Yamaha DX-series synths (soft/hard)... ->
The band I’m playing with these days
A quartet of expats from Russia and Belarus. Seen a thing or two in our lives, some even more than they ever wanted to. Nowadays we're playing music that is in high demand, and surprisingly those are rock'n'rolls above all things. Frankly I'm no big fan of the…
Recent albums
Static Apparitions has hit 202 collections on Bandcamp now. The highest score, however, still holds 2023: The Longest Road, part I - 312 collections: Its followup landed in 274 Bandcamp accounts: The long-in-the-work Aurtengwl is in 280 collections so far: Other than that there was…
Well, all of this really comes alive
First place in Drone category on Bandcamp, and fifth place in Ambient category right now. Also dropped the special version, as promised:
Static Apparitions by black-sided sun
Static Apparitions - a new release of my project 'black-sided sun'. Genre - dark ambient. Released by Neotantra label (a lot of gratitude goes to Lee Norris). Released as free download. Tomorrow I'll launch a special version of this album on my own page.
Summa Timorum – a forthcoming LP by black-sided sun
Dropped the first track from the next album last night. The track is called 'Sleep', and the album - 'Summa Timorum' (Lat. 'The Sum of Fears'). Genre: Noise, Dark Ambient, Industrial.Release: TBA The track has been created using Surge XT and…
Enjoying the show?
New technologies surely do affect the progress in arts. Always've done. Until the generative AI, that is. It comes to unmake arts.
Rock you like a….
A short but fierce hurricane cut our yesternight performance short as we started our third set. Played just one song - during which summer restaurants chairs started flying around. That's how it was: Посмотреть эту публикацию в Instagram Публикация от Sombra del Mar…
CYANEA – a library for VITAL
Cyanea is the bank for Vital I've been working on over the last few weeks. Vital is a mighty thing, although I'd love it to have some features of Surge XT. Just a wishful thinking, anyway. The full version of Cyanea pack consists of 56 presets, with half of them being…
