February, 2008 archive

Future Retro’s Jered Flickinger has quietly updated his Revolution analog synth, giving it a cool new look, longer battery life and a new OS:
The new R2 unit, designated by the gun metal grey chassis, has an updated PC board design using a new RAM chip which extends the internal back up battery life from approximately […]

Trash Audio has posted another video from NAMM that looks at the Doepfer modular synthesizer:

Soniccouture have released Balinese Gamelan, a new sampled instrument for Native Instruments Kontakt.
A Gamelan is an ensemble of instruments originating from Indonesia. The majority of Gamelan instruments are percussive, and most of these are bronze. They include xylophone-like metallophones of different sizes and pitch, tuned gong chimes, very large pitched gongs, and an assortment of […]

Instasampler is a new free sampler for OS X.
Description: 
The plugin takes its samples (instantly) from the audio input whenever you hit a specific MIDI note for the first time. Every consecutive time you hit the same MIDI-note, it plays back the recorded fragment (or shorter, depending on the note’s length).
When you play the sampled fragments, […]

 

 Instasampler in action [0:17m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

Flame has published some videos that demonstrate the Flame Clockwork Synth Module:

 

 Midi Talking Synth [0:38m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

 

 MIDI talking synth 2 [0:42m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

 

 MIDI talking synth 3 [0:33m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

Remember the annoying music that made you remember why you hate Windows?
Now you can hate Mac sounds, too:

Here’s a type of synthesizer we haven’t seen before - an typographic synthesizer.
The first thing to get out of the way is this: no - you can’t play Lucky Man on it.
What you can do is interactively manipulate typographic fonts. The controller lets you adjust parameters such as the size of font serifs, horizontal/vertical scale, […]

Here’s the weirdest thing you’re likely to see today - Sleep Waking - a robot that does interpretive dancing based on your brainwaves.
Here’s what creator Fernando Orellana has to say about the project:

In the next thirty years we will see more robotic technology integrated into our society, furthering our experience of reality through agency. […]

WM Recordings is serving up Volume 2 of Wakka Chikka Wakka Chikka - Porn Music For The Masses.
Yep - it’s a massive download of free porn music.
The 2004 release of Wakka Chikka Wakka Chikka - Porn Music For The Masses Vol. 1 was downloaded over 232,900 times.
Here’s what they have to say about the second […]

Sasha and John Digweed have announced dates (below) for a 2008 Spring tour.
Sasha and Digweed will be bussing it through the country. However, unlike their massive Delta Heavy tour, this tour is about going back to their grass roots.
“Its been six years since Delta Heavy,” says Digweed. “Both Sasha and myself have been talking for […]

To promote the art of circuit bending and the BENT festival, Absurdity.Biz has uploaded the first BENT Festival dvd online in its entirety.
Shot at the first international circuit bending festival in 2004 at the TANK in NYC for Absurdity.Biz’s ongoing Circuit Bending documentary, it later became a side-project DVD series sold at the BENT festivals.
DVDs […]

Here’s what the Orb has to say about the new release:
The Dream was created without pressure from record companies or the studio. As with previous albums, the basic Orb nucleus is joined by guest singers and players, including System 7’s Steve Hillage, who goes back to the earliest recordings, Battersea toaster-singer Eric Walker aka The […]

If you’re looking for a acappella to remix, andiamnotlying has a craptacular for you:
Smashmouth is the music version of the bet t-shirt at Hot Topic, the best of a rotten lot when choice is utterly not an option.But this track, it’s something else entirely. It’s the singer’s isolated vocal track from the song “Days Like […]

 

 Days Like These Vocals [4:13m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

Something unreal has put together a piece of music using only sounds sampled from Windows XP & 98. And it’s probably got more listens on YouTube than most musicians can hope to get from anything they release.
Giving you reason to hate Windows, YouTube, annoying remixes and gimmick music more than ever.