February, 2008 archive

Audio Damage has introduced Ricochet, described as a sophisticated, yet easy-to-use multi-tap delay, with the signature Audio Damage sound.
Featuring a 16-step grid for programming tap time, Ricochet is designed specifically for modern electronic music production, and is much quicker to program than the run-of-the-mill multi-tap.
Features

Five independently controllable taps with individual multi-mode filter, panning, level, sync, [...]

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Image: ANDY_MOOG_BOY

Andy Moog Boy’s Transistor Ladder Filter tattoo was inspired by Bob Moog’s famous synth filter design.
Note that one of the transistors in Bob Moog’s Transistor Ladder Filter has been filled with the circular Moog Music Inc logo!

UK sound label Inspiration Sounds has released of Funked Up Complete, the final volume in their “Funked Up” series.
Funked Up Complete features all of the separate volumes in the “Funked Up” series plus an additional 35MB of funky drumloops.
“Funked Up Complete was in development for just over 10 months. Our goal was to create a [...]

 

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D16’s Devastor, is a multiband distortion unit that offers three blocks: dynamic-gain module, diode-clipper distortion and three filter sections.
Each of the filters can process the signal before or after the diode-clipper. The filters are not the peaking EQ type which are used in classic multiband distortion. They are like those found in analogue synthesizers (low [...]

 

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Peanut Butter Wolf has published a free Valentine’s Day mixtape:
Flowers are over priced and played out. Candy is bad for your fangs. Solution: Peanut Butter Wolf’s Valentine’s Day Mix.
E-mail this mixtape to your sweetheart, your spouse, your girlfriend, [...]

 

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Schaak Audio’s Transient Shaper offers an easy way to mangle your sounds’ dynamics.
Transient Shaper allows shaping the dynamics with 2 knobs only, making it uniquely easy and fast to use - yet its sonic manipulation scape ranges from gate-like to compressor-like.
You can preview a couple of demos of Transient Shaper’s capabilities below. 

 

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At the 2008 NAMM Show, Waldorf was showing this diminutive synth in a tiny booth in an obscure area of the show basement.
Not an auspicious display, but at least the Blofeld synth has a good pedigree.
The Blofeld engine delivers the same sound that so many Waldorf users worldwide love when they play their Pulse, Q, [...]

 

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If you want to start making house music, there are probably a lot worse places that you could start than Loopmasters’ House Generation, a library taken from Godfather Of House Marshall Jefferson’s personal sample collection.
Description:
For the making of House Generation Marshall recruited the services of luminaries such as Byron Stingily and Paris Brightledge to record [...]

moby wishes you a happy valentines day:
nothing says ‘happy valentines day’ like the disco lies video, involving pimp chickens, cowboy bodyguards, strippers, and the head of an international chicken franchise being chased through the streets of mexico city.

moby is sharing a “mashup mix” of his new album, Last Night, as a free download from rcrdlbl:
I love the fact that as the old/traditional infrastructure of the music business is breaking down it’s being replaced by new and more compelling institutions like RCRD LBL. The vice-grip hegemony of the corporate labels and corporate radio [...]

Finnish composer Jori Hulkkonen and his experimental piece for ten Roland 303’s So Run The Tears As Wine at the Festival For New Music (UMF), 5th Of August 2007, Turku, Finland.
Acid Symphony Part 1

Acid Symphony Part 2

Acid Symphony Part 3

The Acid Symphony Orchestra: Jori Hulkkonen, Jesper Dahlbäck, Kalle Karvanen, Aku Raski, J-P Parikka, Janne Puurunen, [...]

Big Fish Audio has released the best-named sample CD yet this year - Around the World in 80 Raves.
You can preview Around the World in 80 Raves below.
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Techno pioneers Eat Static open their sample vaults for a futuristic journey into world dance. Classic analogue synths and drum machines blend with live percussion, guitars and ethnic [...]

 

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realsamples has introduced Dulcitone Celesta, based on the Dyson & Sons Dulcitone tuning-fork piano.
The library is part of the Edition Beurmann, a series of instruments out of the renowned historical keyboard instrument collection of Professor Andreas E. Beurmann.
Built around 1910, this unique instrument sports a vibrant, mellow and charming sound reminiscent of a vibraphone, glockenspiel, [...]

 

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Faber Acoustical has introduced version 2 of the SignalScope and SignalScope Pro real-time signal analysis software.
SignalScope’s new interface places each signal analyzer tool in its own window, allowing users to multiple data displays simultaneously. Each analyzer display offers hardware-accelerated OpenGL graphics for fast on-screen drawing, and Quartz graphics for high-resolution off-screen drawing to PDF [...]

DB Audioware has introduced Vocal Intensifier, a plug-in designed to give vocal tracks added punch and presence, to make them stand out in the final mix.
It uses a studio technique called “parallel compression” (also known as “New York compression”), often used for drum tracks, but here tuned specially tuned for vocals. The advantage of this [...]