May, 2008 archive

You gotta love nourogg’s lo-fi studio invasion!
Check the link for more pics of his sweet studio setup.

Flight of Harmony’s Plague Bearer is a quad Voltage-Controlled Resonant Bandpass filter, designed with the goals of maximum signal alteration and maximum parameter controllability.
Flight of Harmony appears to subscribe to the Metasonix school of gear naming.
The Plague Bearer is currently sold out.
Description:
Each filter has controls for varying the high and low corner frequencies of the […]

A demonstration of a basic synaesthetic synthesizer that dynamically creates visualizations based on what you play.

Toontrack Music has released EZplayer Pro, the follow-up to their percussive MIDI engine EZplayer Free.
EZplayer pro is a VST, AU and RTAS plug in for Mac and PC with extended Map Wrapping capabilities between major drum sampler formats in the market. (FXpansion’s BFD 1&2, Digidesign’s Strike, NIs Battery, EZdrummer and Superior Drummer in addition to […]

Adobe has responded to calls from developers for better sound generation capabilities in Flash, and is introducing new features in Flash Player 10 that should lead to more sophisticated Flash based sound tools:
Dynamic Sound Generation — Dynamic sound generation extends the Sound class to play back dynamically created audio content through the use of an […]

Bill O’Reilly freaks out on Inside Edition - and gets remixed.

Recently, we mentioned that one of Honda’s Asimo robots was scheduled to “conduct” the Detroit Symphony Orchestra.
The appearance was intended to attention to the DSO’s youth music programs, and particularly DSO’s effort to encourage and support involvement of children in Detroit. And to let people see a cool robot in action.
It doesn’t look like human […]

Humanoid Sound Systems has released Scanned Synth Pro 2, a synth designed to create rich complex digital tones and sound effects.
Changes in Scanned Synth Pro 2

New GUI design
New presets
An audio input that can be used to feed Scanned Synth Pro’s hammer and mass shapes making its sound even more dynamic
An envelope follower that follows the […]

It’s science: chill out music music is good for you
According to research presented at the American Society of Hypertension’s Twenty Third Annual Scientific Meeting and Exposition (ASH 2008), listening to just 30 minutes of rhythmically homogeneous music every day can significantly reduce high blood pressure.
By rhythmically homogeneous, they mean music with little or no variation […]

Synthinetic is a kinetically powered synthesizer that produces crazy sounds of destruction and beauty.
It’s a project that explores using energy creatively to produce and manipulate sound.
Video demo here.

Ahhh. Times were simpler in the 70’s, when you could snap a picture of Santa next to his Moog and expect to sell some cheesy electronic music records.
If you know anything about this photo or the record it must have accompanied, let me know in the comments.
Image via dreamchimney

These aren’t new - but I love the style of this music video from Kode 9 & Spaceape:
9 Samurai

This video shows several different users trying out the first iteration of the SynthMonster, which is sort of a circuit bent Tribble.

Addonics has introduced a 1.8″ ZIF - CF Adapter kit that you can use to make your iPod faster and more shock resistant.
The adapter (ADZIFCF) supports several types of Compact Flash media including PIO, DMA, UDMA4 for up to a 40MB/s […]

Autechre plans to follow up Quaristice with thirteen new songs to be released digitally, beginning May 19:
In a move guaranteed to annoy people charging crazy money for Autechre goods, their latest 140 minutes of music will arrive as MP3 files only, first exclusively via bleep.com over a course of two weeks from May 19, either […]