August, 2008 archive

Remix and M-Audio have announced a potentially interesting webinar on Producing Club-Ready Tracks – presumably with lots of M-Audio gear.
Unfortunately, to watch this “on-demand” webinar, you have to give them permission spam you, and let all their buddies spam you.
Check out the form you have to fill out to watch this webinar:

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Making A Drum Synth is a new blog that documents a DIY drum synth.
Philipp, the site’s creator, says:
I’m starting the blog which is dedicated to the development of an analog drum synthesizer.
Why still build a drum computer myself?

First: building an instrument is fun, and, once finished, a deeply satisfying experience.
Second: There are almost no drum [...]

Involver 2 is, as you might guess, a sequel to Sasha’s mega hit Involver album.
The last Sasha album we reviewed, Airdrawndagger, was an artist album, rather than a DJ mix. It got a lukewarm reception with some, despite being an interesting artist album. Involver 2, though, is a return trip to a world of carefully [...]

Ambient/space music artist Michael Meara has a large collection of free MP3 downloads available at his site, Sonic Journey.
“Most pieces are either in the vein of cold void space ambience or the warmer currents of classical ambient drift. The artists’ ultimate aim is to aid in the navigation of various sleep-states by providing the appropriate [...]

 

 Corvus [8:35m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

 

 Uncharted Waters [6:08m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

 

 Dark Descent [2:26m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

Analogue Systems power supply & Eurorack Modular Synth Case was uploaded by: bigcitymusic
Duration: 323
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We highlight a lot of whacked out electronic music videos at Synthtopia – but this delicate and subtle performance from Priscilla Ahn is, in many ways, even more amazing.
Check out how Ahn uses a looper to create a dense, structured loop performance, while also making the technology completely transparent to the audience.
“I put Priscilla up [...]

The OpenStomp Coyote-1 audio effects processor, an open source effects platform in guitar stompbox format, is now available from Howler Audio.
The OpenStomp Coyote-1 is an open source audio effects processor intended for guitar players. With the Coyote-1, you can develop custom audio effects in software (like distortion, echo, chorus etc.), mix multiple effects to build [...]

The Monome Four By Sixteen: cnc cut pennsylvania black walnut, for an installation later this November in Los Angeles.

BugBrand has intreoduced the AudioWeevil08 – both a synth-sound generator and an audio processor – with a load of chaos possibilities chucked in too.
Features:

Audio Input through a CMOS Overdrive/Distortion – a powerful input (1/4″ mono jack) suitable for guitar or line levels. There are two levels of drive offering clean or distorted sounds. The [...]

 

 Sonics just from the internal synth [5:07m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

Chris Randall continues with his video overviews of Audio Damage sofware with this introduction to Dr. Damage.
Dr. Damage Features:

Multi-mode filter (4PLP, 3PLP, 2PLP, 4PHP, 2PHP, and 4PBP modes). The 4PLP self-oscillates at high resonance without audio input, allowing Dr. Device to be used as a theremin-type instrument.
“Tube” style soft saturation and bit reduction.
Stereo bucket-brigade-style delay, [...]