In honor of the anniversary of Bob Moog’s 78th birthday, Spectrasonics has released 78 new Omnisphere patches for the Bob Moog Tribute Library.
The new ‘birthday’ patches were created by Spectrasonics founder Eric Persing. With the new patches, the tribute library now features over 800 sounds for Omnisphere.
In celebration of Bob Moog‘s birthday, Google created an awesome web based synthesizer – the Moog Doodle Synthesizer, aka the ‘MiniGoog’.
In this video, Moog’s Chief engineer, Cyril Lance, explains the doodle’ s capabilities and how they relate to the classic MiniMoog design.
via MoogMusicInc
Google is honoring Bob Moog‘s birthday with a special interactive Moog style synth.
Moog’s birthday is May 23rd, so the interactive ‘doodle’ was active in Australia and Japan first, and is now active in the US. The browser-based synth not only lets you play notes, but you can use the controls to shape the sound.
Here’s what Google has to say about their Moog tribute:
With his passion for high-tech toolmaking in the service of creativity, Bob Moog is something of a patron saint of the nerdy arts and a hero to many of us here.
So for the next 24 hours on our homepage, you’ll find an interactive, playable logo inspired by the instruments with which Moog brought musical performance into the electronic age. You can use your mouse or computer keyboard to control the mini-synthesizer’s keys and knobs to make nearly limitless sounds.
Keeping with the theme of 1960s music technology, we’ve patched the keyboard into a 4-track tape recorder so you can record, play back and share songs via short links or Google+.
We tested out the ‘MiniGoog’ in Chrome – so your results may vary in other browsers.
Developer Will Marshall sent word of his DJ Template for the Livid OhmRGB:
I’ve just released a new version of my existing Ableton DJ template for the Livid Instruments OhmRGB.
While my APC template has been quite popular (it even showed up on Synthtopia a couple of times), I’ve had numerous requests to add support for the Livid controllers, so here’s the first one 
The DJ Template Pro is available now for $20 at Marshall’s site.
Marshall adds, “Enjoy das blinkenlichts”.
Audanika has released an update to its iOS software synth, SoundPrism.
Here’s what’s new in SoundPrism 2.5:
Wave Alchemy recently introduced the Pro-II synthesizer – a new virtual synth, inspired by the Sequential Circuits Pro-One.
This is a quick tutorial, via jimmclaren1, that demonstrates his approach to MIDI sequencing both hardware and software synths using Genome Sequencer on the iPad.
Developer Jonatan Liljedahl has updated BitWiz Audio Synth, a software synth for iOS that translates C-like code expressions into lo-fi 8-bit generative stereo audio in real-time.
Here’s what’s new:
BitWiz Audio Synth is $2.99 in the App Store.
If you’ve used BitWiz Audio Synth, leave a comment and let us know what you think of it!
Intermorphic has introduced Noatikl 2, the latest version of their desktop generative music software for Mac & Windows.
It’s currently available, in beta stage. Here’s what’s new…..
Mars from XSSR Academy has released a new Ableton Live tutorial, covering how to create a dubstep / drum & bass kick. Mars demonstrates layering kick samples to create a punchy kick and processing with EQ & compression. Continue reading