Music Websites

OT: Some days, you get Dave Smith Instruments’ Prophet ‘08.
Some days, you get Ableton Live 8.
And some days, you get Two You Tube Videos And A Motherfucking Crossfader, a site that turns your web browser and your favorite YouTube dance tracks a rudimentary DJ setup.
Use the twin search fields to help cue up your next [...]

Mark Mosher put up a post today celebrating the 4th birthday of his electronic music blog, Modulate This!
According to Mosher, in the last year “the blog experienced non-linear growth in page views and subscribers.”
Non-linear growth is good. And, while I’d like to think the growth is because of “the Synthtopia effect” (server-killing waves of traffic [...]

Create Your own “Synthetic Symphony”, with Nick’s Online Synthesizer.
via richarddevine

We’ve criticized a couple of misguided web site redesigns recently, but Peter Kirn at Create Digital Music beat us to the punch on the strangely familiar new Behringer site:
Look out: Behringer, already a notorious rip-off artist, is taking the “first step in [the] company’s reinvention of online presence.” I shudder to think what the coming [...]

Roland has a new Web site, Roland Connect, to introduced its Fall lineup of new gear.
It’s worth checking out, but you may find the new site frustrating, because of some bad Web design decisions.
Like the way they present their new lineup:

This is new gear, right?
So, how is someone supposed to know what the heck a [...]

via AccessMusic:
The Access Music website has been reloaded … www.virus.info
Very Apple!
No sign of an RSS feed, though. If you find it, leave a comment!

Roland has launched a teaser site for its new fall products, called Roland Connect:
On September 1, 2009, Roland will launch a new and innovative lineup of musical products via a unique web exhibition called Roland CONNECT. This virtual event will reveal Roland’s exciting new Fall lineup of products, covering a wide range of musical genres [...]

SeeYouInSleep is a blog created by Brian William Green – a sound artist, visual artist and writer. The site captures a wide variety of Green’s experiments in sound, ranging from circuit bent instruments to found sound to generative music.
According to Green:
Seeyouinsleep, among many things, is a feeling and a vision. However, I would like for [...]

We’ve added a new feature to the site that should make it easy for you to listen to and download some great electronic music from Synthtopia readers.
Just click the Listen To Music link at the top of the page:

This should open up a new music player window that looks something like this:

Here’s some of the [...]

Retro Synth Ads is a blog that revels in old synth ads, primarily from the 70’s and 80’s:
Growing up, synthesizer advertisments were the only way for me to find out about new synths. Gear advertised in magazines such as Keyboard Magazine and Electronic Musician.
Its not that my local music shop didn’t have knowledgable staff, I [...]