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Calvin Cardioid’s Who’s the Big Dog Now? is a fun stop-motion synthesizer animation, featuring some retrotastic “switched on” synth sounds.
via VSTCafe
This Is How We Juno!
The entries are in for Roland’s How Do You JUNO? contest. Dilettante’s entry, is the swankiest, but there are several other fun videos.
See the How Do You JUNO? YouTube page for all the entries.
In this vintage video, from 1983, Herbie Hancock jams on the Fairlight Computer Music Instrument as Quincy Jones looks on.
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Filed under: Music Videos, VJ, iPods & Portable Media Players
This is a teaser trailer for Glenn Marshall’s iPhone music visualization application, Zio.
Marshall is known to Synthtopia readers for his amazing generative music videos. Read more…
We’re kicking off a new series: The Iconic Sounds Of Synthesis.
We plan on highlighting some of the most influential synth sounds in the history of electronic music, and the hardware and software behind the sounds.
And what could be more iconic than the synth riff that kicks off Van Halen’s Jump?
The 1984 track signaled a new direction for Van Halen, with Eddie Van Halen leaving behind massive guitar riffs for a moment to make room for some equally massive synth riffs. Read more…
From the tail end of Gearwire’s 2009 NAMM coverage comes this show video of Eric Barbour’s new Metasonix KV100 Assblaster.
Regular Synthtopia visitors know that we like to protect our readers’ sensibilities, so we’ll put this as delicately as possible: the Assblaster puts the anal in analog.
The KV-100 contains the basic preamp stage of the discontinued Metasonix TM-7 Scrotum Smasher, driving the waveshaping (pulser) and ring modulation functions of the discontinued TM-1 (minus the ring-modulator carrier oscillator). These two sections drive a VCO which was derived from the discontinued Metasonix TM-3.
As you can see from the video, the Assblaster features graphics that complement its name.
If you’ve had a chance to try out the Assblaster, leave a comment with your thoughts!
via gearwire
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Filed under: Drum Machines & Groove Boxes, Electronic Instruments
Luca De Rosso’s OTTO is an electronic musical instrument for realtime manual beat slicing of audio samples.
OTTO provides a tangible user interface designed with the aim of giving the user the feel of having the sample in his hands. The musician can manipulate an audio sample in real time through the use of a restricted number of simple physical buttons and switches.
In computer music audio samples are generally represented as the waveform itself or as little colored blocks. Since the sample inside OTTO as to be controlled really fast, the performer needs to quickly understand where and how to play a specific part. The sample visualization has been designed to provide just the information needed and nothing more.
There are several more demo videos at Luca De Rosso’s YouTube channel.
via Peter Kirn’s Create Digital Music - Peter puts up something incredible every day, so make sure CDM is on your shortlist of sites to visit!
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Filed under: Software Sequencers, iPods & Portable Media Players
MIDI Recorder (App Store link) is a new iPhone application that converts melodies played on acoustic musical instruments and voice into MIDI files.
The initial version of MIDI Recorder captures one note at a time at a rate of 10 samples per second. (The new 3GS iPhone will enable future enhancements both in speed –perhaps up to a 3X increase in sampling rate, and capability — polyphony and chords).
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Filed under: Music Videos, Software Effects & Audio Processors
Antares’ Auto-Tune is hated by many, but it’s, arguably, the most influential audio effect of our time.
With D.O.A., Jay-Z writes the obituary for Auto-Tune, saying “you rappers singing too much, get back to rap, you T-Paining too much.”
When Jay-Z’s rapping about an audio effect plug-in, you know it’s gone mainstream.
D.O.A. is free of the usual trappings of modern hip-hop - drum machine beats, samples and Auto-Tuned vocals - and it sounds pretty fresh, as a result.
What do you think? Is Auto-Tune D.O.A? Read more…
Free MP3 Monday Madness
AnalogSuicide’s Tara Busch has started a new project, Free MP3 Monday, to highlight great indie electronic music. Here’s what she’s got in mind:
Use the wonderful audio file sharing network, Soundcloud.com to send me your MP3s. The Soundcloud.com Dropbox is on the top left of Analogsuicide. Click there, follow the instructions for uploading your file.
I will post my pick of the URLs on Twitter and Analogsuicide.com for people to listen to & scoop up as they please. Note: the more drenched in bleeping, blipping, screeching, trippy, synth - drenched loveliness, the better!
