simonsound has announced a new radio series looking at the history of electronic music as a worldwide phenomenon.
The 10 part series, called The Tone Generation, is presented by electronic musician and film-maker Ian Helliwell. Starting in Europe and finishing in the Southern Hemisphere, Ian will be playing vintage tracks - some celebrated, many obscure and […]

 

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The Bob Moog Foundation has started a blog.
There’s not much there yet, except some photos.

Nice demo of using the Future Retro Revolution as an audio processor.
With an analog resonant filter, envelope, overdrive, and DSP effects, the Revolution makes a powerful effects processor. The Elektron is slaved to the Revolution’s MIDI.
via BigCityMusic

Film teaser for the documentary What The Future Sounded Like - the story of the Electronic Music Studios and their impact on music history.

Check out the sweet synth setup that the Chemical Brothers use to create their quirky synthtronica. They’ve got a page devoted to their synth gear at their site.
We spotted a Doepfer modular, a Roland System 100, a Future-Retro Revolution, and a couple of EMS synths. Did we miss anything?

Puremagnetik has released Analog Bass Volume 1 for Live 6, Kontakt 2 and EXS24. Analog Bass is a large collection of over 50 multisampled analog bass instruments, recorded directly from classic monosynths. Among the sound sources are TB-303, Minimoog, Doepfer Modular and ARP 2600. Puremagnetik has captured the classic character of these instruments and customized […]

Arturia has created a interesting video on the Minimoog and its history. It looks at the synth’s features, famous users, Minimoog recordings and uses this as a starting point for introducing Arturia’s Minimoog V.

Moog has announced Version 3.0 of the Voyager Editor Librarian, which includes a new user interface.
The Minimoog Voyager Editor-Librarian is a program that is designed to be the ultimate tool for organizing and creating presets for the Minimoog Voyager.
Version 3.0 of the Editor Librarian is free to registered users. If you are a registered customer […]

A couple of weeks ago we brought you a sneek preview from the Winter NAMM Show of the Metasonix TM-7 Scrotum Smasher.
Now, Metasonix’ Eric Barbour has released the details on the Scrotum Smasher. Here’s his explanation of how it works:
The TM-7 is basically a mean, angry guitar preamp made of three vacuum tubes. Plus a […]

 

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Moog Music has announced an After-pressure Factory Upgrade for the Minimoog Voyager.
The After-pressure Field upgradeis available for those of you who want to install the new After-pressure control yourself. Easily-laid out instructions will accompany your field upgrade kit.
It is also available as a factory update. Videos are available that demonstrated the after-pressure upgrade.
Have you made […]

Zero-G’s Analogue Sequencer Loops (ASL) is a sound library by Ian Boddy, a synthesist that carries the torch for classic 70’s Berlin-school style electronic music.
The library is presented in Native Instruments Intakt format, which means that it’s a pain to register, but compatible with just about anything (it supports VST 2.0, DXi, ASIO, AU, RTAS, […]

Matrixsynth is a website/blog dedicated to anything and everything about synths.
Matrix, who runs the site, is active on many synth-related lists and forums, and when he sees something of interest, he posts it on Matrixsynth. As a result, the site covers everything synth, from the serious to the humorous; the trivial to the items that […]

John Blacet has announced the winners of the Blacet Too Many Panels Design Contest.
Blacet recently announced the contest, to help deal with his “extreme excess of Multi panels”. Budding synth module designers were challenged to make a useful synth module that used 5 jack holes, and one pot hole.
The Winners:
There were about 50 entries. According […]

John Blacet sends an update on his extreme excess synth module design contest.
Blacet recently announced a contest to solve an interesting design problem: create a synth module with a predetermined panel layout:
“We have an extreme excess of Multi panels (do to a series of unfortunate events!).
Rather than toss them, perhaps someone out there can figure […]

FractalDVD.com has an MP3 of the original Demonstration Record for the Moog 900 Electronic Music System.
You can preview the Moog demo below.
The Microgroove 10″ vinyl disk was produced, composed and realized by Walter Carlos, as a Trans-Electronic-Music-Production.
The disk is dated, but provides an interesting historical perspective on the state of electronic music in 1968.

 

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