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Cornell sophomore Cameron demos his muscle-controlled music synthesizer.
It’s kind of like a theremin, except for the part where you shave your arms and send electricity through your muscles.
Note that “it only burns a little”!

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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