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Free Music Friday: The Institute For Sonic Maladjustment has released 8 free downloads – all new tunes:

The style of these dubs is halfway between RSD and Jah Warrior or the Mad Professor.

Early 2010 my first album titled ‘Dub Experryments’ will be released as both a limited edition cd and as free mp3s. These tunes are a sort of preview, 5 or 6 of them will be on the album.

You can preview the track Light Creator below.

 

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Dub Siren (App Store link) is a Reggae iPhone app that lets you stream music from selection of some of the best Reggae, Dub and DubStep internet radio stations and mix interactively with Dub Siren’s Reggae effects.

Dub Siren Has Two Modes

• Dub Mode, modeled after ’70s classic analog synth.
• Dancehall Mode, which features popular sound effects used by Reggae DJs today.

Dub Siren also offers Dub Mixer, a DJ mixer integrated with a delay unit and tap tempo.

Dub Siren can also be used as a standalone Reggae sound effects machine.

via sawadee33

This is a demo of the Reggae PreProcessor, a pre-processor for reggae-dub music playback soundsystem style.

Download a free demo (Windows).

via chrisatiko:

This is the first tutorial from The Synthesist, covering the process behind making a Dubstep wobble bass sound.

This video shows the use of Native Instruments’ MASSIVE synthesizer.

Notes on the patches:

• Wobble 1- This is a basic demonstration of the ideas seen in the video. One oscillator, one filter, one LFO. very basic.
• Wobble 2- This is the patch that was created in the video. You have a the dual-oscillator setup, using the same wavetable and settings, one is simply pitched an octave down. Try putting an LFO on the pitch of one of the oscillators, but only modulate the pitch by .10 or .15 of a half step. This will give a thicker and different feel to the sound.
• Wobble 3- This is an example that has been used in one of The Synthesist’s tracks previously. Its an example of experimentation with the LFO, applied to the Ring Modulator in addition to the Filter’s Frequency Cutoff. Try applying an LFO to the Phase knob in the Modulation Oscillator. Also, the Performer function is displayed, rather than a simple LFO, so that you can write in your own modulating patterns.

The biggest rule of creating a fat bass sound from scratch is START SIMPLE. Bass tones get muddied very easily, so very minor changes can have a dramatic effect on your sound.

via EvidenceRecords:

Sexy day at Synthtopia continues: here’s something pretty sexy for Mac musicians – KingDubby is a free dub tape delay Audio Unit plug-in, developed by lowcoders and bitplant.

According to the developers – this version is the first step on the road to some cool new features coming for version 2.0 along with VST 3 support on Mac/Windows.

New in this version:

• Universal Binary : run KingDubby on your Intel® based Mac now!
• Cocoa Graphical User Interface : all the Mac UI coolness unleashed!
• Logic Studio support.