house music

OT: I’m as anti-violence as the next guy – but this video montage of 1 million frame-per-second images of bullets hitting things, set to house music, is pretty amazing.

Video of bullet impacts made by Werner Mehl from Kurzzeit. But you could probably tell that by the annoying copyright watermark splashed across the entire thing.

Puremagnetik has introduced Waveframe for Ableton Live 7 & Ableton Live 8.

Waveframe is designed to be a great tool for sound designers and programmers. The huge library of simple waveforms can be used to construct complex soundscapes and instruments.

Two and four-voice templates are included in the library as standalone Live Racks. Open the templates in a new track and drag your waveforms from the Waveframe Library into the voice chain. Then add effects and modulations to tailor your sound.

Waveframe Features:

• Over 1700 waveform samples
• Over 30 waveform rack devices
• A selection of preset pads, leads, basses & more
• Tightly integrated native Ableton effects & controls
• Easy hot-swapping between waveform devices

System Requirements:

• Requires Ableton Live 7 or 8
• 500 MB of physical RAM
• 300 Megabytes (MB) of free hard disk space

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This modular synthesizer synth jam features Doepfer System A-100 modular synthesizer bass, sequenced with a Korg Electribe MX and Electribe MX Drums, filtered by Schippmann Ebbe und Flut.

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FXpansion joins Marshall Jefferson, the Godfather of House, at Olympic Studios, London while working on the Kid British debut album.

The fun starts about 1:24 into the video as he talks about how he got started in music. Read more…

Here’s something a little different for the Sunday Synth Jam series – a live performance of Derrick May’s classic techno/house track Strings of Life.

During the 5days off festival in Amsterdam, the Kindred Spirits Ensemble transformed a couple of techno and house classics into orchestral pieces. This clip contains the rework of the classic Rhythm is Rhythm – Strings of Life.