Usine Hollyhock Preview – A New Modular Audio Environment For Mac & Windows

Sensomusic has announced Usine Hollyhock, a new modular audio environment for Mac & Windows.

Hollyhock is built on the foundation of Sensomusic’s Usine, but it has been totally rewritten, with a new audio engine, new interface, new MIDI management and more. It’s under development and due for release in early 2013.

Key Features:

  • New interface
  • Rack – audio, MIDI in/out, and data devices (cameras, joysticks, WIIMote) are now panels/objects in Hollyhock
  • Drag & drop device routing
  • A device is also a patch (use double click), so you can add, for example, a midi chanel filter for a midi input device or a specific effect for an audio output device.
  • New record option - Lets you records individually, values, position or movement for all visible design modules. You can quantize this recording.
  • New physics engine
  • Support for VST & AU plugins
  • Video support
  • Interface customization
  • Module improvements

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Caption This! The Phantom Of The Monster Synth Edition

In 1974, horrormeister Brian De Palma released a bizarre rock version of Phantom of the Opera, Phantom of the Paradise. The movie bombed everywhere, except for Winnipeg, Canada.

In this epic photo from the film, songwriter Paul Williams (Rainbow Connection, Evergreen, Love Boat Theme) talks with a leather dude in a hawk mask, in front of T.O.N.T.O. the monster synth.

Think you know what these guys are talking about? Then Caption This!

Martin Peters – Anne

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Sunday Synth Jam: Dutch synthesist Martin Peters performs a hypnotic synth jam, Anne:

It has been a while since I uploaded my last video for obvious and sometimes not so obvious reasons. But last night this dreamy piece came up and I want to share it with you.

The music is dedicated to my beloved girlfriend Anne. On 9/11 we celebrated our second anniversary together. She means everything to me and I hope we can live together for a very long time.

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Switched On Handel

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Handel Modular fuga g-minor HWV 605

Here’s another switched-on style performance, a fuga of G.F. Handel, played on YUSYNTH modular by Daniel Philipp Stotz:

Maybe this fuga is a much earlier work, if you compare it with to HWV 608 of 609. It is very interresting, how carefully Beethoven studied not only Bach but even more Handel fugas. Please take a look at the fugas of Beethoven, mainly in the 9. Sinfonie!

EMW Wave Composition Oscillator Eurorack Module

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This video is an official demo video for Electronic Music Works’ Wave Composition Oscillator – a Eurorack format synth module:

In this initial video we present a sample of some of the waveforms that can be produced by our Wave Composition Oscillator in Eurorack format.

Many others can be generated by combining the waves using different mixing levels and more waveforms. No filter or effect was used.

The EMW Wave Composition Oscillator is available now, priced at US $169.