In celebration of Bob Moog‘s birthday, Google created an awesome web based synthesizer – the Moog Doodle Synthesizer, aka the ‘MiniGoog’.
In this video, Moog’s Chief engineer, Cyril Lance, explains the doodle’ s capabilities and how they relate to the classic MiniMoog design.
via MoogMusicInc
Reader Jim McLaren let us know via Facebook about his latest video song synth jam, Vitriol.
Count our faces as melted! If dubstep met prog in a dark alley and got its ass kicked, it might sound a bit like this…..
If you like McLaren’s video song progtaculars, leave him a little love in the comments….
This is a quick tutorial, via jimmclaren1, that demonstrates his approach to MIDI sequencing both hardware and software synths using Genome Sequencer on the iPad.
This video, via AkaiProVideo, offers an introduction and overview of the Akai Pro SynthStation49.
Sunday Synth Jam: Here’s a space music style synth jam, LektroiD’s Hearts of Space, that brings together sequenced modular synthesizer, keyboard synths, theremin and more.
You can download the full version via LektroiD’s Bandcamp page.
via Brainstormer2302
Sunday Synth Jam: Bruno Ender Lee put together this extended space music video, which collects six live synth jams into a ‘video album’, Crystal Spaceship.
Part 1: Crystal Spaceship (includes: “Ice Crystals”, “Spaceship” & “Midnight”)
Part 2: Astral Clockwork (includes: “Spaceship_2″, “Astral Clockwork” & “Astral Odyssey”)
Composed, arranged & produced by Bruno Ender Lee; 2012 Velvet Voyage Productions
via synthypnosis
In this short interview, via MoogMusic, Chick Corea takes a moment from his 2011 tour with Return to Forever IV to discuss the role of various analog synthesizers in his on-stage sound.
This video, by DubSpot instructor Matt Cellitti, takes a look at using Moog Animoog with Ableton Live.
Sunday Synth Jam: Reader Chris Stack, aka experimentalsynth, improvises over a dark ambient drone backing.
For the backing, Stack used the Make Noise René Cartesian Sequencer, Maths and a variety of Moog synths.
Moog Music’s Animoog software synthesizer for iOS has been hugely popular with Synthtopia readers – partly because of the name behind it, but mostly because it’s a well-designed, great sounding synth.
If you’re a Animoog user, here are a several ways you can get more out of it.
Moog recently introduced a new sound library for Animoog, designed by Richard Devine.
The Devine Expansion Pack includes 32 original presets handcrafted by Richard Devine himself. Also included are 43 new Timbres, nearly doubling Animoog’s sonic vocabulary. For details, see our previous post on the Devine Expansion Pack for Animoog.
Here’s a track, Momentum, created by composer Sascha Dikiciyan. Dikiciyan has composed music for over a dozen game titles, including Mortal Kombat vs DC, Prototype, Borderlands, and Mass Effect 3
All of the synth sounds you hear in this track are from the Devine Expansion Pack. The only non Animoog elements are a sampled Kick, Snare, Hi Hat and a small String and Brass sample.