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
This Roland Juno-60 is a great sounding keyboard synthesizer from 1982. In the video above, via MusicMarketingTV, Marko Ettlich demonstrates the range and power of the Juno-60.
The Juno-60 features:
If you’ve used the Juno-60, let us know what you think of it!
Developer Rob Fielding has created a new synth for iOS, Cantor, that goes where other apps fear to tread.
Fielding, who has pioneered microtonal instruments for iOS, has this to say about Cantor:
This app has nothing at all to do with beat making, sequencing, creation, DAWs, or iPad-only workflows.
It’s a pocketable instrument that’s as playable as a guitar or a piano for a lot of uses. It should be reliable and simple, for you to plug into an effects processor or a computer *like* a guitar or hardware synth.
I tried initially to ship this without any audio engine at all, as a pure MIDI controller. But the current state of MIDI with respect to continuous pitch instruments is still bad. I only implemented an internal engine to demonstrate a full exercise of the playability parameters.
Here are the details.
This set of videos, from 1985, takes a look at The Secrets of Analog & Digital Synthesis.
It’s obviously dated, starting with the ”Listen to the sound coming from your VCR right now.” Nevertheless, there’s some solid coverage of synth basics and the videos also offer a vintage look at synths.
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: This video, via RanKirlian, captures several soundscapes for guitar and iPad with csGrain.
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 sound design tutorial, via DJVespers, takes a look at how to make a nasty filtered bass in Massive & Ableton Live – starting with a ‘crapallicious sound’.
Along the way, he looks at unisono detuning and pan spreading, filters, macros, pitchbends, and filter frequency automation.
Reader Szymon Kaliski has released a new microtonal music app for iOS, MicroTones.
MicroTones is a microtonal synthesizer, allowing simultaneous playback of up to thirty sinewaves set with accuracy to one hundredth of a hertz.
You can place new sinewaves by touching the screen, adjust volume (moving up and down) and frequency. Combination of multiple sinewaves lets you create drones and ambient atmospheres.
Episode 3 from the Inside Synthesis series is a basic introduction to modular synthesizers, using the Mattson Mini Modular synthesizer.