
This video, via ohdratdigital, takes a look at creating unique sounds in Ableton Live, using complex waveforms from your samples or tracks.

This video, via ohdratdigital, takes a look at creating unique sounds in Ableton Live, using complex waveforms from your samples or tracks.

Sugar Bytes recently announced a new bassline synth, Cyclop, that they call ‘the future of bass’.
They released this promo video for Cyclop today. While it doesn’t provided any new details on the synth, it does offer a preview of the bassline synths’s sound.

Developer Rishabh Rajan has released Bro-Step, a free standalone ‘brostep’ wobble synth for OS X.
it’s available for download from the rishabhrajan site.

Sunday Synth Jam: Pinn Panelle does a great job of translating heavily produced dubstep into live performance, with their take on Skrillex’s Scary Monsters And Nice Sprites.
The band describes the video as a performance demonstrating “how to replicate an electronic artist’s music on live instruments. There are no sequences, or backing tracks playing behind the band. All wobbles are live.” Continue reading

Does Propellerhead Reason 6 deliver some inspiring new sounds and sound-mangling capabilities?
Propellerhead product specialist James Bernard shares his thoughts on the subject in this video, which features a sampling of the music he’s been making with the new patches in the Reason 6 sound bank.
This file is also downloadable in Reason’s demo song format. If you’re trying out Reason and want to see these patches and sequencer clips up close, you can get it at the Propellerhead site (.zip).
See this previous post for a guide to what’s new in Propellerhead Reason 6.

Propellerhead has released another Reason 6 demo video, looking at The Echo:
Reason 6 introduces three new creative effect devices: Pulveriser, Alligator, and The Echo. In this micro tutorial we’ll take a look at The Echo.
The Echo brings together the best features of crisp digital delay, warm crunchy analog delay, space echoing tape delays, and even loop-based effects. We’ll take a look at the major functions of The Echo and explore a few ways you can use its powerful delay settings in your music.