DM1 iPad Drum Machine Gets Major Update (Sneak Preview)

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Fingerlab has announced a major update to its DM1 iPad drum machine:

DM1 now comes with 2 new super cool tools “The Randomizer” and “The Automation” for instant and fun beat making. Patterns are now also expandable to 32 Steps for extra creativity. We have added 24 new drum kits. As well as AudioCopy, WIST synchronisation between two iPads, MIDI In and more cool features. Yes, it is a big update!

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UVI Electric Piano For The Mac

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UVI Electric Piano is a new virtual Fender Rhodes for the Mac, available via the Mac App Store.

Features:

  • Featuring a classic Rhodes manufactured in 1979.
  • Recorded in a world class studio with the best gear.
  • Deeply multi-sampled (sustain, release, pedal noise…)
  • Scripted using the latest UVI Engine.
  • Low Memory usage thanks to lossless realtime decoding.
  • Custom velocity curves to fit your playing style.
  • Onboard FX: Speaker Cabinet, Drive, Tremolo, Autopan, Chorus & Flanger.
  • Integrated old school “Spring” reverb.
  • Easy to record in Garage Band, Logic and others audio software.
  • CPU efficient.
  • Ultra low latency.
  • Compatible with built-in or third party sound cards.
  • Compatible with all USB/MIDI keyboards and controllers.

Note that UVI Electric Piano is designed to run standalone, not run as a VSTi/AU.

Electric Piano is available now for $29.99.

This Is What The Clavia Nord Electro 2 Sounds Like When You’re Wasted

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This video demonstrates what a Clavia Nord Electro 2 sounds like when you’re wasted.

via realsakul:

Well, it’s late, I’m wasted!

Nevertheless: Here are some sounds of the Nord Electro 2!!!

Good night!(actually it’s funny, that it’s daylight, wenn you guys over sea read this here, while it’s the middle of the night here in Germany ^^ )

Torley Gets His Bow Chicka Wow On With Elektrik Piano

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Synthtopia regular Torley has been really busy lately, exploring his massive array of software synths and sharing his thoughts on them in his YouTube videos.

Torley’s videos often baffle a few Synthtopia readers, because he doesn’t do formal reviews, but instead tends to open up his virtual instruments and see how the sounds inspire him. Go along for the ride, though, and you’ll find that he makes interesting ideomatic use of the instruments and their sounds.

In this case, he demonstrates not just the bow chicka wow power of Native Instruments’ Elektrik Piano, but also riffs on what Philip Glass might do on a Wurly.

Leon Berry’s Beast In The Basement

Leon Berry, popular Chicago organist, installed a Wurlitzer theatre organ in his basement in the 1950′s calling it the Beast in the Basement. The organ, complete with all the bells and whistles, was once used to accompany silent movies at the Lake Theater in Crystal Lake Illinois.

Anybody have their own electronic music Beast in the Basement?