Novation has updated Launchpad for IOS, adding the ability to record performances and more. Here’s what’s new in Launchpad for iOS version 1.3: Record your performance Share mix via Dropbox, Soundcloud or e-mail Change category of imported samples Various bug fixes, refinements, and workflow improvements Launchpad for iOS is a free download. Additional content libraries… Read More Novation Launchpad For iOS Updated
We checked in on reader Tyler Freeman‘s Drumpants Kickstarter project (to develop an inexpensive wearable MIDI controller) and it has blown past its $35,000 goal. It’s currently over $46,000, with over two weeks left to go.
Reader Travis Boisvenue let us know about a new mini-documentary about modular synthesizers, Modulo. … Read More Modulo – New Mini Documentary On Modular Synthesizers
Sunday Synth Jam: This video documents the Cryophone – a electronic music installation by Moscow media-artist Dmitry Morozov, aka Vtol.
Here’s a little 8-bit holiday action, Eight To Infinity’s There’s Nothing Very Interesting To Say About Snow. via Arron Clague
The music video for Night Danger by Roberta Bondar features not only live performance with modular synthesizer, but modular analog video mangling.
Brute LFO is a new app that turns your iOS device into a modular synth controller. If you have a hardware synth that allows you to use external gear to modulate the pitch, the filter, or any other parameter, your can plug the Brute LFO into the CV in and start playing. Brute LFO consists… Read More Brute LFO Turns Your iOS Device Into A Modular Synth Controller
Native Instruments has releases a free compressor plugin for Mac & Windows, Supercharger. Here’s what they have to say about the free compressor plugin: Supercharger is dripping with the high-octane attitude of a one-of-a-kind tube compressor, with an intelligent interface designed for supreme ease of use.
Eventide has released a trial version of Mood, a new plug-in that characterizes the emotional content of music, and translates it into MIDI signals. Mood analyzes music including key, spectral content, tempo, dynamics and additional aspects to create a set of ‘descriptors’ which are then compared to a data base. The data base has been… Read More Experimental Plugin, Mood, Turns Your Music’s Emotions Into MIDI
This audio podcast, via Boston’s WBUR, takes a look at the Resurgence Of Electronic Classical Music. “The question of what is music is an age-old question,” Cooper tells Here & Now’s Jeremy Hobson. “I like to think of music as any sound that is organized and creates a reaction in the listener, which this certainly does.”
