Sunday Synth Jam: Reader Joakim Ekblad shared this video, which captures a battery-powered synth jam, recorded outdoors by the lake. “Me and my pal go outdoors to play/jam/improvise at least once every week,” explains Ekblad. “This was recorded 2016-06-06 – The Swedish national day – in the woods, by a lake, in the beautiful country of Sweden. Everything… Read More Battery Power Synth Jam By The Lake
Medly Labs has released Medly 3.0 an update to their iOS music making app that adds support for new controls, Apple Watch, 10 languages and more. Here’s what’s new in Medly 3.0:
Sunday Synth Jam: Reader Jørgen Hvirring shared this video, which captures a 360° video of a live performance by his band, Lövestad, at Shoeless in Amsterdam.
Novation has released a free patch library for the Bass Station II analog synthesizer, the Artist Pack.
Developer Geert Bevin (Moog Music, Roger Linn Design, EigenLabs) has released an open source tool for Roger Linn’s LinnStrument that lets it double as a keyboard for your Mac OS X computer. LinnStrument Control is designed to minimize the need for LinnStrument owners to have a separate hardware computer keyboard in their setup.
This video, via Reuben Jones, is a demo of some of the sonic possibilities of the vintage Sequential Circuits Pro-One analog synthesizer.
EarMaster has announced that its ear training and sight-singing application – already available for Mac & Windows – is now available for iPad. It offers exercises for all levels, designed to train users to: sight-read and sight-sing music; recognize intervals, chords, scales and melodies by ear; increase rhythm and pitch precision; learn to transcribe music… Read More New Ear Training & Sight-Singing App For iPad, EarMaster
FeelYourSound has released MelodicFlow for Windows and Mac OS X – a MIDI performance and songwriting VSTi. The concept: Put MelodicFlow on a track of your DAW. Connect it to a synth or some other instrument. Play a chord on the lower half of the keyboard. You won’t hear this chord, because MelodicFlow stores the notes and as… Read More FeelYourSound Releases MelodicFlow, MIDI Performance & Songwriting VSTi
The Daphne Oram Trust has launched a Kickstarter project to fund a new printing of electronic music pioneer Daphne Oram’s 1972 book on ‘music sound and electronics’, An Individual Note. The book offers a look at the technology and ideas behind creating electronic music, from the perspective of a mid-century electronica pioneer. “We will be entering a strange… Read More New Version Of Daphne Oram Book, An Individual Note, Planned
Scottish synth designer Ken MacBeth shared these images that offer a behind-the-scenes look at the creation of a new synthesizer, the MacBeth Studio Systems M7-D. Look closely and you can see that this is a cardboard panel, which MacBeth uses to visualize his design and test its usability.
