Detroit Mayor Mike Duggan has officially declared May 23rd-30th, 2016 Detroit Techno Week, to celebrate the role of Detroit and its artists in the creation of techno music and the annual Movement Electronic Music Festival:
Village of Trumansburg, NY has installed a new historical marker, placed outside of the building that housed the original R.A. Moog company on Main Street. The building is where the Moog modular and Minimoog were developed and produced. Michelle Moog-Koussa, Executive Director of The Bob Moog Foundation, and composer David Borden (Mother Mallard’s Portable Masterpiece Company) unveiled the… Read More Trumansburg, NY Unveils R. A. Moog Historical Marker
Arturia has announced B-3 V — a new software simulation of the classic B-3 tonewheel organ and Leslie rotary speaker combo. While the B-3 V is designed to emulate the classic Hammond B3, it also updates it with new options, including: Voice Modulator – this lets you automate drawbars via LFO, envelopes and even a step sequence. These open up… Read More Arturia Intros B-3 V Virtual Hammond Organ
Superbooth 16: This video, via Sonic State, captures an interview with Scottish synth designer Ken MacBeth, of MacBeth Studio Systems.
Arturia has introdued Farfisa V, a software recreation of the Farfisa Compact Deluxe, with some additional features from the Duo Compact series. The new virtual organ, for Mac & Windows, uses physical modeling to emulate the original. Arturia says that they modeled the real behavior of each component, right down to the transistors, oscillators, filters and built-in effects.
Sunday Synth Jam: Reader Miguel Fernandes, aka starshipfive, shared this live cover of Daft Punk‘s Get Lucky. Fernandes says that he wasn’t trying to recreate the original, but to create an original arrangement that had more of an electronic feel.
Sunday Synth Jam: Rheyne shared this video, which captures a synth jam for a polyphonic Moog setup, based on three Mother 32 Euro modules, controlled by a KMI QuNexus. Here’s what Rheyne has to say about the technical details:
This video, via Seen From Space, captures a synth jam for Moog Mother-32, DSI Pro 2 & Novation Supernova II. Here’s what they have to say about it:
At Moogfest 2016, Moog Music reintroduced the classic Minimoog Model D. In the video above, Moog synth guru Nick Montoya shares a look inside of the new Minimoog Model D, explains some of the lengths they went to to reproduce the original’s sound, and also notes what some things that they changed to make the new Minimoog more reliable and serviceable.
Faces of Moogfest 2016: The Orb performed to a huge crowd at Durham, NC’s Armory building.
