Sacred Bones Records & horror filmmaker and composer John Carpenter have announced a new album, Lost Themes II. It continues the theme of his debut album – soundtracks for imaginary Carpenter films. The album will be available April 15th, 2016. It’s available for pre-order now,in digital form, via iTunes.
Sunday Synth Jam: This synth jam – Nibiru, by RetroSound – features the vintage E-mu Emulator II sampling synthesizer (1984).
This video, via Flux, offers a hands-on demo of how to mod an Arturia MiniBrute or MicroBrute.
Sunday Synth Jam: This is a music video for David Ryle’s ‘switched on’ take on Aram Khachaturian’s Adagio, from the ballet, Gayane. The Adagio is probably best known from its use in Kubrick’s 2001-A Space Odyssey, in the voyage to Jupiter sequence.
In his latest teardown video, Markus Fuller takes a look inside the new Korg Minilogue analog polyphonic synthesizer.
At the end of last year, RealiTone introduced RealiDrums – a new virtual instrument that is guaranteed to give you the drum sound that you want. Here’s a quick intro to RealiDrums, via Sonic State, from Realitone’s Mike Green.
Asparion has announced the D400 DAW Controller – a scalable DAW controller that can offer up to 64 motorized faders and ‘countless LED push buttons’.
Tasty Chips Electronics let us know about the ST4 Hybrid Synthesizer/Tracker, a unique device that combines a hybrid analog/digital synthesizer with a 16-bit style tracker music machine. It has digital oscillators, backed up with sampling for versatility, with analogue VCF’s and VCA’s for character. The developer says that, while the ST4 is packed with features,… Read More Tasty Chips Electronics Intros ST4 Hybrid Synthesizer/Tracker
Developer Nikolozi Meladze has introduced NS1 – described as ‘a simple and intuitive virtual analog subtractive synthesizer’ for iPad. NS1 works as an Audio Unit extension inside a host application such as GarageBand or MultitrackStudio.
Yuri Suzuki’s Three Radio Theremin is a sort of ‘MacGyver Theremin’ – made from three repurposed AM radios.
