House music producer Deadmau5 is getting a virtual reality game. Deadmau5 (Joel Zimmerman) has teamed up with Absolut on the iOS/Android Google Cardboard virtual reality video game, Absolut Deadmau5. The game lets you navigate deadmau5 through a series of gameplay challenges to get to a gig.
Amazing Noises has introduced Moebius Lab – a multimorphic sound processor for iOS. Moebius Lab contains a synth, a varispeed stereo sample player, 9 time domain effects, 6 spectral effects, 7 slots for external audio application, and nearly 200 LFOs that can modulate each parameter. All parameters can be modulated with dedicated LFOs (one independent LFO for… Read More Moebius Lab Is A Multimorphic Sound Processor For iOS
Designer Ren Kitchener has launched a Kickstarter project to fund production of a new analog synth, Chicago. The Chicago Boutique RIFF & BASS Analogue Synthesizer is designed to provide a ‘basic, but useful’ synth voice, with four variable phase and pulse width oscillators + 1 sub/square/saw oscillator and a Sallen & Key 24dB/Octave Low pass filter.… Read More The Chicago Analogue Is A New Rackmount Riff & Bass Synthesizer
Axel Bluhme’s XOXX Composer is a tangible beat sequencer that uses magnets stuck to wheels to sequence cyclical rhythms. XOXX Composer features eight rotating discs, so eight sound samples can be sequenced at one time. Each disc is quantized into 16 steps. Below each disc there is a physical interface for pitch tuning and volume output. Here’s a demo of… Read More XOXX Composer Is ‘A Music Box For The Digital Era’
The Function Of Music is a short film, by animator and director Mac Premo, based on an interview with composer and Radiolab producer Jad Abumrad.
CZounds has announced 4 new patch sets for classic Casio CZ synths, including Casio CZ-1, CZ-101, CZ-1000, CZ-3000 and CZ-5000 synthesizers. The new Casio CZ synth patches are inspired by 1980s synthpop bands:
SynthPatcher has launched a synthesizer T-shirt shop. The shop features T-shirts designs that are authorized and printed on ‘Fair Wear’ shirts
Samplemodeling has introduced The Cello, a new virtual instrument that they say captures ‘virtually all the elements contributing to the sound of the real instrument ‘ Bow speed, pressure, direction and distance from the bridge are under player’s control. One can also control the resonance of the played string, that of the open strings, the… Read More Samplemodeling Intros Cello Virtual Instrument
Erica Synths shared this video demo of their new Pico VCO – a 3HP wide Eurorack module that offers 32 waveforms, a sub-oscillator and an LFO mode.
AfroDJMac (Brian Funk) has released a free Ableton Live Instrument, based on samples of a 1979 Crumar Performer, run through an Ampex 601 reel to reel preamp. Here’s what he has to say about it:
