Ambient electronic composer and musician Robert Rich has released a new album this week, “What We Left Behind.” Rich shared the inspiration for the title and the background for the story told by the songs on “Behind” in a profile article by Michael Brückner, recently published on the Ambient Visions website: “[The album] imagines a journey… Read More ‘What We Left Behind’ – Robert Rich and 21st Century Shamanism
Music technology company ROLI has announced that the company has raised an additional $27 million in investment “to accelerate growth” and bring its instruments, like the Seaboard RISE, right, to musicians around the world. Company representatives say the Series B fundraising will help ROLI scale to meet growing demand, expand in new markets, and “intensively build” out… Read More Seaboard Creator ROLI Raises Additional $27M Funding ‘To Accelerate Growth’
Polish startup Polyend has announced that the PERC – a MIDI-controlled system for playing acoustic percussion instruments – is now available for pre-order. The PERC system can be combined with any set of drums to create a robotic virtual drummer, to augment a traditional drum kit or to create live acoustic drumming that explores territory… Read More Polyend PERC Robotic MIDI Drummer Now Available For Pre-Order
Swedish music hardware company Elektron today announced free updates for its Overbridge hardware/software integration protocol and the Analog Rytm analog drum machine. Here are the details:
And now for something completely different: Someone has made a middling pun into a real, working musical instrument: the NES Paul Guitar, an electric guitar, the body of which is made from — you guessed it — a Nintendo NES console. Calling it “the guitar that helped Mario save the princess,” custom guitar-maker DoniGuitars says… Read More The NES Paul, ‘The Guitar That Helped Mario Save the Princess”
Native Instruments recently held their Native Sessions event series in cities around the world, programs which focus on how creators can craft their own “signature sound.” Those interviews, lectures and panels were all recorded, and today NI released the programs as “Sonic Hooks” videos. NI’s event organizers explain the idea behind the “Sonic Hooks” theme:… Read More NI Debuts Native Sessions ‘Sonic Hooks’ Interview Series
Synchro Arts, makers of VocAlign and Titan, recently released an update to their processing software, Revoice Pro. Revoice Pro 3.2 now includes manual tuning enhancements, scale grids, a bar and beats display, and Doubler enhancements, along with other time-saving audio processing and workflow improvements.
Composer and sound designer Drew Neumann shared another video of his experiments and explorations with the Knifonium vacuum tube synthesizer:
Auddict has released “Drums of the Deep,” which they are calling “the ultimate drum library.” The Kontakt sample library, compatible with version 4 and up, is a collection of drums ranging from small to “earth-shudderingly huge.”
Robert Fantinatto and Jason Amm, the Director/Producer team behind the modular synthesizer documentary, “I Dream Of Wires,” are producing a new documentary, “Electronic Voyager,” in association with The Bob Moog Foundation. Amm and Fantinatto, as Waveshaper Media, launched the documentary project today on Kickstarter. “We aim to create a definitive and personal documentary about the… Read More Bob Moog Documentary Project, ‘Electronic Voyager,’ Launched on Kickstarter
