Today Sonic Faction debuted their new Mutant Synth Pack, a collection of classic synthesizers for Ableton Live. The pack features meticulously sampled iconic synths, reactivated from the 70s, 80s, and 90s. The bundle includes new 3 instruments: The Clone, based on the classic Roland SH-101 Puls8or, sampled from the notorious Waldorf Pulse+ and Rouge-One, modeled… Read More Mutant Synth Pack Channels Iconic Synths
Sample Logic‘s new Morphestra Generations collection of over 1600 instruments and multis “weighs in” at over 16GBs. The library’s sounds, geared for film, TV and game composers, were derived entirely from true orchestral recordings, made in association with Kirk Hunter Studios. A wide range of instruments (Strings, Brass, Woodwinds, Symphonic & World percussion, Voices, Guitars,… Read More From Arpeggiators To Waterphones, Morphestra Generations Boasts ‘Awesome Twisted Evolving’ Samples
More Theremin goodness from Rob Schwimmer. Here, he’s playing a song by Beck [Hansen, yes, the two-turntables-and-a-microphone Beck], “Why Did You Make Me Care.” The performance was at the NY Theremin Society concert back in September at Joe’s Pub in NYC.
Ju-X Designs has released a new version of Gimmick, a software synth for Mac. Gimmick’s oscillator draws waveform by setting how many times to twist it in a cycle, then divides it by scanning Up and Down direction. Software developer Juno Ju-X says, “Gimmick got frequency modulation feature built-in that makes sounds glitter, futuristic, and… Read More Updated Gimmick: ‘Glitter, Futuristic, and Spacy’
Following the recent launch of Avid Pro Tools 11, AIR Music Technology has released an updated and expanded AIR Instrument Expansion Pack. The new Instrument Expansion Pack offers compatibility with the latest Pro Tools AAX format, and includes two of AIR’s latest virtual instruments, Loom and Vacuum Pro, at no additional cost. The AIR Instrument… Read More AIR Updates Instrument Expansion Pack With Pro Tools 11, AAX Support
Sunday Synth Jam: New York Thereminist Rob Schwimmer plays a Star Trek – Coltrane After The Rain medley on a 1929 RCA “theremin of reknown.” Schwimmer had this to say about playing the H. Whipple Abbott theremin: “84 years old electronics! And so thick sounding it’s as if you’re touching somebody.”
AudioThing has released a new Toy Marimba instrument for Kontakt. Toy Marimba features “a small tuned percussion instrument” made of rosewood and rope. Product developers describe how they created the virtual instrument: “This handmade toy instrument was found in a distressed state and some work was required to restore its original functionality. It was sampled… Read More AudioThing releases Toy Marimba for Kontakt
American minimalist composer (and one of Synthhead’s and my favorites), Steve Reich, celebrates his 77th birthday today. In the video, above, he considers a cake.
This is a piece of generative music was created by Jay Gilligan, who is an artist who works in the medium of juggling. He created this Apollo-mission-inspired piece by bringing his juggling skills to the tangible controller blocks of a Reactable table. Gilligan describes how it works:
Plug-in developer Sonnox has partnered with mp3 inventor Fraunhofer IIS to create a new solution for encoding music for the web, Codec Toolbox. Codec Toolbox offers real-time codec auditioning, metadata editing and batch encoding for musicians, DJ’s, engineers and producers of recorded sound for the web. Codec Toolbox Key Features:
