Nang Records has released a full-length album by Andy Meecham (Emperor Machine) that showcases his love for vintage monophonic synthesizers. On Monophonic Volume 1, each track has been crafted on a single classic synthesiser (and is named after it). The concept is designed to give each piece it’s own identity and sense of time and… Read More Andy Meecham’s Monophonic Vol. 1 Is ‘A Synth Purists Dream’
Saturday Synth Porn: Here’s an up close and personal look at the Analogue Solutions Concussor line of modular synth drum modules. The Concussor modules feature pure analog voice circuitry. Many of the modules emulate the sound of classic Roland analog drums sounds.
Saturday Synth Porn: This vintage modular is the first commercial Moog synthesizer sold. It was built by Robert Moog (1934-2005), using pear tree wood from his own back yard in New York. It has three control panels, a five-octave keyboard with fifteen knobs, a wood stand, and pedals. It was originally commissioned and owned by New… Read More The First Commercial Moog Synthesizer
Free Music Friday: Orange Trickster is an electronic music project that seeks ‘to rescue the synthpop of the early 1980s, through the sounds, beats and vocal harmonies on the choruses characteristic of the age and style’. You can preview the track, The Shadow, via their music video, above, or download the track via the SoundCloud… Read More Free Download – Retro Synthpop From Orange Trickster – ‘The Shadow’
Free Music Friday: Igor Vasiliev‘s TimeGears – One Broadcast Day. Part I is composition that combines ‘found sound’ from 1939 and new electronic music and sounds: This composition is impression of broadcasts the radio station WJSV (Washington, D.C.) recorded in one day on September 21, 1939. – “Just another day. Just another broadcast day evaporating into… Read More ‘Motion Soundscape’, TimeGears, Part Electronic Music, Part Audio Time Capsule
Free Music Friday: Pilot Eleven is a new net label, based in England releasing free Creative Commons music. Their latest release is a 3 track EP from Distilled Logic, a.k.a Stefan Odlum, titled Journey In Spherical Harmonics.
AfroDJMac has released a new Ableton Live Collection created from tuned metallic wind chimes, WindChime Synths: The Ableton Live Pack includes 5 Instrument Racks, 4 Drum Racks, 4 Effect Racks, plus 10 additional presets. These Ableton Racks are quite diverse and easily manipulated with macro knobs. A couple of the instruments use wind chime samples… Read More WindChime Synths For Ableton Live
AudioBus – the upcoming inter-application audio system for iOS – is the subject of the inaugural Touch Music Podcast. The first episode features AudioBus developers Sebastian Dittmann and Michael Tyson, along with hosts Tim Webb, Sean Walker and Chip Boaz.
Producer Francis Preve let us know that he’s put together a new free library of synth patches for Ableton Live, featuring the sound of the Roland SH-101 synthesizer. Here’s what Preve has to say about these Simpler instruments: SH101 Saw – Basic single oscillator SH-101 sawtooth. SH101 Square – Basic single oscillator SH-101 square wave.… Read More Free Roland SH-101 Synth Patches For Ableton Live
Sunsine Audio has released 64 presets for Addictive Synth for iPad. Addition explores the depth and range of Addictive Synth, including support for the XY pad. “The sounds range from fresh bass, lead and pad sounds to extraordinarily rich, swirling bursts and morphing textural landscapes.” said Fletcher Kaufman, lead sound designer and owner of Sunsine… Read More 64 Presets For Addictive Synth For iPad
