Free Music Friday: Presence, the third (and final) recording in Phase47‘s pure electronic ambient trilogy, is another long-form single track album. Total length is 48:42. This is music for focus, both within and without. It’s available for download on Bandcamp for “name your own price,” including free. “Please download and enjoy.” via Don Tyler
Loopmasters has introduced a sample library by Trafik and is offering a discount for Synthtopia readers. The new pack ‘aims to aid producers across a multitude of electronic sub-genres rather than being very genre specific.’ “Our goal was to provide an antithesis to the more genre specific sample packs out there and produce something that… Read More Loopmasters Trafik Toolkit Elektronika
Universal Audio has announced ‘a complete re-imagination of the popular UAD-2 Powered Plug-Ins platform’. Highlighted by the new flagship UAD-2 OCTO DSP Accelerator card, featuring eight SHARC processors, the UAD-2 Series offers new Custom and Ultimate software bundles and more affordable pricing for all UAD-2 SOLO, DUO, and QUAD DSP Accelerator models.
AudioThing has introduced TX-101 – a 4-tracks matrix sequencer for Kontakt, designed for the creation of evolving rhythm patterns. Each track has 4 different samples (for a total of 16 samples), including organic glitches and metal hits. It is possible to store eight presets that can be joined and looped together to build a 128… Read More AudioThing Releases TX-101 Matrix Sequencer
Boutique software developer 88888 (Adam Staff & Stephen Harvey) have introduced 0800 Rhythm Machine – an eight-channel multi-voice virtual groove box for Mac & WIndows. It is designed to be used as a standalone groove box, as a live instrument, or in conjunction with a DAW as an instrument or MIDI pattern generator.
The Sormina is a new electronic instrument, designed by Juhani Räisänen, that combines traditional materials with wireless support.: The purpose was to create a new instrument that would be as nuanced, and as easy to hold, as the violin. At the same time we wanted to have a modern instrument with electronic sounds and also visual… Read More The Sormina – A New Wireless Instrument From Finland
Sunday Synth Jam: This video captures a live modular synthesizer minimal techno jam, via reader Jason Job, aka musicalgeometry. Technical details below:
This video captures a studio tour with Canadian duo Chromeo (Patrick Gemayel and David Macklovitch). They talk some pretty serious geek, show off their great collection of vintage and recent gear and demonstrate how they use it in their work. via reader Stephen Langer
MediaGROE has released a major update to Noisepad for iOS. Here’s what’s new in Noisepad Version 2.0:
FXpansion has introduced Maul – a multi-band distortion and tone-shaping plugin for Mac & Windows, with advanced modulation. Maul features 3 separate drive stages, each of which can act on a different frequency range with any of 32 distortion types. The available algorithms include DCAM-modelled germanium diode, tube and transistor-based circuits, clippers, overdrives, waveshapers of various… Read More New Plugin Lets You Maul Your Sound, Crush Your Bits
