AfroDJMac has gone MacGyver this week, creating a free instrument for Ableton Live that’s based on the sound of a rubberband – as demonstrated by his cat in this video. Here’s what he’s got to say about this bizarre creation: AfroDJMac here, writing about my 65th free Ableton Instrument. It was made by recording a rubber… Read More Free Instrument Features The Sound Of A Rubberband, Played By A Cat
MOTU has released Digital Performer 8 for Mac & Windows, the latest version of its audio + MIDI DAW. Here’s what’s new in DP8: 64-bit support – Digital Performer’s 64-bit support ensures that you can take full advantage of all the memory space in your computer for optimum performance from your MOTU desktop studio. Windows 7… Read More Digital Performer 8 Now Available For Mac & Windows
Sound Magic has released Piano One Special Edition – a free hybrid piano virtual instrument. The Special Edition contains all the presets published up to Sep 2012, 20 presets in total and most important, adds previous hidden key noise and harmonic controls into automation list, which previous only available on our commercial products. The Sound… Read More Piano One Special Edition, A Free Hybrid Modeling Yamaha Concert Grand
This tutorial, via AfroDJMac,looks at side chaining the gate in Ableton Live: Ableton Live‘s Gate effect is super useful for cutting out unwanted noises and cleaning up tracks. Basically, the gate stays closed, preventing sound from passing through, until the volume reaches a certain threshold. At that point the sound is allowed to pass through. The… Read More Side Chain The Gate In Ableton Live
Xylio has released BeatSpiral – a new sample performance instrument for the iPad, iPhone and iPod touch. BeatSpiral is designed to let you chop samples, make beats and perform with them live. You can choose from an included library or import your own. Features: Create new sequences by rearranging and looping sample slices Hold the wave… Read More BeatSpiral Sample Performance Instrument For iOS
Reader Mitsushi Abe let us know about this fantastic DIY project – an Ondes Martenot MIDI Controller. Abe, who describes himself as “an amateur geek living in Tokyo”, loves to make DIY instruments. He used an Arduino to control the Korg Legacy Collection Mono/Poly software synth.
Mordant Music has re-issued (and remixed) an album of experimental electronic production music from the Boosey & Hawkes Library by the legendary Tod Dockstader. Amazing analogue synthetic textures and rhythms. This LP was first issued by library music label Boosey & Hawkes in 1979, and renders some 23 electronic cues of exceptional calibre, at once… Read More Tod Dockstader Album Reissue
This is the music video for Hi Seas, by Boston audio/visual collective CliffLight.
Sample Logic has introduced Cinematic Guitars 2 – a suite of over 1200 instruments and multis: In creating a sequel to CG, the designers at Sample Logic went all the way back to the fundamentals of the recording process, where they re-conceived and invented new and clever ways of creating and capturing unique sounds derived… Read More Sample Logic Intros ‘Epic’ Cinematic Guitars 2
Sunday Synth Jam: A live techno jam, via reader Kuba Sojka, with Korg ESX-1, Roland JX-305, Korg microKorg and effects.
