Documentary project Tweakers has released the second in their series of documentaries, looking at “anyone who dedicates their unique skills and creativities to ‘tweak’ the future of Thailand.” This episode looks at the private studio of Thailand based psychedelic dub reggae band The Sticky Rice, their great analog gear collection and how they use them… Read More Thailand Tweakers Documentary With The Sticky Rice
Reader Marc Mitchell let us know that Beatport is running a Giorgio Moroder remix contest. Mitchell notes that, whether or not you enter the contest, ” the parts to ‘from here to eternity’ are worth having.” You can get the details on the contest, or just download the original parts, at Beatport.
This video takes a behind the scenes look at the live stage show of Jon Gooch, aka Feed Me. Feed Me recently cooperated with Sober Industries and Studio Rewind to produce a remarkable Live show, displaying innovative lighting and video concepts and most notably a giant set of synchronized Teeth. Learn about Feed Me as… Read More Behind The Scenes With Feed Me
Developer Thilo Geertzen let us know about version 2 of the step sequencer Lauflicht plugin for the Novation Launchpad: The plugin for Renoise is a moving light, multitrack and multitimbral step sequencer with 8, 16 or 32 steps, turning your Launchpad into a Hardware Step Sequencer. It was especially designed for playing live and to be capable… Read More Turn Your LaunchPad Into A Step Sequencer WIth Lauflicht
It looks like Elektron – maker of the Octatrack, MonoMachine & MachineDrum – may have a new instrument on the way. Eagle-eyed reader Gilles Kutte saw this note on the Facebook page of French boutique synth shop Modularsquare: “Stoppez les rotatives ! La prochaine machine d’Elektron est sur le point d’être révélée ! Et comme chaque… Read More What’s Elektron Introducing?
Dan (SynthDan1) from Acoustica Software demonstrates his dream synth – a rare 1969 Moog modular: I fulfilled a life-long dream by buying a 1969 Moog Modular system. This system was custom-ordered by Rick Powell, a musician and friend of Bob Moog, and was used on a number of pretty bad Moog albums in the 70s. When… Read More Moog Lives! 1969 R.A. Moog Modular Synthesizer Restored
Sunsine Audio has introduced the first commercial third-party Animoog Timbre expansion pack, Animation Vol 3 – Timbres. The timbre pack features samples from a Dave Smith Instruments Tetra and an ARP Odyssey. The unofficial pack was created using Tim Webb’s Animoog timbre hack. Format: 64 .wav files All timbres feature the Sunsine name for easy recognition. Detailed installation… Read More Unofficial Commercial Animoog Timbres Now Available
Sunday Synth Jam: Synthesist Bruno Ender Lee creates a sonic voyage with his Minimoog with his latest track, Velvet Voyager.
Reader Tim Webb, aka discchord, put his ‘white hat hacker’ hat on this weekend, and cracked the code on how to add your own timbres to Animoog: I figured out how to hack in custom timbres for Animoog! No jailbreak required! To celebrate I have released a pack of 10 for folks to try it… Read More Hack Animoog To Add Your Own Timbres (No Jailbreak Required)
AfroDJMac has released another freebie for Ableton Live users: I’ve released a new free Ableton Live Pack for adding sub bass to any instrument. Basically it is an instrument rack with two chains: one to drop in any synth you desire, and another with a sine wave synth to supply sub bass. There are macro… Read More Easy Sub Bass For Ableton Live
