Need a little inspiration? Here’s a found-sound video song, via reader Jan-Marco Ritter, who says: I just wanted to show that you can make music with everything. So I grabbed my new Sony PCM M-10 and the packaging that came with it and made this track on a sunny berlin day. All sounds and music were… Read More Music With Packaging
http://vimeo.com/45441615 StudioFeed has a new interview, with twin techno producers Matt and Mark Thibideau who are ‘analog-gear heads’: The Thibideau brothers developed a love for analog synthesizers at a young age. Collecting a staple of them mostly at unbeatable prices, their studio holds a variety of gear, each having it’s own story. Both studied music in… Read More Inside An Analog Studio, With Canadian Producers Matt & Mark Thibideau
Giorgio Moroder made a rare appearance at the International Music Summit in Ibiza. Moroder – currently recording on the island – discusses his history with electronic music and spills the beans on his recent work with Daft Punk. via reader Marc Mitchell
Sunday Synth Jam: A synth jam, by Subvertic, on Korg EMX, Access Virus Snow, IPad Alchemy, Future Retro Revolution via Darren
Sunday Synth Jam: Live electro sequencing, via reader Thomas Kress: Testing the Nord Rack 2x for my live-set. Eight midi tracks – four separate voices on the Nord and four separate voices on the Dave Smith Tetra; Six audio tracks with 808 and vocoder samples on the Octatrack.
KOELSE is a documentary is about four young men, who form a group called Association of Experimental Electronics (KOELSE). They gather electronic devices that others throw away and build musical instruments and art installations from this “waste”: Their opinion of music, fun and the culture of consuming differs from the masses. What others see as a worthless piece… Read More KOELSE Documentary – Making Music From Junk
Andrew Apanov from XSSR Academy let us know about this new tutorial on creating instruments in Ableton Live, as an exclusive for Synthtopia readers. In the video, XSSR’s Alex Mars demonstrates how to create your own instruments in Ableton Live. Even if you’re not into dubstep, the tutorial is a useful look at creating custom instruments in… Read More Create A Dubstep Instrument In Ableton Live (Exclusive)
Sound Magic has introduced Neo Plasma – a new multi delay type effect that uses a ‘Plasma Collision System’ to maximize the randomness of several parameters and create a bigger and richer sound. Neo Plasma produces several kinds of effects, including: Multi delay effect with feedback control and different modulation options that give it too… Read More Sound Magic Releases Neo Plasma, A Multi Delay Type Effect With ‘Plasma Collision System’
Sound Magic has released Hybrid Harpsichord for OS X and Windows 64Bit. The Hybrid Harpsichord is based on an instrument built by Kirckman in the 1770s. This rare-seen classic instrument has a single manual with 3 stops, including a lute stop. The Krickman Harpsichord is famous for its unique, high quality sound and although this… Read More Sound Magic Hybrid Harpsichord for Mac & Windows
Browser-based virtual studio Soundation Studio has added support for external MIDI recording. Now you can connect an external keyboard to one of the virtual instruments in Soundation and record directly to the “cloud”. Soundation Studio comes with 4 different synthesizers, a drum machine and a sample player. You can also use the virtual keyboard in Soundation to record… Read More Soundation Studio Adds External Midi Recording
