Reader Tracy Evans has put together a tutorial that looks at how to recreate David Gilmour‘s “Sound on Sound” effect, within Ableton Live. David uses a dual amp setup to perform Shine On you Crazy Diamond and achieve an infinite sustain over which he can play solos. Here’s an example of how he does this in… Read More Recreating David Gilmour’s Sound on Sound Effects In Ableton Live
Sound designer Navi Retlav sent word of a new Refill for Propellerhead Reason 6: I just released my brand new Refill from Missing Pieces series, for Propellerhead Reason 6 software. This Refill was designed to deliver a ground breaking filter sweeps and sound effects to your music productions inside Reason 6. Analog Sweeps Refill, will bring… Read More New ReFill For Propellerhead Reason – Missing Pieces
Official music video for Stendeck’s Catch The Midnight Girl. via Zeta
Reader Gordon Charlton sent word about Grieg Stewart, aka Theremin Hero, who will be appearing in the semi-finals of Britain’s Got Talent on Thursday, playing classic game tunes on hacked video game consoles, controlled by a laser harp. That’s right – he’s got frikkin’ lasers controlling 8-bit synth chips. Unfortunately, the video can’t be embedded –… Read More Laser Harp On Britain’s Got Talent
ModernBeats has released Radio MAX Music Loops – a sample library that features over 200 ‘Pop Radio’ style music loops, 600 files in 3 formats (WAV/AIFF/REX2), and 814MB in size, The loopset was designed at 120BPM and provides 10 construction-style multi-track Radio/Pop/R&B/Dance music themes with up to 4 variations per theme. All loops mix-match seamlessly together in a construction-style layout, allowing… Read More ModernBeats Releases Radio MAX Music Loops
Sunday Synth Jam: Reader Alex Juno has been getting his Mono/Poly synth jam on, and he’s got some face-peeling basslines to show for it.
Refined Stochastic Technology has released a new synth for iOS, S.709. S.709 is described as an intuitive synthesizer using four multitouch points on the screen and the accelerometer to give a large amount of control over a sine wave output. Controls: Orange – Volume and Pitch (radius control pitch range) Pink – Ramp speed and… Read More S.709 Synth For iPhone & iPad
The Red Bull Music Academy has published an really interesting interview with synthesist Jean Michel Jarre, in which he shares his 10 favorite synths. “Today, same as a piano or a saxophone, an ARP remains a classic instrument, and one that we’ll still be using in two centuries time,” notes Jarre. “After having weighed up… Read More Jean-Michel Jarre’s 10 Favorite Synths
PluginGuru has introduced Toxic FM8 – 71 ‘high octane’ patches for FM8. Here’s what they have to say about Toxic FM8: FM8 is considered one of the toughest synthesizers to program and in his second library, John “Skippy” Lehmkuhl has studied closely many of the inspiring sounds coming from todays music and injected them into… Read More Toxic FM8 Patch Library For NI FM8
Reader Szymon Kaliski has released a new microtonal music app for iOS, MicroTones. MicroTones is a microtonal synthesizer, allowing simultaneous playback of up to thirty sinewaves set with accuracy to one hundredth of a hertz. You can place new sinewaves by touching the screen, adjust volume (moving up and down) and frequency. Combination of multiple sinewaves lets… Read More MicroTones – Microtonal Synthesizer For iOS
