Sunday Synth Jam: Pol’s Kitchen, by reader, producer and soundtrack artist POL, captures a MadPad kitchen jam. MadPad is a free app for the iPhone and iPad that lets you create video samples and then trigger and sequence them from virtual pads.
Sunday Synth Jam: Computers are awesome. But, unless you’re Kraftwerk, people don’t want to watch you check your email. Or at least look like you’re checking your email. This video, via reader Thomas Kress, captures a live electro jam, with Tetra, Octatrack, MicroQ and no laptop.
Sound Magic has released Piano One a free Piano VSTi featuring the sound of the Yamaha C7 concert grand,. Here’s what they have to say about Piano One: Piano One offers both the Realistic Sound of Sampling and the Playability of Modeling. Hybrid Modeling provides an instantaneous feeling – no delay – and a truer… Read More Sound Magic Releases Free Concert Piano VSTi, Piano One
TubeOhm has released a free VST synthesizer, Alpha Ray. It’s a 2-oscillator virtual analog that features sub-oscillator, three filters, FM & Sync, polyphonic overdrive, aftertouch modulation and more. Alpha Ray is released as a free VST synthesizer for Windows. It’s fully functional as a synth, but you can unlock it for 5 Euro to enable… Read More Free VST Synthesizer From TubeOhm – Alpha-Ray
Free Music Friday: ElectroBlog Ro sent word about a free compilation album that features the music of Romanian electronic musicians, ElectroBlog Ro – 1 Year: We celebrate one year of activity with a compilation distributed free under a Creative Commons license, high variety of music genres, signed by major names from the local electronic music scene,… Read More Free Music Friday – Electronic Music From Romania
Sound Magic has introduced Neo Dynamic – a new effect that they describe as ‘a new concept in dynamic processing technology’. Neo Dynamic is more like a sampler than typical compressors and limiters. INeo Dynamic starts with 10 compressors/limiters, based on well-known models. Neo Dynamic is easier to use than traditional compressors. Neo Dynamic will tell… Read More Sound Magic Intros Neo Dynamic, Combines 10 Compressors/Limiters In 1
Reader Ville Väisänen sent word of a free sample library, made with the Korg Monotribe: I made this free drum/percussion sample pack with my monotribe. I found it is great box for such sounds; with pitch and filter envelopes and great sounding resonant filter I recorded some pretty powerful analog bass drums, effect sounds and other… Read More Free Analog Percussion Sample Pack
Sound Magic has updated Supreme Piano 2 – a virtual instrument based on the idea that a single virtual piano can’t meet the needs of music production, so a flexible virtual piano system is superior. Supreme Piano offers 6 piano modules in a NEO Hybrid Modeling Engine, which they say combines the realism of sampled sound… Read More Sound Magic Releases Supreme Piano Version 2.1
Nuno Serrão’s most recent exhibit, Project Paperclip, is described as ‘the first photographic exhibition to use Augmented Reality’. The exhibit uses a smartphone app to augment the photographic images with dynamic soundscapes that are designed to ‘transport visitors to a state that gives them a different interpretation of the photographs.’ The experience is unique each time it is… Read More Multimedia Photography Exhibition Features Reactive Soundscapes
Developer Nikolozi Meladze has updated Easy MIDI – an app that turns your Mac keyboard, trackpad and mouse into a MIDI keyboard controller. Easy MIDI (App Store link) sends MIDI notes and control messages to any soft synth or DAW, including as GarageBand, Logic Pro, Ableton Live, Cubase and Digital Performer. It also lets you control iPad apps that… Read More Mac MIDI Controller App, Easy MIDI, Updated
