Reader Mario Gouveia send word of this iPad looping synth jam, which features Bebot, DM1, Sunrizer & Soundprism. Here’s what he has to say about his jam: What’s Like is an original song I composed looping iPad music apps through Ableton Live. The creative process was quite fun and dynamic as I could quickly try… Read More iPad Looping Jam
Reader Navi Retlav sends word about a new Reason ReFill & a Black Friday deal: I just released my second Refill for Propellerhead Reason 6: www.naviretlav.com/refill Black Friday Offer: Buy my new refill before end of “Black Friday weekened” and you will get my previous “Missing Pieces – Feedback Echo” Refill for Free.\ You can… Read More Black Friday Offer – Buy 1 Get 1 Free ReFill
Twisted Tools has released Transform – a new sample collection that provides a variety of sound effects for both sound design and music production Transform is an extensive collection of field recordings, sound effects and designed sounds developed by sound designer Jean-Edouard Miclot (a.k.a. JEDSOUND). Transform features over 1.6 Gigabytes of 24-bit/96khz audio, all meticulously embedded… Read More Twisted Tools Releases Transform
Sunday Synth Jam: Reader Chris Stack, who also blogs at ExperimentalSynth, is back with another experimental synth jam. This one is an improvisation for Animoog, Moogerfoogers and piano.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bxLYWb-56uA Sunday Synth Jam: Reader Rob Schwimmer sent in this ‘switched on’ cover of The Beatles’ Because. Here’s what he has to say about it: I wanted to do a track with polyphonic playing, poly vibrato (!), etc and this well-known (ahem!) piece seemed like a good fit for that… An imperfect performance but really… Read More Switched On Beatles – ‘Because’
Andrew Reinfeld, the Community Manager, for Gobbler.com, contacted us to let us know that Gobbler really is an online tool for backing up and managing audio projects, and not a porn site. Seriously. So, to help clear up any confusion, here’s the scoop. Gobbler is an Internet ‘cloud’ service designed specifically for the needs of the music… Read More Get 25GB Of Cloud Backup On Gobbler For Free
Reader James Kirsch responded recently to a quote I posted on posted from Bob Lefsetz on the myth of the ‘long tail’ – the idea that the Internet makes it easy for niche musicians to find an audience. Lefsetz has a pretty pessimistic view of musicians’ prospects. “Almost no one wins making music,” writes Lefsetz. “The odds are… Read More Lessons Learned From Producing Free Music
Free Music Software: AfroDJMac has another freebie for Synthtopia’s Ableton Live users this week – Space Forest Synth. Here’s what he has to say about it: This is an evolving and organic instrument that sounds as if it came from worlds beyond our own. Created from a heavily processed vocal sample, this synth has constantly changing… Read More Free Space Forest Synth For Ableton Live
http://vimeo.com/31637629 Reader Marty from Tooths.com.au sent word of the latest video in the ADSR series of video interviews, which focus on the Australian electronic music scene. This episode of ADSR features electronic trio Seekae in their Sydney City studio. They go through the process of writing ‘+Dome’ – their 2nd album. You’ll find out what… Read More ADSR Episode 2: Seekae Interview
Reader Xavier Hosxe sends word about a new DIY synth project, preenFM. preenFM is an open source and open hardware project that lets you build a hardware FM synth module. Features: 9 different FM algorithms with up to 6 operators Each operator includes a pair of oscillator and ADSR envelope Oscillator : 7 waveforms (4 sin variation… Read More New DIY FM Synthesizer – preenFM
