AfroDJMac sends word of another one of his free Ableton Live Racks: Greetings Synthamaniacs, This week I am sharing the racks I use in my live performances, the vocal rack and a send channel rack. In the video I go through how I map them to an APC40 and a LaunchPad making for some fun… Read More Free Ableton Live Rack – Vocal Rack And Dub Delay The AfroDJMac Way
Sonic Drive Media has released a new soundset – Dubstep Instrument Rack Presets for Ableton Live. The Soundset contains 33 ‘Ultra Heavy Dubstep Patches’, which use the Operator and Analog synths. Contents: 33 Deep Dark Nasty Basses, Wobbles and SubBass Instrument Rack Presets All Presets in this SoundBank take full use of the Instrument Rack’s 8… Read More New Dubstep Soundset For Ableton Live – Wub, Wub, Wub
Developers Mike Rotondo and Luke Iannini sent word that they’ve released a new iPad app, Artikulator. Artikulator is a multi-touch finger-painting synthesizer and music toy. But, while Rotondo & Iannini describe the app as a ‘music toy’, it also is designed to let you explore synthesis in an experimental way. Here’s what the developers have to… Read More Artikulator ‘Finger-Painting’ Synthesizer Inspired By Xenakis, Ligeti
Synthtopians – AfroDJMac has another Ableton Live freebie for you: Hello friends at Synthtopia, AfroDJMac here to share with you my latest free Ableton Live Rack: Found Percussion. I love when ordinary sounds becomes music, so this week I’ve sampled all kinds of objects from my kitchen, including bottles, cans, glasses, brooms, M+M wrappers, etc.… Read More Free Ableton Live Rack/Sample Pack Features ‘Found Percussion’
Starr Labs has been publishing a series of videos on YouTube that demonstrate using the company’s Ztar controllers with various electronic music apps. In the latest video, Jacques looks at some creative ways to control Native Instruments Prism synth. Using a Starr Labs Ztar, you can control any number of parameters found within this soft-synth, such… Read More Ztar + Native Instruments Prism
Reader Alan Stuart sends word of a pair free MIDI sequence collections: I have released a second pack of 50 free 16-step analog-style MIDI sequences suitable for electro, acid, house & techno productions. More to come, stay tuned! You can download the collection at the AudioVapor site.
Reader Silvia Alonso (PSGirl) sent word of her track, We Are The Electronic Minds, inspired by the Cyberpunk Manifiesto and by William Gibson’s literature. Alonso notes: The track was done using both virtual and hardware synthesizers (see my home studio at www.psgirl-music.com).
Unintelligible Voices is a new sample library, designed by Studio Wormbone, that features verbal communication that has been ‘obsessively warped, effected, and deconstructed to the extreme’. Here’s the official description: The information in what used to be the comprehensible verbiage of dialogue has been stripped away through the craft of tastefully intense signal processing. What’s… Read More New Sample Library, Unintelligible Voices By Studio Wormbone
Free Music Software: AfroDJMac sent word today about the latest release in his series of free Ableton Live Racks, Broken Bells Rack: This marks my 10th week of releasing Ableton Live racks! I hope you are enjoying them and many thanks for sharing! This week I’ve released the “AfroDJMac Broken Bells Rack.” It was created… Read More Free Ableton Live Rack – Broken Bells Rack
Petteri Mäkiniemi sent in this video that demonstrates the Ginette, a DIY instrument, based on the Ondes Martenot. Here’s what Mäkiniemi has to say about the Ginette. I designed and built this instrument during 2010-2011. The idea is based on the ondes Martenot that was invented by Maurice Martenot in 1928. My instrument is named ‘Ginette’… Read More DIY Ondes Martenot, The Ginette
