Experimental Synth’s Chris Stack sent this video our way from his recent Synth Party. Sadly, we weren’t invited – but it does look like it was quite the soiree, with Korg, Moog & Yamaha in attendance. Stack adds, “If it’s not fun, it’s not music.”
Reader Alex Theakston sent us this video of Cyril Lance, Senior Engineer at Moog Music, sharing his thoughts on what’s under the hood in the Moog Taurus III bass pedals, as well as sharing a selection of some of the “brutal sounds” it can create.
Reader AfroDJMac has released another free Live Rack – Michael Jackson Synthesizer. Here’s what he has to say about the Michael Jackson synth: I love Michael Jackson. So, why not use his voice as the groundwork for a new synth? This week, I created a Sampler instrument using various vocal snippets from early in the King… Read More New Michael Jackson Synthesizer From AfroDJMac
If you’re interested in electronic music history, sci fi or just free music, you’ll want to check out this free download of Edward Artemiev‘s soundtrack to the 70’s Russian sci fi classic, Andrei Tarkovsky’s Solaris. The Solaris soundtrack is unusual in that it was created using the rare ANS synthesizer, which used photo-optic recording to… Read More Free Download – The Electronic Soundtrack To The 70’s Sci Fi Classic ‘Solaris’
AfroDjMac sends word of plans to release a free Ableton Live rack every week: Every week I’m releaseing Free Ableton Live Racks and this one is a backwards piano. I sampled each key on my old Kranich and Bach 1913 upright piano and then reversed the samples, laid it out on an Ableton Rack and… Read More Free Ableton Live Racks From AfroDJMac
Karl Bartos (formerly of Kraftwerk) and Masayuki Akamatsu (media artist and author of various iPhone apps such as Banner, Oscillator, Echochops) have created a free iPhone app, Mini-Composer (App Store link). “We have created this simple music app for fun: it implements the basic waves of a synthesizer with a 16-step sequencer,” says Bartos. “This… Read More Free iPhone App From Kraftwerk’s Karl Bartos
Synthesis Bakis Sirros (Parallel Worlds) sends word of a new collaboration with Ian Boddy, Exit Strategy. Description: Both Boddy & Sirros have a long, well documented love of analogue modular synthesisers and the organic sounds and rhythms these instruments can produce, so in many ways it was inevitable that these two musicians would collaborate at… Read More Ian Boddy & Parallel Worlds ‘Exit Strategy’
Roger Pellegrini sends word to us about a free app that turns your iPad into a wireless MIDI continuous keyboard controller for your modular or VSTs. Inspired by the Haken Continuum, but in two octave form, the Pellegrini Space-Tme Keyboard is an open-source program that runs within the Control environment, which is available free in the… Read More Free iPad Wireless MIDI App + Synth Porn Of The Week
Discchord sent word about this video, which demonstrates how you can use a $600 Native Instruments Maschine controller to play Rock Band 3, using free software and gear. “Not only is this a lot of fun, but it is great practice!” Using a $600 MIDI controller to play Rock Band is sort of a stupidtacular abuse… Read More Play Rock Band 3 With Native Instruments Maschine
Do “Real Bands Use Real Synths”? That’s the claim of keyboardist Jeffrey McFerson, part of the So Cal band Northern Labour Party. They have just released their music video for their tune Less Than Three. McFerson sends word, via that Submit A Story page, that the Northern Labour Party hasn’t “succumbed to the iPad and soft synth… Read More Real Bands Use Real Synths
