Audiothingies has released a new firmware version for its P6 – a DIY polyphonic synth kit. The P6 offers 2 oscillators, 1 sub-oscillator, an 8-mode resonant filter, 3 envelopes and 3 LFOs per voice. Performance options include an integrated chorder and arp pattern sequencer. Here’s a video intro to the P6 running Firmware 2:
Waldorf Music has introduced Attack Drums – a software synth for iPad that they say is designed mainly for drum sounds, but that also can be used for everything else – including vocals.
Reverb experts Valhalla DSP shared this sneak preview of their upcoming Shimmer cartridge for the Tiptop Audio Z-DSP effects module.
Conductr & CaboSanRoque have collaborated to create a new project, HiLo, for Sonar 2015, that features iPad-controlled household objects.
Moog Music this week released a free EP of music by synthesist Robert Rich. The EP, Hiding In Daylight, was created to commemorate the retirement of the Minimoog Voyager Rack Mount Edition (Voyager RME) analog synthesizer. Hiding in Daylight is a 3-song EP, embedded below, of evolving soundscapes. Moog describes the EP as “a meditative… Read More Free Music Friday: New Music From Robert Rich
Dave Smith Instruments shared this awesome photo of Roger Linn, Dave Smith and Tom Oberheim, left to right, flying in style.
https://vimeo.com/130027682 Synthesist Mark Mosher is a fan of the Percussa AudioCubes and their potential as a tangible controller for MIDI software that’s also visually interesting. AudioCubes are modular controllers, that can be used with MIDI and OSC, for live performance, sound design and more. This video documents Mosher’s experiments with using Wireless AudioCubes, with MIDIBridge… Read More Tangible Control Of Modular Software With Percussa AudioCubes
Analog Drum ‘n’ Bass is a new track, by KinetiX, made using a 100% analog signal path – from the synthesizers creating the music in real time to open reel tape to mastering the tape with outboard analog equipment and finally to cutting the tape directly to vinyl. Here are the technical details on the… Read More 100% All-Analog Drum ‘n’ Bass, All The Way To The Needle
In this video, via ARP, ARP’s cofounder and lead designer of the original ARP Odyssey, David Friend, discusses the role he played as Chief Advisor to KORG for the re-issue of the ARP Odyssey.
Producer Jason Donnelly (Dj Puzzle, Soundtrack Loops and Loop Cartel) shared this video today, which demonstrates how to build a custom DJ booth using stuff from IKEA. Donnelly wanted a custom DJ booth, with plenty of storage for a large LP collection – so he built it, using a collection of cheap stuff from IKEA (Kallax + Capita +… Read More Build A Custom DJ Booth With Stuff From IKEA (Kallax + Capita + Lack)
