Macworld San Francisco 2009 starts next week – so MacRumors put together a Rumor Roundup summarizing speculation on what will be announced. We already know that Steve Jobs is not planning to make an appearance and that Apple is not planning on participating in future events. This suggests that Apple is likely to save its most important… Read More MacWorld Apple Rumor Roundup
Music Science Guy has published a guide to the Harmonic Table system – an alternate layout for music keyboards: This is a “twice folded scale” whereupon we have notes evenly spaced out, in intervals called a major second, and fold them twice, first by octave, and then again, so that the octave family of harmonics(1,… Read More A Guide To The Harmonic Table
Camille Troillard has created a free library that lets you use the Percussa AudioCubes with your own programs. The library is written in C and is available for Mac OS X and Windows. The goal is to make a library that is robust, easy to learn, and that covers most the functionalities the cubes are offering. The libcube library… Read More Free Software Library For The Percussa AudioCubes
PowerFX has released HumBox VM1, a VSTi sampler/synthesizer that combines vocal samples with synthesis manipulating tools. The HumBox can be used for scat melodies, solo lines, non verbal backing vocals and original sound effects. The plug-in comes with 10 voice banks, 50 vocal style characteristics, an intuitive interface with volume and pitch envelope settings. The HumBox… Read More PowerFX Releases the HumBox VSTi Vocal Synth
Equinox Sounds has released Hip Hop Foundations, a downloadable loop pack containing 17 Hip Hop construction kits. The collection contains a total of 221 melodic and rhythmic loops and phrases featuring beats, basslines, synthlines, guitars, electric and acoustic pianos, strings, organs plus drum loops and their isolated parts (snares, kicks, hi-hats, toms, shakers, claps, bells,… Read More New Hip Hop Construction Kits
Here’s a bizarre instrument for you – the Waraku MIDI koto (ebay link). Here are the details from the ebay auction: WARAKU was very expensive and made very limited quantities those days it was made for the very small circle of the people who seriously studying japanese traditional music and never sold at ordinary musical… Read More Bizarre MIDI Koto
Puremagnetik has released Modular Patterns – a huge collection of thick basses, resonant leads and “analog data” phrases generated entirely within the analog realm. Employing over 20 unique modules for sound generation and expression, each pattern has been meticulously assembled using 3 analog sequencers for the ultimate in nuanced phrasing and voice morphing. Here’s a look at… Read More Puremagnetik Modular Patterns Sound Library
DiscoDSP has released the Mac OS X version of Discovery Pro, a virtual analogue synthesizer featuring 12 oscillators (8 Virtual Analog + 4 Wave) with extensive sound design capabilities. Here are the details….. Features: 128 Patch Memories per bank Parameter Morphing using Modulation Wheel or MIDI velocity 2x oversampling 2x oversampled distortions Bank browser (by… Read More Discovery Pro Virtual Analog Synthesizer
Need a little bit of aleatoric weirdness in your music? Illuminated Sounds has released Random7, a free random MIDI generating program created with MAX/MSP: I created this fun little application I’m calling Random7. It is basically a 8 step sequencer that outputs midi by randomly selecting from the 7 notes in the various scales pictured above,… Read More Free Random MIDI Generator For Windows & Mac
This video captures DJ Quest working with the Opposite of Faith using an extensive custom MIDI setup. Details in the video.
