Kreativ Sounds, a new site that features pay-what-you-wish soundware, is looking for sound designers. Here’s what they are looking for: Thematic loops packs with at least 25 loops in Apple, Acid, Wav or Rex format; Synthesizers Sound Banks with at least 32 patches / presets; Reason Refills with at least a total of 64 patches… Read More Kreativ Sounds Looking For Sound Designers
Jan van Nuenen‘s Flowers is an interesting experimental electronic music video that explores the idea of using the Monome to control audio and video generation at the same time. Here’s how it works: The home made Monome is connected to a max/msp patch called boiingg (great app for the monome). Max sends midi to Ableton… Read More Using A Monome To Control Audio & Video At The Same Time
Teragon Audio has released KickMaker, a synthesizer designed specifically for making good kick drum sounds. It feautures four independent oscillators and a wide range of effects, letting you create customized beats. “KickMaker is the perfect solution for producers who are tired of using factory samples or ordinary drum machines, and want an easy way to create a… Read More Free Kick Drum Synthesizer
Sounds And Effects has announced a sample library, Synths of the 1970s, for E-Mu Systems’ Emulator X and Proteus X is now available via download or in a DVD case. Source material was recorded at 24 bit from the Mini Moog, ARP 2600, Moog Opus 3, ARP Odyssey, and Oberheim SEM. Developed by Terry Grame, who… Read More Synths of the 1970s
Alfred Sarkis has released a new $.99 iPhone app, Tabla (App Store link). Description: The Tabla (also known as Arabic drum, darbukkah, darbouka or dumbak) is a single-headed hand- drum found in most Arab music ensembles. This application provides a Tabla with 5 different beat sounds, the “Doum” in the middle, and 4 different “Taks”… Read More New iPhone Tabla App
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aFo1l8SJeik In this demo video, Chris Warren is controlling a soft synth developed especially for AudioCubes by Percussa, to be released in the next few months. No setup or configuration necessary to make the cubes talk to the software, since the software was designed specifically for the cubes. No drivers necessary, and runs on Mac OSX… Read More Sound Design With Percussa AudioCubes
Ocarina (App Store link) is now the most popular iPhone app in the world. I’d like to think it was a result of our previous Ocarina coverage – but I think it may have been this video of a girl playing Phantom Of The Opera on the iPhone with her nose that did it: via… Read More Virtual Ocarina The Most Popular iPhone App In The World
Sebastian Tomczak (Little Scale) has put together a fantastic tutorial on how to prep samples and create LSDJ kits. LSDJ is an app designed to turn a Game Boy/Game Boy Color into a full-fledged music workstation. To create your own sample kits for LSDJ, you’ll need several apps: Bias PEAK (5.2) Apple QuickTime Pro (7.55) LSDJ… Read More How to Prepare Samples And Create LSDJ Kits
This is the first of a planned series of videos on synth programming from switchedonsynthesizer. The first episode looks at programming a simple bass line. The demos are done with Synth1, a free VST synthesizer.
Soundside’s RealPiano (App Store link) sounds surprisingly good. It’s a sample-based piano that seems to be limited primarily by the fact that the iPhone interface doesn’t offer a lot of expressive options. Features: Professional sounds: 16 bit resolution 44.1KHz sample frequency Uncompressed samples – Full stereo Enhanced reverb (hall) sound Optimized for both headphones and… Read More iPhone Piano Sounds Surprisingly Good
