Buchla and Associates has updated its website with full info on the Electric Music Box, Buchla Series 200e: This year we’re celebrating 45 years of building bizarre electronic musical instruments. What better way to celebrate than to revisit some old instruments – namely the 200 series Electric Music Boxes, manufactured from 1970 to the mid… Read More The Buchla Series 200e Modular Synthesizer
This video, via Create Digital Media, explores using Massive in Kore for hands-on control. It also takes a look at some creative signal routing and modulation possibilities in Massive. Feedback is something people primarily associate with rock, heaviness and sludge, but there’s something here for the meditator as well as the rockist. It’s a nice demo and… Read More Feedback, Routing and Modulation in Massive
The Stribe is a DIY touch-strip interface with dual LED bargraph columns. The video shows it being used with an Arduino, Max/MSP and Reason. The kit sells for $79.99.
Bill from Gearwire demos Sugar Bytes’ Robotronic. Robotronic is a vocoder which can process mono and stereo input signals, includes sampler and synthesizer and offers Frequency Focussing and Formantshifting. Robotronic is available in Mac VST and AU, and PC VST for 79€ / 99$.
Radiophonica (WFRP001) is the first title in UK sound designer Ian Boddy’s Waveforms series of independent downloadable sample libraries. Radiophonica provides a library of sounds that recall the BBC Radiophonic Workshops early work on seminal TV programmes like Doctor Who; as such, they embrace those appealing analogue, organic, retro scifi sounding characteristics of early synthesiser soundtracks. All 200 samples 24-bit/44.1kHz mono WAV, crossfade… Read More Sample Library Captures Classic Sound Of BBC Radiophonic Workshop
http://vimeo.com/1518816 Audio Impressions has announced Version 2.0 of DVZ Strings, their virtual-instrument strings library that comes with their Divisi technology, which creates real-world, real-time, section balances. Version 2 Features: DVZ Strings now use Audio Impressions’ proprietary software that enables Mac and PC computers to work together and eliminates the need of additional D/A converters by routing the… Read More Audio Impressions Updates DVZ Strings
Little Scale has released a collection of free sound kits for LSDJ, Little Sound DJ for the Game Boy. They are free downloads from his site. Here are demo videos for each collection: Atari 2600 Kit for LSDJ
Ohm Force has announced a fun contest – How The Minimonsta Saved The World. How it works: you make a cool track with Minimonsta before November 30th (you can use the free demo version), you send it to Ohm Force, you win cool stuff. Details here. How The Minimonsta Saved The World comic below:
Antares Audio Technologies and Guitar Center have announced Auto-Tune EFX, an entry-level version of its real-time pitch correction software. For $129, everybody can now sound like T-Pain and Cher. Do you believe in Pain? Get ready for an explosion of the Auto-Tune effect in YouTube videos! Designed to make almost everything automatic, Auto-Tune EFX provides two… Read More Auto-Tune EFX So Cheap That Now Everybody Can Sound Like T-Pain
