This video, The Burning Piano, captures a sound design session of sound designer and composer Diego Stocco, who wins the Synthtopia Shiva Award for Awesomely Destructive Creation. Stocco explains: I sampled sounds and noises while the piano was burning. Since I only had one take I recorded as much material as possible. Initially I was pointing the… Read More The Sound Of A Burning Piano
Smule’s Sonix Vox is a $.99 iPhone app that lets you do real-time audio processing. Sonic Vox shifts and contorts your voice while you are talking, letting you sound like Darth Vader or a chipmunk. Features: Alter your voice with a swipe of your finger. Want to cross over to the Dark Side? Slide your finger to… Read More iPhone App Lets You Sound Like Darth Vader…Or A Chipmunk
Peter Kirn posted an interesting look today at Mrmr – a platform for creating dynamic user interfaces on mobile devices. The above video shows its use on an iPhone in a recent audiovisual performance and ends with an interview with its designers. Simply put, Mrmr is a technology that lets you use ordinary cell phones and PDAs… Read More Mrmr Turns You iPhone Into A Multi-Person Multimedia Control System
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fs1rk6M-n60 SampleModeling has announced an amazingly realistic virtual instrument, Tenor Saxophone: We are proud to present the result of our collaboration with Stefano Lucato. Stefano was the developer, along with Dr. Giorgio Tommasini, of the Stradivari Violin and the Gofriller Cello. Stefano Lucato & Samplemodeling created the next groundbreaking virtual instrument: the Tenor Saxophone! It´s… Read More Amazing New Tenor Saxophone Virtual Instrument
SM Pro Audio has anounced the V-Machine, a compact VST/VSTi hardware playback module that you can load up with VST instrument and effect plug-ins to use without a computer. Description: The V-Machine is a compact VST/VSTi hardware playback module built for performance keyboard players and DJ’s. It is one little beast that can’t be underestimated once… Read More V-Machine Turns Your Software Instruments And Effects Into Hardware
SonicState takes a look at GForce M-Tron Pro, which is expected to be released soon. Price $199 / €139 Euros/ £109 UKP. Features: 200+ total tape banks (sample sets), including: 45 brand-new tape banks not found in the original M-Tron 19 tape banks from the original M-Tron virtual instrument, remastered at London’s legendary Abbey Road Studios… Read More M-Tron First Look
Impact Soundworks has released a new ethnic instrument sample library in Kontakt format: Sitar Nation: Classical Instruments of India. “Sitar Nation” was designed to address the lack of sample collections focusing exclusively on Indian instruments with a level of depth normally reserved for violins and pianos. Priced at $119 as a digital download, the library enables… Read More New Sound Library: Sitar Nation: Classical Instruments of India
The above video demonstrates the $.99 SonicLife (App Store Link) application for iPhone / iPod Touch, triggering drum samples in Ableton Live with the help of OSCulator. SonicLife is a creative, interactive controller for iPhone / iPod Touch that sends Open Sound Control messages over a Wi-Fi network using the UDP protocol. The application runs a… Read More Game Of Life Music App For The iPhone
DSK Music has released a new free synthesizer for Windows, DSK Blue. Features: 2 Oscillator with 134 waveforms and wavedraw option Sub oscillators Advanced filters LFO routing to filters 2 Fx (delay & chours / flanger) MIDI automation Preset Manager
Bedrum (App Store Link) is a $4.99 app that turns your iPhone into a classic drum machine. Features: Easy and quick to use interface Choose between 4 different drumsets 16 step programmable pattern sequencer Bedrum was developed by Magnus Larsson and Nick Rudolfsky.
