JooYou Paek‘s Fold Loud is a music interface that explores using origami paper-folding techniques and ritualistic Taoist principles to create a fun and relaxing music controller. By folding paper in various ways, different sounds are triggered. Here’s Paek’s explanation of the project: Fold Loud interconnects ancient traditions and modern technology by combining origami, vocal sound… Read More JooYoun Paek’s Origami Music Controllers
Fans of Intua BeatMaker – the iPhone virtual music studio – can get more free loops via Tekniks: Calling all iPhone Beatmakers! Tekniks has now created a collection of free Kits for this incredible iphone app. Intuas BeatMaker is a music creation studio for the Apple iPhone and iPod Touch. Inspired by hardware beatboxes, loop… Read More More Free Loops For Intua BeatMaker For The iPhone
Equinox Sounds has released Looped Atmosphere FX, a downloadable loop pack containing loops featuring atmospheric FX, drones and electronic ambiences designed for electronic music production, film scoring and multimedia projects. This collection features 65 loops and each loop contains 3 variations to allow more flexibility and consistency. There are a total of 195 loops that… Read More New Looped Atmosphere FX Sample Library
Cluster Sound has launched a massive upgrade for Tech Producer DSP, which now goes over 16 Gigabytes. Registered users can download the new section Drum Rack section, dedicated to Live users and two Xpander Packs (Induster & Downclock). The free libraries in detail: CS Dracks — Drum Rack Section CS — DRACKS is a massive… Read More Free Cluster Sound Upgrades For Tech Producer DSP
DSP Music has released version 3.0 of PSPSeq, a free homebrew application for composing music on the Sony PSP handheld game system. PSPSeq contains both realtime synthesis and sample playback capability, along with multiple FX modules of widely varying types for modifying instruments in countless ways. PSPSeq also has a powerful and unique step sequencer… Read More DSP Music Releases PSPSeq v3.00
Ueberschall has released Crunkzilla, a crunk sample library Description: This mammoth release provides 2 GB of delights in the form of 40 construction kits ranging in tempo from 67 to 145 BPM. Kits include main and variation folders with all loops used to make the structure of the mix as well as single shot folders… Read More Ueberschall Releases Crunkzilla
Peace Love Productions (PLP) is giving away four free sound kits formatted specifically for Intua’s BeatMaker iPhone app. Genres include Drum n Bass, Jungle, Downtempo, Hip Hop, Crunk, Electro, House, and Trance. Each Sound Kit contains a minimum of ten loops organized by genre and tempo. They are 16 bit stereo files in the .bmkz… Read More Free Sound Kits & Beat Packs For BeatMaker iPhone Application
Musicrow has released Golden Ensembles 2, a massive collection of 38 ensembles for NI Reaktor-5. The Golden Ensembles pack includes the new mega-synth Cobra, along with other synthesizers and instruments such as Orpheus 2, Oberline, Piano Magic, Trancoid and more. In addition, it contains vintage processor emulators like Vintage Chorus and Plate Reverb, and sound… Read More Musicrow Releases Golden Ensembles 2 Reaktor Library
This video demos basic interaction with the TIMBAP digital DJing system. TIMBAP is a new solution for the digital DJ, developed by students and assistants of the University of Ulm. It provides a rugged tangible interface for browsing your music collection AND manipulating playback by scratching, pitching, skipping etc. Like many others, it is based… Read More An Introduction To TIMBAP Digital DJing
Sonic Visualizer, a free application designed to make exploring audio data as fun as possible, has been updated. Sonic Visualiser will be of particular interest to musicologists, archivists, signal-processing researchers and anyone else looking for a friendly way to take a look at what lies inside the audio file. Sonic Visualiser has powerful annotation capabilities… Read More Sonic Visualizer Updated
