Robin Schmidt’s Music Engineering Tools has released a public beta version a new free synth VST for Windows, Straightline. Description: Straightliner is a straight-lined subtractive synthesizer in a modern guise. You will find the well known building blocks of classic analog synthesizers (4 oscillators, a filter, 2 envelope generators) patched together in the traditional way.… Read More Free Subtractive Synthesizer
Trash_Audio has an interesting look at Richard Devine’s new audio library – The Electronic Music Manuscript: I wanted to make a library that would be useful for many different people. I was aiming for sound designers, composers working in Film/TV, radio, video games, and electronic music. I tried to create some really unique material that… Read More Richard Devine – The Electronic Music Manuscript
[display_podcast] Soniccouture has announced the release of Kontakt Scriptorium, a collection of KSP Scripts, a sound library and set of tutorial videos for Native Instruments Kontakt 2 and 3. KSP scripts are like ‘plug-ins’ for Kontakt. KSP allows you to manipulate Kontakt parameters at a microscopic level, creating new behaviours, unique timbral characters or even… Read More Soniccouture Intros Kontakt Scriptorium
Adobe, MAKE SOME NOISE is a campaign, which addresses the lack of dynamic sound manipulation in Flash. It’s basically a group of Flash audio hackers that are working to get Adobe to make Flash a more powerful platform for audio manipulation: We think that Flash is and still will be the most popular browser plugin… Read More Tell Adobe To Make Some Noise
This gets my vote for the coolest thing you’ll see this weekend. It’s a live performance using the Hobnox AudioTool – the new browser-based virtual studio – using a MIDI controller and Percussa AudioCubes. See the tutorial at the Hobnox site, too! Joa Ebert & Kai-Phillip, via David
If you check out one thing this weekend, check out Hobnox AudioTool. It’s like Reason for your Web browser – a collection of Web-based audio tools that you can patch together in play, including a TB303, TR808, TR909 and a variety of effects pedals. It’s just a demo, but I’m impressed. Let me know what… Read More Hobnox AudioTool Is Like Reason For Your Web Browser
I posted earlier about a free Commodore 64 synth VST. Pretty much instantaneously, reader BlueBrat let me know about a free Atari synth VST for Windows. YMVST emulates the Atari’s built-in YM2149 sound chip, and sounds pretty awesome, too. Preview the YMVST’s sound below.
Kammerl Audio has released a set of 5 free VST plugins for Win/OsX, complete with bizarro Goldfrapp-style synth babes: Pitcher Warm Distortion Scratcher Looper Slicer Let me know if you think the plugins are as disturbingly hot as their logos! via AudioLemon
Odosynth’s 388911 bytes is a freeware/donationware Commodore 64 style virtual synth for Windows. Features: 1 oscillator with 4 difftent waveforms: Saw Triangle Pulse and Pitched noise 3 BPM sequencer with 7 rates and 2 to 8 steps .You can end a sequence or loop it. The first sequencer has notes from c to b and… Read More Free Virtual Commodore 64 VST
MIDI Navigator, below, is a Mac OS X MIDI driver for the 3dconnexion Space Navigator, right. Usage is simple: download the application, launch it and select SpaceNavigator in your favorite MIDI application as input device. MIDI Navigator can send relative and absolute CC commands. You can adjust the CC number, mode and sensitivity for each of… Read More 3-D Mouse Lets You Control Music In 6 Dimensions
