Analog Box, a free Windows app from Andyware, is a low level, circuit based, modular software synthesizer. You put sound objects on the screen, connect them together, listen and adjust. When you find something you like, you can record it to a wav file, or just save the circuit and play it again later. ABox… Read More Free Modular Synth App
[display_podcast] The Morrison Digital Trumpet, or MDT, is a new brass-style MIDI wind controller designed by Steve Marshall with Australian multi-instrumentalist James Morrison. The MDT is a MIDI wind controller designed to make it as easy as possible to transition from the regular trumpet. For trumpeters, your hand position will be very similar to what… Read More The Morrison Digital Trumpet
Ever wonder what the New York Times would sound like translated into electronic music? Hell no! But lucky for us, Bill Orcut did and created a Lily App that he controls with his Monome to “play” web pages: When the patch starts, the browser enters a DOM inspection mode and mousing over a DOM element… Read More Monome + Websites = Glitchronica
Ueberschall – aka the sample meisters from Germany – have released Minimal House a sample collection comprised of productions with condensed tonal intensity. This library comes with 900 Loops and Samples, gathered in 24 construction kits and contains over 1.6GB of sample content. Main tasks of this Ueberschall product are live use, DJ sets and… Read More German Sample Meisters Release Minimal House Sound Library
2008 Winter NAMM Show Update: EastWest introduced Chris Hein Bass – 12.7 GB of bass sounds, some of which feature the powerful tones of a Music Man StingRay electric-bass-both picked and slapped; a LeFay fretless bass as well as the sounds of a unique upright bass. For variety, the upright bass is played with three… Read More EASTWEST Debuts Best Service’s Chris Hein Bass
At the Winter NAMM Show, Line 6 introduced the ToneCore DSP Developer Kit, a programmable stomp box effects development platform that lets anyone with a PC and an interest in Digital Signal Processing become a hardware effects developer and distributor. For the first time, anyone with an interest in DSP software development can write, develop,… Read More Line 6 ToneCore Developer Kit Lets You Create Effect Pedals
At the 2008 Winter NAMM Show, M-Audio announced Torq 1.5 DJ software. New features in Torq 1.5 software include: Tempo Anchors Tempo Master zplane élastique time stretching send/receive MIDI clock a new toolbar and a variety of workflow enhancements The software’s new Tempo Anchors allow users to set the phase grid exactly on the beats… Read More M-Audio Announces Torq 1.5 DJ Software for Mac OS X and Windows
At the 2008 Winter NAMM Show, Yamaha introduced the KX Series USB MIDI Studio, featuring a Yamaha keyboard, numerous creative control features, and integration with Steinberg DAW products. The KX series gets its “feel” from a long lineage of Yamaha pianos and keyboards. With the addition of four assignable control knobs, dedicated performance controls, and… Read More Yamaha Introduces KX Series USB Keyboard Studios
Winter NAMM Show Update: MOTU introduced the 828mk3 ($795), a cross-platform FireWire audio interface with on-board effects and mixing. New features include a 32-bit floating point DSP for digital mixing and effects processing, more I/O, 192 kHz operation, true hi-Z guitar inputs, signal overload protection, digitally controlled analog input trims on all inputs, two banks… Read More MOTU Announces 828MK3 Firewire Audio Interface
NuSofting has introduced Broken Drum Machine, a VST inspired by a combination of several old school beat boxes and the circuit-bending culture around the “toy” Casio and Yamaha keyboards of the 80s. BDM is a plugin instrument designed for the musicians who love chaos and usually find the unpredictable behaviour of an uncontrollable sound machine stimulating… Read More NUSofting BDM Drum Synthesizer Released
