Spektro Audio has made several updates to it CV Toolkit – its set of software modules that you can use with hardware modular synths. The updates include: CV Toolkit 2.1 update which fixes a couple of bugs and adds some minor enhancements A new module pack called Beats which includes 5 virtual modules (Binary Sequencer,… Read More Spektro Audio Updates CV Toolkit, Intros New Module Pack
Spectrasonics has updated Omnisphere to version 2.1, adding a feature for sharing user sounds and a new Library Publishing capability. “Now third-party developers of patch sets for Omnisphere 2 have a simple way to create and offer custom libraries,” says Spectrasonics’ Founder and Creative Director, Eric Persing. “There’s no need for installers or complicated instructions… Read More Spectrasonics Updates Omnisphere With New Patch Sharing Features
PreSonus has released Studio One Prime – a free version of its Studio One DAW. Studio One Prime offers the same drag-and drop workflow of its bigger brothers, along with providing unlimited tracks, 9 Audio Native Effects, Presence XT sampler, and advanced multi-track editing and comping.
Denver painter Thomas Evans, aka Detour, creates portraits of iconic music figures that also have hidden musical features.
Monday, Elektron released a new sound pack for Analog Rytm, the VHS Crosstalk Sound Pack. The pack contains a variety of “bleeding, interfering and harrowingly magnetic” sounds from the VHS era.
Plugin Boutique has introduced Carbon Electra – a 4-Oscillator subtractive synthesizer featuring informative displays, editable step sequencer, vocal filter, integrated distortion and analog control. Here’s their official intro trailer for Carbon Electra:
Instrument designer Roger Linn (LinnDrum, the MPC) shared this video, which captures him exploring 3-dimensional synth control, using his LinnStrument and the Madrona Labs Aalto software synth.
Irritant Creative’s WebX0X is a free drum synthesizer and sequencer that runs in your web browser. It’s built using the Web Audio API. Because it’s based on web standards, it works in recent versions of Chrome, Firefox and Safari on desktop and iOS. All sound generation is performed entirely in the browser without the use of… Read More WebX0X Turns Your Web Browser Into A Drum Machine
In this video, LinnStrument guru Geert Bevin demonstrates using the new instrument with a Eurorack modular synthesizer.
Sonic Faction has introduced Polytek, a new Max for Live instrument that fuses rhythm and melody to generate patterns. It combines step sequencing with vocoder and multiband gate processing, which the developers say delivers ‘deep tech chord progressions, ambient dub soundscapes and gritty robotic polyrhythms’.
