Native Instruments Massive Threat
NAMM Show Preview: Native Instruments has introduced Massive Threat, a new KORE-powered instrument designed for “cutting-edge electronic music styles”.
Category: Computer Music
Free BassStation Sound Pack
Free Music Software: Hollow Sun (the sound developers that are working on the Hammond Novachord sample library) have released a free sound pack that features bass synth samples from the Novation Bass Station: What’s on offer here are 30 excellent synth bass sounds that cover a wide range of genres, uses and applications and which… Read More Free BassStation Sound Pack
Buggy Boy’s Bumdrum
The Bumdrum is a very sensitive custom MIDI controller made by Buggy Boy for Red Bull Music Academy 2010 London: The design of the instrument is highly inspired by the Hang Drum and Aqua Drum, the difference being the number of places to make sound is modular as well as the timbre of the sounds… Read More Buggy Boy’s Bumdrum
Free Roland TR-808 Sample Library
Trash_Audio’s Surachai has created a Roland TR-808 sample library and is releasing it as a free download: Justin graciously let me borrow his Roland TR-808 and when trying to program some patterns I noticed a few problems. A) I’m clearly too stupid to work this machine – I eventually figured it out but off the… Read More Free Roland TR-808 Sample Library
23 Excellent Free Audio Unit Effect Plugins
SoundMagic Spectral is a free suite of 23 Audio Unit plug-ins that implement real-time spectral processing of sound. Included in SoundMagic Spectral are the following effects: Spectral Averaging Spectral Bin Shift Spectral Blurring Spectral DroneMaker Spectral Emergence Spectral Filterbank Spectral Freezing Spectral Gate and Hold Spectral Gliding Filters Spectral Granulation Spectral Harmonizer Spectral Partial Glide… Read More 23 Excellent Free Audio Unit Effect Plugins
Arturia Intros Prophet V v2.0
2010 NAMM Show: Arturia is now shipping Prophet-V version 2. Here’s what they have to say about Prophet-V v2.0: We have taken the first and the last synthesizers created by Sequential Circuits and brought them to you in an easy to use software instrument format. As with all other soft synths created by Arturia, we… Read More Arturia Intros Prophet V v2.0
Monome Grayscale Review
Michael Chenetz of Max4Live.info shares his thoughts on the monome grayscale, the latest monome. It features gray, high-contrast LEDs.
Rain Intros Windows Quad-Core Laptop Monster
Rain Computers will officially debut its LiveBook Studio, a high performance quad-core notebook based on Intel’s “Nehalem” Core i7 architecture, at the Winter NAMM Show. LiveBook Studio will be available for sale starting in early February 2010 with a trio of quad-core processors, a high performance drive up to 500GB and up to 8GB of… Read More Rain Intros Windows Quad-Core Laptop Monster
Serato & Ableton Unite To Conquer DJ World
2010 NAMM Show: Serato and Ableton have announced plans to work together to conquer the DJ world: DJs, remixers and producers on the forefront of technology, watch out. Serato and Ableton are happy to announce a partnership which will pave the way for the future of Digital DJing. With shared artist rosters from hip-hop (DJ… Read More Serato & Ableton Unite To Conquer DJ World
The Pythagorean Lambdoma Harmonic Keyboard May Reveal Key to the Universe
The Pythagorean Lambdoma Harmonic Keyboard, designed by mathemetician Barbara Hero, is an unusual MIDI controller that’s based on ancient concepts and fundamental harmonic relationships between notes. The keyboard is based on the Lambdoma Matrix, a mathematical grid attributed to the philosopher Pythagoras. The Matrix plots whole-number ratios, with whole numbers along on side (1,2,3,4….) and… Read More The Pythagorean Lambdoma Harmonic Keyboard May Reveal Key to the Universe
