‘Concatenative Synthesis’ Lets You Play Anything With Anything

This video, by Rodrigo Constanzo, explores ‘concatenative synthesis’, an approach to synthesis that lets you play anything with anything: C-C-Combine is a corpus-based audio mosiacing application, built in Max/MSP, based on concatenative synthesis. Concatenative synthesis is a technique for synthesizing sounds by concatenating short samples of recorded sound. It is essentially a type of granular synthesis… Read More ‘Concatenative Synthesis’ Lets You Play Anything With Anything

Rob Papen Predator Rack Extension For Reason Now Available

Rob Papen and Propellerhead have released his Predator software synthesizer as a Reason Rack Extension, Predator-RE. Here’s what they have to say about Predator-RE: Predator-RE is a killer synthesizer that combines inspiring preset’s and first-class features to make this your ‘go-to’ synthesizer for contemporary music production. The user interface has been designed so that all… Read More Rob Papen Predator Rack Extension For Reason Now Available

Isao Tomita To Premier Work With Virtual Singer Miku

Electronic music pioneer Isao Tomita, 80, has announced he will feature a virtual singer Hatsune Miku as the main singer in his upcoming orchestra concert on November 23rd at Tokyo Opera City Hall in Tokyo. His new piece Ihatov Symphony, which expresses the world of Kenji Miyazawa’s novel, will be performed by Japan Philharmonic Orchestra… Read More Isao Tomita To Premier Work With Virtual Singer Miku

Unofficial Commercial Animoog Timbres Now Available

Sunsine Audio has introduced the first commercial third-party Animoog Timbre expansion pack, Animation Vol 3 – Timbres. The timbre pack features samples from a Dave Smith Instruments Tetra and an ARP Odyssey. The unofficial pack was created using Tim Webb’s Animoog timbre hack. Format: 64 .wav files All timbres feature the Sunsine name for easy recognition. Detailed installation… Read More Unofficial Commercial Animoog Timbres Now Available