DSK has come up with another freebie soft synth for Windows users – Synthopia. First, we better get this out of the way, up front – Synthopia and Synthtopia are not the same. Here are the top five ways to tell Synthopia apart from Synthtopia: Synthopia is a cool free software synthesizer; Synthtopia is a… Read More DSK Synthopia
At the 2009 Winter NAMM Show, Cycling ‘74 and Ableton announced Max for Live – a tool that lets you create and edit new features for Ableton Live. Max For Live devices look a lot like any other device in Live (right) – except that they have an edit button. Cycling ’74 founder David Zicarelli offers his perspective on Max For… Read More On Integrating Max & Ableton Live
2009 Winter NAMM Show: SONiVOX announced the release of Playa – a Hip Hop Virtual Instrument for MAC and PC. Playa’s user interface is designed to bridge the gap between MPC style beat creation and computer based virtual instruments. Features: Over 400 SONiVOX Instruments, including fat synths, basses, drums, leads, orchestral instruments, ethnic instruments, guitars, strings… Read More SONiVOX Playa – A Virtual Instrument For Hip Hop
2009 Winter NAMM Show: Arturia announced minimoog V 2.0. New features include: Sound MAP: Explore hundreds of sounds using Sound MAP. Morph sounds on the MAP by clicking anywhere you like. Add filters to make your search easier, or get back to the traditional list of presets, by sound-designer or by type. Vocal Filter: Did… Read More NAMM: Arturia Updates Its Software Minimoog
2009 NAMM Show: Akai Professional announced the APC40 Control Surface – a sexy new hardware controller designed specifically for Ableton Live. Akai Professional partnered with Ableton to make the APC40 an optimal Ableton Live control surface. Because Akai Professional and Ableton designed the APC40 specifically for using with Live, you won’t need to map or configure its… Read More Akai APC40 Controller For Ableton Live
2009 NAMM Show: Ableton today introduced the latest version of Live – Ableton Live 8. Based on our very preliminary first impressions – Version 8 looks like it will be a solid evolutionary upgrade of the popular sequencing app. Cool new features include a looper, new effects (including a vocoder) and a more powerful Operator… Read More Ableton Live 8 First Look
2009 NAMM Show: Native Instruments today announced Maschine, their next-generation music production workstation – a sort of Akai MPC/computer hybrid. Maschine combines an advanced software sequencer and sampler with an integrated MPC-style performance controller. Maschine is designed to provide a tactile and immediate interface to computer-based music production setups. I was skeptical about Maschine going into… Read More Native Instruments Maschine
VOTRAX TEXT TO SPEECH TALKING COMPUTER was uploaded by: intromix
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Text to Speech Software has come a long way. Mark Luton suggests you try it for fun, and for free. was uploaded by: markluton
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Insert Piz Here has released Mr. Alias 2, a freeware instrument plug-in for Windows, Mac and Linux: Mr. Alias 2 uses non-bandlimited oscillators which can be transposed near to and beyond the Nyquist frequency, causing most of their spectra to be aliased back into audible non-harmonic frequencies. The sound can then be further processed by a… Read More Free New Virtual Instrument For Windows, Mac, Linux
