SM Pro Audio has announced that the V-Machine hardware VST player is now shipping in the US. The V-Machine is a compact VST/VSTi hardware playback module designed to take plug-ins on the road or into the studio and access them directly without a computer. Multiple plug-ins can be loaded into bank/preset memories of the V-Machine… Read More V-Machine Turns Your Music Software Into Hardware
Episode 2 of Synthesizer Programming looks at how to create a trance lead sound: Starting with a sequence using a basic patch I’ll show how to get a typical trance lead sound. The last version of Synth1 has some kind of supersaw that you can get it detuning oscillator 1. This feature make this synth perfect for… Read More How To Program A Trance Lead
Teragon Audio has released KickMaker, a synthesizer designed specifically for making good kick drum sounds. It feautures four independent oscillators and a wide range of effects, letting you create customized beats. “KickMaker is the perfect solution for producers who are tired of using factory samples or ordinary drum machines, and want an easy way to create a… Read More Free Kick Drum Synthesizer
Sounds And Effects has announced a sample library, Synths of the 1970s, for E-Mu Systems’ Emulator X and Proteus X is now available via download or in a DVD case. Source material was recorded at 24 bit from the Mini Moog, ARP 2600, Moog Opus 3, ARP Odyssey, and Oberheim SEM. Developed by Terry Grame, who… Read More Synths of the 1970s
Alfred Sarkis has released a new $.99 iPhone app, Tabla (App Store link). Description: The Tabla (also known as Arabic drum, darbukkah, darbouka or dumbak) is a single-headed hand- drum found in most Arab music ensembles. This application provides a Tabla with 5 different beat sounds, the “Doum” in the middle, and 4 different “Taks”… Read More New iPhone Tabla App
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aFo1l8SJeik In this demo video, Chris Warren is controlling a soft synth developed especially for AudioCubes by Percussa, to be released in the next few months. No setup or configuration necessary to make the cubes talk to the software, since the software was designed specifically for the cubes. No drivers necessary, and runs on Mac OSX… Read More Sound Design With Percussa AudioCubes
Ocarina (App Store link) is now the most popular iPhone app in the world. I’d like to think it was a result of our previous Ocarina coverage – but I think it may have been this video of a girl playing Phantom Of The Opera on the iPhone with her nose that did it: via… Read More Virtual Ocarina The Most Popular iPhone App In The World
Sebastian Tomczak (Little Scale) has put together a fantastic tutorial on how to prep samples and create LSDJ kits. LSDJ is an app designed to turn a Game Boy/Game Boy Color into a full-fledged music workstation. To create your own sample kits for LSDJ, you’ll need several apps: Bias PEAK (5.2) Apple QuickTime Pro (7.55) LSDJ… Read More How to Prepare Samples And Create LSDJ Kits
This is the first of a planned series of videos on synth programming from switchedonsynthesizer. The first episode looks at programming a simple bass line. The demos are done with Synth1, a free VST synthesizer.
This video captures a simple SynthPond (App Store link) composition. It uses three effectors and three orbiting reactors, all with three-word color sentences.
