Yonac Software has released MelodiFone (App Store link), a new virtual wind instrument. It’s one of a growing number of simple iPhone instruments. On first glance, these instruments are toys. But consider all the music toys (Optigan, Melodica, Speak ‘n’ Spell, etc) that people are using in interesting ways in electronic music. Description: Modeled with… Read More MelodiFone
Remember the iPhone Ocarina? I thought it was pretty cool, because it brought a range of expressiveness to iPhone instruments. Maybe I was wrong – in this video, goddesslynz plays Music of the Night from Phantom of the Opera on the iPhone Ocarina application…with her nose.
Speaker Blower Records has unleashed SB-3 LE, a free “Stereo Phat Vintage Synth” for Windows. It looks like they really hate Macs too, from the site: VSTi for PC only – NO MAC VERSION! Features: Stereo Detunable synthesizer with mono or polyphonic modes Full Stereo Architecture 3 oscillators Ring Modulation Two multimode filters Two Lfos Two… Read More Free Windows Software Synthesizer
This is a demonstration of some creative possibilities using the new Spiral Sequencer Reaktor ensemble in Kore 2 with different Koresounds, including synthesizer, guitar, piano and drum / percussion sounds.
This video, via Create Digital Media, explores using Massive in Kore for hands-on control. It also takes a look at some creative signal routing and modulation possibilities in Massive. Feedback is something people primarily associate with rock, heaviness and sludge, but there’s something here for the meditator as well as the rockist. It’s a nice demo and… Read More Feedback, Routing and Modulation in Massive
Ohm Force has announced a fun contest – How The Minimonsta Saved The World. How it works: you make a cool track with Minimonsta before November 30th (you can use the free demo version), you send it to Ohm Force, you win cool stuff. Details here. How The Minimonsta Saved The World comic below:
Sebastian Tomczak has created a free set of Debussy kits for the Game Boy music program LSDJ. These kits contain samples from Voiles, Danseuses Dé Delphes and of course La Cathedrale Engloutie. “These beautiful piano chords crushed down to 8 bit / 11.468 KHz actually sounds much better than I had anticipated,” notes Tomczak. If try these out, give Tomczak… Read More Play Debussy On Your Game Boy
This is a preview of the prototype of the Waldorf Blofeld synthesizer. The keyboard version adds 60MB of user sample memory (accessed via USB) and a solid semi-weighted keyboard. Coming this December!
http://vimeo.com/2054067 Smule has introduced a new app, Ocarina, that turns your iPhone into a virtual Ocarina. I’ve been skeptical about a lot of the iPhone virtual instruments, because many of them don’t offer much in the way of expressive capabilities. Ocarina challenges that skepticism by offering an application that responds to your breath, so you… Read More New App Turns Your iPhone Into A Virtual Ocarina, Lets You Play The Legend Of Zelda Theme
