Vicmod has posted another nice interview, this time with Mike Brown of LiveWIre Synthesizers, creators of some extremely awesome Eurorack synth modules. In the interview, Mike talks about what originally inspired him to get into electronic music: When I was *really* young, I remember hearing “Funeral for a Friend/Loves Lies Bleeding” on Elton John’s “Yellow Brick Road”… Read More Interview With Mike Brown Of LiveWire Electronics
The Wii Loop Machine is a piece of software for making music with a Nintendo Wiimote controller. It is loop-based and performance-oriented, somewhat like a very simple version of Ableton Live. Version 2.0 is currently available for purchase for $20. It requires Bluetooth and Mac OS X. In addition, version 1.1 is available for free download,… Read More The Wii Loop Machine
This video captures a bit of modular synth bit-crushing, courtesy of the Analogue Systems rs290: Besides an incredible sounding high-quality stereo digital delay with built LFO and a hard to beat voltage controlled sampler mode, the rs290 can crush your sounds too. This great little trick doesn’t even require the unit to be engaged. Just… Read More Analogue Systems rs290 Crushes Your Bits
Big City Music has announced that it will be selling the quirky designs of Folktek Instruments: From somewhere underground in Portland Oregon Arius Blaze and Ben Houston are creating some wildly interesting instruments. The Folktek pieces are truly unique in every way. Each one is hand crafted by the artists and is a one of… Read More Folktek Handcrafted Electronic Instruments
via znshn: Cutting oriental percussion samples on the TENORI-ON w/ analog filters.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5NiH1GohSA8 This video demos using the Future Retro Revolution as an audio processor: With an analog resonant filter, envelope, overdrive, and DSP effects, the Revolution makes a powerful effects processor. The Elektron is slaved to the Revolution’s MIDI. via BigCityMusic
Jared Arave’s SoftSynth is a soft hardware synth – and “a crafty way of creating sweet, beautiful music wherever you may be”: Indecently, I get the feeling this witty moniker has probably been applied to any number of things that are soft, and make sound, but my love of puns trumps my desire for originality.… Read More Jared Arave’s SoftSynth Hardware Synth Is Really Soft
This is one of the stranger Weird Sound Generators ever created. via Kipptumor: This is how I dealt with Ray Wilson’s Weird Sound Generator kit from musicfromouterspace.com. Ray offers all kinds of cool kits from DIY synth modules to a 16-step analog sequencer. I mounted mine in a Lindberg plastic human skull model kit. We… Read More Synthesizer Built Into A Human Skull
Producer J.Force bangs out the beats, with a whoppin’ 256 KB memory, on the EMU SP-1200 Sampler. The E-mu SP-1200 is a classic drum machine and sampler released in August 1987 by E-mu Systems as an update of the SP-12, which was originally created for dance music producers. It became famed for its gritty texture… Read More The EMU SP-1200 Sampler
The Beat Kangz overview of their new beat box/workstation, the Beat Thang. This may be the best presentation out of the 2009 NAMM Show. Best quote: “SD cards. What? How many of them? What? I think there’s two of them. What? 16. What? Gigabytes per card.” Let me know what you think of the Beat… Read More The Beat Kangz Beat Thang
