A demo showing using the stribe with an app called ‘scalar‘ by vlad spears. It is similar to ‘balron’ for the 40h. The stribes are divided into 8 sections, and so act sort of like a grid of buttons. The stribe is starting to look like it could develop into an interesting companion project to… Read More Stribe + Scalar
Interesting look at the history and significance of the Akai MPC, with an emphasis on hip-hop, but it also looks at some experimental stuff. Current via Crate Kings
We recently saw a post on the Weirdest Guitars In The World – and, after taking a look, all I can say is that guitarists are a pretty conservative bunch. You haven’t seen weird, until you’ve seen some of the bizarre synth contraptions that keyboardists and electronic musicians have come up with. In fact, some of… Read More The Strangest Synthesizers In The World
David Battino has documented a boot-up hack that lets you create 4-bar loops with the Korg Kaossilator: While holding the Tap and Loop Rec buttons, slide the power switch from Standby to On. The display willl show DLY (delay) to confirm you’re in bufferless mode. Release the buttons. Hold down Loop Rec and Tap again;… Read More Korg Kaossilator 4-Bar Loop Hack!
Alfred Darlington, aka Daedelus, charts the evolution of his love of electronic sounds and gives us a private performance on his famous future toy, the Monome.
This video, from the latest issue of Computer Music, demos several Monome applications, including mlr, flin and Stretta‘s Press Cafe.
Hack A Day has a nice DIY project tutorial on making a simple digital synthesizer. The final result is not much of a synthesizer – but it’s cheap and it makes some noise: This simple guide will show you how to build a digital synthesizer that generates and manipulates square waves. Your synthesizer will have… Read More How To Make A Digital Synthesizer
Synthesist Bakis Sirros sends word that a couple of new Serge Modular synth modules have been announced: The Dual ADSR m-odule (includes two Extended ADSR modules, a Dual Comparator, and a Dual Transient Gen.) Price is 1600 USD The Wave Processor m-odule (includes Ring Modulator module, Triple Waveshaper module, Wavemultipliers module, Xfader module, Mixer module).… Read More Two New Serge Modular M-odules
The video quality is pretty terrible, but this demo of “bwack’s very large sampler being properly operated by the family force 5” is, nevertheless, pretty cool. It looks a lot like a giant MPC. If you can add any info about this, let me know in the comments!
This episode of XLR8R TV looks at Brooklyn-based electro/hip-hop artist Eliot Lipp and his monster collection of sexy analog gear, including: Jomox XBase-09 MFB Synth-II Plan B modular synths Atari Synthcart Sequential Circuits Six-Trak Wurlitzer Electric Piano He also talks about his new album, The Outside, ice cream and crate digging. If anything is going… Read More Eliot Lipp’s Gear Porn Video
