Dallas Hates Keith Emerson’s “Onslaught Of Overindulgence”

ELP’s Keith Emerson and Greg Lake played the Granada Theater in Dallas, Texas on Friday – and let’s just say that they didn’t win over the skeptics. Critic Darryl Smyers writes: The progressive rock floodgates opened and nothing could stop the onslaught of overindulgence. Lengthy cuts followed from ELP’s disastrous sophomore album Tarkus, an album… Read More Dallas Hates Keith Emerson’s “Onslaught Of Overindulgence”

Is HTML 5 + Javascript The Future Of Synthesis?

Browser Based Music Software: This video demonstrates a HTML 5 + Javascript synthesizer running in a modified version of Firefox (Minefield). We’ve seen some impressive browser-based synths and virtual music studios, like AudioTool, in the past, but they were Flash-based. By building music apps on Web standards like HTML 5 & Javascript, it should eventually… Read More Is HTML 5 + Javascript The Future Of Synthesis?

The Synthesizer 3000

The Synthesizer 3000 is, unfortunately, only a virtual virtual synth: Here is a short product advertisement I had to do for an assignment in Cinema 4D class. I created the synthesizer from scratch and used a mini synthesizer model that Dan McPharlin created. I don’t know anything about synthesizers, so the information is about a… Read More The Synthesizer 3000

This Studio Will Make You Drool

This weekend was relatively synth porn free – so let’s start the week off right by checking out the studio of Helo Patagonia Sounds, which features a Sequentix P3, Oberheim Xpander, a Doepfer modular synthesizer, Microwave XT, Bananalogue and Plan B modules and more.

Tom Oberheim At Work

This set of pictures captures electronic music pioneer Tom Oberheim at work on the reincarnated line of Oberheim synthesizers. Oberheim recently reintroduced the classic analog Synthesizer Expander Module (SEM). In the photos, Oberheim is working on a MIDI-to-CV panel for the updated Oberheim SEM. Photos by Gino Robair.