The Spotted Peccary label has been consistently putting out great ambient, space and synth music albums. Their latest release, Below The Mountain, by Craig Padilla, is no exception. We’ve reviewed a couple of other albums by Padilla, The Light In The Shadow & Genesis. While his last two releases had more of an ambient or… Read More Craig Padilla – Below The Mountain
MIDI bagpipes combine two of the world’s most maligned instruments, the synthesizer and the bagpipes, into a state-of-the-art super-instrument. … Read More The Complete Guide To MIDI Bagpipes; Covering Practice Pipes, Robotic Bagpipers & The Frankenpipe
This iPhone synthesizer video is making me lookforward to iPhone apps in iTunes. FYI – this is just the latest of many iPhone music software stories.
Not sure what to make of this – pask present has created a sort of steampunk electrochemical synthesizer: Pressing a key causes salt solution to flow over a copper and aluminium connection, generating a low signal which is filtered by a capacitor and then amplified, creating a complex white noise, with amazing fluctuating oscillations. The… Read More Steampunk Electrochemical Synthesiser
Stretta got his hands on the new Tiptop Audio Z5000, a modular analog CV-friendly DSP effects processor, and says “Go buy one”: What the world needs is a Eurorack-format DSP with CV control. Along comes the Tiptop Audio Z5000. First of all, it is in stock, you can buy it now. None of this, announce,… Read More Stretta Reviews The Tiptop Audio Z5000. Verdict: Go Buy One
Jean Michel Jarre, who’s on tour with truckloads of rare vintage keyboards performing his classic Oxygène, says that the old gear posed some unique challenges at his most recent concert: The MemoryMoog went out of tune, the same for the ARP; we had very little time to set up everything. I tried quickly the Moog… Read More Jean Michel Jarre On Vintage Synth Nightmares
This demo, via Future Retro Synths, showcases the new XS Synthesizer, a semi-modular analog synth, being controlled by the FR Revolution.
Bridechamber has announced the Metasonix TM-1m Waveshaper, a MOTM-formatted Metasonix TM-1. This version of the TM-1 is 2U and has attenuators for the CVs — skinnier, fully modularized, and not yellow. Having this in MOTM is nice – but I kind of like the lurid yellow of the original. It’s $400. Here’s the description of… Read More MOTM-Style Metasonix TM-1m Waveshaper
http://www.youtube.com/view_play_list?p=89EF515D1A069D38 In this official Roland video, David Ahlund introduces the Roland SP-555, a new sampler with Loop Capture and Super Filter. Description: Complete with 16 velocity sensitive pads, 37 Fantom-quality effects, an exciting new LOOP CAPTURE function, beefed up internal sample memory, and total computer integration with USB MIDI/AUDIO connectivity–the new SP-555 is the perfect… Read More Roland SP-555 Sampler
Dr. Joseph A. Paradiso’s modular synthesizer is considered by many to be one of the largest and most complex in the world. This modular system, which Paradiso started building over 20 years ago, includes two hand-built modular systems, three Moog keyboard synths, and 3 Casio synths, all integrated and patchable together to make one big… Read More The Twisted Synth Of Dr. Joseph A. Paradiso
