This month’s Electronic Musician has an interesting profile of Alessandro Cortini, best known for his work with Nine Inch Nails. In the article, Cortini discusses his Buchla 200e modular synthesizer: “It was kind of like buying a car. But this takes me more places than a car. It’s my favorite piece of gear. If I… Read More NIN’s Alessandro Cortini On The Buchla 200e
It looks like Matrix has died and gone to synth heaven. He’s posted a massive synth porn gallery at Flickr that explores Synthorama – a synthesizer museum in Switzerland. Each room in the museum has a theme based on manufacturer, and the majority of synthesizers are playable. Yowza.
NoiseBug is a new retail and online store, brought to you by Plan B’s Peter Grenader, that offers an unusual array of synth goodness. “We are arcane musical gear gleaming with forgotten gems of yesteryear and highlights of our present time,” explains Grenader. “Here you will find drum machines, keyboards, effects and other misc odds… Read More NoiseBug Hopes To Serve Your Arcane & Twisted Synth Needs
Vince Clark, of Yazoo (Yaz), Depeche Mode & Erasure fame, is going on tour with Yaz partner Alison Moyet, and sat down with Native Instruments for a short interview that looks at the technology behind the new tour: You are famous as a user and collector of analog synthesizers, but computers made it into your… Read More Vince Clarke Talks Synthesizers, Analog & Virtual
Elektron has announced an update to the Monomachine OS: Good people around the globe, the hydra just got two extra heads. In other words – Monomachine OS 1.20 is here! Two new machines have been added in this magnificent update, allowing you to use your own customized waveforms. Read all about it in the updated… Read More Elektron Updates Monomachine OS
WaveIdea has introduced NeoSynth24, an synth-on-a-card expansion board for CME keyboards (UF and VX series). NeoSynth24 features a built in sound bank (64 MBytes/256 Mbits) that can be updated at your convenience. Various sound banks are available (General MIDI standard instruments set, Grand Piano style, Hip Hop style, Techno/House style, R&B style, etc). Multiple sound… Read More NeoSynth, Synth-On-A-Card For CME Keyboard Controllers
Bleep Labs has introduced the Thingamakit – a DIY project that lets you build your own anthropomorphic noise maker. According to Bleep Labs, the Thingamakit features “all the sounds of Thingamagoop plus triangle wave LEDacle with shape and speed control. Second photocell patchable to modulator and photocell rate. Square and Triangle wave output. The satisfaction… Read More Bleep Labs DIY Thingamakit
IK Multimedia and Muse Research have teamed up to offer the Total Workstation Rack, powered by SampleTank and Receptor. The Total Workstation Rack is a combination of Muse Research’s unique Receptor hardware plug-in player with IK’s Total Workstation line of Powered By SampleTank instruments: SampleTank 2.5, Sonik Synth 2, Miroslav Philharmonik, SampleMoog and SampleTron. These… Read More Muse Intros Nice Rack Workstation
If you need any more proof that interesting synths can be made from just about anything, for very little money, check out the Sonic Picnic Set: the sonic picnic set is a low tech modular system connections are made as needed using crocodile clips these pictures show some of the boxes You gotta love this… Read More The Sonic Picnic Set
Akai has announced that they are now shipping the MPC5000. Akai’s MPC5000 is the first MPC to permit eight-track streaming hard disk recording for real-time capture of individual tracks or even entire songs. A 20-voice, three-oscillator analog synthesizer with arpeggiator, a new sequencing engine with 960 PPQ resolution, pad and track muting and mixing, 64… Read More The Akai MPC 5000
