Access has announced a new beta version of Virus TI OS version 2.5, which features RTAS for Digidesign Pro Tools M-Powerered, LE and TDM users as well as optimisations for Imageline FL Studio 7 and Ableton Live. It also includes beta support for Cakewalk Sonar and Steinberg Nuendo as well beta support for Microsoft Windows… Read More Access Virus TI Synths Get New Beta OS
Progressive keyboardist and Moogaholic Erik Norlander will be performing at Moogfest, the annual festival commemorating and celebrating the groundbreaking achievements of maverick inventor Robert Moog and his namesake synthesizer. Norlander’s known for carrying the torch for progressive keyboard playing, with a style that recalls the prog gods Rick Wakeman, Keith Emerson and Jon Lord. Erik’s… Read More Erik Norlander’s Synth Is Bigger Than Yours, And He’s Playing Moogfest
The reacTogon is a multi-touch sensitive music arpeggiator based on the harmonic table. The tokens have different characteristics; some provide more than one direction for the arpeggiation (if that’s a word) to proceed. Others provide stops. Musical sequences can be created using artfully placed disks. via Make
A car accident has taken the life of Daniel Hansson, one of the founders of Elektron, creator of the Machinedrum and Monomachine synthesizer. Hansson died August 19th. In a statement at the site, the Elektron team says that “Daniel’s strict determination, innovation and unsurpassed eye for detail resulted in instruments that have already reached cult… Read More Car Accident Takes Life Of Elektron Founder
Here’s a video from the Robotmakers that features some hardcore robot-patching modular synth action: According to the Robotmakers, “”Building a Robot” is the result of a long evolutionary process that resulted in successive generations of forms, some of which we call music. Natural selection and repeated lethal mutations winnowed the results. We are left with… Read More Robots Play Modular Synthesizers
Check out the sweet synth setup that the Chemical Brothers use to create their quirky synthtronica. They’ve got a page devoted to their synth gear at their site. We spotted a Doepfer modular, a Roland System 100, a Future-Retro Revolution, and a couple of EMS synths. Did we miss anything?
Need more teasing about the upcoming Prophet 8 synth? Here’s a bit of video temptation: via Sonic State
Björk has been wowing audiences recently with her reacTable, a new music controller that uses movable blocks and a colorful video interface. The reacTable’s developers say it is the latest in an emerging wave of “tangible music interfaces,” but to the touring musicians who play the thing, it’s merely “cool.” “Established instruments like the Moog,… Read More Björk Puts reacTable To Work
When they’re not saving the world, Yellow Magic Orchestra, find time to play synths in caveman outfits and throw back a few Kirin beers.
emutronic’s Victorian Synth demonstrates some ways of generating sounds from crap you have around the house: But can it play “Lucky Man”? via Sonic State
