Category: Music News

Moogfest / Moog Music Circuit-Bending Challenge: Batteries Required

Moogfest and Moog Music have announced the fourth annual Moog Circuit Bending Challenge, in conjunction with Moogfest 2014. For this year’s circuit bending contest, entrants are challenged to take a battery-powered device and modify (“circuit bend”) it into a winning instrument capable of creating “new and unique” sounds — for a total budget of $70… Read More Moogfest / Moog Music Circuit-Bending Challenge: Batteries Required

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New MacBook Pros Offer Faster Processors, Improved Graphics, Longer Battery Life & Lower Prices

Apple today updated MacBook Pro with Retina display, with fourth generation Intel Core processors, improved graphics performance, longer battery life, faster flash storage and next generation Wi-Fi. “We’ve made the world’s best pro notebook even better by adding more performance and even longer battery life,” said Philip Schiller, Apple’s senior vice president of Worldwide Marketing.… Read More New MacBook Pros Offer Faster Processors, Improved Graphics, Longer Battery Life & Lower Prices

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Twisted Tools Metamorph ‘Fuses Electroacoustic & Designed Sound Effects’

 Twisted Tools has introduced Metamorph – a new sample library that ‘fuses electroacoustic and designed sound effects.’ Metamorph was developed by Italian sound artists BJM Mario Bajardi and Komplex (Iter-Research). The sample library takes heavily processed violins, pianos and acoustic instruments and morphs them into impacts, sci-fi atmospheres, user interface elements and beyond. Here’s the official… Read More Twisted Tools Metamorph ‘Fuses Electroacoustic & Designed Sound Effects’

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Future Retro Mondovox Offers New Ways To Play & Control MIDI Synth Modules

Future Retro has introduced the  Mondovox… a rack module that’s designed to provide “new ways to play, control, and breathe new life into your MIDI sound modules.” The Modovox takes polyphonic MIDI data and translates it to so that each voice is on its own MIDI channel. With the Mondovox, you can polyphonically play up to… Read More Future Retro Mondovox Offers New Ways To Play & Control MIDI Synth Modules

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