Donna Summer died today at the age of 63, after a battle with cancer. Summer (December 31, 1948 – May 17, 2012), was a five-time Grammy winner and one of the ten most successful women in recording history, according to a Billboard ranking. Summer, along with producer Giorgio Moroder, helped define the category of electronic dance music, especially… Read More Donna Summer, R.I.P.
Ableton has teamed up with SoundCloud and collaborated with some of their favorite artists for a new contest: A free Live Pack featuring sounds from atmospheric pop titan M83, indie electronic stars Junior Boys, and LA beatmaker Nosaj Thing is available to all Live users from May 14th through May 28th. Use these loops, stems… Read More Can You Make A Finished Track In Ableton Live In 24 Hours?
KMS 25 – TRIBUTE TO DETROIT was uploaded by: Kevin Saunderson
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Early BBC radiophonics: Private Dreams and Public Nightmares (1957) was uploaded by: straypixel
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Native Instruments has announced an update to Maschine, version 1.8. Here’s what’s new in Maschine 1.8: Offline time stretching and pitch shifting feature Transient Master Tape and Tube Saturators Save group with samples feature Improved handling of missing samples Revised select page (hardware) with access to note length Quick select events of a sound in a… Read More Native Instruments Maschine Update On The Way – Here’s What’s New
The latest episode of the SoundWorks Collection talks with Supervising Sound Editor and Sound Designer Christopher Boyes about the his work on The Avengers.
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Back in 2009, Ableton surprised many people by announcing that they had ceased development on Live so that they could focus on bug fixes: Dear Ableton users, Some of you have experienced and reported problems with Live 8 several months ago that we have still failed to fix. We have now decided to suspend all development… Read More Open Mic: What Would You Like To See In Ableton Live 9?
Official music video for Stendeck’s Catch The Midnight Girl. via Zeta
Synthesist Benge has released a new all-Buchla album, Harmuna. Harmuna is intended as a companion piece to the previous work by Benge entitled Abstraxa. The five compositions featured on Harmuna were similarly realised on the Buchla modular synthesiser. Here’s what Benge has to say about the new album: If Abstraxa was an exploration of the… Read More New All Buchla Album By Benge – Harmuna
