It’s 2012 – and one of the things we’re doing to start off the year is taking a look back at 2011. Here’s a list of the 10 most talked about Synthtopia stories of 2011, ranked by the number of comments that readers left by the end of the year. Most of posts that you… Read More The Most Talked About Synth Stories Of 2011 – Were These The Biggest Stories Of The Year?
If you’re into synths, chances are that you’ve got a few passions – about gear of a certain era, about analog or about a certain synth – that border on the fetishistic. Putting your latest electronic music release out as a limited edition on red vinyl, in this day and age, probably fits into that… Read More Making A Vinyl Pressing – Alessandro Cortini’s ‘Scientist’
Plugin Alliance is a new pro-audio plugin-company that wants to change the way that you buy audio plugins. Founded by Brainworx CEO Dirk Ulrich, the goal of Plugin Alliance is to “establish a new, user friendly native plugin Über-Standard, supporting all major plugin formats and uniting some of the best-known international audio companies under one… Read More Plugin Alliance Promises New Über-Standard For Audio Plugins
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Reader/producer/audiopornographer Simon Iddol sent word of an exclusive Klaus Schulze remix and a new David Lynch + Chrysta Bell remix contest: We have the first ever Klaus Schulze remix as a free download on Burn Studios (free and quick registration needed). The track is This Train, the title track of Chrysta Bell’s current album produced by… Read More First Ever Klaus Schulze Remix, David Lynch + Chrysta Bell Remix Contest
A couple of users have sent feedback that the site layout looks funky in Windows IE 9 and that commenting isn’t working correctly in at least some versions of Firefox on the Mac. I’ll try to get this addressed as soon as possible. I’ll need to duplicate the issue and try to get it resolved.… Read More Windows IE 9 Layout Looks Funky, Commenting Broken On Mac Firefox
We got this in via the Feedback form today: Hello …. I would like to place an advertisement banner on your website for 1 week and was wondering how much that would cost? Thanks for the info. Greets John Doe Unfortunately John Doe (name changed to avoid annoying potential advertiser) didn’t leave any email address or… Read More Advertise On Synthtopia
Sunday Synth Jam: Reader Christopher Heath suggested this nice downtempo performance by Jim DeWitt, aka PK. The performance features Novation Launchpad, MPD32, Ableton Live and socks for chillaxing in.
TrapCode’s ProLoop is a looper for iOS that lets you work with up to 6 loops simultaneously. In addition to changing a loop’s volume, each loop can also be pitched/transposed, reversed, muted, panned, ring/frequency/phase-modulated by any other loop, and synchronized to a master loop. Pitch can be smoothly adjusted or quantized to a musical unit… Read More iPhone Looper, ProLoop, Offers Asynchronous Looping, Granular Manipulation
Developer Damien Di Fede has introduced WaveShaper – an audio synthesis app that lets you control a ‘unique sound generating algorithm using a large XY controller’. Features: white, pink, and red noise as a control source for the algorithm two control points for controlling noise generation and location in the source audio 8 preset slots for… Read More New App, WaveShaper, Offers ‘Unique’ Approach To Sound Design
