Image: Dr. Bleep Saturday Synth Porn: An image of the Bleep Labs Special Edition Thingamagoop 2. The Thingamagoop 2 is a music robot that features a clear, laser-cut acrylic front + blinking RGB guts. Available May 1st. via the Synthtopia Flickr Group
Electric Sun has is now offering an I Love Acid t-shirt, featuring the classic Roland TB-303 Computer Controlled Bass Line synthesizer: Cast your mind back, if you can, to 1988 and the (second) ‘Summer of Love’. Illegal parties were being hosted in inconspicuous venues up and down the country and the headline-grabbing acid house phenomenon… Read More I Love Acid T-Shirt
The videos that make it to the front page of the site are carefully chosen for their overall level of awesomeness.… Read More How To Get Your Video Featured On Synthtopia
Curious Inventor has introduced a Frac Rack version of its Voice Of Saturn Voltage Controlled Filter. The VoS Voltage Controlled Filter is based around a CEM3372 filter IC (4-pole resonant low-pass filter), the same chips found in the filters of such analog classics as the Sequential Circuits Prophet 600, Prophet T8 and Oberheim Xpander. It… Read More Voice Of Saturn Voltage Controlled Filter Now Available As Frac Rack Module
The 3rd Annual City Skies Electronic Music Festival will be held in the Atlanta area on April 29-May 1, 2010. Above, Richard Devine & Josh Kay jam at last year’s City Skies Festival. Kavarna in the Oakhurst section of Decatur, GA (minutes away from Atlanta) is once again the venue for the Festival Event. The… Read More City Skies Electronic Music Festival Coming April 29-May 1, 2010
John Keston has announced a Gestural Music Sequencer Generative Music Contest for users of his GMS music sequencer. GMS is a Gestural Music Sequencer developed in Processing. The application samples video and displays it either normally or inverted so it looks as though you’re looking into a mirror. Each frame is analyzed for brightness, then… Read More Gestural Music Sequencer Generative Music Contest
This video, by Charlie Visnic , is a bit meandering – but it captures a great sense of the tactile control of sound that modular synthesizers deliver: I really didn’t know where I wanted to go with this patch. I decided to just start patching. I kept adding and adding and adding until I ended… Read More With A Modular Synthesizer, There Are Never Too Many Cables
Free Windows Music Software: SynthLab’s Intro is a a free wavetable synth for Windows. Features: Mono/polyphonic . 4 Oscillators, 64 built-in waveforms. Noise generator (white and pink). 2 Filters, Filter Stages is now a pin, and allows selection of from 1 to 8 stages Gain Compensation option for LP, HP and BP filter types. Individual… Read More Free Wavetable Synthesizer For Windows
This video captures Bill T Miller (BTM) creating an Arp-O-Matic Orgy Of Noise in his Headroom Studios (Boston), back in 2003.
JazzMutant has announced that Mu, an application that lets you control Ableton Live with the JazzMutant Lemur, is out and it’s free: Mu is the first truly integrated Ableton Live touch controller. Taking advantage of the doors opened by Max for Live, and with zero configuration necessary (yes, entirely plug and play!) , you will… Read More Touch Ableton Live With The JazzMutant Lemur & Mu
