If you’re one of our growing number of iPhone visitors – we’ve updated Synthtopia to be yummier on the iPhone and iPod touch. iPhone visitors should automatically get a version of the site formatted for wireless devices & smaller screens, resulting in faster load times. So – if you’re viewing this with an iPhone, leave… Read More Synthtopia Now Yummier Than Ever On iPhones & Other Wireless Devices
Is it too early to declare Imogen Heap the Music Geek Goddess of the Year? Not only did she take home the Grammy Award for Best Engineered Album, Non-Classical for Ellipse, but she looked fantastic in her slightly mad Twitter Dress. Her sculptural necklace displayed a live Twitter feed via a wireless router, while her… Read More Imogen Heap – Music Geek Goddess Of The Year?
Optigan.com’s Pea Hix demonstrates how the memorable music from this recent Chrysler Town & Country, above, was created using sound from an Optigan: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VWrGUJzA3a8 The Optigan was a home keyboard that was a proto-sampler. It used a photomechanical playback mechanism to read soundwaves from film disks.
Sir Sedric has more dirty + nasty samples for you with the BoomBapp ReFill – a free library featuring “150 of the grimiest, dirt-nastiest drums you’re gonna hear”: A no bullshit pack of Kicks and Snares with extra flavor, extra sauce and double-extra funk. Each of these Booms and Bapps has been painstakingly crafted to… Read More Free Reason ReFill Features Dirty, Nasty Hip Hop Samples
An experiment with the Tone Matrix synthesizer, an addictive online synthesizer. via benjiwaa
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SGjoEvEPtvU This recording is from a shortwave transmission on 6752kHz USB on 25th September 2009. Sometimes known as The Backwards Music Station and also as Whale Music, it has no discernable schedule, and often disappears for long periods. It’s not known what the purpose of these broadcasts are – but they wouldn’t sound out of… Read More The Backward Music Station (Enigma : ‘XM’)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p7kguPpzR3U
This is the first in a new series of occasional production gear reviews from house producer and DJ D. Ramirez. The first episode sees him get his hands on the DSI Prophet 8 keyboard synth.
Music video for the song “6 Minutes to Luv” by Ultrapuss.
This video, part of a series of edutainment documentaries at Wired, looks at the sound design of Avatar. Sound editor Christopher Boyes explains how real-world sounds were manipulated in such a way as to make them unique to Avatar’s world.
