We’ve been posting a lot lately – here’s a quick digest of the top posts from the last week, in case you missed them: Florian Schneider Leaves Kraftwerk Posted on Monday, January 5th, 2009 in Electronic Musicians – Comments: (13) Florian Schneider, co-founder of German electronica band Kraftwerk, has officially quit the band, leaving Ralf… Read More Popular Posts On Synthtopia From 5th January – 11th January
xoxos.net has release Syng2, a voice synthesizer plugin for Windows, as a free download: Syng2 is a voice synthesizer which uses four bandpass filters to produce formants in any spectrally rich signal, or using an internal oscillator. The phoneme can be selected on a second MIDI channel, or preset words can be triggered. Syng2 was… Read More Free Voice Synthesizer For Windows
Ray Wilson’s Music From Outer Space Weird Sound Generator is a popular synth DIY project. Wilson notes: This is not even a shadow of a real music synthesizer but merely a fun little noise maker. Building a WSG, while fun, is not a deeply scientific or religious experience. The WSG does not look or work… Read More Weird Sound Generator
The Fridgebuzzz Atari Synth synth has the body of an Atari 400 – but it’s been gutted to make a bizarre synth. The Atari Synth is a polyphonic 12-oscillator, 3 modulator square wave synthesizer controlled by arcade-style pushbuttons and potentiometers. Details here. via Technobob
2009 NAMM Show preview: Percussa has some goodies on tap for the upcoming NAMM show that look like they will dramatically expand the range of uses for their AudioCubes: AudioCubes VST Wrapper, AudioCubes Loop Shaper & AudioCubes DeckBridge for Deckadance.
2009 NAMM Show: Electro Harmonix has released the Voice Box – a multi-functional vocal synth processor. Check out the cool demo video above and let me know what you think! Description: The harmony processor creates 2- to 4-part harmonies directly from your vocals, in the same key as your accompanying instrument. Studio-quality reverb lets you… Read More Electro-Harmonix Voice Box Vocoder, Harmonizer
Alessandro Cortini has announced initial tour dates as BlindOldFreak: Saturday, Jan.31—Halifax, Nova Scotia @ The North St Church with D/A A/D Sunday, Feb.1—Quebec City, venue tbc Tuesday, Feb.3—Guelph Ontario @ Albion Hotel Wednesday, Feb.4—Kitchener-Waterloo, venue tba Thursday, Feb.5—Stratford Ontario, venue tba Friday, Feb.6 —Toronto Ontario, venue tbc Saturday, Feb.7—Montreal Quebec, @ Lab Synthese. Also appearing:… Read More BlindOldFreak Announces Tour
2009 NAMM Show: Usually about this time of year, Metasonix‘ Eric Barbour comes out with something called the Fucking Fucker or the Scrotum Smasher. This year, he’s got teases for the Metasonix R-51 & the Metasonix KV-100 – which I’m guessing have more colorful names, too: Metasonix R-51v audio demos by Josh Humphrey at Big… Read More NAMM Preview: The Metasonix R-51 & KV-100
This video captures a few gameplay sequences from Hemisphere Games‘ Osmos – a new video game that features an ambient soundtrack by Gas/High Skies, and Loscil. Osmos Description: Enter the ambient world of Osmos: elegant, physics-based gameplay, dreamlike visuals, and a minimalist, electronic soundtrack. Your objective is to grow by absorbing other motes. Propel yourself by… Read More Gorgeous Ambient Music Video Game
Teen Torture (App Store link) is a new iPhone app that promises to annoy teenagers with sound that they can hear, but you can’t. Description: Teen Torture – Annoy your kids with high frequency sounds that they can hear, but you can’t. As you age you lose the ability to hear high frequencies(called presbycusis). This… Read More Bizarre iPhone Audio App: Teen Torture
