Grooveboxmusic is giving Ableton users free access to a collection of Ableton Live tutorials running over three hours in length via the Ableton Web Pass. This collection of tutorials covers topics such as how to record and edit, virtual instrument basics, warping, designing electronic drums and much more. This offer provides seven days of… Read More Free 3-Hour Long Ableton Live Video Tutorial
Grandmaster Flash, one of the godfathers of turntablism, plans to release a comeback album in 2009, that sounds like it could be an interesting project. The Bridge: Concept Of A Culture has as its theme the global impact of hip hop, and will feature guest spots from Natacha Atlas and others, including a lot of the hip… Read More Grandmaster Flash Working On Comeback Album
Rolling Stone has announced its top 50 albums of 2008, and it looks like they, by and large, forgot the electronica – electronic music and dance music are largely left out, despite being some of the most popular music worldwide. Here’s the list: Rolling Stone’s Top 50 Albums Of 2008: 50 No Age – Nouns 49… Read More Rolling Stone’s Top 50 Albums Of 2008 Forgot The Electronica
The reporting on Jean MIchel Jarre concert in the Kremlin, and the synthesizers which are used during the concert.
The SoundCloud people are moving quickly and developing some interesting stuff. The Cloud Player is a browser-based music player. It lets you: Find and play all tracks from SoundCloud Save playlists to your Google Account Make smart playlists based on genre, BPM, etc Share your ready-made playlists with your friends Collaborate in making the best playlists… Read More Cloud Player Like A Browser-Based iTunes
Myst Sonic has released Symphony Dynamic, an orchestral instrument for Kontakt. Symphony Dynamic is specially designed for orchestral MIDI project musians who need to load tons of sample sizes and orchestral patches that eat up system resources. Finger tip on mod wheel controls crescendo speed, attack time, and sound morph between crescendo to staccato samples.… Read More Symphony Dynamic For Kontakt
This useful spreadsheet is a labor-of-love by fellow Serge fan Ty Hodson. It features notes and descriptions of Shop Panels, M-odules and Function Blocks culled from many disparate sources including old catalogs, brochures and various web sites. This spreadsheet has multiple pages – click the tabs on the bottom. via Carbon111 via Matrix
Koblo Audio Software has made all of the code for the Koblo Studio available as an open source project at http://github.com/koblo. Koblo Studio, for Mac or PC, may be downloaded for free. By making it open source, Koblo is allowing any developer to build upon the Koblo Studio platform. “Our business model seeks to change the… Read More New Open Source Music Studio For PC & Mac – Koblo
2tronik01 and veqtor – Funky Arduino Acid by nitro2k01(Gameboy Genius) Gameboy Genius nitro2k01 has a vision for the future of modular synthesis, and it’s the ModularDuino – An Arduino based modular synthesizer. If that sounds like a lot of supernatural mumbo-jumbo, the Arduino is an open-source electronics prototyping platform based on flexible, easy-to-use hardware and software. People are… Read More Is ModularDuino The Sound Of Future Modular Synthesis?
First Bob Moog gets turned into a doll – now Raymond Scott. Japanese artist toy company Presspop Gallery has released their Raymond Scott 100th Anniversary vinyl figurine & CD set in time for the 2008 holidays. The deluxe limited edition package features a miniature replica of Scott’s Clavivox, his patented 1950s keyboard synthesizer, and a… Read More Electronic Music Pioneer Raymond Scott Turned Into A Doll
