CDM reports that Open Sound Control (OSC), a protocol for communication between music devices over modern networks, has been ported to the Nintendo DS. This opens up possibilities for using the Nintendo DS to control music software and for other devices to control music software running on the DS. You can find out the details… Read More Open Sound Control On Nintendo DS
Very Cool Software‘s iStylophone (App Store link) is a new $5.99 virtual instrument for the iPhone that’s designed to be is a faithful reproduction of the original Stylophone electronic musical instrument. It may be very cool software – but it would be even cooler if Iconic Apps hadn’t already introduced a $ .99 virtual Stylophone for the iPhone, RetroSynth… Read More iStylophone – Another iPhone Stylophone
Synth.nl has published a nice series on building a PAIA 9700s modular synthesizer: It was a lot of fun building and it was actually my first experience with a modular at all. And after building this I just wanted to build more. The kit supplied by PAIA is very complete and the instructions in the manual… Read More A Guide To Building A PAIA 9700s Modular Synthesizer
Iconic Apps has introduced a new software instrument for the iPhone, RetroSynth (App Store link). It recreates the old-school sounds of the Stylophone as an iPhone app. It’s $.99 in the App Store.
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: Can You Tell When She’s Faking It? Posted on Friday, November 28th, 2008 in Electronic Musicians – Comments: (7) This video catches trance artist Dali at the Psychodelic Progressive Trance concert, singing, soloing on the… Read More Popular Posts On Synthtopia From 24th November – 30th November
Run is a short track, by sound designer Hans-Jörg Scheffler, that shows off his work with the new Spectrasonics Omnisphere synthesizer.
The video shows cursor and bar control for 8 daisy-chained Stribe1s, brightness control and full display animation. About The Stribe kit: A modular version of the original stribe project. Each Stribe1 has 1 softpot touchstrip and 2 columns of 64 LEDs. Right now, you need to already have an Arduino or some other microcontroller interface… Read More Stribe 1 x 8 MAX/MSP Software Demo
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mf7_NV3ruxA This is a short interview with Little Boots before her performance on Later. It’s not a great interview – but she touches her YouTube hit Meddle and using the Tenori On.
The technicians from the Museum of Techno get inspired to write a love song with monster beats. Best line: “An enormous techno sausage”.
A while back, we featured a video of Beardyman doing Monkey Jazz, noting that “he uses live looping technology to make synthesizers, drum machines and other musicians obsolete.” This is a chance to see all the camera angles, unedited, from the original Monkey Jazz video sessions.
