Sebastian Tomczak (Little Scale) has put together a fantastic tutorial on how to prep samples and create LSDJ kits. LSDJ is an app designed to turn a Game Boy/Game Boy Color into a full-fledged music workstation. To create your own sample kits for LSDJ, you’ll need several apps: Bias PEAK (5.2) Apple QuickTime Pro (7.55) LSDJ… Read More How to Prepare Samples And Create LSDJ Kits
Synth music pioneer Jean Michel Jarre has been awarded Doctor Honoris Causa by the Russian Academy of Sciences. Jarre was decorated for “his outstanding contribution to the promotion of music as a culture and his commitment to protecting the environment.” The official ceremony took place in an amphitheater at the Moscow Faculty of Sciences. The… Read More That’s Dr. Jean Michel Jarre To You!
James Zabiela in action, using the gater effect in Traktor Scratch Pro to push the crowd during a set at the Godskitchen in Kiev (Ukraine). This is the Bourne version – looks like he must have a head-mounted camera! Anybody recognize the track?
This is a little off-topic, but still entertaining. Beardyman – the UK beatbox champ – promos his appearance on the upcoming YouTube Live event, to be held on November 22nd. Beardyman does beatboxing in combination with a looper to created fully arranged musical tracks live. Check out this previous post on Beardyman for an example.
Atmosphere is a great new album of synth music album from Dutch synthesist Michel van Osenbruggen, aka Synth.nl. Atmosphere is a concept album, based on the layers of atmosphere that surround the Earth, the various types of clouds that are encountered within each layer and the sounds of weather that might occur at each layer. The tracks are arranged… Read More Synth.nl – Atmosphere
We haven’t ruined your day with scary videos recently, so we thought we better remedy that with this creeptacular vintage video of Roddis Franklin “Pete” Drake doing his 1962 “talking steel guitar” hit, Forever. … Read More Freakishly Weird Talking Guitar Video
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: Even More Music From Synthtopia Readers Posted on Tuesday, November 11th, 2008 in Free Music – Comments: (5) Last week, I asked for Synthtopia readers to send in some tracks to… Read More Popular Posts On Synthtopia From 10th November – 16th November
Image: percussa Percussa’s Bert Schiettecatte has published a nice interview with Atlanta electronica artist Richard Devine.
SynthPond 2.0, an update to the iPhone ambient spacial synth, is now available in the Apple App Store. It’s a free update for registered users. Check this previous post to see developer Zach Gage demonstrating the new features. SynthPond description: synthPond is a relaxing spatial sequencer and audio toy. Unlike a normal sequencer where you… Read More SynthPond iPhone Ambient Music App Gets Update
Recently, I mentioned that I’m checking out SoundCloud – a new music sharing site specifically for musicians. I wanted to learn a bit more about how it works and see if it could be a useful tool for Synthtopia readers. So I embedded a SoundCloud drop box on the right sidebar of the site and… Read More Another Batch Of Great Electronic Music From Synthtopia Readers!
