First Look At Sonar 8 Producer & Studio
Cakewalk’s Product Manager Alex Westner discusses the newest version of Cakewalk Sonar. Unfortunately, the video is more sizzle than steak; Omnisphere has spoiled us forever.
Category: Music News
Plague Bearer Barebones Kit
Flight of Harmony is offering a barebones kit for their Plague Bearer synth module, designed to infect, corrupt and pervert a signal beyond recognition. Each filter has controls for varying the high and low corner frequencies of the passband, as well as variable gain and an input attenuator. It can be used as a filter, an oscillator,… Read More Plague Bearer Barebones Kit
The LinnDrum II Looks Awesome, But You Can’t Have It!
Roger Linn shared some renderings over the weekend of the LinnDrum II – the much-hyped new drum machine from Linn and synth guru Dave Smith. Here’s what Linn & Smith have to say about the LinnDrum II status: I’m sorry to report that we won’t be shipping in 2008 and I can’t yet offer a new estimated ship date.… Read More The LinnDrum II Looks Awesome, But You Can’t Have It!
Another Music Sequencer With Balls
Rhythm Ring is a new interactive sequencer, inspired by BeatBearing, the steampunk music sequencer: The Rhythm Ring interactive rhythm sequencer is an engaging musical device that enables the user to create a plethora of rhythms and beat patterns with the touch of their own fingers. Besides being fun to play with, the Rhythm Ring provides… Read More Another Music Sequencer With Balls
Cutup Generator Creates Aleatory Text
Cut-up text is an aleatory literary technique in which a text is cut up at random and rearranged to create a new text. It was used notably by William S. Burroughs in the late 60’s and early 70’s, and influenced the work of David Bowie, Curt Cobain and others. More recently, cut-up text has been… Read More Cutup Generator Creates Aleatory Text
New Software Harmonizes In The Style Of Radiohead, U2
Science Daily has an interesting, if a bit wide-eyed, look at ASSA (Automatic Style Specific Accompaniment), computer software that applies concepts of music theory to intelligent automatic harmonization of melodies. In a nutshell, the software harmonizes melodies in the style of U2, Radiohead or other existing source material. The system is described in Ching-Hua Chuan’s paper… Read More New Software Harmonizes In The Style Of Radiohead, U2
The Game Of Life Applied To Music
John Conway’s Game of Life is a classic game, first discussed in a Scientific American article in 1970, that uses simple rule to simulate how different colonies of life evolve. A new plugin, Automaton from Audio Damage, takes these ideas and applies them to the manipulation of sound. Automaton isn’t the application to bring the… Read More The Game Of Life Applied To Music
Sugar Bytes Crazy Studiopic Competition
Sugar Bytes has announced the Crazy Studiopic Competition: Send us your craziest studio pic and win some phantastic prizes from the Sugar Bytes product line! And that´s not all: Each post will win a 20% discount code for the Sugar Bytes shop. Do it on your own, with your band or your posse, just let… Read More Sugar Bytes Crazy Studiopic Competition
Free Reverb Plug-in For Mac & PC
KR-Reverb FS is a free reverb processor designed for ease of use, by adjusting internally the equalization and damping controls to optimal levels for producing a warm reverb sound. Update R1.2.0: Added an output Gain control with range -12db to +12db Bug fixes for better compatibility with various hosts New look sliders and button Features:… Read More Free Reverb Plug-in For Mac & PC
Reed Ghazala On Circuit Bending The Speak n’ Spell
Pioneering circuit-bender Reed Ghazala discusses the origins of circuit-bending the Texas Instruments Speak N’ Spell:
