PianoTeq, creators of a piano modeling virtual instrument, has announced a contest: We hereby launch a contest, open for everybody, where there will be 3 winners, each receiving a license of Pianoteq. If you already own a license, you will be offered a free upgrade to a forthcoming product. In the following audio file, you… Read More Guess The Composers & Win PianoTeq
A demonstration of ammobox, a new free virtual instrument that lets you scratch audio by triggering samples asyncronously with MIDI. The turntable provides velocity and rotation control. Creator Nathan Ramella (aka Synthesizer Patel) says: What you see on the screen is me dropping MIDI notes into an Ableton Live MIDI loop, as each note is… Read More Scratching in Ableton Live With Ammobox
Travel blogger Matt Harding (Where the Hell is Matt) traced a sample around the world to its origin: I went to the Solomon Islands to research the origins of Rorogwela, a traditional folk song that was sampled in Sweet Lullaby by Deep Forest and reused in my dancing videos. In the years 1969/1970, the ethnomusicologist… Read More Tracing A Sample To Its Source, Halfway Around The World
Nice intro video for the Hobnox Audiotool that offers an introduction to creating beats. AudioTool is like Reason for your Web browser.
Goagadar Magazine‘s Spring Issue is online. Goagadar Magazine focuses on psychedelic culture – the core of the trance scene. Originally a print publication, it is now available online for free in Flash format. It’s got gorgeous photos and interviews with Juno Reactor and others. Featured in this issue: Interviews with Juno Reactor, Materia and Hadra… Read More Free Psychedelic Culture Magazine Features Juno Reactor Interview
Paxahau, producers of Movement 08 – Detroit’s Electronic Music Festival, hasannounced that ticket sales have tripled and volunteer interest and staff has more than doubled compared to 2007. To date, Paxahau has 235 volunteers to work this year’s festival, which is up from last year’s 115. More than 40 of the volunteers are from out… Read More Will Movement 2008 Be Three Times As Big As 2008?
Nine Inch Nails is touring the US and Canada this summer, and has announced dates. Premium tickets for all NIN headline dates will be made available to registered nin.com members in advance of public on sales. Pre sale tickets are personalized with the members legal name printed on the face of the ticket and ID… Read More Nine Inch Nails 2008 Tour Dates
Modular synthesist Bakis Sirros sends word via the forum of new demo clips for the Analogue Systems RS370 Polyphonic Harmonic Generator, a 6-voice polyphonic harmonic generator and wavetable synthesizer. You can preview some of the sound clips below. More demo clips are available at the Big City Music site. RS370 Features: 6-voice polyphonic harmonic generator… Read More Analogue Systems RS370 Polyphonic Harmonic Generator
Hack-a-day has published another synth DIY project – a tutorial on building a basic digital synthesizer: This simple guide will show you how to build a digital synthesizer that generates and manipulates square waves. Your synthesizer will have one oscillator, which produces a variable pitch controlled by a potentiometer, as well as an LFO which… Read More DIY Digital Synth Project
Ambient house group The Orb has announced dates for its 2008 tour: 1 May 2008 Scala – The Orb London, London and South East 2 May 2008 Concorde 2 – The Orb Brighton, London and South East 4 May 2008 Wedgewood Rooms – The Orb Portsmouth, South 6 May 2008 The Scala – The Orb… Read More The Orb – The Dream – The Tour
