SonicTransfer has announced the official release of their Ableton Live Skin Editor. It lets you make custom skins for Live so you can have it your way. They’ve also got a growing library of skins that you can download. People are going to eat this up – but it seems to me to be the… Read More Make Ableton Live Your B****!
Probably no synth has been cloned more times, both in hardware and software, than the Roland TB303. But while excellent hardware 303 clones (FR777) have been available for years, virtual versions have never been completely satisfying. AudioRealism‘s BassLine 2 changes that. It cranks out authentic 303 sounds, using a simple interface that will be familiar… Read More Is This The Best Virtual TB303 Ever?
Deep ambient artist Steve Roach has announced his only 2008 performance: DEEP SKY DREAMING — October 25, 2008 in Flagstaff, Arizona. This concert is sponsored by the Flagstaff Dark Skies Coalition and will be presented in an intimate 200-seat theater at the Coconino Center for the Arts. Tickets will go on sale by late April… Read More Steve Roach Live Concert
You’ve probably seen GameBoys used to create 8-Bit music, but have you seen a GameBoy Drum Machine? kBANG ver 01 uses the new GameBrain cartridge, using SMD technology with 1 megabyte Flash and 16 out 8 in ports. Promised with the ext release: speed control, save patch and mute channel – this was done in… Read More kBANG – The GameBoy Drum Machine
Jean Michel Jarre has personally authorized the publication of fair-use fan videos from his current Oxygene concert tour: I, Jean Michel Jarre, hereby authorise anyone to broadcast on Youtube any videos filmed during my concerts on ” Oxygene in concert” tour, as long as it is a fair excerpt with the right credits which has… Read More Jean Michel Jarre Authorizes Fan Concert Videos
Cheesy – but also an interesting piece of video sampling. How long does it take to put something like this together?
Ableton Live 7 LE is now out – offering most of Ableton Live 7’s new features. Here are the details: Features: Studio-quality recording up to 32-bit/192 kHz* Sixty-four audio tracks and unlimited MIDI tracks per project Powerful and creative MIDI sequencing for software instruments More than twenty built-in audio effects, including a host of creative… Read More Ableton Live 7 LE Software Announced
The latest trailer for Planet B-Boy makes it look a must-see movie. Check out the intelligence and wittiness of the editing on the trailer. I especially love the cut-back to the kid that says “Get over it”! If you’ve seen this already, let me know if it lives up to the trailer! Here are the… Read More Planet B-Boy Looks Like A Must-See Movie
Emusictips has an explanation of how to control Ableton Live with your iPhone. This type of thing is fascinating to see – but will it ever be more than a gimmick?
The Avant Garde Project has a large collection of free music that you can download, including digitized LPs of long out-of-print electronic music works: The Avant Garde Project is a series of recordings of 20th-century classical-experimental-electroacoustic music digitized from LPs whose music has in most cases never been released on CD, and so is effectively… Read More Free Music From The Avant Garde Project
