Interesting article on chiptunes and the Blip Festival in the New York Times today: Jeremiah Johnson, 27, is a chiptune composer: His instrument is not the guitar or the piano or even the latest music software, but old-school video hardware like the Nintendo GameBoy. Working with screwdrivers and soldering irons, he painstakingly reprograms the rudimentary… Read More Making Old Hardware Play New Tunes
Others may promise to give you a mighty organ, but only only AudioWarrior delivers. They’ve released The Mighty Wurlitzer Theatre Organ instrument collection for Kontakt. The 3 instrument collection includes the Wurly Theatre Organ, considered by some as the first live performance sampler instrument, with built in sound effects like sleigh bells, drum roll, church… Read More Get A Mighty Organ, Guaranteed!!!!
Impromptu is an OSX programming environment for composers, sound artists, VJ’s and graphic artists with an interest in live or interactive programming. Impromptu is a Scheme language environment, a member of the Lisp family of languages. Time plays a major role in the Impromptu environment allowing accurate real-time scheduling of events and code. Impromptu is… Read More Check Out This Amazing Demo Of Impromptu For OS X
The Roland FR-7 V-Accordian brings Roland’s synth might to one of the world’s least loved instruments. You can see the FR-7 in action below. FR-7 features: PBM (Physical Behavior Modeling) enables true sound reproduction and dynamic expression. Realistic tone and expressive simulations of a wide range of traditional accordions. 22 onboard Orchestral sounds and 7… Read More Roland FR-7 Brings Synth Technology To The Accordian
You may remember a story from last month, Nine Inch Nails F***’s Major Labels Like An Animal, when Nine Inch Nails announced at its site that it is going forward without a major-label contract. Well, what comes around goes around. Nine Inch Nails has been planning for a long time to try an interesting experiment… Read More Universal F#cks Nine Inch Nails Like An Animal
SuperMegaUltraGroovy today announced the immediate availability of FuzzMeasure Pro 3, an audio and acoustical signal-analysis software package for Mac OS X Leopard. These guys should get an award for the best company and product names ever. FuzzMeasure Pro 3 builds on FuzzMeasure Pro 2 by adding an array of frequently requested professional tools. Among these… Read More SuperMegaUltraGroovy Announces FuzzMeasure Pro 3 For Mac
Fairlight has launched the Xynergi digital production center, a new type of computer interface that, at least according to the company, not only fundamentally alters the way that media professionals interact with content but is also offering the global computing industry a new transformational keyboard technology. The keyboard changes its interface on the fly. Check… Read More Xynergi Reinvents The Control Surface
Our contact at Yamaha, Peter, sent some info on the first Tenori-On album: Audio conceptualist Norman Fairbanks has always remained at the cutting edge of music production, so when he first heard about Tenori-on back in 2005 he felt compelled to investigate the myriad possibilities of this hybrid instrument. The result is 7 Days Microsleep,… Read More Tenori-On In Action
Native Instruments and Beatport today unveiled Beatport SYNC, a free music playback applicationg for Mac and Windows based on NI’s groundbreaking Traktor DJ software. Beatport SYNC combines powerful music management capabilities with basic DJ mixing functions and full integration of the Beatport online store in one easy-to-use application. Equipped with two playback decks and a… Read More Beatport Sync Puts Traktor DJ Features Into Free Application
The Future Music Lab at the University of Plymouth, UK, has some pretty freaky projects, (see dude plays the piano with his brain.) This one has us scratching our heads, though. It’s a demo movie on the robotic evolution of music: [display_podcast] That’s all cool – but how long until their evolved enough to cover… Read More Bizarre Robo-Music
