Music community mi7.com has announced a new music contest in conjunction with Peter Gabriel’s Real World Studios. MI7 is offering one artist or band the chance to record in this legendary studio for three days. Musicians throughout the world can enter the contest for free by simply creating a profile at mi7.com, uploading some songs,… Read More Win 3 Days of Recording at Peter Gabriel’s Real World Studios
Fruity Loops software developer Juan Antonio Argüelles, aka Arguru, has died in a car accident. Translated via hispasonic.com: “Arguru, virtual programmer of Image Line (FL Studio) and creator of sintes of DiscoDSP, passed away yesterday near Benalmádena (Malaga), in a car accident. Yesterday Sunday 3 of June, to 18:45 hours, the car of Juan Antonio… Read More Fruity Loops Creator Dies in Accident
Blue Cat Audio has released an update of the Blue Cat’s Parametr’EQ series, their new EQ series providing the best of the digital and analog worlds, thanks to non-linear modeling capabilities. This is a maintenance release bringing a few bug fixes and minor enhancements. The upgrade is free for V3.0 customers, and the special introduction… Read More Blue Cat Audio Updates Parametr’EQ Series to Version 3.1
Abbey Road Studios and Propellerhead Software have announced that they have partnered to produce the Abbey Road Keyboards ReFill for Propellerhead Software’s Reason. Abbey Road Keyboards delivers a hypersampled collection of seven unique instruments, recorded using the original equipment at the legendary Abbey Road Studios. The Abbey Road Keyboards ReFill consists of Reason 3.0 patches… Read More Propellerhead Software Intros Abbey Road Keyboards ReFill
Circuit bending is the process of creatively short-circuiting cheap electronic devices such as guitar effects, children’s toys and synthesizers to create new musical instruments and sound generators. If you’re not familiar with it, you might want to check out this short preview for the circuit bending documentary by Derek Sajbel. The video features Q.R. Ghazala,… Read More What is Circuit Bending?
Creative Commons, a non-profit organization that releases licenses for sharing music and other creations freely over the Internet, is retiring one of its sampling licenses, citing lack of use. Here’s CC’s Lawrence Lessig’s explanation of the decision to retire the license: Until today, we have offered three versions of the Sampling license. Two of those… Read More Creative Commons Kills One Sampling License
We’ve been impressed recently by the variety and quality of electronic music videos that Synthtopia readers are creating and sharing in our electronic music forum. Some of the videos have really blown us away, so we thought we’d highlight a few of them. Solipsism’s At The Beach features a tripadelic video by Digitalblue: There was… Read More Cool Electronica Videos From Synthtopia Readers
Homegrown Sounds, best known for producing unique pads/textures through its range of sample CDs, has released Astralis, a VSTi designed for making complex sounds easy to produce. Description: If interplanetary excursions are your thing, you will love Astralis, a synth to loose yourself in. Astralis is packed with soundscaping features, and is an intuitive. hands-on… Read More Astralis Microtonal VSTi Released for PC
Superstar DJ Paul van Dyk plans to return to Central Park on August 17th & 18th – a record 5th consecutive year. Last year, over 10,000 fans from around the world descended upon New York to see van Dyk in this surreal environment. In celebration of the anniversary, innovators Paul van Dyk and organizers Made… Read More Paul van Dyk in Central Park
Precisionsound has introduced a new percussion loop library, Ethno Percussion Collection Volume 1 – DAF. The DAF is a Middle Eastern frame drum, a percussion instrument with a very distinctive sound. The library is the first release in the Ethno Percussion Collection series, which focuses on making very detailed single shot percussion libraries. Several layers… Read More Precisionsound Releases Ethno Percussion Collection
