Overview of The Pianoid. The Pianoid synthesizes not only the sounds of a piano, but their behavior as dictated by the specifics of a musical performance. The Pianoid is an idealized piano model. Users can create and save as presets the characteristics of any existing piano or related instrument, such as a harpsichord, glockenspiel —… Read More Pianoid Physical Modeling Piano
Made Records sent over iiO’s Rapture Reconstructed and it wasn’t one of those disks that we had to immediately dig into and check out. The release is a double-CD set of remixes of iiO’s 2002 club hit Rapture. Does anybody really need 18 remixes of any track? After giving the release a few listens, though,… Read More iiO Rapture Reconstructed
If you want to hear some music that’s really original, you could do a lot worse than checking out Ojos De Brujo’s wonderfully syncopated, flamenco-influenced Techarí. Ojos De Brujo (Eyes of the Wizard) is a Barcelona-based world fusion group, with eight members that play everything from flamenco guitar to tablas to turntables. Guest on the… Read More Ojos De Brujo – Techarí
Image: kernelslacker The Mochika is a hand-made analog synth from Atomosynth. Per Kernelslacker: The Mochika is a monotonic analog synth with the usual VCO/LFO/Noise sources, plus a step sequencer. It’s a bit temperamental. When I first powered it up, I spent five minutes turning knobs just trying to make any sound other than mains hum.… Read More Mochika Synthesizer
Gods & Monsters, the seventh release from Juno Reactor, sees Ben Watkins stretching a bit, but not straying too far from the Reactor formula of mixing techno and world music influences. While it’s great to see techno getting bent and adapted, not all off Juno Reactor’s attempts to push its range are successful. The first… Read More Juno Reactor: Gods & Monsters
Korg R3 (Synthesizer/Vocoder) – Overview Demo was uploaded by: korgcanada
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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?
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
The Zizzle Zoundz is a psychedelic electronic music toy that looks to me like it might be as much fun for parents as it is for kids. Apparently it uses RFID embedded in the pieces that act as triggers. Here’s the official description: Zoundz creates a fusion of self- composed music with an accompanying light… Read More Psychedelic Electronic Music Toy
René van der Wouden‘s Universal Quiet is a collection of retro synth music that is a treat for fans of 70’s Berlin School music.van der Wouden is a Dutch composer and synthesist who describes his style as retro, Berliner Schule and progressive. van der Wouden builds on Klaus Schulze’s pioneering mid-seventies sound, modernizing it and… Read More René van der Wouden – Universal Quiet
