Jared Arave’s SoftSynth is a soft hardware synth – and “a crafty way of creating sweet, beautiful music wherever you may be”: Indecently, I get the feeling this witty moniker has probably been applied to any number of things that are soft, and make sound, but my love of puns trumps my desire for originality.… Read More Jared Arave’s SoftSynth Hardware Synth Is Really Soft
happymoogman Dana Countryman gives an overview of his awesome DIY project, his take on the Ondes Martenot: Here is part two of my progress, building an Ondes Martenot-style controller for my modular synthesizer. Feel free to use my ideas, but no, I will not be building one for you! 😉 I built this around my… Read More Building An Ondes Martenot
NSFW: Think you need new gear? Think again! Analogger has a recipe for creative sound design in hard times, and it involves pitting a 70’s Hamilton Beach blender against an Access Virus. If you’ve got more ideas for crazy low-budget sound design, leave a comment!
laptop_orchestra is an interactive synaesthetic instrument, designed for performances of audio visual compositions in real time. The space conformation of the fifteen laptops, arranged on regular rows, brings back to the formation of an orchestral group. On each one of them is installed a Software consisting in algorithms which activate sounds and abstract visual shapes… Read More Laptop Orchestra
Jeff Winner of the Raymond Scott blog has a mission: to rid the world of Musica Para La Intimidad – an album that is apparently a blot on the electronic music pioneer’s name: We have “previously warned about the dangers of a stunningly boring album recorded by Raymond Scott in 1957, and subsequently issued under… Read More Raymond Scott’s Musica Para La Intimidad
The Ondes Martenot (French for “Martenot waves) is an early electronic musical instrument, invented in 1928 by Maurice Martenot and originally very similar in sound to the theremin. The sonic capabilities of the instrument were subsequently expanded by the addition of timbral controls and switchable loudspeakers. The instrument’s eerie wavering notes are oscillating frequencies produced… Read More The Ondes Martenot
[flickrvideo]http://www.flickr.com/photos/spikenzie/3213876843[/flickrvideo] via Spikenzie Project 64 Button panel (a 64 button board arranged in a 8×8 matriix) used to select different sounds that have been loaded into the VoiceShield an Arduino shield.
2009 NAMM Show: Roland introduced the FR-1 V-Accordion, the latest addition to its V-Accordion line. The FR-1 puts digital modeling technology in a traditional accordion design. The FR-1 is lightweight, with a compact frame that weighs only twelve pounds. With the FR-1, players can simulate up to seven different distinct accordions, access four different organ… Read More Roland FR-1 Digital Accordion
I know that you all are enjoying the great music people are making with Microsoft Songsmith, so I though you’d enjoy the Microsoft Songsmith lite jazz version of Van Halen’s Running With Devil.
In this video, via GearWire, Josh from Bigcitymusic.com talks about the three upcoming Metasonix Eurorack synth modules: The R-51 — voiced for analog synth mangling — allows you to add mild tube warmth or take it to the next level (BAM!) and get all Metasonix-y (i.e. sounding like bathroom humor). The R-52 is a multimode filter… Read More Metasonix New Eurorack Synth Modules
