This year, for the seventh year, a variety of mashup artists have come together to create a collection of unusual holiday mashups – Santastic 7. Here’s a rundown of the tracks: Jingle Bells Pon De Floor (Major Lazer vs Soma vs Jars of Clay) – DJ Schmolli (Vienna, Austria) What Child Too Close? (The Judds vs… Read More Free Music For The Holidays – The Santastic VII
Sound designer Bryan Ploof made this video song, Carol Of The Branches, using the sounds of his family Christmas Tree.… Read More Music From A Christmas Tree – Carol Of The Branches
Free Music Software: AfroDJMac has a free live pack for you, inspired by the holidays: Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays! I hope the season finds you in good health and great spirits. I am writing to share a special Christmas themed Free Ableton Live Pack. It’s the Charlie Brown Christmas Tree Synths! I sampled a… Read More Free Live Pack – Charlie Brown Christmas Tree Synths
KORG monotribe – Jingle Bells / BakaOscillator was uploaded by: BakaOscillator
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H.G.Fortune has a holiday gift for Windows users, a free software synth, Fortune Cookie 2012. Fortune Cookie 2012 is a VA synth (VSTi plugin) for ‘various types of solo and more or less typical polysynth and strange FX sounds’. According to Fortune, it gains special uniqueness from it’s different sync modes and X-Torsion.
Free Music Friday: Reader Thom Martin (The Hybiscus Journals) has completed several more tracks in his ‘Switched On Nutracker’ project. Here’s what he’s got to say about the tracks: All sounds for these tracks were created on either Moog Rogue or Sequential Circuits Pro-One analog monophonic synthesizers and performed into Logic Express 8. There are a… Read More Switched On Nutcracker
Composer, robot maker, thereminist and historian of sound technology, Sarah Angliss, created this cover of the happy synth pop classic, Popcorn. The arrangement uses sampled carillon, giving the track a holiday feel.
Noisebud has released a free VST for Windows-based techno, house & trance producers, Lazy Kenneth: Just in time for christmas we have this little spin off product ready, so go ahead and put it under your tree. Lazy Kenneth will help those who don’t know how to use, or are too lazy to use sidechain… Read More Free Plugin ‘For Techno, House & Trance Producers’
Reader Stephen Alcorn let us know that he’s released an album of vintage holiday themed synth music. An ARP Odyssey Christmas is an album of Christmas carols, recorded in 1976 entirely with an ARP Odyssey synthesizer. The Odyssey is a monophonic synth, so each carol was multi-tracked, with up to seven parts. The recordings aren’t… Read More An ARP Odyssey Christmas
It’s that time of year again – time for holiday electronic music gear deals! This year, we dig out this heartwarming/creepy holiday illustration once again, and highlight the holiday deals on electronic music gear & software that you may want to check out. Note that these are limited time specials, so check the sites for details.
