Xenharmonic Dance Music Made With Microtonal Synth Plugin

Subersio is a new album of xenharmonic music made with the FMTS synthesizer, a 4–Operator FM synthesis VSTi. FMTS offers a specialized set of features for musicians interested in exploring the possibilities of microtonal and xenharmonic music making. Xenharmonic music explores tuning systems outside of 12-tone equal temperament. You can preview the album below:

Music That You Can Tweet About (140-Character Twitter Music Challenge)

Jacob Joaquin is exploring the idea of composing for Twitter. Can you make music within the constraints of 140 characters? Here’s Joaquin’s SuperCollider Bohlen-Pierce Tweet – above as audio, and below as text: fork{loop{play{f=_*3.pow(17.rand/13);e=EnvGen.ar(Env.perc,1,0.3,0,1,2); PMOsc.ar(f.([438,442]),f.(880),f.(e))*e};[1/6,1/3].choose.wait}} That only weighs in at 135 characters – imagine what you could do with another 5 characters! Microtonal tuning courtesy… Read More Music That You Can Tweet About (140-Character Twitter Music Challenge)

Free Windows Synthesizer Designed For Microtonal & Xenharmonic Music

Free Music Software: Xen-Arts has released Xenharmonic FMTS – a 4 Operator FM Synthesis VSTi with a specialized set of features for musicians interested in exploring the expressive possibilities of microtonal and xenharmonic music making. Xenharmonic music is music based on tuning systems other than the standard 12-tone equal tempered scale. Xen-Arts says that the VSTi is… Read More Free Windows Synthesizer Designed For Microtonal & Xenharmonic Music

The Pythagorean Lambdoma Harmonic Keyboard May Reveal Key to the Universe

The Pythagorean Lambdoma Harmonic Keyboard, designed by mathemetician Barbara Hero, is an unusual MIDI controller that’s based on ancient concepts and fundamental harmonic relationships between notes. The keyboard is based on the Lambdoma Matrix, a mathematical grid attributed to the philosopher Pythagoras. The Matrix plots whole-number ratios, with whole numbers along on side (1,2,3,4….) and… Read More The Pythagorean Lambdoma Harmonic Keyboard May Reveal Key to the Universe

Submissions Wanted For Microtonal Chipmusic Compilation

Aussie chiptune guru Sebastian Tomczak is looking for submissions for an upcoming microtonal chipmusic compilation: Microtonality is a field that seems to me to be a little overlooked when it comes to chipmusic. That’s why I thought it would be fun to do a microtonal compilation. More information about microtonal music can be found here,… Read More Submissions Wanted For Microtonal Chipmusic Compilation

Free Microtonal Music Tool For Macs

Scordatura is a Mac OSX sound font software synthesizer and custom control surface design tool created for microtonal composition and performance, compatible with all standard MIDI hardware controllers such as keyboards and trigger surfaces and standard MIDI sequencing and notation software such as Sibelius, Finale, Logic, Digital Performer, etc. Features: creates 16 virtual MIDI input… Read More Free Microtonal Music Tool For Macs