Sunday Synth Jam: This video captures a cover of Radiohead’s How To Disappear Completely, by Allison Brown. The performance is much less ‘synthy’ than many of the videos that we feature, but it showcases interesting use of the Therevox ET-4 synthesizer. In this context, the Therevox plays a role similar to steel guitar on many country/folk recordings.
Native Instruments has released the Stems Software Developer Kit (SDK) – a free toolkit for software and hardware developers, designed to make it easy to develop apps that can work with the Stems audio format. Stems is an open file format that lets you individually mix four different musical elements in a track, such as drums, bass, keys… Read More Native Instruments Releases Free Stems Software Developer Kit
The arts collective Data Garden has announced that they have 60 of their MIDI Sprout devices, MIDI interfaces for plant biodata sonification, that they will make available on May 22nd, 2016. The MIDI Sprout was originally produced via a Kickstarter project. Here’s how the MIDI Sprout works:
At Superbooth 16, we got a sneak preview from designer Davide Mancini of the upcoming Soundmachines SD1simpledrum Eurorack module.
Sunday Synth Jam: This video, via 100 Things I Do, captures a live performance of Of Magic.
Sunday Synth Jam: Dream Theater keyboardist and synth designer Jordan Rudess plays an original composition, Greetings Mr. Fripp. Technical Details: Written in flight. Recorded on iPad. Played on GeoShred.
Composer Peter Baumann (Tangerine Dream, solo) shared this music video, for Searching in Vain, from his album Machines of Desire.
frequencies (a / continuum) is an audiovisual installation, created by Nicolas Bernier, that lets users explore acoustic additive synthesis. The work was inspired by the Helmoltz Sound Synthesizer, considered by some to be the first electronic synthesizer. Here’s what Bernier has to say about the project:
Desert Sound Studios has introduced two new free Max For Live plugins. The first is Drum Mapper, right, which lets users quickly remap incoming MIDI notes and save the new mappings as presets in Ableton. With this, in just a minute or two you can completely re-organize the layout of drum kit sounds on a keyboard… Read More Free Max For Live MIDI Plugins
Audio Diggers has released Deep House – Bass Station II Presets, a collection of 93 presets for the Novation Bass Station II hardware synthesizer. The sounds are inspired by some of deep house producers, like Huxley, Ethyl, Flashmob, Julio Bashmore, Duke Dumont and Adana Twins. Here’s an audio preview:
