Sunday Synth Jam: This video captures a live version of Gary Numan‘s Cars by I Speak Machine (Tara Busch and Maf Lewis). Recorded live October 1, 2015 at the Teragram Ballroom in Los Angeles, where I Speak Machine performed, supporting Gary Numan.
We recently featured the Lawrence, Kansas Public Library, which has a recording studio you can check out and is getting a large-format monster synth. Another library that is innovating by letting you check out creative tools is the Ann Arbor District Library. The library features the usual books, DVDs & CDs – but they also… Read More Ann Arbor’s Synth Lending Library Lets You Check Out Synths, Drum Machines, A Theremin & More
Cakefolder (Sam Di Nitride) has released a new album, Possibilities, that explores working within the limitation of performing everything live, using Korg Volca boxes and an Electribe 2. Each of the tracks was recorded live, on video, in the studio. “I went for a DAW-free music production process and videoed myself doing the performances,” he… Read More DAW-Free Electronic Music Recording With Cakefolder
Custom Eurorack case manufacture Dark Modular Cases has shared some new case designs and examples of custom cases. The Necronomicon, above, is a custom design, that looks a bit like if H.R. Giger had made Eurorack cases.
Portland downtempo electronica duo Soquelle has shared a free sample kit, based on a Roland TR-808 drum machine sampled with a vintage E-Mu SP-1200 sampler. What makes this Roland TR-808 sample kit unique? The samples were captured first through an E-mu SP-1200. They were then recorded through an Api Channel Strip into an Antelope Orion AD/DA. No effects, eq or processing… Read More Free Sample Library Features Classic 808 Sounds With Vintage 12-Bit Crunch
ModeAudio is giving away a free drum rack of 32 samples created exclusively from the vinyl crackle, hiss and needle drops of their vintage Technics turntable. The sounds can be used royalty-free in your productions. The rack features kicks, snares, claps, hi hats and percussion, all drenched in the warm crunch of record static and crackle.… Read More Free Vinyl Samples Ableton Live Drum Rack From ModeAudio
Synister is a free, open source synthesizer instrument for Windows and Mac. Synister was developed by students of TU-Berlin. They describe Synister as ‘the easy synthesizer. Here are the official demo videos:
Monoplugs has introduced Monique, a monophonic, subtractive, digital synthesizer for Linux, Mac & Windows.
The Soundmachines NS1nanosynth is a miniature modular synthesizer that’s priced about the same as one module of a full-size modular synth. It’s cheap, as modular synths go, because it dispenses with custom screen printed panels, jacks, knobs – leaving you with the essence of a modular: a circuit board. Developer Davide Mancini describes the NS1nanosynth as ‘A powerful, deep and hacker-friendly… Read More The Soundmachines NS1nanosynth Is A Tiny, Powerful Modular Synthesizer
Austin-based producer, sound designer and educator Francis Prève has unveiled a new ‘Ableton-centric’ soundware company, SympleSound, at this year’s SXSW. The first products from the company are its Analog Collection – a set of extensively multisampled versions of vintage analog synths, like the Oberheim SEM and RolandSH101, along with some newer (but discontinued) models like… Read More New ‘Ableton-centric’ Soundware Company, SympleSound
