KordBot MIDI Chord Controller, Arpeggiator & Step Sequencer Now Available Via Kickstarter Project

Developer Isla Instruments has introduced a Kickstarter project to fund the production of the KordBot MIDI controller. KordBot is described as a ‘music production assistant that combines a chord generator, arpeggiator and step sequencer In one unit.’ It has 32 built-in chord types including inversions for each, with another eight user-banks for storing custom chord… Read More KordBot MIDI Chord Controller, Arpeggiator & Step Sequencer Now Available Via Kickstarter Project

February 22, 2016February 22, 201619 Comments

Propellerhead Goes ‘Mobile First’, Intros Allihoopa Music Social Network

Propellerhead today introduced Allihoopa – a new social network for music sharing for users of their software. “Today a majority of young people see a future where everything is done on mobile devices,” says Propellerhead CEO Ernst Nathorst-Böös. “In that world, Allihoopa will be the world’s musical hub.”

February 22, 2016December 5, 201733 Comments

Hang (Drum) + Omnisphere 2 Live Jam Session

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LY4QEVpgu28 Sunday Synth Jam: This video, via Spectrasonics, captures a live jam between founder Eric Persing and Hang performer Gulli Briem. Briem plays the Hang that was sampled to create the Omnisphere 2 patch that Persing plays on keyboard and Omni TR on an iPad.

February 21, 201611 Comments

Berlin School Synth Improvisation

Sunday Synth Jam: This video, via Michael Perkins, captures a Berlin School style synth improvisation. Here’s what he has to say about the technical details:

February 21, 20167 Comments

Teenage Engineering OP-1 Synth Jam

Sunday Synth Jam: This video, via Alba Ecstasy, demos his patch library for the Teenage Engineering OP-1 synthesizer. “If you think as I did, before putting my hands on a OP-1, that this is an expensive toy, you’re right only about the price,” he notes. “Because OP-1 is nothing but a monster synth inside of a… Read More Teenage Engineering OP-1 Synth Jam

February 21, 20167 Comments

AKAI AX60 Ambient Space Music

Sunday Synth Jam: This video, via synth4ever, captures an ambient space music performance, Celestial Being, on an Akai AX60 synthesizer. The AX60 is a 6-voice analog synth from the 80s.

February 21, 20164 Comments

Music Thing Modular Axoloti Control Board

Music Things’ Tom Whitwell has introduced the Music Thing Modular Axoloti Control Board – an open source design that adds controls to the Axoloti digital signal processing platform. Axoloti is an open platform. designed to let you create custom hardware synthesizers and audio processing systems. Here’s what Whitwell has to say about the new DIY design:

February 21, 20169 Comments

Techno On A Buchla Music Easel

Sunday Synth Jam: This video, via Peter Maas, captures a synth jam, Chicago Love, that explores using the Buchla Music Easel in a context in which it’s rarely heard – old school techno.

February 21, 2016February 21, 201622 Comments

Tabla Live Looping, With Elektron Octatrack & Analog Rytm

Sunday Synth Jam: Here’s something a little different – a live looping tabla jam, by Neybuu.

February 21, 20167 Comments

Korg Volca Bass & Volca Keys MIDI Secrets

This video, via Todd Smith, demonstrates some Korg Volca Bass ‘MIDI secrets’ – a few hidden MIDI-only settings on the Korg Volca Bass and Korg Volca Keys.

February 21, 201613 Comments