The Sound Design Of Jurassic World
The latest episode of the SoundWorks Collection sound profiles looks at the sound design of Jurassic World.
Camel Audio Alchemy Lives On In GarageBand
It looks like Camel Audio’s Alchemy synth may live on within Apple’s GarageBand and eventually Logic Pro. Apple Insider reports that Apple has updated its site with previews of an upcoming GarageBand release that features new synth sounds with the ‘Transform Pad Smart Control’. The Tranform Pad will look familiar to users of Alchemy Mobile:
Novation LaunchPad Feature Overview Demo
Novation has published a short demo/feature overview of the revamped LaunchPad, with hardware performer / electronic music maker CALC.
Classical Indian Music On iPad + Animoog
Sunday Synth Jam: This video, via Navneeth Sundar, captures a live performance of Shri. Lalgudi G. Jayaraman’s Desh Thillana composition.
‘Telstar’ On Stylophone & Ukulele
Sunday Synth Jam: This video, via Smokey Stubbs, is the music video for the Fluff Tadpole cover of the vintage electronic pop hit, Telstar, written by Joe Meek and originally performed by The Tornados. Technical details below.
All Of Daft Punk’s Tunes, Live, In 5 Minutes
IntroducingLive is a band that takes on the challenge of performing classic ‘unplayable’ electronic albums live. They started by tackling DJ Shadow’s seminal Endtroducing. Here, they preview their live performances of Daft Punk.
Chris Randall – Bounce (Live Techno Jam)
Sunday Synth Jam: This video, via Chris Randall (Audio Damage, Sister Machine Gun), captures a live studio performance of Bounce.
Soundplane Synth Jam
Sunday Synth Jam: This video, via Mark Harris, captures a synth jam on the Madrona SoundPlane, controlling the Aalto software synthesizer.
Audiothingies Updates P6 Polysynth
Audiothingies has released a new firmware version for its P6 – a DIY polyphonic synth kit. The P6 offers 2 oscillators, 1 sub-oscillator, an 8-mode resonant filter, 3 envelopes and 3 LFOs per voice. Performance options include an integrated chorder and arp pattern sequencer. Here’s a video intro to the P6 running Firmware 2:
Waldorf Attack Drums Now Available For iPad
Waldorf Music has introduced Attack Drums – a software synth for iPad that they say is designed mainly for drum sounds, but that also can be used for everything else – including vocals.
