Saturday Synth Porn: Reader Chris Blarsky lets us know about his awesome all-in-one DIY MIDI controller, the DJ Sound Control. Here’s what he has to say about it: Here is an awesome computer mod that I have been working on for the last four months. I built this computer mod to appeal to DJ’s and… Read More Awesome All-In-One DIY DJ Sound Control System
Korg has announced a new context, X Marks The Spot, a sort of scavenger hunt with a Kronos Music Workstation as the prize: KRONOS “X MARKS THE SPOT” CONTEST OFFICIAL RULES NO PURCHASE NECESSARY. The Kronos “X Marks The Spot” contest (“Promotion”) begins at 9:00 AM EST May 24th, 2012 and ends at 11:59 PM… Read More Korg Giving Away A Free Kronos Workstation
Reader Matos let us know about Tform – a film about transformation, reproduction, mutation and decay that was made with an LZX Eurorack modular synthesizer. Animation generated in 2d animation software, processed, and feed into LZW video synth. Input is manipulated and feed into an oscilloscope and refilmed. Sound design with Reaktor 5.
Monkeys + Synthesizers – Voltfestivalen june 9, 2012 was uploaded by: voltfestivalen
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The Trichordist has posted a great essay by David Lowery that looks at whether the Internet music revolution has actually been good for musicians. Lowery takes a look at how music now gets distributed via the Internet and argues that the tech industry has an extremely skewed view of music and musicians: There is just… Read More Has The Internet Ruined The Music Business For Musicians?
This pair of videos, via iosmusician, demonstrates a jailbreak hack that allows Camera Connection Kit support on the iPhone & iPod touch. The first video, above, shows the hack being used to support an Oxygen 49 USB MIDI controller. The second, below, demonstrates using an Apogee One audio interface. Check out the demos and let us know… Read More iPhone Jailbreak Tweak For iPad Camera Connection Kit Support, iPhone USB MIDI
Use Condoms was uploaded by: kollektivetLivet
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It’s Friday, so we thought you might want to start of the weekend right with some more music-making freebies: PhybAce Pilot is a physically modelled bass guitar for Windows. It’s free. OhDrat has a free Ableton Live Rack – Future, the Garage, Beats, and Bass Music Drumkit. Fresh Touch Media has released Bass Drop for iOS –… Read More Friday Freebies – Free Music Software
Keith Handy wrote in us know that he’s made some more mods to his awesomely odd device that is designed to make the Korg Monotron easier to play. The device features a ‘Giant Pitch Bar’ that allows for more much more accurate control of the pitch ribbon. Handy has added a new filter cutoff slider to the device.… Read More Rube Goldberg Style Monotron Mod Gets Even More Goldbergian
AfroDJMac sent word about a new free Ableton Live Instrument Rack made with samples from the Roland Juno 106. It’s called “Swell Bell,” and is a warm pad created on the Juno 106, sampled into Ableton, and then further tweaked with the 8 macro knobs of an instrument rack. AfroDJMac describes it as ‘a warm… Read More Free Roland Juno 106 Warm Pad For Ableton Live
