Steinberg Releases New VST 3.5 Development Kit; Here’s What It Will Mean

Steinberg has released the VST 3.5 development kit, the latest incarnation of the world’s most popular music plug-in technology. “VST 3.5 brings along many possibilities to create outstanding plug-ins and virtual instruments that will convince even those plug-in manufacturers, who still offer products based on the old VST 2.4 standard,” comments Timo Wildenhain, product marketing manager… Read More Steinberg Releases New VST 3.5 Development Kit; Here’s What It Will Mean

Paul’s Extreme Sound Stretch Now More Extreme, Stretches Your Audio Up To One Quintillion Times

Free Music Software: Developer Paul Nasca has released an updated version of Paul’s Extreme Sound Stretch, or Paulstretch, a program for stretching audio. It is suitable for extreme sound stretching of audio and for applying special effects by spectral smoothing the sounds. It can transform any sound/music to a texture. Version 2.1 is even more extreme… Read More Paul’s Extreme Sound Stretch Now More Extreme, Stretches Your Audio Up To One Quintillion Times

Gert Emmens’ Metamorphosis A Treat For Vintage Synth Fans

Gert Emmens’ Metamorphosis is a lush album of synth music, featuring a collection of longer melodic electronic tracks that should appeal to fans of classic synth bands and vintage synths alike. In making Metamorphosis, Emmens used old analog instruments only, without MIDI. Only CV/GATE was used, on the sequences. Emmens explains: During the summer of… Read More Gert Emmens’ Metamorphosis A Treat For Vintage Synth Fans

Free VST Synthesizer For Windows – The Scrooo

Full Bucket Music has introduced The Scrooo, a free VST synthesizer for Windows. The scrooo is a VST 2.4 polyphonic software synthesizer plug-in for Microsoft Windows, based on a spectral formant synthesis architecture and written in native C++ code for high performance. Features: Up to 32 voices polyphony including portamento. Two band-limited carrier oscillators. Three… Read More Free VST Synthesizer For Windows – The Scrooo

Synthetic Sound Labs Debuts Low Frequency Oscillator Synth Module

Synthetic Sound Labs has released the newest member of its line of Synthesizers.com (DOTCOM) compatible analog synthesizer modules, the Model 1250 Quad LFO. This new single-width module contains four independent Low Frequency Oscillators (LFO) that can be switched between Sine and Square waveforms. The frequency of each LFO is adjustable from less than approximately .01… Read More Synthetic Sound Labs Debuts Low Frequency Oscillator Synth Module

Brooklyn’s Vaudeville Park Offers Electronic Music Classes

Brooklyn’s Vaudeville Park has announced a series of workshops on Electronics In Music. Attendees can learn about making their own electronic instruments and devices. Vaudeville Park is a Brooklyn, NY non-profit, whose mission is showcasing unique and affordable community arts programming. Here’s an outline of the courses: Course A in February Week 1- “Money-Saving Skills… Read More Brooklyn’s Vaudeville Park Offers Electronic Music Classes

Grout Granular Synthesizer Released (Max/MSP)

Grout is a granular synthesizer written in Max/MSP. It uses step sequencing to route individual grains through different effects and create complex textures. Features: Four granulation modules, each with 128 voices and dedicated lowpass filters MIDI control of all parameters Step sequencers for each module, for routing grains through built in delay, flange and overdrive… Read More Grout Granular Synthesizer Released (Max/MSP)