XBox 360 OSC Music Controller
This video, by Anton Crnkovic, demonstrates using an XBox 360 controller as an OSC music controller.
The Number One Thing Not To Do With A Synthesizer
Matthew Ingram demonstrates how to play the Korg Monotron on a bicycle. Playing the Korg Monotron on a bicycle is up there with playing the Minimoog in the bathtub and skydiving synth jams. You could damage a perfectly good synth…..
The Synth That You’ll Never Have – Jomox SunSyn Mk2 Just Too Exotic
Saturday Synth Porn: The Jomox SunSyn Mk2 has just about everything going for it to make it desirable: it’s powerful, expensive and easy on the eyes. Unfortunately, it’s a synth you can’t buy – Jomox has cancelled production of the SunSyn Mk2, because the parts are just too exotic. They explain: We are unable to… Read More The Synth That You’ll Never Have – Jomox SunSyn Mk2 Just Too Exotic
Free Audio Editor – Plus Tutorial Fun!
LAoE (Layer-based Audio Editor) is a free graphical audio sample-editor for Mac, Windows & Linux, that features multi-layers, floating-point samples, volume-masks and variable selection-intensity. It also offers plugins suitable to manipulate sound, such as filtering, retouching, resampling, graphical spectrogram editing by brushes and rectangles, sample-curve editing by freehand-pen and spline and other interpolation curves, effects… Read More Free Audio Editor – Plus Tutorial Fun!
Three New Ableton Live Instruments
Ableton has announced three new Partner Instruments to add for Live: Novachord, MachineKits plus Tubular Bells. Soniccouture Novachord – a collection of presets that is based on the faithfully sampled sounds of the Novachord – a gargantuan, tube-based, 72-note polyphonic synthesizer from 1938. Puremagnetik MachineKits – a high quality library of drum machines programmed specifically for Ableton… Read More Three New Ableton Live Instruments
Synthesizer 76 (Virtual Synth Porn)
Saturday Synth Porn: Synthesizer 76 is a gorgeous design & concept for the 76 Synthesizer iPad app, by Jonas Ericksson.
The Best Dance And Electronic Music Of 2010
Amazon has posted its end-of-the-year “best-of” lists, including Best Dance And Electronic Music. Here are Amazon’s picks: The Best Dance And Electronic Music Of 2010 This Is Happening – LCD Soundsystem Head First – Goldfrapp Body Talk – Robyn Crystal Castles – Crystal Castles Black City – Matthew Dear Lucky Shiner – Gold Panda Aphrodite – Kylie Minogue The Social Network – Trent Reznor Black Sands – Bonobo The… Read More The Best Dance And Electronic Music Of 2010
Free Music Friday – The Hypnotic Berlin School Music Of Martin Peters
Free Music Friday: Martin Peters, right, is a synthesist we’ve featured previously for his hypnotic synth jam YouTube videos. If you’re a fan of Berlin School music – music in the tradition of the 70’s synth music pioneers Tangerine Dream and Klaus Schulze – you’ll want to check out Peters’ Attorks site. Peters has an archive… Read More Free Music Friday – The Hypnotic Berlin School Music Of Martin Peters
Daft Punk’s Tron: Legacy Soundtrack Review
http://vimeo.com/17687260 Daft Punk’s Tron: Legacy has been one of the most anticipated and hyped electronic music releases of the year. Die hard fans have been waiting since it was first announced that Daft Punk would be scoring Tron: Legacy. And the Disney hype machine has whipped up enough buzz for Tron 2 that most people… Read More Daft Punk’s Tron: Legacy Soundtrack Review
DJ Lux (Gorgeous Interactive Audio + Visual Installation)
DJ Lux (DJ Light) is an immersive public sound and light installation that gives visitors the power to orchestrate a performance of light and sound across a large public space. The installation consists of 85 giant globes of light, each capable of displaying millions of colours. As the “guest DJ” assumes their position on the… Read More DJ Lux (Gorgeous Interactive Audio + Visual Installation)
