Ambient artist Jim Butler has released Dreamstate – a massive 8-part ambient work that runs 6 hours. Butler is an ambient/new age artist that, according to his official bio, specializes in ‘dark swirling haunting drones.’ He’s also the creator of the ‘Deep Energy’ and ‘Dark Ambient’ podcasts. You can preview Dreamstate above or purchase it using… Read More Jim Butler’s Massive Dreamstate
This video, from the Winter NAMM Show, features GForce Software’s Dave Spiers introducing the MTron Optitron expansion pack, which is based on a sampled Optigan. We missed this when it came out – but Spiers may get the prize for “most entertaining NAMM demo guy,” and the Optitron Expansion Pack sound exceptionally groovy, too. Check… Read More Dave Spiers Talks About The MTron Optiron Optigan Expansion Pack, His Weird Tech Fetishes
Roland U.S. has introduced the FP-7F Digital Piano, the latest addition to its FP series piano lineup. The new FP-7F adds four new features: Roland’s SuperNATURAL Piano sound engine; an all-new PHA III Ivory Feel-S Keyboard with Escapement; a vocal mic input with companion Harmony effects; and an onboard looper. The FP-7F is expected to… Read More The Roland FP-7F Digital Piano
Ableton Live: Dubstep Style Composition 1 of 3: Drums & Envelopes was uploaded by: DubSpot
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Micah Frank’s Tectonic is a sound sculpture created in real time by earthquakes as they occur across the globe. A tightly integrated system between Max/MSP, Google Earth and Symbolic Sound’s Kyma processes earthquake data that are translated into sound synthesis parameters. A USGS XML feed is parsed into numerous fields including magnitude, elevation, time of… Read More Earthquake Synthesizer, Tectonic, Makes Music With Ableton Live + Google Earth
iPad Oscilloscope with oScope was uploaded by: Epiphyte
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You might have heard about the Moog Voyager XL a few days ago someplace – but Moog Music has officially announced it today. The Minimoog Voyager XL is a 40th anniversary salute to the Minimoog – one of the most influential synths of all time. And if you’ve got $5k to drop – you can… Read More Minimoog Voyager XL Official Specs
Brian Trifon created this tutorial on synthesis with Logic Pro’s Sculpture physical modeling synthesizer.
Artists and ARTURIA #7 Jean-Michel Jarre was uploaded by: Arturiaweb
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Free Windows Music Software: Angular Momentum has released Retronix, a free retro-style software synth plugin for Windows. The synth features 2 x 5 oscillators and one of them offers a wavetable mode with 135 waves. The filter has overdrive, key tracking, an ADSR envelope and an extra High Pass filter to filter out unwanted low frequencies.… Read More Free Retro-Style Synth Plugin For Windows
