iConnectivity has announced iConnectMIDI – a new box that lets you use your iPhone to directly control hardware synths. Here’s how iConnectivity explains how iConnectMIDI works: Plug your electronic instrument (synthesizer, guitar, whatever) into iConnectMIDI and you can play and control your music, using your iPhone or iPod, your instrument, or both at the same… Read More iConnectMIDI Turns Your iPhone Into A MIDI Controller
Free Sample Library alert: SampleRadar has announced that it’s hit a milestone of offering more than 10,000 free audio samples. 10,198 loops, hits and multisamples are available to download, to be precise. Details below.
Free Music: This is a promo video for The Shape Of Things To Come,a single from High Skies’ Sounds Of Earth. The track was featured in the soundtrack for the ambient music game Osmos You can download The Shape Of Things To Come for free from the Microscopics site. Check it out and let me… Read More Download This For Free – The Shape Of Things To Come, From The Osmos Soundtrack
Keith McMillin Instruments (KMI) has introduced the SoftStep foot controller, a flexible footswitch that boasts ten keys, each with 5 degrees of freedom. “SoftStep gives more power than ever to the musician in a smaller lighter package,” says inventor Keith McMillen. “Anything that can be controlled with a knob or sliders can be controlled with… Read More New SoftStep Foot Controller “A Mouse For The Feet”
Mark Northam has written a forward-looking essay for Film Music Mag looking at ten ways the Apple iPad could be used in the world of film scoring: SketchPad – With the addition of stylus input, which is possible with the existing capacitive touchscreen technology Apple uses in both the iPhone and the iPad, entering and… Read More Ten Ways The iPad Could Be Used For Film Scoring
This is a demo from the 2010 NAMM Show of Snazzy Effects’ The Tracer City – a multi-effects box. Snazzy Effects designed the The Tracer City to provide a whole range of new textures, from envelope follower effects to filtered tremolo, from aggressive filter sweeps and subtle coloration, all the way on through completely bizarre… Read More Snazzy Effects’ The Tracer City
Detunized has introduced La Ramona Synthesizers, a new sound library for Ableton Live that features the sounds of the Vermona Synthesizer: “Hammer” is good for strange textures. “Zirkel” is a kind of 303 bass synth. The original Vermona filter is featured here. “Aehrenkranz” can be fitted with 133 different oscillators carrying a great variety of… Read More Detunized releases DTS011 – La Ramona Synthesizers
Twisted Tools’ Vortex s a six track polyphonic sampler and sequencer for Native Instrument’s Reaktor 5. It comes pre-configured for Kore 2 and Maschine and features an original 200 mb+ sample map with samples by artists such as c2, Richard Devine, Josh Hinden, Noklip, GlitchMachines.com, Mike Huckaby, Sonictwist, Tipper and Vinja. video via Richard Devine
This is a demo video for Video Pianner: I’ve been testing Max For Live out with Jitter over the past few months and the other day I realized I didnt have anything to show for it so I put this together. The clips were just lying around – not made specially for this – but… Read More Video Piano Demo
Moog Music has released on update for the Minimoog Voyager, OS 3.5: Operating System Version 3.5 for the Minimoog Voyager Analog synthesizer adds a number of new features, including quick save, category browse, and legato glide. After you update your Voyager to OS 3.5, there is a new bank for the freshest Voyager presets on… Read More Moog Updates Minimoog Voyager
