Worrying times for synth legends
New Depeche Mode cancellations
Depeche Mode at Arvika.
Depeche Mode have cancelled shows again: the last two on the European tour in Porto and Sevilla today and tomorrow. This time it’s for a new reason; Dave Gahan has hurt his leg (calf muscle tear) and needs to keep it still, doctor’s orders.
Ironhead:Spawn, 13 instrument plug-ins for Windows
Meet the Spawn of Ironhead! Going well beyond the original Ironhead, the Spawn plugs have been mutated and modified to provide a far wider range of percussive and melodic sounds, and they can be played like normal synths…tracking pitch across the entire keyboard. If you like tuned percussion, you’re going to love this.
Ironhead is drum kit…Ironhead:Spawn is a whole band.
Ugo Audio Ironhead:Spawn
Ironhead:Spawn features
- Fast, fun, and easy interface.
- 13 unique sounding percussion instruments .
- Morphing (controled by LFO, automation, MIDI).
- Random variance.
- Dual delays (BPM sync with dotted notes).
- Randomizers.
- Over 40 presets in each, totaling over 540 presets in the bundle.
Feel like drawing or painting your music?
HighC is a graphical music creation tool. It is a synthesizer, a sequencer and a mixer. Its goal is to make music composition as simple and direct as sketching.
An entertaining and educational tool…
No music experience needed: create stunning soundscapes and crazy ringtones in a matter of minutes. Learn acoustics, music theory and audio synthesis with a gentle, graphic approach.
that meets demanding professional needs
Master advanced synthesis techniques: FM, ring mod, additive, granular, and much more. No complex dashboards of knobs, dials and connectors with unpredictable effects. No programming. Just draw to unleash your creativity!
Changes in HighC v2.75
- Printing functionality, enabling export to PDF file format.
- Overview shows the cursor in all views during playback.
- Set the default pitch of imported sound samples (to correct potential pitch detection algorithm errors).
- Tune the sampled audio files.
- Audio file import in the FLAC format. FLAC is a lossless audio compression format that saves about 2/3rds of the original file size.
- Distribution reduced from 16 to 10Mb.
Serge on Moog
Since I am currently on vacation my posts will be shorter and more ad hoc, but be sure I will keep you posted on the coolest electro stuff on the web – just the same, have a great summer
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Serge TKB talks to the Moogerfooger CP-251 and to the EML-200. Squawky as hell. Enjoy!
Rob is back with a new great plug-in
This is what you cn read about the new reverb effect
Reverb is a very critical effect when mixing. A bad sounding reverb can ruin the mix of your music! Today’s powerful computers makes it possible to run far more complex algorithms then in the past. But still… it is down to the algorithms if a reverb sounds great or terrible.
As a young synth player, Rob became obsessed with rooms and reverbs. Together with Jon Ayres, Rob Papen has dived into codes and searched for new directions.. new algorithms. After long testing and tweaking, the result is an unique sounding reverb plugin, the reverb you have been waiting for for year to have available in your setup.
The first respond of pro users like Arman van Buuren were comments like “Wow” or “Amazing!”….
The “main focus” of the RP-VERB plug is its sound. So the controls are “exactly” the ones you need!
Easy to use “space types” are included, each of them have their own character. Long tail reverbs… or unheard of rooms are possible. Just like the RP synthesizers….it is purely made for audio quality, performance and making music. Mix with RP-Verb and you will discover its amazing sound.
Live Korg techno session
Good to see what can be done with a few pieces of old hardware in these days of millions of software plugs and infinit CPU power:
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Download the highly capable Odo synth for free
Odo from Odosynths is well known on the DIY synth forums especially the SynthEdit forum. A heavy synthedit user he has just released all his softsynths for free. Odo was already very generous giving away a lot of synths, drum machines and processors but he has decided to release all his softsynths for free.
Nice delay for download
Myosis has released Phrase-Delay, a multi mode delay effect plug-in for Windows.
Phrase-delay is an all in one delay plugin, a Swiss Army Knife, easy to use . It doesn’t sound like any other delay plug-in. It can turn a one shot note into a fascinating loop. From traditional delay to generative music, Phrase-delay do the job with ease!
Phrase-Delay features
- 16 delay channels with independant level, panning, modulation and resonant filter.
- One pre-looper delay for phrasing, up to 10.920 seconds. .
- Two independant feedbacks knob.
- Damping.
- One 4 pole Low pass pre-filter with LFO modulation.
- Manual or Host tempo sync.
- Bouncing-ball mode.
- 16 resonant filters ( 2 pole or 4 pole) for each delay bank with adjustable cutoff freq according to note names for quick edit.
- LFO modulation amount for each delay.
- Tone filter.
- Presets covering all functions and many configurations.
- Manual is also included.
Phrase-Delay is available as a VST effect plug-in for Windows PC for 49 EUR. A demo version is available for download here.
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