Electronium
Raymond Scott Electronium: The Restoration.
As a teaser trailer, this video is designed to spark interest in learning more about the history of the Electronium, an early electronic music device invented & built by Raymond Scott.
To learn more about Raymond Scott check out this site:
YouYube
http://www.youtube.com/user/RaymondScottArchives
Teach yourself on Synthesia
Synthesia, formerly called Piano Hero, is a free program plus game that teaches you to play the piano using visual cues like falling notes. Don’t worry if you can’t read sheet music, because you require none. Synthesia lets you learn to play the keyboard and also keep track of your progress.
To use Synthesia you will require a real piano or synthesizer, a Windows or Mac computer to run the game and MIDI files of the music you want to practice. There are plenty of free MIDI resources on the web. If your synthesizer is capable of connecting to your computer (via USB, MIDI cables, or an adapter) then Synthesia can read as you play and score your playing. If not, Synthesia lets you follow along on your own but without scoring.
For more info >> Synthesia
Kaossilator action – weekend beats
Not sure if I am posting this becuase of the cool video, the fact that it is the KORG Kaossilator Pro, the girl or the music, listen an enjoy
Moving water
The new episode of Sound Builders looks at Steve Mann, possibly the world’s pre-eminent hydraulophonist.
What’s that? Well, it’s someone who builds instruments that produce sound from moving water. His specialty is water organs and he even has one built into his hot tub.
Watch Steve here:
While at MIT, where he earned a PhD in Media Arts & Sciences, Steve founded the Wearable Computers Group at the Media Lab, and built musical instruments using brainwaves and compressed hydraulic fluids. Lauded by some as the world’s first cyborg, and the initiator of the mobile blogging movement, Steve is now a professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Toronto.
For this episode, Steve volunteered to be both guest and host, using his human/cyborg first-person perspective to show us his studio, talk about his past inventions, and ask members of the circus to play the latest of his inventions: the hydraulophone, a highly tactile and mellifluous water-based instrument that Steve hopes can offer the blind and deaf a new method of music-creation.
Controlling Reason with iPad
Here’s a video showing what you can do if you have Reason, an iPad and TouchOSC. I got to say it damn cool!
Nice filter demo of the Tetra
It’s a very basic demo of my DSI Tetra with its Mac OSX editor. I tried to demonstrate what this little instrument can do. It has got very complex architecture, like Prophet 08. Now you can see some basic procedures with its modulation matrix and LP filter…
Rare stuff from Vince Clarke at Soundcloud
If your into electronic music this should interest you.
“One Day” (Extension) – Vince Clarke/Paul Quinn by Vince Clarke Rarities
Note: The songs are available to download so maybe you should.
Here is for example one of my old favorites, I do actually still have it on a vinyl single 
Lots of obscure Vince Clarke tracks in the Vince Clark Rarities Soundcloud account, including rare tracks from Depeche Mode, Yaz/Yazoo & Erasure. Not sure if this is official or not – so Vince Clarke fans may want to check this out sooner. rather than later.
How to destroy angels – the phoenix of NIN
Here it is, Trent Reznor’s first musical offering since the end of Nine Inch Nails: How to Destroy Angels’ seven-minute downtempo slither “A Drowning”. EP is out this summer!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pmu2-SWm0Ac&feature=player_embedded
Some say its is boring, but I kind of like it and check out her gear below
DX7 is back – on the iPhone :-)
Yet another revival, last week we had Propellerhead’s ReBirth, this week the old classic DX7 makes its way into the realms of Apple, however this one looks pretty slick I must say, judging from the videos below:
This is a sneak preview of DXi – an FM synthesizer for the Apple iPhone.
It’s officially “coming soon”.
Parts 2 & 3 of the preview below.
DXi is a big hit once in the early 80 FM synthesizer in a compact, easy to play and enjoy making music with FM source application.
FM then you are not full-featured synthesizer, but the parameters are selected enjoy the fun of making music. Makes FM sound system, there are little quirks, if you get hold of the unique timbre only trick.
Free Roland TR-808 emulation
Tactile Sounds has updated TS-808 to v1.0.0.2. There are now Mono and Stereo versions.
Changes: Both Versions
- Standard GM Voice Mapping.
- New GUI, designed by Limeflavour.
- LEDs indicating Voice Activity.
- Voice Mute Buttons.
- Compiled with the latest version of SynthEdit, reducing CPU consumption.
Changes: Stereo Version
- Panning for each voice.
TS-808 is a free software emulation of the Roland TR-808 hardware drum machine. It was created by reference to the TR-808 service notes and extensive analysis of samples.
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