Skywatchers featuring Tara Busch on the KORG Monotron
Jarrod, Kevin, Philly and Tara on the Busk Line at Tramlines festival, Sheffield
GoldBaby’s birthday
Goldbaby Productions is offering a 20% discount on any products until the end of July.
Hugo writes:
It’s my birthday this month!
Goldbaby has a tradition of giving a discount on such an auspicious occasion.So here you go:
Coupon code: hugosbirthday2010
Goldbaby has also announced there will not be any ReFills for The Fat Juno-6 or Fatso Synth Vol 1, as the limitations of NNXT have made the job of looping complex stereo samples nigh impossible.
Furthermore, the MS20 project is postponed due to synth repair, but another project is underway:
It’s based on a famous analog drum machine. It will be Round Robin – 96 or 44.1 khz samples! Lots of analog processing. Sounds amazing so far! Stay tuned.
More information: Goldbaby Productions
New video of the NXT-606 LEGO drum machine
8bits Sample Based LEGO Drum Machine by Peter Cocteau.
Toys of Vega
Reaper explained
Long time Pro Tools die hard and the man who has shown thousands of people around the world how to harness the power of Pro Tools has recently released the brilliant REAPER explained series with Groove 3.
Kenny says ‘This isn’t a sales pitch. I really believe that Reaper is hands down the best composing and editing DAW out there. It’s just different enough from the others, that a lot of people try it and just go back to their previous DAW. The learning curve is surprisingly steep for such a simple program.
But the beauty of it is that once you get past that initial step, you’re golden. It’s fast. Simple. And you’re hooked. I know I am. Editing in any other DAW (not mentioning names) is brutal for me now.’
Check out the videos here and try a copy of REAPER here.
15 people have been killed during the Love Parade
15 people (9 women, 6 men) have been killed in a stampede inside a tunnel crowded with techno music fans during the Love Parade which took place today in Duisburg (GER). Dozens more were injured.
Thousands of other partygoers kept partying at the event in Duisburg, near Duesseldorf, unaware of the deadly chaos that started when police tried to block thousands more people from entering the already-jammed parade grounds around 5PM today. Victims were crushed in the large tunnel leading to the event site. Duisburg city officials decided at a crisis meeting to let the parade go on to prevent more panic and another stampede.
Hand-wired Dewanatron Triple Slice Eurorack modules
Big City Music is now taking pre-orders for the first run of hand-wired Dewanatron Triple Slice Eurorack modules.
Description:
The Dewanatron Triple Slice VCO harmonic metamorphosis module generates a highly stable 1v/octave sine-based waveform that ranges from .5hz thru 16khz.
The initial sine wave passes thru 3 successive slice stages. The end result is a continuously undulating waveform, which yields an ever-changing spectrum of emerging and receding harmonics.
Harmonics are generated by “slicing” a waveform, in which an absolute value function with a variable zero point reverses the polarity and thus reflects the portion of the waveform below it. As this reflecting line passes thru the waveform along the voltage (vertical) axis, various harmonics are generated. The three slice stages are controlled by 3 independent LFOs.
The first slice stage is controlled by either an internal oscillator or the external oscillator input. The frequencies of the LFOs driving the second and third slice stages are derived from this initial LFO signal, and their frequencies relative to each other are adjusted with the “skew” control. The “mix” output sums these three outputs with the original sine wave (these three outputs are also available separately). The resulting final signal contains multiple sets of cascading harmonics.
The Dewanatron Triple Slice retails for US $350.
MorphWiz continued
I have posted on the MorphWiz before and here’s another great video on it
Jordan Rudess Wizdom Music has announced the release of MorphWiz for the iPad.
MorphWiz is the second app to bare the Jordan Rudess name. MorphWiz was inspired by the success of the Haken Conitnuum Fingerboard, a radically innovative and revolutionary MIDI instrument that Jordan uses on stage and in the studio with Dream Theater. The Haken Conitnuum Fingerboard features greater pitch range than a traditional 88 note MIDI keyboard, because it offers real-time continuous control on three axes for every finger that is placed on the playing surface.
Like the Continuum, Jordan Rudess’ MorphWiz is a vertical grid based musical instrument that allows a whole new level of expressive control.
Jordan says, “If you are a beginner, you’ll love experimenting with all of the presets, but if you’re a professional musician, you will soon be blown away by one of the coolest methods of controlling sound that you’ve ever laid hands on”. He continues, “Our goal was to create an instrument that would allow the seamless morphing of the audio and visual domain while delivering a seamless musical experience. I believe the iPhone/iPad multitouch platform opens up a whole new world of creation of electronic musical instruments and we’re proud MorphWiz is our first major offering. My experience and involvement with the Haken Continuum and extraordinary Bebot app brought to life an advanced pitch control system that is still uncharted territory for many in today’s music instrument world. This is the heart of MorphWiz.”
The MorphWiz features 50 custom Jordan Rudess-created patches that show off the power of MorphWiz.
Novel physical-modelling synthesizer
Modelonia is a novel physical-modelling synthesizer which uses a hybrid of two distinct model ‘types’- a plucked-string model, and a blown-bore (ie trumpet-type) model.
Each model may be used simultaneously, and the signal path allows cross-modulation between the two models for more interesting and complex tones.
Price: Modelonia is now available to purchase separately as an instant download for PC and Mac (VST/AU), priced at USD 45.00 per license. A bundle of both licenses for PC and Mac is still available for USD 75.00.
Visit: NUSofting
A demo of the KYMA software by Symbolic sound in NYC 2009.
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