VOCALIZER – the new vocal Production Synthesizer
SONiVOX Unveils VOCALIZER, a Vocal Production Synthesizer for both Mac OS and Windows.
Press-release:
New technology synthesis engine coupled with input based synthesis delivers creative new tool for vocalists and non-vocalists alike.
SONiVOX, Boston MA, based award-winning music software company today offered a pre-release preview complete with MP3 and Video examples of the first instrument from their new NEMESYNTH Audio Research Group, VOCALIZER – Vocal Production Synthesizer.
VOCALIZER is a completely new concept in modern music production that couples a new technology synthesis engine with an open input based architecture. VOCALIZER is one part effect plugin and one part virtual instrument. Vocalists, non-vocalists, & producers feed VOCALIZER any audio source, and it re-pitches, effects, and re-synthesizes the original source into a whole new sound.
Primarily designed for vocal use, vocalists will enjoy the vast options afforded by VOCALIZER to add previously unattainable dimensions to their voice. Inversely, non-vocalists will enjoy the opportunity to use their voices in musical ways that they previously thought impossible.
VOCALIZER also works well with other types of inputs. Drum & percussion tracks fed through VOCALIZER result in complex synth lines that perfectly sync to the original dry drum & percussion parts. Other input sounds afford a powerful and flexible new approach to sound design. VOCALIZER users can take any sound and use it as a shaping tool to be VOCALIZED.
The VOCALIZER marks the first release from SONiVOX’s NEMESYNTH Audio Research Group. Spearheaded by noted audio guru and scientist Jim Van Buskirk, pioneer inventor of the virtual instrument, modern computer driven sampling, and real-time low-latency convolution, SONiVOX’s NEMESYNTH Audio Research Group’s sole purpose is to discover, research, & develop revolutionary new enabling technologies for musicians everywhere.
VOCALIZER – Vocal Production Synthesizer is MAC & PC compatible and will work with most major DAW software as a VST, AU, and RTAS plugin.
VOCALIZER – Vocal Production Synthesizer is slated for a release date of October 1st 2010 with a MSRP of $149.99 and an estimated street price of $99.99
SONiVOX claims that VOCALIZER must be heard to be believed and invites all to checkout the VOCALIZER videos and mp3 examples at www.sonivoxmi.com
Recession Festival featuring Marc Almond, Front Line Assembly, Portion Control and more
The Danish city Århus hosts the Recession Festival again on October 8-9. The program 2010 includes Marc Almond, Front Line Assembly, Portion Control, Rummelsnuff featuring Claus Larsen, Necro Facility, Kite, Andreas Tilliander and Familjen. More acts will be announced shortly.
The Wavedrum goes black
Korg has announced the Wavedrum Black, a limited edition of the acclaimed dynamic percussion synthesizer.
Korg’s award-winning Wavedrum Dynamic Percussion Synthesizer has drawn international praise for its organic interface, realism, comprehensive arsenal of percussion sounds spanning the globe, and innovative synth sounds. Now the Wavedrum is available in a limited edition black color with a solid black metallic rim and an exclusive BLACK SUEDE™ Remo drum head – projecting a different vibe than the aura of the original silver.
Wavedrum features
- 2nd Generation Dynamic Percussion Synthesizer provides unparalleled expressiveness.
- Innovative technology combines DSP synthesis and PCM playback.
- Two playing surfaces – traditional drumhead and advanced rim areas – offer unprecedented expression and a familiar feel with hands, sticks or mallets.
- Transducer pickup and pressure sensor system responds to every performance nuance and gesture and every playing style.
- 100 preset programs offer traditional drum and percussion sounds, plus new and unique sounds.
- 100 user programs for storing customized sounds and settings.
- Live Mode stores up to 12 favorite programs for instant recall.
- 100 loop phrases of various genres allow Wavedrum users to jam along.
- Headphone output for silent practice.
- AUX input allows the monitoring or mixing in of any audio source; CD, MP3, even a second WAVEDRUM!
- Versatile, compact, light-weight design; use as an individual instrument, or mixed in with a traditional kit, or any performance/percussion rig.
The Korg Wavedrum Black will be available in November 2010.
More information: Korg / Wavedrum
New emulation of the legendary SID chip
HyperSynth has announced the release of SIDizer, a new emulation of the legendary SID chip in the form of a modern software synthesizer plug-in.
Using circuit modeling technology, nearly all the unique features of the two versions (6581-8580) of the SID chip, including their famous flaws, are accurately modeled. This emulation focuses on simulating the nonlinear character of the SID filter and mimicking special 6581 distortion that mainly influences the alternation of the filtered signal in a real SID chip. It offers additional envelopes, LFOs, mod matrix and a routable bit-cruncher for adding extra lo-fi sound quality.
SIDizer’s GUI is inspired by HyperSynth’s HyperSID and offers easy tweaking for all parameters on a single page. It is not only a powerful instrument for creating the chip-tune style but it can produce a unique type of analog sound colored with harmonic distortion that is suited for creating bass, lead and drum sounds.
Features:
- 3 oscillators offering 8 waveforms: Saw, Triangle, Square, Pitched noise, “AND” combinations of them.
- Oscillators special features: ring, sync, phase sync, Sqr PW, level.
- Selectable 6581-8580 D/A distortion.
- 3 Amp envelopes ADSR.
- 12 dB (LP & HP), 6 dB BP SID modeled Filter.
- Best matched Exponential-fitted curves for 6581-8580 filter frequencies.
- Simulating 6581 half wave filter distortion.
- 1 Filter envelope + key track for filter freq.
- 2 LFOs each with 4 simultaneous outputs offering sync and retriggering option.
- 1 Mod envelope.
- Versatile Modulation matrix.
- Bug-generator module for reproducing famous bugs: oscillator leakage, ex-input noise.
- Bit Cruncher with pre and post filter route option.
- Advanced 8 step C64 like arpeggiator.
- Master: Pitch and Mod wheel, Porta, Spread, Reverb, Delay.
- Easy to use GUI.
- Factory soundbank created by Torben Hansen (aka Metal of Vibrants).
Pricing & Availability
SIDizer is currently available for the introductory price of $49 for the first 64 customers. The full price will then be $64. It is available for Windows as a VST instrument plug-in.
Supernatural pianos
Roland’s inventing the ads for keyboards, NOT 
Supernatural seems somewhat of an overstatement
Roland’s new Digital Piano series are enhanced with Rolands breakthrough SuperNATURAL Piano technology. Three key elements are dramatically improved: velocity response, note decay, and key-range behavior. Where previous sample-based technology created coarse stair-step gaps in velocity and key range, and unnatural looping in note decay, SuperNATURAL bridges the gaps with perfectly smooth and natural three-dimensional sound and response.
YMCK for iOS
Pod Library (iPod Touch in Music) played the keyboard while playing any song
Easy enough to play the keyboard slides
Scaling function keys that can play sound without removing the keyboard at all but ?Kenaku
Tilt the iPhone emotional Biburatoefekuto
With Song of the recorded version of “Music Flowing” is newly written songs dedicated this App!
[Basics]
Song selection button (note button) Press, iPod Library (iPod Touch in Music) to select their favorite songs. Press the Play button to start playing.
Slide your finger to play on the keyboard. (You can also play music when you stop.)
When the pitch of the keyboard and the song fit the drawers pull out the key from the right scale (scale) Change. You can also adjust the volume and tone.
Tilt the keyboard to scroll from side to side, up and down the pitch accordingly. Tilted back and takes a vibrato.
Set the direction of the scroll panel size keyboard keys (open wheel buttons) can be changed.
[Application Guide]
Once the scale is the key information in the automation editor (text format) you burn a song you can play the same key from the next scale.
Because plain text, a copy of data created externally and paste is easy.
With Song song version bundled “Music Flowing” is configured so the automation can play a key scale for now.
Ambient improvisation on the Juno 60 drone
Ran Kirlian’s Threniar Vish – an ambient improvisation, based over the Roland Juno 60 drone. The other instruments are the Access Virus Indigo and the Indigo 2 Redback.
All audio is processed thru a TC Electronics M-One.
Making of Inside with Jon Hopkins
Take a look at this Jon Hopkins video
Director/Editor/Post Production: Bison
Producer: James Bretton
Production Company: Blinkink
Additional Camera: Chris Nunn
How the video was made:
We approached Jon with the idea for arm-mounted cameras a few weeks before the show, and luckily he was up for it, so we broke out the power tools and set about making some mounts: After dissecting a couple of tripods and orthapaedic elbow supports, we had a solid platform for the miniature cameras.
We covered the gig with 5 cameras in total: 2 roving cameras, 1 static, and the 2 ‘lipstick’ arm cameras that were wired into tape recorders at the back of the stage. The trickiest part was getting the cameras on and off Jon’s arms whilst he continued to play as his set is more or less continuous..
The ‘post production’ on this video was unorthodox: All analogue and all in-camera.
We were really keen on making a gritty, abstract performance video. So we set to work with magnets, screwdrivers, VHS tapes and a host of other techniques: We made an initial edit and played this back through a £3 TV we picked up at the local market, and ‘manipulating’ it with a screwdriver allowed us to flutter and flicker the image on screen. We’d also bought an industrial strength magnet and used that to distort and twist the picture on itself. We made several runs through the track in this way before playing everything out to VHS (with obligatory stomping and scrunching).
This effectively gave us a new set of footage to make a tailored, grunged-up edit of the original piece.
Neuron synthesis – a unique approach
Wnat to pay big bucks for your next synth, then check this one out :-). On the other hand who wouldn´t want a neuron synth
Synth designer Jürgen Michaelis has announced preorders for a limited run of the Jaymesonic Resonator Neuronium synthesizer, a synthesizer that offers a unique approach to synthesis:
Because we get periodically inquiries on the Resonator Neuronium, we have opened a new preordering cycle until December 31, 2010. If more than 20 preorders come in until then, we at Jomox can manufacture a new run of the R.N.
The Resonator Neuronium has 6 analog resonant neurons. The net parameters can be programmed by the left hand structure in form of a hexagon by use of knobs, buttons and LEDs.
The cost is 2499.00 €.
How to use SDX and EZX expansion packs within Beatstation
Toontrack continues to deliver high quality demos on their Beatstation product, if you are a Beatstation user, please let us know what you think of it. I did a review of it some time back as well
The latest instalment of Toontrack’s Beatstation video series which explores how to use SDX and EZX expansion packs within Beatstation to enhance the already-huge bank of sound files.
Combining drums, bass and lead instruments with drag and drop, REX and MIDI support, Beatstation is your companion for quickly getting a full beat up and running or for diving into the smallest details of what you want your sound to be, to be able to realize your music, your expression. Just take WAV or MP3 files from any source to create unique and inspiring combinations.
You can combine and edit individual slices from your favourite REX files or create playable instruments from a single sound. All this can be done just with a few clicks of the mouse, making Beatstation a hugely powerful yet easy to use virtual instrument.
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