Sneak peak from Depeche Mode’s world tour DVD
Trailer from the upcoming Depeche Mode DVD “Tour Of The Universe: Barcelona”.
In the build-up to its release on 8 November, sneak peeks from the band’s sold-out show in Barcelona last year.
The bumper DVD set contains 21 tracks recorded over two sold-out nights at the Palau St. Jordi on 20-21 November 2009 during their huge world tour. Pre-order your copy of “Tour Of The Universe: Barcelona” at Amazon US, Amazon UK, Amazon GER and Amazon FR. (…)
New compilation from Einstürzende Neubauten
A new, fourth “Strategies Against Architecture” Einstürzende Neubauten compilation is out this week. It features the band’s output from 2002-2010 including the “Musterhaus” series finalised in 2007, “The Jewels” from 2008 and much more. With this release, material previously only available for subscribers is made available for everyone.
Get to know Cakewalk’s Sonar X1
SonicState has released this video providing insights into Sonar X1
Overview and presentation by Cakewalk’s Brandon Ryan of the new Sonar X1 with Skylight, ProChannel and other features
Buddha machine explosion on iPad
If you think one Buddha machine is enough you can stop reaing now 
If you enjoyed our Buddha Machine for iPhone, then you will LOVE this iPad version!!! Mix the music of SIX Buddha Machines to create your own evolving ambient symphony!
If you are new to the Buddha Machine, it is a palm-sized plastic box that plays ethereal music loops composed by the Beijing-based duo of Christiaan Virant and Zhang Jian, aka FM3.
The physical device has been described as “Beautifully useless” (New York Times) “Mesmerizing” (Pop Matters) “Addictive, hypnotic” (Santa Fe Reporter) and “Defiantly rough” (Wall Street Journal)
Since its introduction in 2005, the Buddha Machine has won global praise for its novel approach to music enjoyment and has been used in hundreds of recording and performance projects from a wide range of artists.
Featuring hypnotic music designed to create a calming presence in today’s fast paced world, the machine’s colorful charm provides an experience that is hard to define. Essentially, It’s a box with a life; a tool for living, and to many, a friend.”
Note the following brings up both the iPhone and iPad versions of the Buddha Machine.
Chained Moogerfoogers
Quick video of our collection of moogerfoogers being chained together and used as a very basic modular synth, there’s no external signals being used , everything comes from the ‘foogers.
New vocal plug-in called Nectar
Izotope will be releasing a vocal plug-in this month called Nectar. The software will have Pitch Correction, Breath Control, Compressors, a DeEsser, Doubler, Saturation, EQ, Gate, Limiter, Delay and a Reverb. It will be $199 at launch then jump to $299 shortly after. As with other Izotope plug-ins there will be an extensive preset browser too.
“Nectar offers dozens of professionally designed vocal production styles powered by eleven processing modules. Users will select an included style and then customize it with faders tailored to that style. For further customization of their vocal sound, users can switch to the Advanced View and access all of the controls of the underlying modules that power the plug-in… iZotope Nectar is ideal for audio engineers, voice over artists, singer/songwriters, recording enthusiasts, podcasters, and anyone else who records sung or spoken vocals. Its dozens of styles cover genres including: Alternative & Indie, Blues/R&B, Classical, Country, Dance & Electronica, Hip Hop & Rap, Jazz, Pop, Rock, and Spoken Word.” – izotope.com
For more info: izotope.com/products/audio/nectar/
KORG EMX in action
Some Sunday synth jam coming your way
“Here is my Video a Korg emx trigger a Monopoly via midi to cv .I play a Roland sh 5 and Fender Rhodes jam.”
Paint your music with iPad
Singing Fingers lets you fingerpaint with sound. Just touch the screen while you make a sound, and colorful paint appears. Touch the paint to play back the sound again!
“Singing Fingers Lets You Finger Paint with Sound. Make a sound while moving your finger to record a sound-drawing. Touch the drawing you just made to play the sound back: forward, backward, sideways, or any way. That’s it! Singing Fingers lets you see music, hear colors, and re-see everyday sounds for the beautiful playground that they are. Singing Fingers lowers the floor to let beginners play with sound as if it was finger paint, and raises the roof by letting advanced DJs break out of the grooves of the records into a world where sounds take any shape you give them.” – singingfingers.com
TONSTURM is here with Breaking Glass
TONSTURM 01 I Breaking Glass this soundpack features a big collection of very unique glass effect recordings. The sounds were captured during extensive recording sessions in the field and in a recording studio. All sounds were recorded, edited and mastered in High Definition Audio @ 24 Bit, 192 KHz.
With TONSTURM 01 I BREAKING GLASS you get 100 sound files containing over 500 different glass sound effects. We have collected all sorts of different glass types to make this soundpack possible. You will find hits, smashes, impacts, cracking, friction and a lot more, recorded from huge 4m² glasspanes security glass, insulated glass, laminated glass, wired glass, car windscreens and so on…
TONSTURM releases royalty free, high quality sound effect libraries for sound designers who work in the field of films, games, and arts or anyone who is serious about sound design and soundeffects.
Reference schematic for the Monotron
Korg has published a reference schematic for the Monotron analog synth.
It’s available on the Korg Japan site. Direct link (pdf).
If you’re into synth DIY, this may make it easier for you to create and share your mods.
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