New album with all the singles from Welle:Erdball
December 3rd sees quite a nice release on Synthetic Symphony: the long announced Welle:Erdball “The Singles 1993-2010” 10 CD-boxset. This deluxe box-set contains all singles (each in a slim digipak) of the band released between 1993 and today.
Included are the following singles:
- Nyntändo-Schock (1993)
- W.O.L.F. (1995)
- Telephon W-38 (1996) *
- Deine Augen/Arbeit adelt (1998)
- Starfighter F-104G (2000)
- VW Käfer/1000 Tage (2001)
- Super 8 (2001)
- Nur tote Frauen sind schön (2003)
- Horizonterweiterungen (2005) **
- Ich bin aus Plastik! (2008)
* released as very limited MC (Tape) only
** released on Vinyl only
This set is limited to 3000 copies. Order yours here, it’s the cheapest price we found.
Rytmik Rock virtual studio
This is a video preview of Rytmik Rock Edition – an virtual studio for creating rhythmical and melodic themes and for composing songs. Its user interface combines the speed of classic drum machines with the flexible pattern-making of popular trackers.
It also features more than 133 carefully selected sound samples of drum set, keyboards, bass, clean, lead and rhytm guitars instruments.
Duplex Controllerism Explained
Here is a short demonstration on how to use your Novation Launchpad with Renoise 2.6, with a tool called Duplex.
You can learn more about Renoise at http://www.renoise.com
New in this release of Renoise:
- Lua scripting. Customize the app using an elegant, clean, friendly language.
- OSC, MIDI support. Integrated control with Duplex (MIDI/OSC), native Open Sound Control support.
- Extensive hardware support. Maybe you don’t want to write a line of code, ever. You can let someone else do it for you, and reap the rewards. Already, Renoise has native, fully-integrated support for the AlphaTrack, BCF-2000, BCR-2000, KONTROL49, FaderPort, microKONTROL, nanoKONTROL, Launchpad, Remote SL-MKII, Nocturn, Monome, Ohm64, iPad via TouchOSC… all thanks to community support for the new scripting engine.
- Sample autoseek. Absolutely essential to making audio behave in the way it does in linear arrangement tools, the sample will play back from the position in the timeline, rather than from the beginning each time you hit play. (Seems obvious, but it’s part of making Renoise bridge tracker-style apps and more conventional, linear ones.)
- Better performance, compatibility. Tweaked performance on Linux and Mac, expanded file format compatibility, plus 64-bit Linux, DSSI Linux support. Renoise is a reason to run Linux, and Linux a reason to run Renoise, if you hadn’t guessed that yet. No, seriously, you’ll enjoy it.
Using two grid controllers with Renoise, arranging patterns on the fly.
Special thanks to daxton for writing the step sequencer 
Parallel Processing in Reason
The Props has yet another good tutorial out on parallel processing
The War of the Roses, the Cold War, or the Pepsi/Coke War… all these have come before us but we are currently locked in a much tougher battle known as “The Loudness War.” Producers everywhere are fighting with everything they have to out-blast each other on the radio, in clubs, and iPods earbuds around the world.
When you want to “go nuclear” in the loudness war, your best weapon of choice will be something known as parallel processing. It adds punch, bass, or crunch to your tracks while maintaining audio fidelity at the same time. This week I’ll show you how to do parallel processing in Reason/Record.
The gear of John Foxx
Here’s a video coming from Future Music featuring John Foxx with loads of gear, so time for synth spotting I guess
Be sure to watch through the beginning for the gear tour. Tons of synth spotting. He gives a good comparison of the ARP Odyssey and Minimoog. The Yamaha CS1X gets a mention too! It’s fun digital PCM synth not to be confused with the AN1X virtual analog. Icy strings.
Introducing the Peak Studio for OSX
BIAS today unveiled Peak Studio — a new edition of their audio editing, mastering, and delivery software for Mac OS X.
Peak Studio will include Peak Pro 7, along with a suite of tools for multi-channel mixing, mastering, restoration, streamlined analog archiving, and more.
Here’s an overview of what’s in BIAS Peak Studio:
Advanced Mastering, Restoration, and More:Peak Pro 7 includes a new de-clipping tool for repairing audio files. “Clipped” recordings are corrected using advanced re-synthesis and spectral repair DSP algorithms from BIAS that produce jaw-dropping results. Peak Pro 7 also integrates editions of the highly acclaimed SoundSoap Pro 2 and Master Perfection Suite plug-ins, plus a new wide-band peak limiter. The additional signal processing tools make Peak Pro 7 the most comprehensive audio editing and processing application for Mac OS X in its class. Other enhancements include support for MP3 VBR (Variable Bit Rate) and compressed WAVE files, Japanese CD-TEXT, Pro Tools playback keyboard short cuts, and other improvements. Unlike previous editions, Peak Pro 7 includes DDP (Disc Description Protocol) Export — providing support for this popular pre-master delivery format at no additional charge.
Multi-Channel Audio Production: Peak Studio provides a new state-of-the-art audio production environment from BIAS — offering intuitive multi-track audio recording, multi-channel editing, mono/stereo/surround mixing, onboard signal processing, cross-fades featuring Bezier curves, independent volume envelopes, integration with Peak, and more.
Whether used for streamlined multi-channel editing, multi-track recording, compositing, or surround mixing, Peak Studio users will certainly appreciate the intuitive control and ergonomics in this new and powerful audio production tool.
LP & Tape Archiving: Peak Studio also includes a new application from BIAS called SoundSaver — a powerful utility optimized for the analog archiving workflow. Whether transferring from analog tapes or vinyl LPs, SoundSaver streamlines the process and produces professional results.
Other Peak Studio Editions: Peak Studio XT (Extended Technology) adds editions of SoundSoap 2, SoundSoap Pro 2, and Master Perfection Suite for compatibility with most host applications that support the popular AU, VST, and RTAS/AS plug-in formats.
Availability and pricing — Peak Pro 7 and Peak Pro XT 7 will be available in Q4 2010 at a US Suggested Retail Price of $599 and $1199 respectively through authorized resellers worldwide and directly from BIAS. The Peak Studio multi-channel production environment will be released in Q2 of 2011. All customers purchasing new retail editions of Peak Pro 6 from November 1st 2010 may receive a free upgrade to Peak Pro Studio when available.
For more information, visit the BIAS web site: http://www.bias-inc.com
Teaser from the upcoming Moog show
Here’s a sneak preview from an upcoming Moogshow, including some shots of the Filatron
Check out Neon Indian experimenting with multiple filter modulations by running the Moog Filtatron into the external audio input of the Slim Phatty.
Sneak Peak at Moog Sound Lab, the new online show from Moog Music coming soon. Moog Sound Lab features artists from all genres experimenting with synthesis.
The JUNO 60 drone in action
Ran Kirlian has treated us with a nice ambient tune called Threniar Vish
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 with some reverb.
Arppegiated improvisation
Some friday synth spotting
An arpeggiated real time improv, no edits, with drums added later. Korg Monopoly, Juno 60, Moon Modular Trigger sequencer as master, slaved to Volta, Synthesizers.com, MOTM, Modcan, MegaOhm, Suit and Tie Guy, Encore Electronics, MOTU Volta and a ho-made switcher.
Tim Kaiser: Live @ ESS
If you have missed Mr Tim Kaiser during his last tour of the Steel Belt you may still hear his set. On the way up north Tim recorded at the Experimental Sound Studio in Chicago.
Tim Kaiser – Live @ ESS 10.30.2010 by Experimental Sound Studio
More Info:
experimentalsoundstudio.org
spacetimesessions.blogspot.com
timkaiser.org
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