Kling kling plok plok
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fMRmIO2_J3c
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Stereoklang interview with UK synthpop act Mirrors, who toured with OMD this fall
We got an exclusive interview with the probably most hyped synthpop act in Europe right now – Mirrors. Mirrors has recently finished their European tour together with OMD and Stereoklang caught up with the frontman in the band in their studio chatting about their music, gear, influences and their work on the new album. Below is one of their latest video releases.
You have been touring with OMD during the fall, how was it?
It was of course a very special thing for us, we have always been big fans of OMD and it was even more fun to discover that they were also fans of us. The fact that we now come to play in front of an audience made up entirely of people devoted to electronic music is a tremendous experience.
Mirrors lets me know that they also felt that the two bands really complemented each other on stage, rather then just that Mirrors were there to warm up the crowd. Mirrors adding perhaps a more saturated, heavy and modern sound to the equation.
You have received very positive reviews, what is the secret behind the success?
Apart from being happy by this for me obvious fact they gave me this explanation: For Mirrors it is all about combining great and cold electronic sounds, with a heart. If your soul is not present there will not be any great songs, a cliché perhaps, but you need to follow your heart. A lot of bands are “just” making futuristic music, Mirrors wants it to be warm as well – just like Kraftwerk. Of course the songs need to be well structured. Almost everything we do emanates from a traditional piano exercise, then you can get carried away when you do remixes
Your stage line up resembles another quartet based out of Germany, is that a coincidence?
– Not really ☺, although I need to say that the dress code is a coincidence. Kraftwerk is certainly a massive influence. However, in a sense Mirrors is more kind of a revolt to the massive indie-scene we have in the UK – and we are the anti-thesis of that.
Can you tell me what synths you are using on stage, are you a pure hardware band or are there software synths hidden in your studio?
To begin with James is writing most of the material and what is being used differs, but in general you will always find a Juno 60, Moog Phatty (although they are dreaming of a Moog Voyager) and a Prophet in the mix. The Juno is used for pads and chords, the Moog for basses, and then we have some samplers like the MPC in there as well.
We asked them if the Linn drum sounds were genuine or samples, and although they could have lied to us, they said that they were samples. In general Mirrors rely very little on backing tracks. – If we can´t play it we loop it. We want to do everything live on stage. So if you spot an Apple on stage it will only be used for the visuals.
Read the full interview here >>
Tutorial: “call and response” layering technique to create bass lines
Great sounds in electronic music often do not stem from one killer source. Rather, they result from blending many small elements into what becomes a singular sound.
In this video, Brian demonstrates how Trifonic applies a “call and response” layering technique to create bass lines using multiple bass tracks.
New powerful virtual synth for free from B.Serrano
B.Serrano has released Radium on his web site for free download. Radium looks to be a pretty Xen-Arts that offers a combination of subtractive / virtual analog and frequency modulation (FM) synthesizer engines. Features include 16 voices of polyphony. Substractive synthesizer with 2 oscillators. FM synthesizer with 2 operators. Dynamic user definable envelopes. Programmable XY Pad controller. Filter step sequencer. MIDI learn implementation. Auto Pan functions and much more. Download Radium for free at http://bserrano.free.fr/Synt…
Kraftzwerg Meets Rota-Synth
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S9NJLiR27-4
Tentative early noodling
Nice video with some really cool ambient sounds coming out of the Rota, enjoy
Miss FD is back
This Valentine’s Day, goth electro princess Miss FD will release her new album “Love Never Dies”, the follow-up to her excellent debut release “Monsters In The Industry”. The seven-track LP will be available in CD and digital format, and can be pre-ordered from MissFD.com.
The new album promises to take listeners through the mirror into a shadow world of anguish and despair, of riddles with no answers – the complete opposite of her first record which, according to her website, “captured the artist’s personal journey through darkness and into light”.
Tracklist:
- Moment Of Fade
- Losing Ground
- Cry For You
- Temporary Relief
- Away From Here
- Negaverse
- In Love, Loss and Neon
Moog 900 Series Demo Record
This is a very cool find. This is a copy of the 1967 Moog 900 Series modular synthesizer demo record. This was given to people interested in the new Moog synthesizer. This is uploaded for educational purposes only, and also to show the historical significance of early electronic music.
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Introducing the MelodyMorph
MelodyMorph is an iPad app for constructing melodies and making improvised music. This video is demonstrates some of its features.
Software by Eric Rosenbaum
Performance by Jeff Lieberman
Filming by Jay Silver
This software was made with openframeworks. Thanks, OF!
Showing off the power of the Bluebox
If you are pressed for time, be sure to forward through each video to get a taste of what this thing is capable of. Note these are early videos in the making of the bluebox. See the bluebox label below for more and of course check out the bluebox website at www.digitalsoundchips.com.
Playlist:
New 8-bit synthesizer demo
Pocket lo-fi synthesizer
Hard core synthesizer 1
Hard core synthesizer 2
Hard core synthesizer 3
Hard core synthesizer 4
Hard core synthesizer 5
BleepLabs releases the Nebulophone synth
The Nebulophone is an Arduino based synth with a stylus keyboard. It was designed as kit for Handmade Music Austin and features:
– Five waveforms (ramp, triangle, square, pulse, and noise)
– Adjustable decay
– Light controlled analog low-pass filter with five adjustable LFO LED modes.
– Four arpeggio modes with adjustable rate.
– Portamento with three speed settings.
– Pitch range and keyboard temperament controls. Switch between major and chromatic keyboard mapping.
– Hypernoise 3000 mode
– Infrared control of arp rate with other Andromeda Space Rocker devices.
– Open-source Aduino code
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