For all SoundCloud users out there
SoundCloud today released a free SoundCloud client for Mac OS X, available in the Mac App Store:
We’re bringing the SoundCloud experience to your desktop that allows you to access all the sounds shared exclusively with you to browse, listen to and favorite sounds. Create custom playlists and saved searches to see the sounds you need in an instant and download others for offline playback. And just like all the official SoundCloud apps it also includes record functionality that lets you easily capture and upload any sound whenever you need to share or store something quickly.
SoundCloud is free service (with paid options) for sharing music on the Web, desktop and mobile platforms.
Features:
- Record: capture your sounds right in the app and upload to your SoundCloud account in no time.
- Listen to, favorite and manage your exclusive and incoming tracks in one place.
- Browse and search any sound
- Create playlists and saved searches
Pinball chip tune
If you thought chip music was something for Commodore 64 and Nintendos think again. Here we see Suzanne Ciani in the makings of the music and sounds for the Xenon pinball game. Apparently the 80s speaker was thinking using female voices in a pinball game was revolutionary.
Here’s Xenon in action:
Exploring the first generation of electronic music
Ian Halliwell has made a fantastic series of radio programs called The Tone Generation exploring the early days of electronic music roughly 1950-1970. He uses his personal collection of records and cds, looking at different themes and composers in the era of analogue tape and early synthesizer technology.
There are now 20 programs available at blip.tv, where the initial 10 part series was first transmitted between April and June 2008 on Resonance FM. There are programs covering major composers from influential countries but also other themes like the EMS and RCA synthesizers, female electronic composers, jazz, dance and the Expos.
Highly recommended!
MacBeth M5N (& Friends)_4
VELVET VOYAGE – “MacBeth M5N (& Friends)_4” – Performed live 5. Jan. 2011 by Bruno Ender Lee.
MacBeth M5N & Doepfer MAQ-Sequencer, Moog Little Phatty Stage II, ARP Odyssey, Roland Juno-60, Roland JP-8000, Analogue Solutions Vostok, Korg Delta, Korg DS-8, Prophet 2000, Technics KN 3000, Absynth
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Free sample pack with 74 MOOG analog drum sounds
Loopmasters has released a free sample pack by Wave Alchemy.
The free pack consists of 74 analogue drum samples which have been crafted using our semi-modular synth setup and treated through a selection of signal processors.
Details below.
Download link.
Kit used:
- Moog Voyager
- Moog CP-251 CV processor
- Moog VX-351
- Moog MF-107
- Moog MF-101
- Moog MF-102
- Future Retro XS
- Korg MS-20
Sound Shaping:
- EL Fatso & Distressor
- A-Designs EM-PEQ
- Spectra Sonics 610
- Valley People 610
- Thermionic Culture Vulture
Waldorf might be up to something at NAMM 2011
Waldorf Rumored to Debut Working Stromberg Synthesizer
According to a posts on NovaMusik and Harmony-Central, there are details of the new Stromberg synthesizer and word it may be shown. This new keyboard spearheads Waldorf’s analog modeling technology’s evolutionary advance. It boasts wavetable oscillators that come courtesy of wavetable synthesis’ inventor and a well-stocked sample library. On board is an immensely efficient two-way filter multimode system with a comprehensive selection of classic filter types in several qualities (24 / 12 / 6 dB) and exclusive PPG, com and cascade filters. Polyphonic up to 100 vioce. Analog addons a-filter and valve are 16-way analog filter bank and a freely variable tube module for warm saturation. Word is a working Stromberg will make is debut at this year;s NAMM
Via SM
Cool video with Atom Heart TM
Atom Heart TM live in Frankfurt 2008 AtomTM Uwe Schmidt
Amos – a reactive MIDI iPad instrument
Amos sends MIDI notes from the iPad to the Korg Electribe via the Line6 MIDI Mobilizer.”
Amos is a reactive MIDI iPad instrument. It sends MIDI notes through a USB MIDI interface or over a wireless network to trigger sounds from software synths, MIDI-capable hardware or desktop DAWs like GarageBand, ProTools and Live.
In Amos’s physics-simulated room, collisions between objects trigger MIDI notes. Up to three duration discs (half note, quarter note, eighth note) can be grabbed and thrown around the room. There are three 6-octave keyboards that can be configured via the Settings menu. When a disc strikes a keyboard key, it takes on that key‘s note value and emits that value for each collision until a new key is struck. Tilting the device controls the gravity in the room.
USB MIDI Requirements:
• iPad
• Apple iPad USB Camera Connection Kit
• Class-compliant USB MIDI interface
WiFi MIDI Requirements:
• A Mac, Linux, or Windows computer on the same WiFi network as your iPad
• A copy of the free DSMI Server running on your Mac, Linux, or Windows computer
• Some kind of MIDI capable desktop app (Garage Band, Pro Tools, Logic, Live, Sonar, etc.)
See http://anythinghonest.com/amos for further setup instructions.”
TAL-Reverb 3 – free reverb effect
Togu is one of my favorite suppliers of free synths and effects, here’s there latest release
Togu Audio Line has released TAL-Reverb 3, a free reverb effect for Mac & Windows.
TAL-Reverb-III is an easy to use stereo plate plugin. Its the replacement for TAL-Reverb-II and has several improvements as an optimized GUI and some changes in the algorithm. It has a simpified EQ section, a meter display and shows actual slider values.
Features:
- Plate reverb sound.
- One simple room size control.
- Predelay up to one second.
- EQ section (12dB cut, low shelf filter at 1000Hz, high shelf filter at 200Hz)
- Stereo width control (from full stereo to mono).
- Stereo input mode (mono or stereo intput).
- Displays the slider value of the active fader.
- A meter shows the output volume.
- 10 factory presets.
- Made with the juce framework and open source.
Vince Clarke has released the 4th episode of Analogue Monologues
This time he is focusing on the Boss DR-55 and the Roland Jupiter-4
Boss DR-55
The DR-55 Dr. Rhythm was released in 1980 and was one of the first step-write-style drum machines, and it was the first rhythm machine in BOSS’ successful Dr. Rhythm Series. It was small, inexpensive and easy to use – perfect for musicians at any level. Incredibly basic controls and sounds made this drum machine an instant hit among guitarists and other musicians looking for drum accompaniment to practice along with and even record into their home recordings.
The DR-55 could store up to six 16-step drum patterns plus an additional two 12-step patterns. The 12-step patterns allowed for 3/4 and 6/8 rhythms. A variation switch allowed you to, on-the-fly, alter the pattern playing. There were only four sounds in the DR-55 which included Snare Drum, Kick Drum, Rim Shot and Hi-Hat. The sounds are comparable to Roland’s CR-series of rhythm machines as well as some of Roland’s cheaper TR-machines (like the TR-505, TR-606). You can globally adjust the Volume, Tempo, Tone and Accent for the drum sounds.
Roland Jupiter 4
The first Jupiter synth. It was among one of the first poly synthesizers (4 individual voices which could be synced together for one fat monophonic lead), it had a pitch wheel that could be assigned to the VCA, VCF, VCO or all together, there are 8 memory locations and a cool arpeggiator – the arpeggiator can in the Duran Duran classic, “Rio”. It also has a very slow LFO for those ever-so-long filter sweeps. Pretty good for 1978!
Not so cool however, are the 10 preset sounds which sound nothing like the piano, brass or strings they claim to be. The placement of all the preset buttons below the keyboard can be inconvenient, especially while playing it. And as with most old analog synths, the Jupiter 4’s tuning can go out often. Still it is a nice analog synth for creating weird trippy analog sounds. It’s used by >Meat Beat Manifesto, Gary Numan, Thomas Dolby, Saint Etienne, the Cars, BT, Simple Minds, Moog Cookbook, Vangelis, The Human League, Duran Duran, Spandau Ballet, Heaven 17, and film-maker Satyajit Ray.
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