Free sample pack from Artfx
Artfx has introduced a free sample library, Artfx Sound Effects Sample Pack Vol 1.
The package containes 480 audio samples and loops ordered in 12 folders, total of 1GB. Below is a list of the main folders:
- Atmospherics
- Beatbox samples and loops
- Downlifters
- Impacts
- Metallic FX
- Robotic FX
- Scratches
- Swishes
- Uplifters
- Vocals
- Weird
Sound Preview:
All samples are originally recorded by ARTFX, especially for this sample pack. All sound design is done by Kaj van den Oord.
Sync-Gen II Proto Demo
Rough hand held iPhone demo video. Sync-Gen II software under Ableton Live 8 driving Cync-Lock and Kawai R-100 via Din-Sync. Single audio loop in Live playing across grid-locked R-100 pattern. Precision Sync and Slave Transport taken care of by Sync-Gen II
Nice interview with The Dolphin Brothers
Former Japan members Richard Barbieri and Steven Jansen (David Sylvian’s brother) in an interview relating to their venture with The Dolphin Brothers some years back
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8MG_fBvFTR4
And here is one of my favorites from the album “Catch the Fall”
Practical iPad Music Making
Peter Kirn of the CDM blogteams up with Tekserve to present straightforward options for connecting MIDI and Audio hardware to the iPad for music creation.
Metal Machines Trailer
This is a short trailer for Rabbit Ears Audio SFX Library, REA_004 Metal Machines.
I visited a shop whose primary focus is repairing old steam locomotives and building replicas for use around the country (Thomas The Tank Engine is big business). This library features 11 pre-1950s tools that will get your motor running and add texture to your mechanized needs. I hired a machinist to perform the following mechanical masterpieces of the industrial age: Wheel Lathe, Metal Planer, McCabe Metal Flanger, Metal Shaper, Summit Engine Lathe, Summit Engine Rapid Traverse, Hendy Engine Lathe, Vertical Turret Lathe, Bridgeport Milling Machine, Large Air Needle Scaler, Small Air Needle Scaler.
All of the machines have such wonderful qualities that smooth computer-controlled contemporary machines don’t possess. Metal Machines is here to bring on the flap, whirr, grind and whine that your work needs.
Metal Machines pricing:
- Hi-Res+ $70 usd – 24 Bit 192 kHz, 301 sounds, 4.07 GB content
- Hi-Res $50 usd – 24 Bit 96 kHz, 301 sounds, 2.02 GB content
- Std $25 usd – 24 Bit 48 kHz, 138 sounds, 661.1 MB content
- Basic $9 usd – 16 Bit 44.1 kHz, 66 sounds, 291.6 MB content
A free pack of samples is available from the product page as well.
More information: Rabbit Ears Audio / REA004 Metal Machines
The new album from And One – TANZOMAT
A new album from one of the most successful German synth-pop groups offers twelve times highly electrified harmony between EBM and pop music. Old fans of the band will appreciate that the multi-crafty mix strong again moved in the direction of the And One early works. With And One, you are getting what you came for. The new long player from Germany’s most successful synth pop group features twelve instances of highly electrifying euphony, balancing the scales between massive beat madness and the eternal quest for the holy grail pop.
The band recently released solo EP was “Zerstörer” – where the title track is completely separate and not included in the forthcoming full length album. During the year, it has also scheduled a number of live dates together with Camouflage, De / Vision and Minerve. The new album is released, in addition to the regular edition, in a double-disc edition * in digipak with accompanying bonus CD of live material
“Tanzomat” released March 4 via Out Of Line….
Gigantic tunes, big feelings and a more than healthy dose of rhythmic gymnastics in nice Bodypop-surround. Long-time fans of the band will appreciate the fact that the satire-tinged and versatile mix is very much going back to the roots of the early works of And One.
Duel: Up vs. Down
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HxHqnztxpTg
Denshi-Teishoku HomeLive
XBase888 + Revorution + TENORI-ON + mopho + Stylophone
GALLOLIZER MP19 Electronic Devices
The Gallolizer is a handmade multi-effects sound mangler, an array of dirty, delicious sound-destroying effects in a single handcrafted box. It’s the work of a Spanish engineering and art collective called MP19, an Arduino-loving, free software-using, open source group of artists who turn those platforms into the kind of grungy sounds that make them happy.
Gallolizer is an unique effects processing unit and totally handmade, inspired by Krautrock, New wave and Early Techno music. It combines analog and digital effects with an old-school management. Designed for the search of Industrial and Techno-Dub sounds,getting lo-fi real echoes, metallic sounds and new textures for drum machines, synthesizers or tradicional instruments. Perfect for live acts and more dark meetings in the studio.
Contains two different analog distortions, the clone of Ampeg Scrambler with the original transistors, and a FuzzFace germanium transistors.
A Bit Crusher of Arduino with a low-pass filter, a digital delay circuit with a lo fi sound that simulates a real analog echoes and a digital reverb.
Brainwave controlled monotron
Star wars 
This is a brainwave controlled synth i made for a mate for his birthday. The frequency of brainwaves is sent from the sensor digitally to the base station, all I have done is mod the monotron to have a cv/gate input and added a few components to the force trainer to output a voltage determined by the brain activity sensed.
DATAMASKIN
