New single from Alphaville available now
Alphaville – Song For No One
Alphaville are currently available with a new single, taken from their latest album “Catching Rays On Giant”.
The single have been mixed and produced by Sebastian Komor (Icon Of Coil/Komor Kommando/Zombie Girl).
Grüvtron Demo
A demo showing the basic way of using grüvtron. It shows Arpeggio, Bass, Chord and Loop instruments and creation of new instrument parts through playing and morphing the Presets. Great fun! Grüvtron runs on iPhone, iPod touch and iPad 1 and 2. There will be another video later to show Audio Copy/Paste use and BeatSync for jamming with another iOS device.
Featuring the soome
Improvisation on piano and monome. I’m using a hand-built arc prototype, generously on loan from tehn, who is very busy building and shipping monomes, dealing with the transition to serialosc required by the new edition and finalizing the arc firmware. I’m sure he’d prefer to be playing with the arc himself.
hardware: monome arc2 (knobs) monome64 (buttons)
software: grainstorm
more information about monome can be found at monome.org
more information about grainstorm can be found at:
vimeo.com/stretta/grainstorm
APC – a virtual re-creation of the popular DIY circuit the Atari Punk Console
Tek’it Audio has introduced APC – a virtual re-creation of the popular DIY circuit the Atari Punk Console. Unfortunately it is not freeware as we have come to be accoustemed to when it comes to plug-ins made by Tekít
APC is a square wave synthesizer that creates fun “low-fi” sound, and comes with users MODs.
Key Features
- Comes with modifications of the original circuit, the tone push buttons that change the tone by +/- 1 octave, a resonant highpass filter that self oscillate and a gate controller with a hold function.
- Submit new MODs online. Registered users can submit online new ideas to mod APC, based on modifications existing in the DIY scene, or their imagination.
- Easy assignation of all parameters to MIDI controllers. Click on “Learn” on the parameter, move the control on your MIDI controller, and that it.
Features:
- Square waves “low-fi” sound
- Gate MOD with hold function
- Users can submit new MODs online
- 2 users MODs available: Pitch up & down, Highpass resonant filter
- Full MIDI automation support
- Easy MIDI learn on all parameters
- Use 7-bit MIDI Continuous Controller or High resolution 14-bit MIDI NRPN and RPN
- Comes with users manual
- Easy installer
Here’s an audio demo of the APC in action:
TKA – APC “audio sample demo” by Tek’it Audio
System Requirements
- 1GHz CPU or higher with SSE
- 512MB RAM or higher
- Microsoft® Windows® 7, XP (SP2 or later), or Vista™
- VST™ 2 compatible host
Pricing and Availability
APC is available now for €10,00EUR/US $10.
Link:
Improvisations with Prophet 5, Oberheim OBX and Minimoog
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RjqVO-oKEpc
we are planning a music-project with only analog synthesizers from the wonderful synth-collection of martin forrest. he owns more than 140 instruments from every synthesizer generation und they are all in perfect condition! You find all the legends from moog, ARP and oberheim over sequential circuits to PPG, EMU, Roland and Yamaha and all the Samplers of Akai, Emu and Roland.
Shared by Keyboardscool
La chambre des machines
Nice video featuring Messier and Bernier:
Electronic music performance
by Martin Messier + Nicolas Bernier
with custom intornarumoris by Alexandre Landry.
SONAR CHICAGO : September 11th 2010 : US
SONAR BARCELONA : June 19th 2010 : Spain
MUTEK : June 2nd 2010 : Canada
TRANSMEDIALE : Febuary 6th 2010 : Germany
Free reverb for Windows
Xhip Effects R2, an updated version of the free effects bundle for Windows, is now available.
These effect plugins were originally created for use with Xhip, the “xxx-xated xound xource”. The effects were implemented as external plugins, though, for greater versatility.
New in R2:
- mDelay parameters are smoothed.
- Limiter has activity/clipping LEDs added.
- Small graphical changes, bg color adjusted, shaded slider.
- Several small bugs fixed.
Pricing and Availability
Xhip effects R2 for Windows (VST) are available now as a free download.
Link:
Depeche community in discussion – fake or real
Among true Depeche Mode fans there is an active discussion whether a recently discovered (and uploaded on SoundCloud) tape is a real demo tape or just a fake. It is supposed to be the first demo tape ever released by DM featuring the absolute first versions of songs like Photographic and Ice Machine. No news from the band has been released to whether it is true or not, but check out the links below and judge for yourself.
Monotron modified CV Gate, Korg SQ 10 demo
Korg Monotron with a DIY CV/Gate interface, sequenced by SQ 10 / played with a roland SH 09
all sounds comes from the monotron, except the drum : sound master stix st-305
For more information about this modification see here :
http://www.dendrobate-magnetique.org/synth/article8/korg-monotron-cv-gate-mod…
sorry for the poor video quality, sound is good, live improvisation.
Monolith – Turns your guitar into a Moog Synthesizer
This is a preview of Sentient FX’s upcoming Monolith – an application that turns your guitar into a Moog synthesizer.
Here’s what they have to say about Monolith:
Our guitar synthesisers do not use MIDI to achieve their tones. We feel that the MIDI protocol is too crude to deliver the full range of guitar players’ nuances, rendering performances sterile and lacklustre. Pitch informaion is derived directly using “Literal Nuance Interpretation” which values “feel” above all else.
Somebody once said of conventional MIDI guitars, “it feels like the guitar is playing you, not you playing the guitar”. We aim to put you back in control..
You can use palm muting, harmonics, ebows, sustainiacs and whammy bars with this technology. You don’t have to close old doors to open new ones here.
Monolith is expected for release in Spring 2011.
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