Vermona ReTubeVerb
With Vermona about to release a whole bunch of cool new products at Musikmesse, I thought it’d be nice to take one last look at the older “mark one” stuff. This isn’t the Retroverb. Here’s what the Vermona ReTubeVerb sounds like.
Via Calvin Cardioid
Maschine Expansions from NI
Native Instruments has introduced a new series of Maschine Expansions, download libraries for its groove production system.
All expansions provide new drum kits and instruments as well as pre-programmed patterns.
The series debuts with Vintage Heat and Transistor Punch, created by Goldbaby and Surround SFX.
- Vintage Heat was created by sampling artist Goldbaby, and specializes on warm, saturated sounds with vintage grit. The library includes 50 kits with analog, digital and acoustic origins, complemented with 50 synthesizer sounds ranging from bass and leads to brass, pads and strings. All sounds in Vintage Heat have been sampled from vintage drum machines and analog synths, and have been processed with Goldbaby‘s array of classic compressors, effect units and valve tape machines. Inventive sampling techniques, including the mapping of successive tape delay repeats to different velocity layers, further contribute to the character of the library.
- Transistor Punch takes its inspiration from contemporary European club music, and provides sounds for a wide range of electronic styles. Created by sound designer Denis Gögdak of Surround SFX, the library contains 30 drum kits, as well as 50 bass and lead sounds that integrate with the factory library of Maschine. All sounds have been sampled from analog drum machines and synthesizers. Transistor Punch adds 20 multi-effect chains that provide additional sonic treatments, as well as a large collection of patterns by producer Martin Buttrich.
Vintage Heat and Transistor Punch are available for download purchase in the NI Online Shop for $59 / 49 EUR each.
Wogglebug and modDemix
just trying out some new modules..Wogglebug and modDemix. Woggle smooth and stepped outputs are controlling decay mounts on maths.
nothing too fancy on this video. just experimentation.
Funkbox updated
Synthetic Bits announced today that they’ve updated FunkBox (App Store link) – their $2.99 virtual drum machine for iOS – to version 2.1.:
FunkBox v2.1 was approved blazingly fast today by Apple! If you are using FunkBox with CoreMIDI, or running it on an iPhone 3G with iOS4, or do a lot of drum box custom sample editing, you will definitely want to update as soon as possible.
If you have an iOS device that can do multi-tasking, you may also want to pick up the BassLine and MoDrum apps to play with the new multi-tasking audio features that allow you to run FunkBox simultaneously with other music apps. Thank you to Finger apps for leading the way with these extremely cool CoreMIDI features that we think are going to change music making on iOS dramatically for the better!
For iOS musicians, the FunkBox update is one more small step towards iOS MIDI nirvana. Details below.
The FunkBox v2.1 update includes:
- Fixed startup issues with iPhone 3G/iOS4
- Fixed edit drum part crash problems
- Improved CoreMIDI/sync support
- Added background / multi-tasking audio support
- Added option to disable startup sounds and/or auto-start beat in Settings app
- Added lock drum machine option
- Added master volume slider in mixer
- Increased touch size of sliders
- Misc other improvements and fixes
via Synthetic Bits
The legendary Carl Palmer plays the Korg Wavedrum!
Percussion icon Carl Palmer demonstrates the Korg Wavedrum
Shared by KORG
Revival: Dance Or Die – Psychoburbia
Dance Or Die prepare a comeback in June 2011 with their 6th (concept) album, “Nostradamnation”. Tracks known so far include “Sleeping in your grave”, “432000”, “Purgatory”, “Empty hearts”, “Northern Winter” and “Helios”. The news was announced on the band’s official website.
Dance or Die – remember their 1992 hit “Psychoburbia” – is an electronic band, formed in 1988 by the two Berlin residents Andreas Goldacker and Gary Wagner. Falgalas (born Heiko Duus) joined the band in 1993, first for live touring, later as full member. Chris L. (born Christian Lorenz) joined in 1998, so far only for live performances.
Their first, eponymously-titled mini album was the first release ever of Berlin-based label Machinery. After the label’s demise, they signed with Polydor in 1997. But after one album (“Dehumanizer”) that partnership ended. 2001 saw the release of their final (until now) album “Schlafende Energie” on Synthetic Symphony. For the new album the band has joined hands with Out Of Line. (Via SL)
Mixing & Mastering Tutorials
Dubspot Instructor and Mixing & Mastering engineer Daniel Wyatt teaches you How To Use A Limiter using Ozone 4 from Izotope in this two-part video tutorial series offering tips and techniques for polishing your tracks, and give them a finished, professional sound. Daniel Wyatt offers a universal mastering technique using Ozone 4, which is indeed one of the most powerful mastering plug-ins, but you can use this method to attain loudness in any host application. In part 1, Daniel Wyatt navigates the Limiter section and explains some the essential functions of the Loudness Maximizer (another name for the Limiter) in a step by step process; from Master Output setting to Dithering, correcting mixing mistakes, adding fullness without distortion, and Release control, for making the sound loud and bouncy. Stay tuned for part 2, as Daniel Wyatt concludes the series with a focus on Multiband Dynamics, Harmonic Exciter, and more.
The Mush Orchestra – Live-Improvisation
A live improvisation jam by The Mush Orchestra. Recorded at Copenhagen Noise Lab on the 13th of April 2011. No processing, just straight out of the mixer.
Equipment used:
Nord Modular G2, DIY midi-controller, Elektron Machinedrum UW, Korg Kaoss Pad 3 and a Mackie 1202 vlz3 mixer.
Every sound is made with the Nord Modular G2, the Machinedrum UW is only playing samples from it.
The Mush Orchestra is a project by Rasmus Nyåker who is also oone half of the ambient duo FEJLD. Their album is availible as a free download – more info at:
kufrec.com/webshop.html
SampleWiz preview
Go robotic I guess!
Decided to share with you a moment of our upcoming app.
This will be the next release from Wizdom Music
Schmidt Monster Analog Polysynth
Pure analog super synth 
This seems to have really captured the imagination – its a massive totally analog 8-voice polysynth, with 4 OSC, 7 VCF and many, many other elements. Concieved from the one mind of Mr Schmidt it really is something to behold.
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