u-he DIVA Virtual Analog Synthesizer
Urs Heckman discusses his new synth at MusikMesse. This virtual instrument incorporates multiple elements from vintage analog synths. It draws a lot of CPU, but it sounds really good – the video tells how to get a free trial version.
TB ReelBus VST – modeled after legendary Japanese and Swiss reel-to-reel recorders
TB ReelBus is an analog tape recording simulator that aims at accurate simulation of all properties related to tape, including its frequency and level dependent saturation, inter-modulation effects, bias dependencies, tape hiss, asperity noise, wow and flutter, and clipping of electronic circuitry. It is especially suitable for bus processing (including the master bus) to subtly sweeten and enhance the sound.
A spokesperson says, “TB ReelBus currently contains 7 preset recorder simulations, which can be adjusted individually by offsetting the tape hiss, asperity noise, amount of spectrum and saturation processing, and alike.”
Features
- Very low-latency processing (only 4 samples delay) as a result of analog design
- Support of all sampling rates from 44.1 up to 192 kHz
- Adjustable record level with auto level makeup option
- Accurate simulation of existing reel-to-reel recorders with different tape speeds
- Adjustable tape hiss and asperity noise levels
- Adjustable tape spectrum and tape saturation
- Adjustable wow and flutter strength
- Option to amplify bias strength for overbiasing
- Simulation of both tape saturation as well as analog circuitry clipping
- Calibrated analog VU meters
- Each and every processing element carefully modeled after analog circuits and filters
- Based on the VST 2.4 specification to allow compatibility with virtually all host programs
Pricing and Availability:
EUR 10.00
More information:
iRig MIDI and Koushion for the iPad
iRig MIDI is an ultra-compact standard Core MIDI interface for iOS that connects any MIDI compatible device to the iPhone, iPod touch and iPad. It is the only compact iOS MIDI interface sporting 3 MIDI ports: IN/OUT/THRU. These connect to any standard MIDI jacks using the included 2 x 1.6m/5.2′ cables. iRig MIDI also has 2 LEDs for displaying the MIDI activity on the IN and OUT ports.
For more info on iRig MIDI go to: www.ikmultimedia.com/irigmidi
Really cool BMX controller video – TURNTABLE RIDER
TURNTABLE RIDER created by COGOO とは、自転車をターンテーブルに転換する世界初のデジタル自転車アクセサリー。１台の自転車をシェアすることから生み出される前代未聞のバイクミュージックパフォーマンス
For more information of TURNTABLE RIDER
https://cogoo.jp/turntablerider
Making of TURNTABLE RIDER
http://youtu.be/KntZfUQKGX0
Googlish:
TURNTABLE RIDER created by COGOO and is the world’s first digital bicycle accessories to convert the bike to turn tables. Share your bike unprecedented performance music generated from bicycles to share one thing.
Using the Code with Reason 6
Propellerhead’s Reason 6 has extensive support for the Code controller. See how you can use it to control almost everything within Reason.
Code is a flexible and stylish control surface for computer music creation and performance. Its compact grid of 32 endless encoders with LED rings have built-in pushbuttons with addressable LEDs let you “think outside the grid.” Code sends and receives MIDI, providing endless possibilities for use with software such as Ableton Live, Max/MSP, Properllerhead’s Reason and Record, and NI Traktor, just to name a few. Class-complaint, bus-powered, and completely reprogrammable, Code is an ideal companion to hardware and software for music production. Open source firmware (licenced under GPL v3) provides developers with new avenues of exploration and the potential for users to try out different configurations.
CASSINI – Polyphonic Synthesizer for iPhone (v1.0.0)
Here are some details:
CASSINI Polyphonic Synthesizer
– 3 Oscillators plus 1 Sub-Osc
– Sawtooth, Pulse(PWM), Triangle, Sine, Noise, FM
– Waveshape Modulation
– Oscillator Sync
– Ring Modulation
– 2 Filters
– LP24, LP18, LP12, LP6, BP, HP
– AMP
– Overdrive
– 3 Band EQ
– Auto Pan
– 9 Envelope Generators
– DAHDSR(Delay, Attack, Hold, Decay, Sustain, Release)
– Velocity, Keyboard Tracking
– 6 LFOs
– Sawtooth, Pulse, Triangle, Random, 16 Step Sequence
– Waveshape Modulation
– Envelope(AD/AR)
– Modulation Delay
– Delay Time: 1-2000ms / Tempo Sync
– Delay Time Modulation
– Filtered Stereo Delay
– Resonant Filter (LP, BP, HP)
– Filter Modulation
– Programable Polyphonic Arpeggiator
– Scale/Chord Remapper
– CoreMIDI
– Recorder
– Audio Copy (Compatible with INTUA BeatMaker, Apple GarageBand and so on.)
– Export wav file via iTunes File Sharing
The recording time is limited to 3 minutes.
Chropolis – new sound library for Ableton Live
Detunized has announced Chropolis, a sound library for Ableton Live.
Chropolis brings another facet of early eighties flair to your snuggery. The Pack contains a rich collection of more than 30 instruments that capture the spirit of the Rhodes Chroma Polaris.
The original 1984 RCP combines analog sound with precise and reproducable digital control. The heart of the RCP is an 80186 microprocessor while his buddy Curtis does what this synthesizer makes sounding so great.
The Live Pack instruments come with precisely adjusted parameters on the macros. In addition the main devices in each chain are kept open. This way instant tweaking is absolutely easy-going.
Chropolis for Ableton Live 7 or higher is available to purchase for 7 EUR.
Awesome and rare video with Human League
Human League – Path of Least Resistance (live BBCtv 1979)
Top clip of the original line-up performing a song from the first album on some programme called “Mainstream”. Repeated as part of the “Sounds of the Seventies” series, hence the daft bookending with Paul Darrow and Patrick Troughton.
Interview with Ludwig Rehberg – the man keeping the EMS flag high
Amazona made an interview with Ludwig Rehberg of EMS Rehberg.
He is the aristocrat of German synthesizer: Ludwig Rehberg programmed sounds of Pink Floyd, took care of the sound design from the movie “Das Boot”, is close friends with Martin Gore and now supplies more Jean-Michel Jarre with his instruments. He is the man behind EMS Rehberg, a small company in the Swabian Ditzingen who cares about sales, maintenance and in some cases development of the original British instruments of EMS.
Read the whole interview here googlish translation.
Rare Bulgarian Hi-NRG funk from 1981 on a EMS Synthi 100
Hi-NRG funk from 1981 made by Bulgarian Simo Lazarov on a EMS Synthi 100. All those components are rare and combine them feels like a very unexpected combination.
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