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Thor CZ Refill is here!
The Thor Polysonic Synthesizer is not only an incredible tool for new and inventive sound design but also remains faithful to classic synths with its ability to accurately emulate vintage equipment of the past. In this particular refill we take focus of Thor’s ability to create authentic Casio CZ patches through its phase distortion ocillator. The refill contains 96 patches in Thor and Combinator instruments, 4 tutorial/template files and a document discussing the CZ architecture and approach to emulation within Thor. For those who have owned one of the CZ-101/1000 synthesizers will appreciate the first 16 patches of this refill which are almost identical to the factory presets that shipped with the original units.
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Introducing
Thanks to White Crow for allowing us to present the community with the free refill. This is a great refill that nearly emulates the full range of the Yamaha CS-01. By taking the raw waveforms of the original unit and assigning combinator controls to modulate ASDR and filter combinatinos you basicaly have a full functioning CS-01. At almost 42MB it find a nice place in your refill library. Enjoy!
Puremagnetik Waveframe
Waveframe is a an advanced wavetable synthesizer designed exclusively for the features of Ableton Live. Based on the Ensoniq Fizmo, Waveframe contains over 1700 wavetable samples, over 30 waveform Live Racks and a generous selection of performance patches.
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Reaper updated
Cockos has updated REAPER to v3.12.
REAPER (Rapid Environment for Audio Prototyping and Efficient Recording) is designed for the recording, arrangement, editing, mixing and rendering of audio.
Changes:
* Automation lanes: fixed possible crash when removing FX parameter envelopes.
* CD burning: fixes to native XP mode track divisions.
* Extensions API: GetSetMediaItemInfo() fixes for fade shape settings.
* Fade drawing: when using full-area filling, fixed drawing when zoomed in.
* FX: per-FX buggy plugin compatibility mode (assumes plugin is not threadsafe, needs constant precleaned buffers, etc.).
* Hardware outputs: post-fader track outputs obey track polarity control.
* MIDI editor: show notes pressed as long as the input note is pressed.
* OSX: improved drag/drop support.
* OSX: support for control+alt+drag to render to new file (drag to desktop, finder, sampler, etc.).
* OSX: CD burning support.
* OSX: REX support.
* OSX: special casing for POD Farm VST misreporting view type (VST 2.4 should be composited view).
* OSX: fix for some AUs that do not export automatable parameters until after audio streams are initialized.
* OSX: added correct file locking to prevent writing files open for read.
* Pencil mode: fixed fade/autofade settings for newly drawn media items.
* ReaControlMIDI: support for raw mode (0-127 access to all CC messages).
* ReaControlMIDI: envelopes and TCP knobs report the same value as the slider (0-127, 0-16383, or on/off).
* ReaControlMIDI: support for storing/sending sysex dumps up to 64KB.
* ReaScript: run Python or Perl scripts that call Reaper API functions.
* ReaScript: assign reascripts to key commands or toolbar buttons.
* VST bridging: optimized plug-ins that call for tempo information.
* VST bridging/firewalling: per plug-in option to embed UI (not as compatible, less crash-resilient).
* VST: safer querying of text strings from certain plug-ins.
* Win32: async file reading now has more grace on error.
* Win32: file locking improvements (no longer allow writing to media files that are open and online in REAPER, etc.).
* x64: VST bridging performance improvements, ReaRoute performance improvements.
* x64: will now use same config path as x86 (unless appdata/REAPER64 is valid).
* x64: REX support (via bridging).
* x64: fix for certain (broken) ASIO drivers.
Can you get enough Chipsounds?
As you’ve understood we at Steelberry Clones have soft spot for chip music. To recreate all those glitches and bleeps in a state-of-the-art environment the guys at Plogue has made a new softsynth called Chipsounds that should be the ultimate emulator. It covers close emulations of Ataris (home computer and arcade), Commodore (C64 and VIC20), BBC, ZX and more….
We’ll keep you updated when it’s released.
The secret behind Siftables
Siftables are cookie-sized computers with motion sensing, neighbor detection, graphical display, and wireless communication. They act in concert to form a single interface: users physically manipulate them – piling, grouping, sorting – to interact with digital information and media. Siftables provides a new platform on which to implement tangible, visual and mobile applications.
Check out the video below:
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There are three “voices” – lead, bass and drums. Each voice has four variations, accessible via the four sides of the siftable. You can also apply reverb, filter, volume and tempo changes.
Not to forget a pretty cool song too 
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Novation Lauchpad for Ableton Live
Novation and Ableton has together developed a new controller for Live. It’s looks really cool and compact and very Monome like but is much cheaper
Youtube is already flooded by tutorials so have a look for your self and prepare you wallet:
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Synton Syntovox Vocoders
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The history:
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- Rumours say that this vas Syntons last vocoder before they went under.The vocoder vas
designed to be programmable and to alow each BPF channel to be swept in frequency and in Q value,
but all this info are still rumours.
Fat interview with Thomas Dolby
Excerpt from Drowned in Sound
Following the recent reissues of synthpop pioneer Thomas Dolby’s classic debut The Golden Age Of Wireless and its mini album successor The Flat Earth, journalist Joseph Stannard – Wire, Terrorizer, Plan B – spoke to Dolby for DiS, and discusses his own relationship with these seminal recordings, which oft reside in the shadow of Dolby’s 1982 hit ‘She Blinded Me With Science’.
I blame my brother. Although he generally viewed his younger sibling with disdain, he occasionally passed down an invaluable fragment of the magic that he was experiencing in his private world, between slinking out of the house to avoid another fight and saving up for white leather trousers he would never wear. One such artifact was a C90 cassette, the inlay of which was hand drawn and featured baffling mathematical etchings. I realise now that these were my brother’s ballpoint ‘n’ compass approximations of the inner sleeve artwork to The Flat Earth, Thomas Dolby‘s second album, which took up the second side of the tape. The first side comprised one version (there were many configurations) of Dolby’s 1982 debut album, The Golden Age Of Wireless, and it was this side that triggered a fascination lasting over 25 years. Appropriately, …Wireless feels like family, an active part of my personal history. Much of my youth was spent travelling from Middlesex, where I lived, to Berkshire, where I would stay with my grandmother during school holidays. Hurtling down the M4, often through sheets of grey drizzle, I would stare out of the car window at the wind-ruffled fields and isolated homesteads which would eventually form an immovable layer of my own internal landscape. I’d listen to my brother’s tape on those journeys, the washed out colours conferred by the brooding clouds matched by the shades of grey and green that emerged from Dolby’s synthesizers. If that makes …Wireless sound depressing, it isn’t. It’s just incredibly honest and all-encompassing in its Britishness. This is even reflected in ‘She Blinded Me With Science’, the song that made Dolby a temporary pop star, an almost cartoonishly English take on electro featuring the interjections of the BBC’s favourite Mad Scientist, the late Magnus Pyke. The thought of kids in the Bronx locking’n’popping to Pyke’s eccentric splutter, which is entirely likely (Dolby would later produce Whodini’s hip-hop classic, ‘Magic’s Wand’), fills my heart with joy. But that track, tacked on to later pressings in the wake of its success as a single, was an interloper on an album overwhelmingly concerned with loss, escape, heritage and war.
Read the full interview here >>
Steelberry Clones on Spotify
Steelberry Clones is now available for all Spotify users
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New free VSTs from Synthgeak and free Reason Refills
Synthgeek has released the SG-WSS1, SG-APCX and SG-APC1, three free virtual synthesizer plug-ins for Windows.
SG-WSS1, SG-APCX and SG-APC1 details
- SG-WSS1 — The “WSS” stands for Wave Shaping Synth. This is a subtractive synth based on an idea inspired by my K2000. By no means an emulation, it merely makes use of waveshaping techniques similar to a couple of the K2000’s DSP algorithms. Think VA with a twist, and some nice modulation options.
- SG-APCX — This is an expanded version of the APC1 synth found below, including more filter options, distortion, and modulation via 3 LFO’s & 3 step sequencers. Think of it as a groovebox for crazy synth fx. It can also be coerced into lo-fi squelchy bassline territory, though due to it’s nature, tuning can be tricky.
- SG-APC1 — A rather simple noise machine inspired by the Kaustic Machines Atari Punk Console. Best when tweaked or automated, as otherwise it just puts out a steady tone. Includes a basic on-off MIDI gate and a highpass filter for added usefulness.
Synthgeek’s VST plug-ins are available as freeware for Windows PC – Download them here >>
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