This months VST – Memorymoon
MemoryMoon v1.3 VSTi-AMPLiFY
Memorymoon is inspired by the clic synthesizers. The
sound is powerful. It has 6 voicecards with 3 oscillators,
noise oscillator, amp and 2 filters. Settings above 5V in
the mixer introduces overdrive.
Features include: 6 voice unison. Osc sync. Many envelope
curves. Graphic envelopes. Arpeggiator and trancegate. Hold
function. LFO, Voice-LFO, and Delay-time can be synced to
host clock or to tapped tempo. You can tap tempo with a
sustainpedal or with a button.
There is “voice-card drift” settings for tune, amp, filter
cutoff and pulse width. So each voice-card can sound
slightly different. It is also possible to play soundfonts
and drum-loops in wav-format. This is intended for live
performance.
Here’s where you can download it >>
Rozzbox – monophoner Hybridsynthesizer
You just have to listen to this little machine.
Go to Rozzbox home page and click on the mp3 demos – it is so nice and retro.
Well what is it;
“Die “RozzBox” V2 ist ein monophoner Hybridsynthesizer mit beachtlichem Funktionsumfang. ”
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kO6pLpIAxnw]
Reason 4 special in Computer Music – free refill :-)
If you have seen it or bought it already don´t miss out on this limited edition from CM covering the gross part of Reason 4, good tutorials and quite a decent exclusive refill I msut say. There are some nice effects in the Loopmaster’s refill.
This is what CM writes on their cover issue:
Reason 4: The Unofficial Guide
The long-awaited follow-up to our sellout Expert Guide to Reason has hit the newsstands in the UK and Europe. It’s called Reason 4: The Unofficial Guide – here’s a look at what’s inside:
Step-by-step guides to using Reason 4’s brand new features. Learn how to improve your workflow with the completely revamped sequencer, make mighty sounds with Thor, create impressive musical riffs with RPG-8, and inject your tracks with groove with the ReGroove Mixer.
Studio Sessions projects take you step-by-step through the process of composing, mixing and remixing a complete track. Learn how to get quality results from your setup that’ll stand up to the best commercial tracks out there.
Masterclasses. Revisit some old favourites with this section of tutorials. Customise your setup with the Combinator, get down to some intricate drum programming with Dr.Rex, explore the many possibilities of CV routing, and get experimental making a granular synthesis patch. Also demonstrated is a pain-free procedure for incorporating vocals or other audio parts into your Reason compositions.
On the CD are two exclusive Reason 4 ReFills lovingly compiled by the sonic wizards at Loopmasters and TrackTeam Audio. More than 500 patches, samples, groove templates and Thor Combi’s are featured, covering a wide variety of uses and genres, from vocals, d’n’b, hip hop and dubstep to ethnic, house, jazz, trance and more.
REFX – Nexus
OH! Btw I did not write what’s stated below, hehe
NEXUS is a next generation rom synthesizer of highest quality that will make your dreams come true. Forget about the usual bread & butter ROM synthesizers whose sounds are boring, stale and lacking punch.
NEXUS explores new territory and delivers complex, ultra-fat and up-to-date soundstorms that could not sound any better from the most expensive and best hardware – all at the tip of your fingers.
NEXUS provides you with everything you need to create the new hit. Do you need the most powerful dance leadsounds to become famous in your club or a Gregorian choir to create the atmosphere of the next trance hit? Whatever you need, NEXUS will supply you with what you have always been longing for.
Features like the freely programable arpeggiator, the versatile trancegate or the factory-library optimized for the most popular genres make this the best ROM synthesizer on the market.
Even though the sound is first rate, your CPU is spared. You can expand NEXUS with new sounds by installing genre-specific expansion packs or customize the look of the GUI with our themed skins.
KORG lunchbox synth
For those of you who haven´t seen this already 
Crammed a digital delay, spring reverb and function generator into a lunchbox. The fact that it says korg is sort of a synth geek joke. _ Big thanks go out to tonepad.com and generalguitargadgets.com for being such great resources for this beginner. All boards etched by me using press-n-peel blue and RadioShack etchant.
audio samples are here for all settings full and here for a little restraint
New release of Chipmusic from Kittenrock – free download
Good sounding chipmusic/video game music from Kittenrock
Btw this is good site for finding more of the same >>
Free downloads (Radiowaves is btw my favorite :-))
SILent REQuiem – Pokket Nastie
(zip file – right click save target as or whatever for mac users)
This month SILent REQuiem brings us 9 tracks of some of the most terrifying Game Boy techno out there.
Get ready to be scared!
Originally released January 2008
RADIO WAVES GOODBYE – LASER BEAM
(zip file – right click save target as or whatever for mac users)
Radio Waves Goodbye blasts us out with a heavy slice of Hi-NRG Game Boy techno.
Originally released December 2007
Plötslichmusik – a real electro/synthpop treat
Even though their lyrics are crap and perhaps would do a lot with a better mastering of their songs, the music really has that happy synthpop touch to it and I really enjoy listening to their analog sounds.
Yazoo on tour again
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R_kzhvYZtQc]
Alison Moyet and Vince Clarke will perform live together as Yazoo for the first time in 25 years. The seminal electro duo will play a five venue tour called Yazoo Reconnected in June 2008. As well as their classic hits of Only You and Don’t Go, Yazoo will perform tracks from the album You and Me Both for the first time. They will perform together for five gigs:
June 4 Glasgow, 7 Manchester, 12 Wolverhanpton, 15 Brighton and 18 London.
Exclusive ticket pre-sale available on January 25 at alisonmoyet.com.
– It’s been really good going back to these songs after such a long while. Many of them have never been played live. I’m looking forward to performing them with Alison for all the fans who’ve enjoyed our music through the years but never had a chance to see Yazoo in concert, Clarke says.
No NAMM without Moog :-)
Old School…, nothing I would choose at this point and definately not on my top 5 wish list, but of course if someone would offer it to me for a good discount, perhaps the cute girl in the picture…
…the new synth with the analog sound engine of the Voyager, but without the digital controls. The perfect solution for players looking for a road-worthy replacement for their venerable Minimoog Model D, a full-featured centerpiece for their modular synth rig or just craving direct, hands-on connection to their creativity!
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ILcf6o8YQD8]
It also made me come to think of this old ad on eBay:
“Synth was made in 80’s years in USSR. It is soviet version of the famous Minimoog synth. Synthesizer has very original ‘transformer’ design with removing main operation panel. Synth looks very industrial and military, like the soviet secret weapon. Aelita is fat sounding synth with quite unique sound due to original soviet analog circuitry and electronic components.”
Could not have writed better, new friend. The Aelita is a 3-oscillator monosynth with independently detunable oscillators, a 24 dB/Octave Moog ladder filter, dual ADS envelopes and an LFO with triangle, square, saw and ramp waveforms. There’s no weak westernized MIDI or decadent capitalist on-board microprocessor to store patches. You’ll have to do it the Soviet way: By hand.
C=iao
This is soooo cool – Percussa AudioCubes
Although at first glance it looks similar to the PETECUBE they seem to have a very different approach in actual interaction, in particular the use of multiple cubes for control. A nice feature is it looks like they can be used without a computer to both generate sound and also apply effects. Watch the video below!
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gcsilckw0iY]
PERCUSSA AudioCubes is a revolutionary new electronic sound generator, processor and controller, available from PERCUSSA.
You can use it to control MIDI compatible software and instruments, generate lofi sound with them or process lofi sound.
Each cube can be reprogrammed from your computer over USB and has built in full colour light sources. They also come with samples by Loopmasters and Max/MSP patches.
In the video Tobias Von Hofsten (aka ONE, http://vonhofsten.com/) is using the cubes with his Elektron Machinedrum.
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