Theremini – rumours on new instrument from Moog
Moog has filed for a trademark Theremini which makes us believe that a new Theremin like instrument will be announced within short.
The THEREMINI trademark is filed in the category of Musical Instrument Products . The description provided to the USPTO for THEREMINI is Music instruments in general; theremins.
Arturia Microbrute Sessions — MICRO treated with ext Cotoff Trigger Seqencer
The MICRO is beeing treated with ext Cotoff Trigger Seqencer Doepfer A.-155. In Sync with the internal sequencer + Modular Kick..
AeroMIDI – track your hand in space controller
Acoustica has released AeroMIDI 3D MIDI controller software for Mac & WIndows.
AeroMIDI uses 3D input devices, like the Leap Motion, to track your hand in space, allowing you to control any MIDI software or MIDI hardware. AeroMIDI lets you use your hands in 3D space to trigger notes and MIDI continuous controller messages.
AeroMIDI works with any MIDI software or hardware, and lets you control synthesizers, lighting rigs, DAWs, effects, virtual instruments, and any other MIDI-capable hardware or software.
We’ve added gestures and the new action cards that allow you much more flexibility. Control your music in 3D style today. Move or rotate your hands in 3D space to control parameters. Downloads are limited so download while you can. Download a copy at http://www.aeromidi.net/ . Note that this currently requires a Leap Motion Controller. (Other 3D controllers will be supported soon.)
KOE modular THE MAN MACHINE kraftwerk cover
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Hello World, the man machine cover using the AtomoSynth KOE modular! all sounds come from the KOE modular (except for the drums) including sound effects and the one used with the electroharmonix vocoder, recorded in cubase.
U-He Satin First Look – Overview
Phil Johnston takes a quick look at U-He’s Tape Emulation software ‘Satin’
About time !! Grammy: Lifetime Achievement Award to Kraftwerk
Well apart from the obvious – this is about time that Kraftwerk gets this recognition, my main question would be will all four original members be there to receive the prize 😉
Or perhaps it would be better to send four robots…
From the Grammy.com website:
(In addition to the GRAMMY Awards, The Recording Academy presents Special Merit Awards recognizing contributions of significance to the recording field, including the Lifetime Achievement Award, Trustees Award and Technical GRAMMY Award. In the days leading up to the 56th GRAMMY Awards, GRAMMY.com will present the tributes to the 2014 Special Merit Awards recipients.)
For those listening to radio in the United States in 1975, it must have come as quite a shock. The country was still emerging from the era of granola and natural fibers, and music was still measured by its soul and authenticity. And along came this music that sounded as mechanized as a Ford assembly plant. It was vaguely rhythmic like a busy signal. It had a melody that never stepped out of order. For mainstream audiences, Teutonic pop was born that year in the form of Kraftwerk’s “Autobahn,” and music would never be the same.
Kraftwerk began devising their “robot pop” in Düsseldorf, Germany, in 1970. Their forefathers were such German experimentalists as Can and Tangerine Dream. Kraftwerk founders Ralf Hütter and Florian Schneider met as classical music students at the Düsseldorf Conservatory, originally forming the group Organisation and releasing the album Tone Float in the UK in 1969. They disbanded the group and reformed as Kraftwerk (German for “power station”), inspired to craft music more influenced by psychedelic art rock than machinery. By 1973’s Ralf And Florian, Kraftwerk were truly staring down the ghost in the machine. With their follow-up, 1974’s Autobahn, Kraftwerk hit on a trancelike, pulsing electronic rhythm that would set the stage for the nearly countless acts that followed, from rock (the Cars, Eurythmics) to new wave (Devo, Thomas Dolby, Joy Division), pop (Giorgio Moroder), electronic/dance (Moby), and even industrial (Throbbing Gristle).
Though he was being influenced by a number of outside forces at the time, David Bowie’s late ’70s period in Berlin found him adopting Kraftwerk’s electronic overtones and droning rhythms for his albums Low and Heroes, highly influential works in their own right, and reportedly making a direct nod to Schneider with the song “V-2 Schneider,” featured on Heroes.
In a January 2013 article in The Telegraph, music critic Neil McCormick posed the question: “Kraftwerk: the most influential group in pop music history?” McCormick referenced the literally hundreds of Kraftwerk samples used by artists ranging from Afrika Bambaataa to Madonna, Jay Z and Coldplay. But in an interview for the piece, Orchestral Manoeuvres In The Dark’s Andy McCluskey pointed out that Kraftwerk endured the peril of true genius: a lack of appreciation in their own time.
“When [Kraftwerk] started there was a lot of fear of technology,” said McCluskey. “People said, ‘Look at these robot guys making music on computers; this is wrong.’ Well, it turned out that they were absolutely right, not just about music, but in their whole vision of the future man/machine synthesis. And it’s not been scary, we have all embraced it and got on with our lives.”
German synth/EBM act And One plans 3 new albums in 2014
Steve Naghavi from And One has announced 3 new albums to be released under the And One flag. 3 because the material recorded sounds too diverse to put on one album so Steve explains. So, if all materializes – not really sure with And One as the past has proven – you should get “Magnet” (melancholic synth pop), “Propeller” (old school EBM) and “Achtung 80” (80s pop) delivered somewhere in 2014 (2015 or even later).
As it seems Naghavi also works on 2 more albums, a schlager one (“Meine Träume”) and a country one (“My first guitar”).
Via SL Mag
Polly gets remix treatment from Vince Clarke
The new single by Polly Scattergood, “Subsequently Lost”, has received the remix treatment from Vince Clarke. To be released on March 11th, 2014 the single is taken off Scattergood’s latest album “Arrows” which is out now. Other remixes have been executed by Chad Valley, Can Love Be Synth, LissVik and our buddies from Parralox.
Below you can already listen to the Dan LissVik remix.
NAMM Leaks: New Moog Paraphonic Synth and Vocal Transformer from Roland
A new Moog Paraphonic synth – Â the Sub 37 Â – from what’s visible one the images below it will have:
- Paraphonic – multiple voices through a single VCA and filter
- Dual oscillators with a single Sub
- LPF Filter with vriable slope  from 6 to 24db
- Multidrive
- Programable arp
- Two LFO’s/Mods
- Buttons and knobs for some hidden functions
- At least 16 memories
- 37 keys
And from Roland: a picture featuring what seems to be the new vocal transformer Roland VT-3.
Tears for Fears – Pale Shelter (Jordan Passmore Remix)
2014. Original by Tears for Fears. Remix by Jordan Passmore.
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