Native Instruments’ Reaktor Sessions Berlin: Play. Patch. Build.
On October 27, 2015, Native Sessions visited Prince Charles Berlin for an evening of REAKTOR – Native Instruments’ modular DSP environment. More on REAKTOR 6: http://www.native-instruments.com/rea…
The evening featured Tim Exile, Jan St. Werner (Mouse on Mars), Errorsmith, Deadbeat, and Peter Kirn. This video features insights into building your own instruments from leading creators, developers, and artists. You’ll also learn about performing with REAKTOR and explore how Blocks brings the experience of patching on an analog modular synth to REAKTOR 6. Presented in collaboration with Electronic Beats.
Learn more about the Circuit Symphony – Oddity II – Demo and Sounds
Official demo and sounds for the Oddity II Synthesizer. All sounds programmed by The Circuit Symphony and All sounds are from the Oddity 2. http://www.gforcesoftware.com/product…
Exploring the Moog Mother-32 and the Eurorack Modular Environment
In this video we explore the possibilities of the the new Moog Mother-32 semi-modular analog synthesizer hosted within Eurorack modular system. The Mother-32 has already been met with high praise from experienced modular users to the novice.
Instead of reviewing its features, we wanted to demonstrate a variety of creative patches to show the Mother’s timbral and musical prowess.
We’ve numbered each patch in the video. Tell us what you’re favorites are in the comments below.
Patch #1: 0:14
Patch #2: 2:10
Patch #3: 2:41
Patch #4 3:11
Patch #5 3:59
Patch #6 4:42
Patch #7 5:36
Patch #8 6:44
Patch #9 8:31
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Can you hear the difference? Oberheim OB8 vs u-he Diva – Blind Test
For Answers and Diva preset pack ‘Classic OB’ please go to:
Wav file: https://drive.google.com/file/d/0ByOz…
OMD to play live in London with the classics Dazzle Ships and Architecture & Morality
OMD have announced that they will be playing the classic albums “Dazzle Ships” (1983) and “Architecture & Morality” (1981) in full at the Royal Albert Hall in London on May 9th 2016. General sale tickets will be on sale from Friday 4th December at 9am.
Also available will be VIP packages (costing up to 250 UK£) including seats in the very front rows, soundcheck access, meet & greet with the band and exclusive merchandise. These VIP packages will be on sale from Wednesday 2nd December at 9am.
“Architecture & Morality” is the 3rd album by the British synthpop band Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark, released in 1981. It became a commercial and critical success, selling over millions of copies. Its associated singles (“Souvenir”, “Joan of Arc”, and “Maid of Orleans (The Waltz Joan of Arc)”) were international hits, selling more than 8 million copies combined.
“Dazzle Ships” is the 4th album by Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark (OMD) and was released in 1983. The album is noted for its highly experimental content, particularly musique concrète sound collages, utilising shortwave radio recordings to explore Cold War and Eastern Bloc themes.
TERRA – new incredibly powerful and versatile synthesizer for Ableton Live
K-Devices has announced the availability of TERRA, an incredibly powerful and versatile synthesizer for Ableton Live.
TERRA has a clear, straight but highly flexible structure, and numerous features. It allows the creation of any kind of sound, from bass lines, to edgy leads, to drones, morphing textures, layered pads, and so on.
Key features: high quality additive-generated interpolated wavetables for clear and huge sound, waveform manipulation functions, advanced FM and PM, lot of effects, highly customizable modulation structure, advanced unison mode.
TERRA for Ableton Live 9.5 or higher and Max 7.0.6 or higher is on sale at Ableton at 25% off the regular price of 49 EUR / $69 USD until November 30th, 2015.
Checking out the Synthmaster 2.7 Software Synthesizer
KV331 Synthmaster 2.7 a feature packed software synth with analog emulations, multiple oscillator and filter types, flexible routing and modulation and more
I Wish – new granular note freezer plugin by electronic duo Infected Mushroom
Polyverse Music has released I Wish, a granular note freezer plugin by electronic duo Infected Mushroom.
I Wish is a granular note freezer. When a note is hit, the plugin plays a tiny loop at the wavelength of that note. That loop has the pitch of the note, with the frequency content of the audio input. This allows the creation of an array of highly musical effects, ranging from robotic speech, through glitchy effects, to out of this world synth sounds.
The idea for this plugin idea came from Infected Mushroom’s work on their famous track, “I Wish”, in which they manually chopped and edited tiny loops for several days in order to achieve the desired special effect. This plugin creates the same effect, but instantly, instead of several days. Now that I-wish has arrived, Infected Mushroom have found numerous more uses for the plugin and have been using it extensively in their latest album “Converting Vegetarians 2”.
Infected Mushroom: I Wish for Windows and Mac (VST/AU) is available for purchase for the introductory price of $39 USD (regular $99 USD).
Vince Clarke Music has relaesed the IMAGINATOR VCX-378 Eurorack module
Vince Clarke Music has relaesed the IMAGINATOR VCX-378, the second product release in an ongoing series of creative and utilitarian modules for the ever-present Eurorack small-format modular system, designed and built to exacting standards in close collaboration with British ‘boutique’ analogue synthesiser and accessory designer/manufacturer Analogue Solutions.
Musical imagination is a wonderful thing. Synthesisers and associated modern-day music technology can help make that happen in wonderful ways. With an amazing number of hit singles and chart-topping albums to his Ivor Novello Award-winning songwriting name and an accompanying hard-earned and hard-working synthesiser collection to die for, synth-pop pioneer Vince Clarke clearly has it all in spades. So just imagine if you could call upon an amazingly musically inspirational device for assistance when seeking that defining elusive musical hook… well, you need not imagine anymore as the IMAGINATOR VCX-378 does just that, fresh from the imaginative musical mind of Vince Clarke! After all, sometimes serious songwriting synth-pop pioneers still need a helping hand (or Eurorack module): “I wanted a practical writing tool that would generate musical patterns based on user-controllable variables.”
Vince Clarke got what he wished for… the ingenious IMAGINATOR VCX-378 produces one-bar musical phrases based on either user-control of the Clarke company’s clever bespoke musical algorithm or a quasi-random solution. So anyone seeking to trigger their own musical imagination (and MIDI synthesisers) should simply add an IMAGINATOR VCX-378 to their Eurorack small-format modular system setup. The result? Almost unlimited combinations and permutations that will both inspire and amaze as it helps when searching for that defining elusive musical hook.
Housed in a 36 HP-width Eurorack module, the IMAGINATOR VCX-378 has a front facia-located one-octave ‘keyboard’ — with each ‘note’ having a push button and associated LED — alongside two Quantize sections, Octavize and Transpose sections, a Velocity treatment, plus internal (Sequencer) and external (Midi/Clock) clocking, as well as a full MIDI interface.
In most cases, users will want to sync to their sequencing software by sending the IMAGINATOR VCX-378 a MIDI note clock. This can be downloaded from the Clarke company website. The IMAGINATOR VCX-378 then references these notes and uses this information to clock the musical patterns it produces. With everything correctly connected, users can use soft synths or send those musically imaginative patterns out to an external synthesiser — something close to Vince Clarke’s musical heart.
Helpfully, Vince Clarke himself has taken time out from an always musically successful schedule to prepare some seriously userfriendly tutorials to transport the new IMAGINATOR VCX-378 user from novice to expert in no time. “For full operation of the unit, I suggest you make yourself a nice cup of tea and watch the user video,” he says, before later concluding: “Thanks for watching… and now I must get back to my day job.”
Jesting aside, while the IMAGINATOR VCX-378 makes for a musically imaginative holiday season gift for the seasoned synth lover in someone’s life, note that it will produce inspiring musical phrases well beyond the 12 days of Christmas! Let’s hand off here to ‘tutor’ Vince Clarke to blow our musical minds with some insightful IMAGINATOR VCX-378 note-related number crunching: “With one note there are 16 possible positions within one bar for the note to go. With two notes there are 120 possible positions. With three notes there are 560. This increases and then decreases exponentially. So, if we do the math, we can say that using one to 16 notes there are a possible 65,535 combinations. Remember: we are only talking about one note. Once you start adding pitch to
this equation then the numbers really go through the roof. No wonder there seems to be an unlimited number of one-bar patterns.” Perhaps the IMAGINATOR VCX-378 is not just for Christmas, after all?
The IMAGINATOR VCX-378 is available from Analogue Solutions for £349 GBP ex tax and delivery.
Dave Smith Mopho analogue synth sound programming – 32 programs
A set of 32 sounds programmed on the Dave Smith Mopho Keyboard analogue synthesizer.
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