Pure Logic :-)
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Mmmmmmmmmm, Apple
Thor Runner – new song with R4
Reason 4.0 is now out in beta, and I am testing it .
Next week I will display a new song I’ve made, using some of the new sounds in Thor, below are some general reviews from the beta out there
Thor – Gods Own Synthesizer
If God used a synthesist Thor would be it. This animal of a synth is to big to suit in one silver silver screen 1024×786 screen. At first glimpse it’s mind blowing. The Thor polysonic synthesist characteristics six different oscillator types and four alone filters. Sounds cool right? Properllerhead claims its an unstoppable monster of a sound generator that utilizes synthesist engineering from the last 40 years. Six unfastened filter and oscillator slots allow you loading up three different synth filters and three separate oscillators simultaneously.
RPG-8 – Mono Arpeggiator
RPG-8, a trade name new unit of measurement dedicated to the fine art of arpeggiation. Bend drilling chords into fluttering tune lines with the RPG-8. Although very hands-on and user friendly, the RPG-8 touts some very advanced characteristics under the surface. Features that volition alteration how you play Reason’s instruments. The ‘Manual’ manner will arpeggiate short letters strictly in the order they were input, for realtime arpeggio control.
Regroove Mixer
The ReGroove sociable in Reason 4 gives you more than than just a set of sequenator swing parametric quantities – this is a alone device dedicated to one thing: the groove. You can lock all your paths together into one incorporate feel. Or you can use different scenes to up to 32 musical elements in your song, for ultimate control.
Sequencer – Major Surgery on the Sequencer
Sequencer NEW
With a whole new look, a short ton of fresh characteristics and a completely new manner of handling sequenator data, the Reason sequenator have matured. Dedicated to turning your thoughts into great music, the new sequenator is swifter, stronger and more than intuitive than ever. The cardinal word here is work flow.
Have a nice weekend
Das Boot – Set sails again
Well its too bad “Das Boot” sails from Stockholm and not Malmoe 
After the party cruise Das Boot 2006, with S.P.O.C.K at the helm, promoters are preparing for another sail in December. And once again SubSpace acts have been invited!
Covenant will make their first Swedish live show in 2007 on Das Boot, Tyskarna Från Lund are back from… eh, Lund, and heavy newcomer Menticide are game too!
Other confirmed acts include Alice In Videoland, Dia Psalma, and Lillasyster. For full Das Boot info, please click hier: www.dasboot.se
Promising new site – http://www.thorsynth.com/
Quite empty still, for natural Reasons, LOL
http://www.thorsynth.com/
Don´t forget to vote in the KVR Developer Challenge
http://www.kvraudio.com/developer_challenge_2007.php
And make sure to vote on Najnaj by Shuriken 
Najnaj is a waveform granular identified and generated granular impulse response controlled waveform modifier. In short it’s a new (and possibly beautiful/evil) way of FSU’ing your
waveforms.
Ciao
David Sylvian on tour in the Nordics
Couldn´t help being a bit nostalgic seeing that my biggest music idol, in my adolescent years, is making a tour in the nordics
Here’s a link to the review of the concert (soory it´s in swedish)
http://sydsvenskan.se/nojen/article265261.ece
Sylvian back then, some Youtube shots, including an interview with his former band Japan:
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zabLaWq4pvU]
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z2e6llsB6Dw]
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Richard was also part of Japan, here is what he has to say about the new Reason 4, especially the new synth Thor
Richard Barbieri – His first fame came as a member of the UK group Japan in the 80s. He now tours the world and produces with Porcupine Tree – finds still time for solo work.
I was interested to see how different in structure and design this new synth was in relation to Subtractor and Malströ:m and how complex the modulation matrix layout would be. Six forms of synthesis sounded good. As I mentioned, the modulation matrix allows for amazing sound manipulation and the assignable controls allow for realtime performance effects. The analogue style sequencer is really flexible, ideal for creating weird percussive patterns. It is great to have a sound shaper in the chain as well with possibilities to distort and saturate the signal a bit. It felt pretty instinctive. It’s laid out in a very logical and user friendly way. I started out with a Roland System 700 module when I was eighteen so I became used to working with “patched” set ups and routing. Thor is similar in that you can set complex paths, but you can also use it in a simplistic way and get some really nice synth tones straight away.
What kind of music to do you make? Many different styles really. My own solo work tends towards a textural ambient and electronic style. With Japan, the keyboards were very much featured and upfront, but I work with many different artists and the band I have been with for the last 13 years, Porcupine Tree, is pretty much heavy rock so it’s more of a challenge placing the synth sounds and electronics within that context.
Whenever I have anything new, be it a synth or a gadget of some sort, I tend to use it a lot at first and it becomes integral to new compositions and then after a while it finds it’s “place” within my set up. I use Reason instruments live anyway, so I’ll definitely be programming up more Thor sounds for the next round of touring in the autumn.
Wizard of Wor – What I didn't do this weekend
This is how I would spend my weekend – teaching my kids Wizard of Wor.
WoW is an arcade game from 1980, developed by Midway, and later ported to the Commodore 64 as well as the Atari 2600. The title of the game is often incorrectly spelled as “Wizard of War”. The game was released as part of the compilation game Midway Arcade Treasures 2 in 2004. The Wizard of Wor himself is a Cyborg (he has a human face, but robotic eyes and hands) who possesses powers of teleportation and attacks the player with Magic. He lacks visible legs. He uses a speech synthesizer to taunt the player.
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FIgRrRlXr-w]
Cheers
New Favorite – Roisin Murphy
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VlFjf1pWk2c]
http://emichrysalis.co.uk/roisin/v3/
Roisin Murphy- Let Me Know REMIX
This is her second single(2007) in my point of view this is the best REMIX listen to it and telll
me, What do you think?
http://www.sendspace.com/file/mc0q7i
Really good subjective analogue synth gear reviews
iSatellite
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wmk-VktG7fk]
This is absolutely one of my fav spots to dive in to old analogue synth gear. iSatellite is btw also a fairly good synthpop composer, don’t miss it…
http://www.isatellite.info/gear.html
Some of his gear is listed here, LOL:
Synths
ARP Odyssey (white-face w/ CV/GATE/FILTER mods)
Crumar Performer
Moog Minimoog
Moog Multimoog
Oberheim OB-X (Rev. 3 w/ Encore MIDI)
Oberheim OB-Xk Controller
Octave-Plateau Voyetra-8 w/ VPK-5 Controller
Roland D-550 w/PG-1000
Roland JD-800
Roland Juno-60
Roland Jupiter-4 (w/ CV/GATE inputs)
Roland SH-1
Roland SH-2
Roland SH-3
Roland SH-5
Sequential Circuits Prophet-5 (Rev. 3.3 w/ Factory MIDI)
Sequential Circuits Prophet-5 (Rev. 2.0 w/ cass. int. & Kenton MIDI)
Studio Electronics MidiMini
Univox MiniKorg (w/ Kenton HZ/VOLT mod)
Yamaha CP-30
Yamaha CS-15
Yamaha CS-50
Yamaha YDP-323 Electronic Piano
Sequencers
Akai MPC60 MIDI Production Center
Akai MPC3000 MIDI Production Center
Roland MC-4b MicroComposer & MTR-100 Digital Cassette Recorder
Drum Machines
Korg KR-55 (Univox Rhythm 55)
Korg KR-55b (Univox Rhythm 55b) (x2)
Linn LM-1 Drum Computer (w/ front tuning, & 4 alt. sounds)
LinnDrum (w/ Forat MIDI & master/snare/sidestick tuning mods)
Oberheim DX w/ MIDI (DXa)
Pearl SC40 Syncussion Percussion Synthesizer Module w/ MIDI
Roland CR-78 CompuRhythm (w/ Kenton KADI mod & WS-1 Write Switch)
Roland MC-4b MicroComposer & MTR-100 Digital Cassette Recorder
Roland TR-606 Drumatix (w/ Kenton KADI mod)
Roland TR-707 Rhythm Composer
Roland TR-808 Rhythm Composer (w/ Kenton KADI mod)
Sound Master SR-88 Memory Rhythm
Tama Techstar TS305 Electronic Voice Module
Tama Techstar TS306 Electronic Voice Module
Effects
Boss CE-1 Chorus Ensemble
Boss OD-1 Overdrive (OD-1d w/ Texas Instruments TL4558P)
Lexicon 224 Digital Reverberator w/ LARC remote
Lexicon PCM-41 Digital Delay Processor (x2)
Mu-Tron Bi-Phase Stereo Phase Shifter (w/ CV input mod)
Roland GE-820 Graphic Equalizer
Roland SBF-325 Stereo Flanger (x3)
Roland SPH-323 Dual LFO Phase Shifter
Roland SRE-555 Rackmount Chorus Echo
Roland SVC-350 Vocoder
Miscellaneous
Alesis HD24 24-Track Hard Disk Recorder (with 24-bit/96k upgrade)
Alesis MasterLink ML-9600 Master Disk Recorder
Allen & Heath GS3000 8 Buss Recording Console
Allen & Heath MixWizard WZ3 16:2 Rackmount Console
Garfield Electronics Mini Doc (x2)
Genelec 1030a Nearfield Monitors
HHB CDR-800 Professional CD Recorder
Innerclock Systems Sync-Shift
Kenton Pro-4 MIDI>CV Converter (x3)
Moog 1120 CV Pedal
Rickenbacker 360v64/12 Jetglo – 1989
Roland MPU-101 (x2)
Roland OP-8 CV>DCB Convertor
Roland OP-8m CV>MIDI/DCB Convertor (x2)
Shure SM57 Microphone
Takamine EF-391-ME 6-string acoustic/electric – 1984
Takamine EF-381-SC 12-string acoustic/electric – 2005
Tenori-On Explained
Finally some more news on the mysterious Tenori-On. Well I at least would love to have one, but it will probably be tooooo expensive, LOL
Check it out here:
http://www.sonicstate.com/news/shownews.cfm?newsid=5236
Unfortunately I wasn´t able to have it played directly so you have to use the link to watch
/O
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