ElectriXmas 2009
The line up has begun for this year’s event:
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Aesthetic Perfection
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Sadman
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+3 more to be confirmed
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Scuba diving – another passion of mine
Sorry guys no synth news today, but I still wanted to share another passion of mine; scuba diving 
Around 3,45 into the video you will find me jumping into the ocean in a yellow diving suit. I am diving the scandinavian waters north of Gothenburg, in this shoot.
And just to be clear; I did not make the music – 9 minutes of horrible elevator music, yikes
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0_en1z_-qkU]
Cheers Ola
VERRRRY different Nitzer Ebb cover :-)
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DYY2LY2pR_E&feature=player_embedded]
Swedish singer, multi-instrumentalist and composer Jonna Lee has recorded her own version of Violent Playground. The video features nude photos from Brighton photographer Greg Allum of model Sadie Lamb. Jonna Lee’s cover of Violent Playground is featured on the compilation album There’s a Razzia going on Volume 2. Release date October 7th, 2009.
Thanks to Nitzer Ebb for sharing this
Btw, here is the original version:
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZZc2wUilmDQ]
New free synth – TAL-Elek7ro
VST TAL-Elek7ro
TAL-Elek7ro is a virtual analog synth with some special features like oscillator hardsync and frequncy modulation. Including improved alias free oscillators, new developed fast envelopes and lfo’s with a wide range from 0.1Hz up to 400 Hz. A free routable envelope with attack and decay is available too. This synth is useful for a wide range of sounds from percusion to deep bass sounds.
Some features:
- 2 oscillators with hardsync, PW and FM (saw, pulse, triangle, sine).
- 1 sub oscillator (saw, rectangle).
- 1 noise oscillator.
- 18dB or 12dB non linear analog modelled low pass resonance filter.
- Mono mode, including portamento.
- Poly mode, up to 6 voices (not cpu optimized for poly mode).
- 2 free routable Lfo’s (0.1Hz – 400Hz, sine, triangle, saw, rectangle, s&h, noise).
- Filter and amplifier ADSR-envelope.
- Free routable AD-envelope.
- Mod-wheel and Pitch-Wheel support.
- Midi Learn for all pots.
- Velocity to filter contour intensity.
- Panic button.
- Tutorial and installation guide.
xenos made about 80 great factory presets for this synth. Check out his page:
http://xenossoundworks.com
Audio example: TAL-Elek7ro and U-No-62 filter:
Elek7ro_Filter.mp3
Ever heard of the MACPod?
MacPOD Publisher’s Description:
MacPOD uses granular synthesis to generate a wide range of audio effects, including time compression and expansion, from any non-protected soundfiles. Transform speech or instrumental sounds into glorious, rich soundscape textures. A great tool for composers and sound designers!
MacPOD/WinPOD [2009] reprises the original MacPOD, first released in 1998 (and recipient of a Bourges Festival award).
Features include:
* Ultra-long time-stretching and freezing
* 34 voice real-time granulation of sampled sound creates expansive textures from speech sounds, sound objects or other recordings
* Autostretch preserves speech transients
* Equalizer and resonator section
* Spectrogram and FFT display
MacPOD is named in honour of the original POD GSAMX system developed by Barry Truax at Simon Fraser University.
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Atari going MIDI
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7V1vVnm2eOM&feature=player_embedded]
Atari 2600 Controlled / Played with MIDI Keyboard
New horror synth – Monstrous
Supersynths has announced the release of Monstrous, a new sample-based VST instrument plug-in for Windows that is described as “the Atmospheric Horror Synth”. It is currently available for the introductory price of $20 (normal price is $30).
Features:
- 3 layers that take advantage of the 1.2GB sound library.
- MIDI channel selector for each layer.
- Amplitude (ADSR) envelope, detune and pan controls per layer.
- 3 advanced filters with ADSR control.
- 2 Send FX (Chorus and Delay) and Preverb – a reverb-like effect that you can also use as a send effect.
- 2 Master effects: a silky smooth reverb and tempo delay.
- MIDI automation (for use with your control surface).
- Velocity Response.
- 1.2 gigabyte library with instruments, sound effects, percussion and atmospheres.
Cool demo of the Metasonic R52
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ibIROzaabbo&feature=player_embedded]
the r-52 uses two pentodes, type 12au6. the circuit is derived directly from our award-winning tm-2 filter, but with all the features of our tm-6 filter. a pair of bandpass filters is swept with a vactrol(tm) control element, a resonant treble filter and a less-resonant bass filter, giving a 4-pole lowpass response. filter sweep range (approx): bass-only 80-200 hz, bandpass/lowpass low setting 300-1000 hz, high setting 800-1900 hz. filter resonance/q adjustable from less than 1 to oscillation. voltage gain approx. 2 with resonance set to 10 o’clock position and input level set to maximum. both filters, or one at a time, may be selected and mixed in desired amounts using the front-panel response control. this allows for a wide range of equalization and special sound effects. cv inputs are available for sweeping the cutoff frequency and for affecting the treble filter’s resonance. circuit distortion is less than 0.5% typical.
power requirement: +-12v dc, 150 ma.
Cool speaking piano
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=muCPjK4nGY4&feature=player_embedded]
A “speaking piano” reciting the Proclamation of the European Environmental Criminal Court at World Venice Forum 2009. Unfortunately it’s all in German, but what the piano says is all English, and it’s really neat to watch.
UPDATE: Astera on hackaday wrote a rough translation:
Pretty amazing, how all of a sudden the words of the Declaration become understandable to a European Environmental Criminal Court. Wien Modern was one out of ten cultural institutions asked for an artistic contribution to the event in Palazzo Ducale in Venice.
The ambitious goal was to make this message audible with musical means, without falling back to a simple setting.
Liquid Divine releases new album
Leipzig, Germany’s Liquid Divine will release a new album, Autophobia, October 30 on Infacted Recordings. The third full-length release for the duo, Autophobia features a guest vocal appearance from Frank Spinath of Seabound.
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