Dark Energy is a monophonic stand-alone Synthesizer with USB and Midi interface. The sound generation and all modulation sources are 100% analog, only the USB and Midi interface contains digital components.
Arturia released a few videos of their Origin synth on YouTube. Arturia sohows us how to use the origin and let us listen to the sounds.
The Fuzebox is a fully open-source, DIY 8-bit game console. It is designed specifically for people who know a little bit of programming to expand into designing and creating their own video games and demos and MUSIC!
John Bowen has started his own video channel on Vimeo, where he shows all there is to know on his synthesizer Solaris.
Benelux MUSIC ALIVE is a yearly event for all enthusiastic music soft and hardware users and the ideal way to learn the newest products, new technologies and to meet and talk to company product specialists, other musicians and producers. Last february 15 at the Novotel Rotterdam (Brainpark) an afternoon packed with music software workshops, new product and technology presentations, lectures about Internal Mixing and Mastering etc. High light this year was the ‘sneak-preview’ of Ableton Live 8 by Dankmar Klein (Ableton).
Radikal Technologies has posted a teaser video on their upcoming version 2 of the Spectralis Hybrid Synthesizer.
BPM version 1.01 is now available as a free, downloadable update for all registered BPM users. This is not just a “maintenance update”. Version 1.01 is loaded with significant new features, including the ability create slices in audio files that don’t have them yet, plus the ability to drag and drop slice loops onto a pad bank to automatically load loop slices into the pads.
Akai Professional, the name synonymous with music production, announces the release of its Vintage Beat Machines Sample Pack for MPC, a sample library for its MPC music production workstations. The sample pack is available now from the company’s Web site.
Akai Professional, the name synonymous with music production, announces the release of MPC5000 OS 2.0, a new operating system for its flagship MPC5000 music production workstation.
Do we have a something special for you here. A keys version of the infamous Mopho synth from Dave Smith Instruments.
Korg USA recently released a collection of electric piano and clav programs for their EDS-based workstations (M3 and M50) as a “thank you” to their many loyal owners. These are some of the most in-demand types of sounds that they constantly get requests for from their users, and they notice so many keyboard/synth players always looking for the “perfect” recreations of these essential electro-mechanical keyboard giants from the past.
Waldorf shows us more on the Blofeld synthesizer.
The MOTIF XS Editor VST, based on the “VST3 technology” by Steinberg, works as a VST3 plug-in with Cubase series 4.5.2 or later (DAW application). The MOTIF XS Editor VST also works as the same way as other VST instrument software, allowing you to save the edited settings of the MOTIF XS, or use them for another project.
Now shipping! The Future Retro Orb ($550 USD) is a compact, single-track, step-based digital sequencer-the first in a new line of XS-ories designed to control and complement the company’s XS semi-modular synthesizer, as well as control other analog CV/Gate or MIDI synthesizers and 303 clones.
Monocircuit Audio proudly presents: Kick-Pack! A brilliant pack of 117 mono kicks that are something else than usual! Weird and unheard kicks from machines that everyone is aware of – Monocircuit Audio Kick-Pack!