Deep in the subterranean Waldorf Laboratories, Waldorf’s scientists have finally discovered the finish that delivers the best sound. They almost had forgot about them when they resurfaced and proudly presented the result of their almost endless struggle to find the ideal material: Neither Mauve nor Lavender nor Ochre result in optimal sound, but a special electron absorbing coating in deep black.
After a series of public beta versions, Access Music released a final build of OS 4.5 which can be downloaded free of charge from the Access Music website. OS4.5 focuses on additional vintage effect emulations and additions to the modulation matrix.
Analogue Solutions is proud to announce availability of Leipzig-S, the latest addition to its lengthening line of critically-acclaimed, quality-crafted ‘boutique’ designs from founder Tom Carpenter in the true spirit of vintage analogue synthesisers befitting the true analogue synth enthusiast.
Good to see that Mario Jurisch (Synth-Project) is back with his latest finished project. A hardware controller for the U-He ACE Synth plugin.
Elektron has released no less than three new operating systems. Octatrack OS 1.03 brings full 24-bit sample compatibility to the Octatrack, meaning Static machines now can handle samples in this bit rate. The OS release also contains bug fixes. Machinedrum OS 1.63 and Monomachine OS 1.32 adds among other things improved handling of program change messages. A few bugs have been remedied as well.
Animoog, powered by Moog’s new Anisotropic Synth Engine (ASE), is the first professional polyphonic synthesizer designed for the iPad. ASE allows you to dynamically move through an X/Y space of unique timbres to create a constantly evolving and expressive soundscape.
This weekend just some more great ‘turntablism’ stuff from The Disablists (Mighty Atom, Asian Hawk and Clever Monkey). Together they are four times UK DMC Team Champions and in the video they perform a live turntable remix of Souls of Mischief’s seminal track “93 ’til Infinity“.
Elektron have let us know that there are new sounds available for the Octatrack. Together with Loopmasters you can know get some Dubstep and Electro sounds for your Octatrack sampler. Next to this news Elektron also have a program going so you can upgrade your Machinedrum SPS-1 MKII to SPS-1UW+ MKII.
Sometimes I (Eric) come across projects or videos that … well, that gives me love for music, love for life, just love! I instantly get into a wonderful good mood. And this week that project is from Ólafur Arnalds, a fantastic Icelandic musician. I don’t know what they have in the water there but I really like the music coming from this island. I probably don’t have to mention I am a big fan of Sigur Ros as well! Anyway, Ólafur had this project going this week called ‘Living Room Songs’. This week he creates and releases a new song, one per day for one whole week. The songs are being recorded and filmed live in the living room of his Reykjavík apartment and released instantly for FREE as streamed videos and MP3 downloads.
Apple announced that iCloud, a breakthrough set of free cloud services, including iTunes in the Cloud, Photo Stream and Documents in the Cloud, that work seamlessly with your iPhone, iPad, iPod touch, Mac or PC to automatically and wirelessly store your content in iCloud and push it to all your devices, will be available on October 12. iCloud stores your music, photos, apps, contacts, calendars, documents and more, keeping them up to date across all your devices. When content changes on one device, all your other devices are updated automatically and wirelessly.
Tempest from Dave Smith and Roger Linn is a professional drum machine that generates its sounds using six of Dave’s powerful, highly-acclaimed analog synthesis voices, and uses an innovative, performance-oriented operating system that permits an extraordinary level of control to create, edit, arrange and manipulate beats in real time without ever stopping. Original ‘gearhead’ Richard Devine took this beast for a spin.
Novation proudly present the latest free Soundpack for Novation’s UltraNova synthesizer, developed by multi-instrumentalist and musical genius Dino Soldo (credits include Leonard Cohen, Lionel Richie and Beyoncé.)
UJAM, Remote Control Productions and Ubisoft announce 18 year old Madeline Bell from Moraga, California, USA as the winner of the new Assassin’s Creed theme song contest.
Arturia announces the release of a free expansion pack for Spark, its creative drum machine. The “Syndrums vol.1” includes no less than 4 powerful drum synthesizers, which deliver all the warmth and punch of the hottest analog circuits by exploiting the power of the TAE® modules.