Did we see an interesting Kickstarter project on the Don Buchla documentary earlier today, now there’s another interesting project and a first as far as we know, a crowd funding project for a DJ Mix album. UK based International DJ & Producer Dave Seaman is looking for funding to make the very first crowd funded DJ Mix compilation album.
Don Buchla is a legendary instrument maker whose inventions were part of the greatest musical transformation of the 20th century. His pioneering work laid the basis for what electronic music was to become by creating a unique analog synthesizer which completely changed the way people think about, compose, and perform music. The list of musicians and composers who have used the Buchla range from avant-garde composer Morton Subotnick to Nine Inch Nails, with plenty more along the way. Don hasn’t stopped inventing since the arrival of the Buchla, and his other instruments combine an idiosyncratic sound with a sense of wonder and theatrical magic.
Below are some of the new releases we have encountered this week on the Loops and Samples front. Just like the quality of the audio software we use these days the quality of the content we use (loops and samples) equally matches the high standards of this software. Below is this weeks selection.
Via our friends at Novation we came across this video where Daft Punk’s Around the World is being recreated completely live. IntroducingLive, the band that recreated DJ shadow’s ‘Endtroducing’ and Mr Scruff’s ‘Keep it unreal’, have taken on their biggest challenge yet: Daft Punk’s legendary ‘Discovery’! Armed with a host of Novation synthesizers, IntroducingLive have released their first video featuring the robotic dance classic “Around the World“.
Arturia is proud to release Version 1.6.1 of SPARK, the latest software update to its SPARK Creative Drum Machine and SparkLE Creative Drum Machine hybrid hardware/software beat production centres, on March 25.
Muse Research & Development is proud to announce availability of RECEPTOR QU4TTRO and RECEPTOR TRIO, the latest additions to its line of dedicated hardware plug-in players, as of March 28. With the introduction of these two new models, Muse Research now offers a complete RECEPTOR range priced to suit both budgetary and application requirements; yet each enable recording engineers and performing musicians to run popular virtual instruments and effects software in a high-performance, self-contained, tour-proven package with maximum performance and convenience.
Denon DJ is excited to announce a key performance enhancement to its SC2900 digital controller and media player.
Ross Birchard is Hudson Mohawke – an artist who constantly pushes the expectations and boundaries of scenes and genres. One of the most influential and forward thinking producers currently. His appetite for sounds started at a young age. A UK DMC finalist at 15, DJing was the focus. It’s through his production that he has grown into the artist he is today and that has taken the kid from Glasgow, to the world.
Mixvibes has a little present for you this Easter weekend. For one year, users have enjoyed CrossDJ for iPad. The app has been a success, with a 90% update rate. To celebrate, the app will be exceptionally at $0.99 / 0.89 € / £0.69 instead of $9.99 / 8.99 € / £6.99 during this weekend (starting Saturday the 30th – local time in each country).
If you don’t know yet, Depeche Mode is about to release a new album soon. Several websites and magazines have been reporting on it already. Some friends in Sweden (Teenage Engineering) have been talking to Christoffer Berg who did a lot of the programming for this new DM ‘Delta Machine’ album. Below is the interview they did with Christoffer.
The majority of you will probably know about sidechain compression. But for those who still don’t know much about it or are new to music production, Elysia have made this video that is reall very nice. It explains in great detail what sidechain compression is and what types there are. And because we are here to help you we thought it would be nice to post it here.
For nearly as long as dubstep has gone from being an experimental subgenre to the juggernaut world-dominating scene that it is today, Grime has been its lesser known cousin – developing right alongside dubstep but staying safely in the underground. It’s not that we haven’t all heard grime beats before but masterful grime producers have been weaving the sounds into pop songs and remixes in ways we don’t realize, effectively sneaking grime into our playlists. Propellerhead recently met up with respected grime producer, Preditah, to walk through his latest instrumental beat.
The new Ableton controller for Live, Push, looks stunning. But on the other hand a bit daunting. We came across this video by Pointblank and it gives you a good view on how this controller can and will be used. Instructor Ski Oakenfull takes you through a basic routine by creating a Live project on the go.
We just came across this device from 4MidiLoop. It’s a two channel Pro X Fade box for internal mixing. It’s name, 4TrackTrigger Pimpbox. Next to the two pictures posted on the Facebook page we don’t have any other information. We’ll try to get more info as soon as possible.
Below are some of the new releases we have encountered this week on the Loops and Samples front. Just like the quality of the audio software we use these days the quality of the content we use (loops and samples) equally matches the high standards of this software. Below is this weeks selection.