Science! We love science, especially when it is brought to us in a fun way. Below is a video by Brusspup in which he performs the Chladni plate experiment. For us it is just cool to see what sound can do, how it shapes certain forms at certain frequencies. Again, just cool!
With the release of Propellerhead Reason 7 just recently, they have made a big step forward with this ‘all in the box’ DAW. Our friends from Sweden have released a microtutorial on the Audiomatic Retro Transformer rack extension that comes free with Reason 7.
Check out Martin, the fearless support team leader at Serato, showing off his skills on the Vestax VCI-380 and Serato DJ. It’s fair to say, the team spends their fair share of time with the gear. Great little demo, direct from the Serato office!
Only a few days ago Chris Randall from Audio Damage released Mangleverb, his latest FX plugin. Mangleverb can be used as a filter, reverb, transient shaper, rhythmic gate, LPF gate, tempo-synced VCA, and any combination thereof. It is, for all intents and purposes, a Swiss Army Knife, for both wild sonic destruction and more utilitarian production work.
At the Amsterdam Dance Event last year Native Instruments talked to visionary producer Carl Craig about how he uses NI Maschine to create remixes on the fly when performing live.
Always interested in DJ’ing but don’t want to spend a lot of money? Well maybe Lamebot’s method is for you an alternative then. He created a DJ setup with Native Instruments Traktor DJ Software, a Novation Launchpad and a Audio 2 soundcard. All new and all bought for around 250 dollars!
These past weeks there has been a lot of attention to the latest album by Daft Punk, ‘Random Access Memories’. If you have a presence on the internet, then you couldn’t dodge tweets, messages, comments or whatever that had this new album as a subject. Thoughts on the new album range from brilliant and genius, to ‘meh’ and ‘not bad’. Anyway, for this edition of “Something for the weekend” we turn to the band Pigeon for a medley of older Daft Punk tunes we all love.
With the recently introduced version 7 of the Propellerhead Reason DAW users get to use their externat MIDI instruments. So now Reason 7 comes with MIDI out support to bring the sound of your favorite hardware synths and beat machines to the Reason rack. MIDI is handled by the new External MIDI Instrument device, fully integrated into the Reason environment. Automating MIDI equipment from Reason’s sequencer or even from control voltages in the Reason rack is a breeze to set up.
PluginBoutique present this overview of Sugar Bytes WOW filter box VST plugin, with producer Marc Adamo. This brand new Sugar Bytes WOW filter box is a super-sounding state-of-theart filter plugin featuring a mad modulation system, super juicy filters and offering a range of vowel sounds previously unheard of!
PPG WaveGenerator is the latest development from the inventor of wavetable synthesis, Wolfgang Palm. It is a next generation synthesizer, building on the heritage of the PPG Wave keyboards.
One of products, at the past MusikMesse in Frankfurt, that took a lot of interest with the public and press was Softube’s Console 1. Which is an integrated hardware/software music mixing solution which includes a rugged hardware controller and a modeled analog console channel with some unique additions.
This weekend we have a cool video of Valentin Prados using two Novation Launchpads with the recent new version of FL Studio (11). Under his artist namen Pra2 he performs his own track Argentina with these two controllers and FL Studio 11. With this latest version the software supports amongst others APC20/40, Lemur, Block, Maschine/Mikro, padKONTROL, Traktor Kontrol and of course the Novation Launchpad.
Ableton masterclass at 4 pm CET (wednesday april 24th) – Scarlett will be working through the techniques she uses to produce playlists and mixes for catwalk shows. In the world of fashion, DJs are often employed to supply the soundtrack to catwalk shows – of course, having the ability to create a musical narrative is the key to being a great DJ, which undoubtedly facilitates their collaborations with fashion designers.
Elektron Music Machines have just uploaded product presentation videos for the Analog Four, the Octatrack, the Machinedrum UW and the Monomachine. The videos demonstrate basic functionality and sound design possibilites and every video is rounded off with a live demo, featuring an all Elektron set up.