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“Pads – the BIG box v3″ contains more than 470 fantastic combinator patches to give you all you need when searching for atmospheric patches, conventional pads – bright or dark, inspiring soundscapes, rhythmical pads, fx & experimental sounds and more… The variety of sonic atmospheres coming from three original ReFills makes this collection very complete so [...]

CHECK OUT WWW.FRACTGAME.COM FOR MORE INFO A quick look at some of the things we have planned for FRACT OSC – a first person adventure game inspired by synthesizers (no kidding!). We’re building some really interesting tools that combine exploration, puzzles and musical creation – and we’re really excited to share them with everyone!

More info – http://bit.ly/w4n2mS In our new Ableton Live video tutorial series, “Did You Know?”, Ableton Certified Trainer, Dubspot Instructor, and electronic musician Thavius Beck checks out less explored and slightly hidden features in Live. In this newest installment of Did You Know?, Thavius explains and demonstrates an often overlooked an even more often misunderstood [...]

Third party retrofit kit from Amazing Machines, for adding MIDI in and out to the Korg Monotribe. Amazing Machines has officially released the MIDITRIBE I/O – a mod for the Korg Monotribe that adds MIDI In and MIDI Out. Here’s what’s new in the MIDITRIBE I/O, vs their earlier MIDITribe mods: MIDI OUT functionality (Outputs [...]

The Jupiter 6 is an incredible analog synth. All of the Jupiters have a sound that was unlike any other synthesizer and the Jup 6 is no exception. This sound is due in part to classic analog Roland technology in its filters, modulation capabilities and a thick cluster of 12 analog oscillators at 2 per [...]

TubeOhm say that they are offering a big “thank you” to all TubeOhm users for their support for the 5 last years and hope that they have had a good time with their Instruments. Available now is Alpha-Ray, a VA synth that includes special TubeOhm features. The full version is free but saving the settings [...]

For more information and purchase: http://www.pulsecontroller.com Pulse Surface Controller liberates computer-based musicians from conventional input devices of predetermined form factor and layout, allowing the user to turn a surface of various size, orientation and material into an expressive, flexible, reconfigurable MIDI controller. The Pulse Controller is a hardware / software solution that liberates computer-based musicians [...]

In case you have not seen this series on Kraftwerk, make sure to check it out. It contains a lot of information on these synth pop pioneers

Time again for a review here at Steelberry Clones – this time we have taken a closer look at Nucleus SoundLabs’ new Reason Refill called Celluloide Beats. To begin with Celluloide Beats consists of around 50 (x8) or so Combinator patches and associated sounds recreated as REX-files. Due to the way they are built they [...]

Amanda Palmer and Alex Yabsley (aka Dot-AY) perform Lana Del Rey’s “Video Games” live at the Blip Festival (February 18th, 2012). Filmed at the Evelyn Hotel in Fitzroy, AU by Jim Batt (@battsignal) Special thanks to Mike Rosenthal (for Blip/of Paracadute), 8bitpeoples, and Kristy Dossor (for dpad productions/SoundBytes) http://australia.blipfestival.org | @BlipFestival http://amandapalmer.net | @amandapalmer http://dot-ay.com/ [...]

This weeks free Ableton Live rack from AfroDJMac: This is an effects rack I use on my master channels in Ableton Live. Very useful and practical! Free Download @http://bit.ly/freesynth46 Every week I release a Free Ableton Live Pack! @ http://www.afrodjmac.com

Here’s a look at the Analogue Solutions Telemetry (mini vostok) synthesizer. http://analoguesolutions.org.uk/v2/telemetry-mini-vostok/ This video features various sound types from the Telemetry synthesizer, each within a musical context (beats added). All synthesizer sounds come from the Telemetry and all of the sounds were tweaked live in the video, and recorded direct. Given the vast open-ended nature [...]

Some cool sounds in this one Expand your Animoog! 64 new presets for Animoog covering a broad range of genres from Ambient to Dubstep. Smooth ambient pads, wobbly basses, subtle drones, rhythmic sequences and organic sound effects such as a true budgie tweet, the hypnotic song of whales and the natural purr of a cat. [...]

This little experiment plays with ‘polluting’ arrays of pixels depending on the sound level coming in. There is a feedback loop on the sound, and every time the sound gets looped, it’s degraded to a much lower quality. This was done as an exercise for the Generative Design class at CIID.dk. Taught by Joshua Noble [...]

Taken from the forthcoming album “Cretinism” Video shot by Elina Kasesalu, Evert Palmets and Indrek Kasesalu Edited by Elina Kasesalu “A huge thank you to Elina, Evert, Indrek and Fred! If You like it, share it with your friends and spread the good word, thanx in advance!” Forgotten Sunrise brings you negative music for positive [...]

Singing With Two Voices Using a Gesture-to-Voice Synthesizer Produced by John Corry, University of British Columbia Camera: Kevin Doherty

KRAFTWERK new song 2011 “Music international” “If it is them, perhaps its a taste of the new material. Unusually polyphonic in its arrangement, it still bears a number of very Kraftwerkian elements and is reminiscent of post 2003 Tour De France Soundtracks album.” Well this is what we have learned so far Somebody please tell [...]

For more information and purchase: http://www.pulsecontroller.com Pulse Surface Controller liberates computer-based musicians from conventional input devices of predetermined form factor and layout, allowing the user to turn a surface of various size, orientation and material into an expressive, flexible, reconfigurable MIDI controller. Pulse Surface Controller. The idea behind Pulse Surface Controller is to liberate computer-based [...]

Acclaimed plug-in developer Sugar Bytes has revealed details of its latest project, a monophonic synth known as Cyclop. Said to be “wobblier than a jelly on a space hopper”, this sports an integrated sampler that also works as a wavetable synth and pitch transformer. Other features include 10 filters, a wobble generator, a feedback processor, [...]

Xpand2 is FREE with Pro Tools 8,9 and 10, yet so many users don’t realise how powerful it can be. Russ creates one MIDI track of 4 notes and then makes a whole song from it using just those 4 notes and a single instance of Xpand2. Learn more about Xpand: Xpand!™, developed by the [...]