I can’t see why having one of these new Vermona MONO Lancet analog synths around can be a bad thing. Be sure to watch until 2:50 to hear the quality of the resonance. I like it.
“The voltage controlled lowpass filter has a slope of 24db per octave. On high resonance settings it starts to self-oscillate and produces a stable sine wave that can be played in a range of about 2 ½ octaves.” – vermona.com
For more info: vermona.com and twitter.com/Vermona
This entry was written by , posted on June 30, 2010 at 6:11 am, filed under synthesizer and tagged analog, filter, MONO Lancet, oscillator, resonance, synthesizer, Vermona. Leave a comment or view the discussion at the permalink and follow any comments with the RSS feed for this post.
Awesome modifications of Korgs tiny Monotron synthesizer. My favorite is the Monodular. What’s your pick?
“Although small enough to hold in one hand, the amazing monotron delivers ginormous and dazzling sounds.” – korg.com
For more info: korg.com
This entry was written by , posted on June 29, 2010 at 3:01 am, filed under hardware, synthesizer and tagged Korg, modification, Monodular, Monotron, synthesizer. Leave a comment or view the discussion at the permalink and follow any comments with the RSS feed for this post.
I’ve never set up a Facebook Fanpage for my own music (The Horrorist). When I originally joined Facebook it was reluctantly because MySpace was still a living community and it seemed redundant. To top it off the music features in Facebook were seriously lacking. Two external services, one which ties into Soundcloud have changed my mind.
RootMusic helps you design a proper “Bandpage”. It pulls your music from SoundCloud and allows you to make something actually album cover like. In other words your not stuck in tiny font slash baby blue Facebook land. RootMusic also easily pulls in Vimeo, Youtube videos, photos from your Fanpage, and your Twitter and RSS feeds.
Lastly, it has integration with ArtistData. ArtistData takes your show dates and puts them all over your social media sites (Facebook, MySpace, Eventfull…) so you don’t have to do the repetitive task yourself.
For a much more detailed review of RootMusic check out this write up on TechCrunch titled, “Musicians – This Is How You Create A Great Looking Facebook Page”: click here
The Horrorist Facebook fan page: listn.to/TheHorroristmusic
This entry was written by , posted on June 28, 2010 at 4:23 am, filed under business, promotion and tagged ArtistData, Facebook, Rootmusic, SoundCloud. Leave a comment or view the discussion at the permalink and follow any comments with the RSS feed for this post.
Here’s an interesting boutique synthesizer from Denmark called the Anamono. It has digital oscillators, analog and digital filters, a feedback circuit, a granulator delay, a ring mod, overdrive circuit, modulation sources and MIDI. The best thing about it is the sounds:
It’s the voice you joy: mp3 various presets: mp3 Glitch: mp3 Ugly Can: mp3
“Fully programable and controllable 16-step step granulator – Delay/granulator times up to 1.5 second. Ring modulator, that can process both internal sounds and sound coming via the external audio input. External audio input lets you process any sound with Anamono’s filters, g-RAY feedback circuit, granulator/delay, ringmodulator and analogue overdrive 2 envelopes and 2 step-modulators, all having 2 sets of settings, that can be morphed between, using any modulation source. 2 LFO’s with morphable waveforms and key-sync. 256 preset memory locations.” – - gotharman.dk
The Anamono is 529 EURO. More more info: gotharman.dk
This entry was written by , posted on June 26, 2010 at 4:07 am, filed under hardware, synthesizer and tagged Anamono, Gotharman, synthesizer. Leave a comment or view the discussion at the permalink and follow any comments with the RSS feed for this post.
Goldbaby has recorded some more drum machines to tape. The new Vol.3 sample pack is $29. He has some good free packs on his site too. Having a few Ableton Impulse patches created out of these nicely recorded machines is handy.
“Drum Machines used: RZ-1, TR-55, XD-5, MFB-522, DDM-110, DDM-220, DPM-48, RX-21L, R-100, ED-10, PB-300 and the DSM-1. The Tape machines used: Otari MX5050 1/4″, Rolla 77 valve mono 1/4 inch, and the Hitachi Cassette deck. Plus the UBK Fatso was also used!” – goldbaby.co.nz
For audio samples and more info: goldbaby.co.nz
This entry was written by , posted on June 24, 2010 at 4:19 am, filed under drum machine, sounds and tagged drum machines, Goldbaby. Leave a comment or view the discussion at the permalink and follow any comments with the RSS feed for this post.
There are so many little gems from the 80s. If you could live a ten decades you could just about hear every underground electronic song from 1980-1989. That makes living ten decades worth it.
“Italo disco is a very broad term, encompassing much of the dance music output in Europe during the 1980s. It is one of the world’s first forms of completely electronic dance music and evolved during the late 1970s and early 1980s in Italy, Germany, the Netherlands and other parts of Europe. Italo disco music has a distinct, futuristic and spacey sound, which was created using synthesizers, drum machines and vocoders.” – WIkipedia
Track: Plastic Love
Artist: Zed
Release Date: 1983
Label: Fuzz Dance Records
This entry was written by , posted on June 23, 2010 at 10:46 am, filed under music and tagged 1980's, 1983, electronic music, Plastic Love, synthpop, Zed. Leave a comment or view the discussion at the permalink and follow any comments with the RSS feed for this post.
Here’s a link to some audio samples from The European Organization for Nuclear Research’s (CERN) Large Hadron Collider and computer room. Listen and download the samples: click here
“Above all, we want everyone to be able to share in the wonder and excitement of the greatest experiment ever built. We feel passionately that everyone is capable of appreciating what is happening at CERN and that it is the responsibility of those of us already `in the know’ to find new and better ways of sharing the awe-inspiring magnificence of it all. The LHC belongs to us all; you paid for it to be built and you will enjoy the technological advances it brings.” – lhcsound.com
For more info: lhcsound.com
photo credit: AndiH
via Matrixsynth
This entry was written by , posted on at 4:57 am, filed under sounds and tagged CERN, Hadron Collider, samples, sounds. Leave a comment or view the discussion at the permalink and follow any comments with the RSS feed for this post.
For those who like there music making with a heavy click swing, deep bass and the flavor of Berlin.
“The Live Sets were made exclusively for Ableton by ten artists from the Minus roster. Each Set comes with a companion Lesson that reveals insights into the artist’s musical vision and offers valuable production tips. Includes material from: Click Box, Hobo, Heartthrob & Troy Pierce, Magda, Marc Houle, Fabrizio Maurizi, Barem, Ambivalent, JPLS and Gaiser. This Live Pack requires Live 8.1.3 or higher. To install the Pack, download it, unzip it and double-click the .alp file. You’ll then be asked where to save the contents of the Pack.”
Download the Live Pack: click here
This entry was written by , posted on June 22, 2010 at 4:09 am, filed under Ableton Live, sounds and tagged Ambivalent, Barem, Click Box, Fabrizio Maurizi, free, Heartthrob & Troy Pierce, Hobo, John Gaiser, JPLS, Live Pack Ableton, Magda, Marc Houle, Minus. Leave a comment or view the discussion at the permalink and follow any comments with the RSS feed for this post.
2 Korg iElectribe Loops by thingstocome
Funkbox iPad -TR-808 Loop by thingstocome
So I’ve had my iPad for about a week and I can say it actually is a very different experience than the iPhone. Case in point the are drum machine Apps above. Funkbox on the iPhone is ok but I never really used it past a novelty show off item. On the iPad I can sit comfortably and knock out loops with pleasure. The iElectribe really knocks you out. It feels like hardware. Fanboyism aside if you have not had a chance to play with these and you make electronic music go do so.
Is it real or Memorex?
For more info: Funkbox and iElectribe.
This entry was written by , posted on June 21, 2010 at 6:08 am, filed under drum machine, iPad and tagged Funkbox, iElectribe, iPad, Korg, roland, Roland TR-808, tr-808. Leave a comment or view the discussion at the permalink and follow any comments with the RSS feed for this post.
Yamaha RX11 and Ekdahl Moisterizer by thingstocome
Here’s some samples and photos from my latest eBay splurge. There’s something special about a vintage drum machine. I can’t place what it is but the sound and groove is just “it”. The recorded waveforms have more valleys and peaks than ITB synthesized drums. Panning seems wider. This Yamaha RX11 from the early 80s is really large, heavy and built like a tank. Pure joy for $50.
“The RX11 was one of Yamaha’s early drum machines (maybe even their first?) and as you can see from the panel cosmetics, it comes from the same era as their DX synths. At the time, it was a marvel – a (relatively) low-cost programmable drum machine with 29 ‘real’ drum samples and no less than 12 individual audio outputs.” – hollowsun.com/vintage/rx11/
For more info: harmony-central.com/reviews/RX-11/
This entry was written by , posted on June 18, 2010 at 5:40 am, filed under drum machine, hardware and tagged 1980's, digital, drum machine, RX11, vintage, Yamaha, Yanaha RX11. Leave a comment or view the discussion at the permalink and follow any comments with the RSS feed for this post.
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