Is everyone in a good mood for X-mas? AfroDJMac surely is and he’s created an Ableton Live Pack created out of a Charlie Brown Christmas Globe. It’s a proper X-mas gift meaning its free.
“Saturday I was a Christmas party where I found a beautiful Charlie Brown Christmas snow globe. I snuck off to a quiet portion of the house and sampled it on my iPhone. From there, I created the 3 Ableton Live instrument racks I am now sharing with you. I think they all have a lot of character and organic movement to them, with the combination of the plucked notes mixed with the cranking mechanism inside the globe.” – afrodjmac.com
For more info: afrodjmac.com/charlie-brown-x-mas-tree-synths
This entry was written by , posted on December 24, 2012 at 8:13 am, filed under Ableton Live, sounds and tagged ableton, Ableton Live, AfroDJMan, Charlie Brown, Christmas, X-Mas. Leave a comment or view the discussion at the permalink and follow any comments with the RSS feed for this post.
Well it’s holiday time again. Everyone loves gifts and musicians are generally a needy bunch so here’s a few ideas. If you are lucky and get a musical gift don’t forget to return the kindness with a song!
1. Monoproce DJ Style Headphone and Behringer HA400 4-Channel Stereo Headphone Amp
Musicians should have a few good pairs of monitors speakers and headphones around to check their mixes. Another advantage of a second pair of headphones is that when friends comes over they can both put them on and record some vocals together. You don’t have to break the bank for this gift because Monoproce is selling a headphone simply called DJ Style that is getting good reviews and it’s only $21. If your musician’s audio interface only has one headphone jack you can get them the Behringer HA400 4-Channel Stereo Headphone Amp for about $22.
2. Tiptop Audio Happy Ending Kit
The Eurorack modular synthesizer format is becoming more and more popular. If you get a Happy Ending Kit for a friend who is a musician they may at first be bewildered. Once they release it’s the first step to a modular system and some of what the modules do and sound like he will thank you all year. About $150.
3. Gift Certificates to Control and Analogue Haven
If they already have a Eurorack modular case you can get them a gift certificate to one of the two best stores that sell modules… Control and Analogue Haven. Any price.
4. Hiss and Roar Sound Library
With names like TORTURED CYMBALS and Vegetable Violence you may think this isn’t very Christmas like. However your musician will be very pleased to have these Hiss and Roar sounds in his library. You will have fun choosing what insane library to gift. I use them all the time. $50 – $100.
5. Arturia Minibrute
So if your musician has been very very good this year you may want to reward him. Even though this is a luxurious gift this synth is a huge bargain. The Minibrute only plays one note at a time but it’s real analog for a powerful sound that will outshine his/her friend’s Microkorg. If you are going all out like this you may want to invest in the headphones above too because this thing makes some serious wild noise. $500.
“My name’s D.M.C. with the mic in my hand. And I’m chilling and coolin’ just like a snowman. So open your eyes, lend us an ear. We want to say Merry Christmas and Happy New Year!” – Run DMC
For more info: youtube.com/watch?v=OR07r0ZMFb8
This entry was written by , posted on December 3, 2012 at 7:21 am, filed under Uncategorized and tagged 2012, Arturia, Christmas, Eurorack, MiniBrute, Monoproce. Leave a comment or view the discussion at the permalink and follow any comments with the RSS feed for this post.
Here’s a wonderful Christmas song especially if you plan on drinking a lot. Happy holidays everyone!!!
“It’s Christmas morning. Mama drink your drinking… It’s an invitation for us to conduct this occasion. You can just imagine we drink until New Year’s Morning. Drink a Rum….” – Lord Kitchener
For more info: wikipedia.org/wiki/Lord_Kitchener_(calypsonian)
This entry was written by , posted on December 24, 2011 at 8:36 pm, filed under music and tagged Christmas, drinking, Lord Kitchener, rum. Leave a comment or view the discussion at the permalink and follow any comments with the RSS feed for this post.
Let’s get this Christmas weekend started in 1982. The PPG Wave is such a pretty blue Wavetable joy. Imagine finding one under your tree? Thanks to Retrosound for posting so many wonderful old synth videos!
“merry christmas and a happy 2012 ! all sounds: PPG wave 2.2 Synthesizer from the year 1982.recording: multi-track (internal sequencer/arpeggiator & software)” – Retrosound
For more info: vintagesynth.com/misc/wave
photo credit: Nigel Bates
This entry was written by , posted on December 23, 2011 at 9:03 am, filed under synthesizer and tagged Christmas, PPG Wave, Retrosound. Leave a comment or view the discussion at the permalink and follow any comments with the RSS feed for this post.
Well Merry Christmas from Native Instruments! Stephan Schmitt the “father” of Reaktor put together SKANNER which combines a sampler and synth. Two oscillators ‘scan’ a sample to sort of scratch it. It’s free and will work with Reaktor or the free Reaktor Player. It comes with samples but you can also load in your own. Thanks NI! Go download.
“SKANNER ingeniously mixes sampler and synthesizer. The two oscillators ‘scan’ a sample; at low frequencies you get the ‘scratch’ sound of the sample being read back and forth, while at higher frequencies the dominant force is the oscillators being shaped by the sample waveform. The resulting sounds are raw, dirty and highly unpredictable – from simple sine waves to walls of noise. Two views offer different levels of interaction: The ‘A’ view features four macro controls that are mapped to multiple parameters – even subtle tweaks can create dramatic changes.” – Native Instruments
For more info: native-instruments.com/powered-by-reaktor/skanner…
This entry was written by , posted on December 21, 2011 at 9:49 am, filed under plug-ins and tagged Christmas, free, native instruments, SKANNER, Stephan Schmitt. Leave a comment or view the discussion at the permalink and follow any comments with the RSS feed for this post.
Hallelujah. Hallelujah. Hallelujah!!
“And I heard as it were the voice of a great multitude, and as the voice of many waters, and as the voice of mighty thunderings, saying, Alleluia” – Wikipedia.org/Messiah_(Handel)
For more info: Wikipedia.org/Messiah_(Handel)
This entry was written by , posted on December 16, 2010 at 12:04 pm, filed under music and tagged Christmas, classical, flash mob, Hallelujah, Handel. Leave a comment or view the discussion at the permalink and follow any comments with the RSS feed for this post.
Ok it’s December 11. Let’s get this X-Mas season going with Roxanne Versus The Red Nosed Reindeer.
Another Yuletide Derangement. Putting the ‘Ho back in Ho Ho Ho. – mojochronic
For more info: santastic4.com
This entry was written by , posted on December 11, 2010 at 4:49 am, filed under music, video and tagged Christmas, mashup. Leave a comment or view the discussion at the permalink and follow any comments with the RSS feed for this post.
Christmas is around the bend and a theme this year is pro-audio software bundles. Linplug and Sugar Bytes are two companies that make goodies worth making noise with so they get some space here. The LinPlug offer gives you CronoX 3 Sample Synthesizer, MorphoX Synthesizer, Rob Papen Albino 3, Octopus FM Synth, Alpha Classic Synth, ElementP Percussion Synth, Ian Boddy Soundset for the Alpha, Summa Soundset for the Octopus (altogether more than 5500 preset sounds) for $399 which is less than half of what you would buy them for seperately. Sugar-Bytes is selling their Sugar Bundle which consists of Guitarist, Thesys, Consequence, Effectrix, Artillery2, Unique, WOW, Vogue and Robotronic for $499.
“This year we celebrate the most insane christmas deal we ever had!” – Sugar Bytes
For more info: Linplug and Sugar Bytes
photo credit: Steve Rhodes
This entry was written by , posted on December 7, 2010 at 5:53 pm, filed under plug-ins and tagged Christmas, Linplug, plug-ins, Sugar Bytes. Leave a comment or view the discussion at the permalink and follow any comments with the RSS feed for this post.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FGmZIlxPEm0
Ho ho ho… I hope you got lots of electronic toys that make noise under the tree!
This entry was written by , posted on December 25, 2009 at 6:08 am, filed under Uncategorized and tagged Booker T. & The MG's, Christmas. Leave a comment or view the discussion at the permalink and follow any comments with the RSS feed for this post.
Most people don’t have homes with a stereo with a FM Tuner in it anymore. Most people aren’t disturbed enough to have 50+ Christmas music CDs lying around. Here’s two ways to listen to FREE streaming Xmas tunes this year. Remember to hit play while putting your tree up, cooking and opening gifts.
Grooveshark/search/songs/?query=christmas: click here
Last.fm/listen/globaltags/christmas: click here
Every year my mind decides some cheesy Christmas song is the best song ever. Unfortunately for me this year it’s “We Need A Little Christmas” by Johnny Mathis (iTunes link).
Any X-mas song stuck in your head this year?
via Tech Blog
This entry was written by , posted on December 13, 2009 at 6:46 am, filed under music, Uncategorized and tagged Christmas, free, Grooveshark, Johnny Mathis, last.fm, music. 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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