Synthesizer, Sequencer, Nerdic Walking
ProcessorControlled – Computer – Mac & PC, Plugins, DAW
New MacPro – a looot smaller.. – New OS X Maverick – incl under the hood features – most of them saving power (both battery and DSP power) – – dual GPU GFX cards allow 3x 4 TFT Displays, 6GB each. – a lot – especially for apple built in GFX – 6 Thunderbolt 2 – Xeon E5 Processors (as always) last gen. – coming in fall so the MP will come in autumn.. – hi speed ram – 1866mhz ddr3 ecc ram – 4x ram slots – according to…
Read Moreall the new ios7 features – iRadio is new – quite like Pandora searching for songs based on bands .. new design – much clearer – and 3D backgrounds when moving the iDevice (by the built in accelerometer/Gyroscope..) real multitasking with triggering signal systems -could be interesting for audio. here’s Steve Wozniak, Tim Cook and some quick visual overview about the new features – the best ones are those how to organized photos by location, events and time/date! .. cool in iPhone: Brightness, little lamp all at once, no longer…
Read Moreit just looks nice (MonoPoly/Polysix inspired) – maybe by these apps: Photoshop, Pixelmator, Acorn 4… . why do I tell you? well Adobe went another bad way, 50€/month for just using the Creative Suite, so – maybe it’s time to look around you, huh? Acorn 4 and Pixelmator are more on the PS Elements Level, but some of us may be ok with those for making covers, flyers etc.. I am using Elements 10 right now, but if they force us to be „in the cloud“ for „only XY dollars/month“…
Read MoreThe Neuron was a prestige design synth by Axel Hartmann. The tech and developer behind it is Stephan Bernsee (former: Sprenger) from Prosoniq – one of the most innovative software projects – one of those is the morphing of audio material and the even bigger thing is the transformation to more woodish or more glassy sounds. there are 13 very new parameters like alienation etc. – the VS was the software version – a bit „smaller“ of it and came with a controller. the hardware was a bit risky in…
Read MoreXILS V+.is a vocoder by Xils – which is basically the ex-Arturia guy Xavier Oudin. He is well known for interesting emulations of synths and now more open to fx and vocoders.. (you may know the EMS, Synthex, Polykobol and more..) Vocoder – Synthesizer Wiki – info the VP330 as inspiration for the new V+ plugin
Read Morethis allows the use of 240 FM Oscillators. It’s NOT a DX7, but John Chowning once had a hard time to do this, so that was in 1977, now it’s time for an app that does all of it – still wish for a nice 6OP FM DX7/FS1R/SY99 kind of app! I love FM, I will always love you!! Stria for iPhone, iPod touch and iPad on the iTunes App Store. and here’s John Chownings work from the 70’s: he is the father of the Yamaha dx /TG/ SY99 /fs1r series, they bought it out…
Read MoreFree Tube Amp Windows and OS X – there are more plugins but for Windows only. Nick Crow Lab: TubeDriver v1.22 for Windows (VST) and Mac OS X (VST&AU). • Moogs Filtertron for iPad is free as well for very limited time. it’s a filter, not a whole synth. note the internal input is limited to 100Hz and above. Anyway a good sounding tool when connected via audio interface
Read Morelooks like it is coming at the Messe in Frankfurt (April 10 – 13) this isn’t hardware – but they will have something for us.. it’s Bazille, the modular synth.. imagine DIVA going modular but more like a nice compact synth like the ARP2600 or Macbeth M5 or Cwejman S1 kind of modular in software: – we’ll showcase Bazille 1.0 (to be released in June/July) – we’ll showcase Satin (tape machine emulation, due in May) – we might showcase Presswerk, a massive compressor (ui pending) – we’ll have a Digital oscillator module for…
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