macOS 

Apple New 12″ Macbook – no fan(s), USB C & audio jacks (only), Retina Display, but expensive as hell

(deutscher Text unten / German text see below) Apple just have released quite cost intensive flat macs, without fans. That means they don’t get fans? No, it means – the put in a dual core processor that is almost optimized for mobile use at 5W of power – but it is running at 1.1, 1.2 or 1.3 GHz and can boost up to 2.4, 2.6 or 2.9 – depends on what you dare to add to the not so low price of more than 1400€. (the 512 GB SSD is…

Synth 

Modor – NF1 – digital hardware synth (coming)

after a long rollout of almost analog or hybrid synths – there is also digital ones still on the move – upcoming DSP synth NF1 from Belgium – motherland of EBM and the µVentury or EEF. Modor NF-1 – Technical OverviewDieses Video auf YouTube ansehen looks like it has 4x ADSR with addition of 3 more parameters with initial Level, Decay1 Level and Time 12 dB/Oct filter(s) formant filter standard and „noisy“ waveforms special FX with very special parameters (they say) and delay they say: With new noisy oscillator models, digital unusual…

SCI Prophet 600 – new open firmware makes all knobs work as MIDI controllers

this little nerdy project gligli/p600fw · GitHub. provides an update for the Prophet 600 – it is some hardware modification but also updating the internal firmware by a new OS.. it’s not as easy as updating new synths via MIDI, but after all you can control the P600 via MIDI Controllers – so it is a bit like europa for the Jupiter 6 or Covariant for the Jupiter 4.. via Forum: Neue Firmware für Prophet 600    1x Multi Timbral, 6 Voice, (1982) Sequential Circuits Prophet 600 Analog Synthesizer + simple sequencer 2 OSC, 1 Filter, 1 LFO, 2 EGsubtractive analog…

Vladislav Delay Studio

nice and new studio – no coffee mugs – but patch cables on the modular.. see the Sunsyn, Moog Voyager, Eurorack, Cwejman S1, Studio Electronics and SAM16 Sequencer by SND along with a Korg Prophecy, OP1 and Cirklon Sequencer by Sequentix, right?.. The new Shark Reef studio of Vladislav Delay | Vladislav Delay.

Synthesizer Test – by Meat Beat Manifesto

Synthesizer Test – is not just synth demo kind of  video, it is also sounding awesomely enough to just listen to it, typical Meat Beat Manifesto sounds – In Order of Appearance: Roland System 100 & System 100m EMS Synthi 100 & EMS Vocoder EKO COMPUTERHYTHM Syntovox 221 Sennheiser Vocoder VSM201 EMS Synthi EMS Universal Sequencer ARP 2500 EML 200 Moog Minimoog Model D Emu Modular Moog 16 Channel Vococer thx to matrix synth for triggering ;) non vegetarian beats show where the beef is?

Roland Kuit SoundLab II book of patching: Nord Modular / G2

Roland Kuit SoundLab II Mr Kuit is one of three very very talented modular gurus (the other 2 being Rob Hordijk and Tim Kleinert) – they all do very deep work and really go beyond the limits of the synth, in this case of course the Clavia Modular series which is unfortunately no longer available atm, but we all hope for a G3 sample-able synth since they got a sample engine and the cool G2 which must not be changed that much to still be cool – of course it’s nerdy…

Moog Little Phatty upgrades to OS v3.1

Phatty Firmware Update OS v3.1. it’s free. also Moog Music got a new website which is much more optical/visually styled.. Volume Velocity Sensitivity: The ability to map note velocity to output volume with fifteen adjustable levels of sensitivity saved per preset. [Tribute Edition hardware does not currently support this feature] Legato Glide: Automatically engage the pitch glide between legato notes. Non-overlapping notes snap instantly to a new pitch. The user is able to play or sequence dynamic bends and slides mixed with cleanly-articulated notes. LFO Reset: The ability to reset…