Synthesizer, Sequencer, Nerdic Walking
CMC modular controller system – are a set of little controllers – the most interesting may be the ribbons with LED in it, at least there is also a 16 Pad Drum controller – all of them seem to come from Yamaha at least (since they are the big company behind it all). I don’t know if they work with Live or Logic ;) the idea behind it is – make your own controller surface for Cubase, add more of one type – there’s a pad, a pot and a slider…
A Nord Lead 3 inspired Soft Synth with LED-Look for Mac and PC with 3 ENVs, LFOs, 2 Filters and 2 OSCs is up for checking, there’s 4 audio demos that sound quite nice – not revolutionary but good. why software should remind of hardware? I don’t know. but maybe it’s simply helpful like a remix of a well known song. well – me impression from those demos: straight gritty basic sound. the clearness the clearness the clearness. I seem to like it. well, but just from the audio. at…
Fairlight CMI Schoener 1983 – Part 2 ist ein Ausschnitt aus einer alten Senderreihe über Synthesizer im Stile von Mathe-Telekollegs, also ein wenig steif. Leider gibt es die Sendung nicht mehr irgendwo zu sehen. Der Fairlight war aber öfter dabei und Herr Schoener auch. Wer kennt „Musik und Technik“ (1983)? Wem das zu staubig ist.. kann sich 3 Folgen Lost in Music anhören, hier kommen Uwe Schmidt „Atom Heart“ (Senior Coconut), Oval, Aphex Twin, Air Liquide und andere zu Wort. Die Videos sind hier verlinkt: Electronic Jam ARTE 1996 deutsch und französische…
Dave Smith Instruments – Tempest looks like still unreleased project for a time, but there is progress which is like this footage – which is almost like „they’re new release“?.. and one of the comments are correct- he sounds like Bob Ross. all new video btw. – and well explained.. looks like the design did not change much (darker?).. it DOES has chase light kind of TR-Style Programming, dynamic Pads and all those MPC-Style „16 Velocities“, Tunings etc. aboard, so this is basically a good thing to have – a drum…
hamburg-audio -advanced audio instruments. Nuklear is something new, .. seems it’s a mixture of speeding waveforms (or doubling it) and therefore maybe also shaping and phase shifting signals on the oscillators of a basically subtraktive new synth called Nuklear, that technique is called „Pulsar grains“ and looks like a nice alternative to FM and Shaping,.. Ich kommentiere mal nicht aus, sondern zitiere, hier handelt es sich wohl um einen Subtraktiven Synthesizer, der im Oszillatorenbereich eine Art Shaping macht, die Worte sind etwas ungenau, die Bilder schön geheimnisvoll (gut gemacht mit…
In opposition to the wonderful but non-buyable but brilliant Controllers by Synth-Project this one is avkailable for 400USD and has MIDI and USB and the Layout of the Prophet 5. later it will be 500 Dollars. All Controllers can be assignet via a software (OS X) Alkex Professor is the official name. Der Professor ist ein dem Prophet 5 nachempfundener Controller, den man auch kaufen kann, er ist frei belegbar über eine OS X Software und bietet MIDI und USB. Die Diskussion über den jetzt erhältlichen ImpOSCar 2 brachte die…
XILS-lab – Synthix is a new synth that looks like no emulation. it’s basically a 2 OSC synth with modmatrix and a multimode filter and arpeggiator. Xils Labs’s Synths (and former Arturia) were all inspired or close to existing hardware, so this looks like a break. the sound has always been interesting to check out, so… Ehm, ok this reminds of the Elka Synthex.
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