Time to check out some regular Pop Music. Sohn / Thomas Azier.

these to come in very poppy, but might touch you here or there enough this one is more straight forward indie-pop kind of approach but doesn’t look like black clothing – and… what might have happened if James Blake was a bit more keen on landing on the charts planet for a short while? Sohn has landed here in cologne and I just missed his gig ;( so why not just post it here. the album is called tremors worth a listen. soft voice, almost electronic kind of feeling but…

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Audiowerkstatt – MIDI Restarter

like to jam live? This little tool by audiowerkstatt is one of a series of little MIDI helpers – it allows to restart any MIDI slave machine without stopping the master – this may be helpful in a MIDI-coupled jam situation or just in case your list set goes wild..   Jamst du viel mit diversen Sequenzen oder mit anderen? Dieser kleine MIDI-Helfer hilft einen der MIDI Slaves auch mitten in einem Jam mit MIDI-Verbund ohne stoppen des Masters fließend ohne stoppen des Masters weiter machen zu können.

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Synth 

Roland Aira in a black suit

Ulrich Bielefeld (the man behind Oscillation-Rhythm) sent these pics my way – just for those who’d like to know – how do they look like when you paint those green framing black – So sieht es aus, wenn man die grünen Rahmen schwarz einfärbt. Danke an Ulrich für die Bilder und den Selbstversuch. Diskutiert wurde dies und mehr  auf über 136 Seiten im Forum: Roland Aira TR-8 und Roland AIRA – TR8 – TB3 – System 1 Original look: (my shots from the Musikmesse 2014) __ Added to SynthDB / UPDATE: Dave Smith…

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Prosoniq sold to Zynaptiq / Zynaptiq kauft Prosoniq

this is the message I read this morning – the sound of Prosoniq was always unique and innovative in everything sonic – I bought the first stuff for my EPS16+ to have a lot of very new effects and later there were SonicWorx and some years ago they introduced Isolate which is amazing for extracting audio parts like trumpets from a song, remove reverb (that was possible in sonicWorx already on OS9) – so I really really hope they maintain all the older stuff and re-release everything as VST/AU.. and…

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Amaranth Audio Cycle Waveform/Re-Synthesizer

Cycle is a new resynthesis and waveform shaping synthesizer. resynthesis uses samples to be analyzed and played in a different way – known from Virysn Cube or Camel Audio Alchemy. that waveform shaping thing let’s you create shapes more or less as a graphical tool for really drawing curved and hard-edged waves from sinusoidal to sawtooth and the spectrum can be edited as well.. there’s also something that is called patch deformer with makes sort of morphing and interpolation between patches to help you being and apply darwinistic changes to your…

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Acidlab Drumatix Transistor Rhythms

Acidlab did Miami Drummachine and now upcoming – the TR606 kind of machine. Simpler  and possibly cheaper – in times of Rhythm Wolves, MFB Bears and other dangerous animals.. and there is Yocto… Ah, ein weiterer Clone im Bereich TR-Drummachines – dieses Mal aber vom bekannten Hersteller der Miami, die gegen Yocto und andere Clones wohl die bekannteste TR808-ähnliche Maschine ist, aber es gibt ja noch Tanzbären, Rhythmuswölfe und anderes, das wird hart – jetzt aber nochmal mit der 606 und ein paar schönen Einstellmöglichkeiten für die Sounds. Forum: acidlab drumatix 606 klon

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