Renoise 3.0 DAW – new gui and detachable windows for multiple monitors

Renoise is coming with new 2-screen design, renovated GUI more new schoolish but still based on „tracker“ kind of sequencing. Renoise is quite affordable (about 60€) DAW that intruduces more live/performance and Fx that can be applied directly to audio clips like envelopes and FM/Modulation – so you can do synthesis-kind of things directly.   also there are FX chains and busses in a way that looks unusual to classic DAWs.. sort of mixture of lives and Logics FX/Plugin concepts. so – what is a tracker? it’s based on notes and…

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Modular Routing Platform – Windows Rack Performer

Rack Performer – is a modular audio routing system that incorporates any audio signal and plugin routing with sample accuracy. It reminds a bit of the OS X tool Audulus , a bit of Audiobus  in iOs and VSTForx (all platforms). you may built memory and routing for FX, inputs, outputs, mixers and plugins in your machine – so rack performer is a host application that can also incorporate sequencers and other control tools. so it is a bit more like the pulsar/scope environment than a classic modular synth – audio environment may…

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Hackme Vectr 3D Gesture Control Module

it’s a 3D controller – so to say a kaoss pad with the 3rd axis towards you – controls analog gear (cv). Wie ein Kaoss-Pad nur mit 3.ter Achse zu dir hin als Controller mit analogen Steuerspannungen just missing 500USD to make it real.. http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/790 … controller Hackme Vectr Demo #2Dieses Video auf YouTube ansehen Vectr Video Demo #3 – Metropolis and BraidsDieses Video auf YouTube ansehen Forum • Hackme Vectr 3D Gesture Control Module. UPDATE: it worked – it was finally backed and will be produced – 86 backers $14,148 pledged…

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Max Brand Synthesizer 1957

https://youtube.com/watch?v=MI6icpItBQg this is basically noise – but an interesting machine – synth from 1957 by / from  Max Brand shown on the Ars Electronica (Linz, Austria)..Höllenmaschine (Hell Machine) tells the more non academic background so maybe that’s why it is not so known today? Diese „Höllenmaschine“ scheint aus einem Noise-Umfeld zu stammen und ist offenbar nicht so bekannt wie der RCA Synthesizer – dennoch scheint das einen Blick Wert zu sein, also – schau es dir an. Der Sound ist mehr oder weniger Random Noise. Aber zum anschauen …2. Beispiel..…

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