MCS70 Synthesizer by Mario „Crumar“ Maggi in Automat italo disco video

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Pöbelmacker #12 « ACK! ACK! ACK!. zeigt das Bild eines interessanten Prototyps eines nicht gebauten Synthesizer vom italienischen Synthesizer-Designer Mario Maggi  (unter anderem Crumar) – Dieser Synth kommt im Video von Automat vor (1977), .. This is a proto of the never produced MCS70 synth by the Italian Mr.Synth (Mario Maggi) of those days – this article is referring to a band called Automat – who played „italo“ style of electronic music which is now much more popular than those days („plastic disco“) – want to listen? here it is…

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gTecture Synthesis FMDCO – upcoming fm synthesizer?

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GTECTURE SYNTHESIS FMDCO – they say they have got a new FM Synth? This looks like hardware, but renderings sometimes refer to something software – doesn’t look like „cool ’n‘ easy to edit“ thing, but maybe they’ve found something we do not yet see? it quotes some synths (strangely the Alesis Micron and Minimoog), anyway – have a look.. Forum: Neuer Hardware FM Synth ?

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Macbook Air vs iPad (sizes of the 11″ compared to the iPad)

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just a little change to compare the sizes – this is the Macbook Air 11″ ok, the Air isn’t really made for music, but in fact it’s much faster than the first Intel Macbook 1.1 (2.0 GHz), about twice as fast. It has no firewire, only 2 USB ports – via Thunderbolt there are already „interfaces“ that make firewire, usb from it, the new cinema display 27″ is one of those, but there’s also one that does not force you to buy displays – of course.  they are still rare,…

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Articulation Exercises – by W.Palm – singing plugin..

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Articulation Exercises – Wolfgang Palm has a new prototype „singing“ vocal synth plugin, here’s a second demo. incl. stretching in granular style. ok, there’s Virsyn Cantor & iVoxel and that old Mac-App when software wasn’t called an app back then (that was cabable of 4 voices with the built in speech synth – remember the name?)..

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