Vince Clarke & Martin Gore announce some techno album. VCMG

Vince Clarke and Martin L. Gore announce VCMG As Vince explains: “I’ve been getting into and listening to a lot of minimal dance music and I got really intrigued by all the sounds… I realised I needed a collaborator… so it occurred to me to talk to Martin.” Says Gore: “Out of the blue I got an e-mail from Vince just saying, ‘I’m interested in making a techno album. Are you interested in collaborating?’ This was maybe a year ago. He said, ‘No pressure, no deadlines,’ so I said, ‘OK’.”…

12.11. Veranstaltungsreihe Oscillate! in Düsseldorf

Forum • Veranstaltungsreihe Oscillate in Düsseldorf. UPDATE: Hier einige Eindrücke vom Event in 22 Bildern.. Am 12.11.11 findet ab 20:00 Oscillate Vol.01 in den Räumen der HPZ Stiftung im ehemaligen Con-sum |Ronsdorferstr. 77a|40233 Düsseldorf statt. Oscillate möchte mit Live-Performances, Workshops, Vorträgen und Dj-Sets den Gästen einen Einblick in aktuelle und historische Strömungen der elektroakustischen und elektronischen Musik geben. Obwohl die Elektronische Musik spätestens seit der Techno Revolution der 90er im Alltag allgegenwärtig ist, ist Ihre Entstehungs- und Technikgeschichte sowie das musikalische Oeuvre der Anfangstage heutzutage kaum präsent. Avantgardistische und experimentelle…

Loomer Aspect – Semi-Modular Synth

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…

Reaper 4 – the $60 DAW

REAPER 4 Audio Production Tool DAW is out. they call themselves evolutionary, so it’s best to browse yourself for details. what’s interesting with Reaper is it’s low price compared to the popular DAWs like Live, Logic and Cubase  – but also it is closer and from people who are more into open source kind of thinking compared to others. about the look and feel – well, it looks a lot like a mix out of the most and better known ones – except the little picto-style images on the top left…

Makers A-Z

Synthesizers [A-Z]  (ca. 880) Manufacturers: ca.160+ 3Lab Ableton Access Ace Tone Acidlab Airbourne / Synthorama Akai Alesis Analogue Solutions Analogue Systems Anyware ARP Arturia BKE BeatKangz Bitshift BME Dr.Boehm Buchla Cactus Casio Cavagnolo Celemony Cheetah Clavia Nord Keyboards Club Of The Knobs COTK Coron Creamware Crumar Curetronic Cwejman Dave Smith Instruments DSI Diamond DiscoDSP Doepfer Dreadbox Dynacord Electronics Music Mag Electronic Dream Plant EEF EEH Eko Electro Harmonix Elektrokosmos Elektron Elka Electronic Music Lab EML EMS E-Mu Ensoniq EOwave Evolution Exclusively Analogue Fairlight-Peter Vogel Farfisa Five12 Numerology Formanta Polivoks Future Retro…

Arturia Spark Drum Machine … some more info

Arturia updated their info about Spark, the Drum Machine that reminds of the NI Maschine – 64 Steps, Dynamic Pads, some modeling synthesis stuff especially for drums. there is a looper and 2D pad inside.. there is a simulation of the TR808 and 909 and another one called SciFi Mons as well as Snares and classic drums as a modeling engine along with sampling (of course). So most of all here is based on earlier products that concentrate on drumming think of the virtual synths and products they got and…

Expert Sleepers ES3 converts ADAT Lightpipe into CV

Expert Sleepers – ES-3 Lightpipe/CV Interface. At least the revolution in this is – you don’t need Motu, you do not even need DC-Offset-Interfaces, just connect your AD-Converter to your modular with this, it’s 8 channels so 1 module per ADAT Port. Aaand for those who still got old Rolands and ARPs – there is 10Volts possible, so directly trigger your stuff with it. ES-3, acrylic panel, in situ from Andrew Ostler on Vimeo. looks a lot like I want one, or two.. Expert Sleepers Silent Way SMUX demo from…

Rheinradikal

Die Marktradikalen gegen die Kommunisten gegen Zentralradikale oder Ökoradikale. Da bleiben vielleicht kaum noch gemäßigte Radikale übrig? Einigen anders Radikalen war das zu Radikal und lehnten das radikal ab. Die Radikalen: Wir haben recht, aber wir sprechen nicht mit Radikalen. Andersradikale: Na, wir bleiben Standhaft. Nochandersradikale dazu: Notfalls können wir unsere Radikalität ja gemeinsam radikal besser ausleben? Revolution! via Sequencer Synthesizer Forum • Thema anzeigen – Tigerentenjäger.