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…

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…

Linnstrument larger now

the  linnstrument.that was posted earlier and here & there has grown sideways – it’s now more board-sized and reacts to pressure, position and of course position.  <— what you can do! Roger Linn stops by DSI for a Linnstrument prototype demoDieses Video auf YouTube ansehen here – controlling Dave Smiths new Rack Prophet 12 – looks a bit smaller than expected, huh? but ok – the Linnstrument has a lot more room .. so it becomes like Soundplane and Continuum Fingerboard but a different approach..

Synthesizer-Magazin: Ausgabe 41 kommt 21.11.2013

Synthesizer-Magazin, Ausgabe 41 ->  21.11.2013 – wir sind endlich fertig damit und es ist grün.   Maschinen Clavia Nord Lead 4 – total oder nur ein bisschen anders? Novation Bass Station 2 – Bist du mein Onkel Roland? Akai MPX8 Minisampler / Pads – Sampler unter 150€ Roland – Jupiter Juno SH -> Die Filter der analogen Generation von Rolands Klassikern unter der Lupe. Vom SH1 bis zum System 700 Haken Audio Continuum Fingerboard – feinfühliger spielen können als auf einer Tastatur? Controll Special – CME Xkey und Arturia Minilab – Sensoren, Tasten, Ideen…

MacBeth Bomber – Modular Synth

this is a 3 module synth as a small command station to get into sonic surgery as fast and flat as you want it. 1 OSC with Sub OSC 2 Envelopes and a filter sound convincing and you can build you modular base on this.. Bomber Demo 1Dieses Video auf YouTube ansehen Ken says: minimal 3 module Macbeth Mk1 synthesizer – the Bomber! Specifically put together to Bomb that Bass! The single Mk1 Oscillator ‚B‘ gives you 1 x Sawtooth, 2 x Pulse Width (Square) Waveforms, 2 x Sub Octaves,…

Strymon BigSky Multidimensional Reverberator – dreamy melancholic soundscapes

Strymon BigSky Reverb – synth audio demoDieses Video auf YouTube ansehen a simple and nice and shimmering kind of little reverb machine is available in november. listen! 500€. Forum: …neuer Stern am Reverbhimmel here’s more audio demos, audio and video – more than worth a listen!! .http://www.strymon.net/bigsky/ Before I watched this video I thought, „Who needs 300 reverb presets?“ Then I watched this video and I think, „I need 300 reverb presets.“ very dreamscape kind of sound! sort of feels cool with vintage synths! would like to hear a very…

Apple Special Event October 2013 – OS X 10.9 free, new MacPro, MacbookPro Retina, iPad Air & Mini Retina

Ok, it’s 2 hrs left till the beginning of the Apple Event. UPDATE:   OS X 10.9 Mavericks for free from now & available now. All OS X’es will be free from now! Musicians – check under APPLE -> more (deutsch: weitere Informationen) -> Software/Apps (deutsch: Programme) what is listed under Power PC, if you are running Snow Leopard you will loose these, but there’s replacement for quite a lot of those. you can sort your App List (the software you are using) by just klicking on „type“ (deutsch: „art“) –…

Virsyn Cube iPad Version

since Addictive Synth was released it looked somehow like the power of the iPads was too low – it has the ability to use the tilt position x and y as a controller which I used on stage here and there (some of you might have seen me with it) but since that audio jack is a bit evil I just keep the iPad on the ground now – but it is still a cool controller which is not used on most synth apps – which is strange to me..…