macOS Windows 

Xils-Lab announces XILS Vocoder 5000

Xils-Lab announces XILS Vocoder 5000 /  EMS  Emulation to be released on 17.12.2014 – the EMS Vocoder 5000 as software for Macs and PCs. added some comments to quotes – XIls Lab are the ones that did the EMS VCS Emulation with double feature – and it’s Xavier Oudin, former Arturia. Authentic emulation of the most complex Analog Vocoder ever produced – maybe the digital/soft Vocoder by NI Vokator was the most complex seen so far..? Organic and realistic sound with clear and understandable Vocoding – rearranging the bands.. Hundreds of midi automatable…

Music 

Front 242 + Steril @ Kulttempel Oberhausen 6.12.2014

Just some Images <4U> I was asking for live images here instead of FB – and some said yes, so they will be here as well Patrick C. was hard to „shoot“ in the dark behind his Roland Juno Di and Ableton – and this is just a simple phone – behind everything -as always- is Daniel B. who also had a little Korg R3 Synth with Audio connected to his workbench, a digital mixer and eventide stomp box.almost Roland’ish (for quite a while). Btw. they came down with masks…

Synth 

Yamaha Performance AN10, DX10 & VL10 Synthesizers (yet fictional renderings)

Performance AN, DX and VL synthesizers is a rendered piece of synths that no yet exist to tell us – well – why shouldn’t we ask for digital synths with knobs? based on the AN/DX and even VL synth „plugins“ and groove boxes that may have more steps today (128 or so) etc.. UPDATE: Reface does DX – so it does FM and also the CS series. not bad, ok these renderings seem not to come with a sequencer built in but are up-to-date 3 Octave Stage-Synths. I could imagine these…

Roland making the Jupiter 8 again? (NAMM 2015) – no, but…

is it real or just a fake? hope it won’t end up in bad sounding headphones at the end ;- of course it is not true ( since most of you did not read my comment below I just add it here as well) – Roland will never make analog Synths as long as it isn’t Roland style „future“ and Rolands future IS digital and – they got the Aira series showing they still got the right idea about making music.. „NAMM 2015 Press Release – Roland Corporation announced today…

App 

Casio CZ App?

Looks like, they got a Casio  CZ on the iPad for us? The classic CZ series with phase distortion – possibly on the Casio booth on some/a 19.99€ – not cheap but … UPDATE: they got it! named CZ App for iPad fair What’s it about? These Synths: CZ1 Digital Synthesizer , CZ5000, CZ3000 Digital Synthesizer and CZ101, CZ1000 Digital Synthesizer – I’d still also like to mention the more advanced  VZ-series, which is sort of FM-competitor and capable of a lot more and casios outstanding 8-level-rate multistage envelopes, that are still quite unique. 【楽器フェア2014】CASIO「CZアプリ」Dieses Video auf YouTube ansehen Forum: Casio CZ Series…

Daniel Miller in the Mute Studio 2014

Daniel Miller showing Minimoog, Pro One, TR 808 / 909 and even the Anyware Tinysizer (which will be sold out these days – he’s making a new synth btw – shown on the last modular synth meeting – but not being a modular..) – well- there is more – polivoks, System 100m and SE1X along with Microwave and Matrix 1000 by Oberheim and Arp Sequencer. I also see a Moog Minitaur.. and SSL digital console with protools – Daniel says he’s using Live with Push (for himself) .. aaand there…

WDR5 Radio Feature „Sampling“ 8.10. / ab 16:15 in Leonardo (mit Moogulator)

Am 8.10. wird ein „massenkompatibles“ kleines 15-Minuten Special zum Thema Sampling im WDR5-Radio in der Sendung „Leonardo“ erscheinen. Ich wurde vor einigen Monden dazu interviewt, weshalb wohl AUCH (aber nicht nur) einige O-Töne von mir drin sein werden. Ab 16:15 etwa – Der Beitrag ist gut 15 Minuten lang, dh. er wird irgendwann innerhalb der Sendung bis 17:00 gesendet worden sein. Nach der Sendung wird das Ganze als Download und Podcast zu finden sein. Information dazu (spätestens dann) hier UPDATE: Sendungsbeitrag ist hier mit Audiostream – Podcast unter „Leonardo“ in der Podcast-Suche zu…

Musotalk: Test – Arturia iProphet VS – deutsch

Noch vom Dienstag – aber jetzt online ist unser Test des in der Donnerstags-Sendung als Tipp markierten App iProphet VS – wir sprechen kurz an, was sie kann und was man damit tun kann. Test – Arturia iProphet – deutsch – besser als das Original… The Original / Das Original: Sequential Circuits ProphetVS vector,digital Forum: iProphet VS