18/19.9.2013 Moozak Festival, Wien, Austria

Am 18. und 19. September wird in Wien zum dritten Mal das Moozak Festival stattfinden – eine Veranstaltung für experimentelle experimentelle Musik und Medienkunst. Das Spektrum des Dargebotenen wird auch diesmal wieder zahlreiche spannende Projekte von unterschiedlichsten Exponenten der Klang und Bild- und Objektkunst enthalten: Live-Musik, Videoarbeiten, Vorträge und Installationen. Die Spanne ist dabei weit: Von Digitalen zum Analogen. Vom Rythmus zum Drone. Von Ordnung zum Chaos – und wieder zurück. An der Reibefläche zwischen den gegensätzlichen Arbeiten wird der Kern freigelegt: Die Stilmittel mögen Verschieden sein; das Setup ebenso…

Apple – Logic Pro X – new DAW – no update option for previous Users – catches up to the others..

Apple just released Logic Pro X at the Mac Appstore (the one for Software). we all have heard rumours – first the details: bzw: does NOT support 32bit plugins – so all non 32bit plugins will disappear. (and no retina support for those lucky users of Retina Macs) 1) no upgrades – we all need to buy it at the app store, there’s no other option. so update or buying it the first time is 180€ 2) the price is a bit higher than the old version but Apple only…

Sonic Potions LXR DIY Drum Box / Groovebox

Sonic Potion is a DIY drum machine project from germany. it has it’s own drum synth section and therefore it reminds a bit of elektron, does it? but translucent design. -> Sonic Potions LXR Drum machine the specialty is to program your own flam/fast grid parts via another 8step row of buttons – makes it 1/128 fast and hiresolution. and it has probability built in. so it’s almost what I really wanted, but you need to power up your soldering iron, it’s open source! the kit is 280€ (electronics – that case must be…

Neuron VS Project – free for Intel Macs

The Neuron was a prestige design synth by Axel Hartmann. The tech and developer behind it is Stephan Bernsee (former: Sprenger) from Prosoniq – one of the most innovative software projects – one of those is the morphing of audio material and the even bigger thing is the transformation to more woodish or more glassy sounds. there are 13 very new parameters like alienation etc. – the VS was the software version – a bit „smaller“ of it and came with a controller. the hardware was a bit risky in…

SPL launch 2 Audio Interfaces / Converters

Well known for fine outboard gear and some cool plugins like the Attacker and Transient Tool – they made it into the USB – Audio World – it’s 2 interfaces in 2 formats: the one below – Madison features 16 AD and 16 DA converters in 1U Superb sounding converters with a sophisticated analog section on 36 V audio rails +24 dBu professional output level Best price/performance value Up to 64 I/Os on 1 MADI port (4 units) Latency neutral MADI chaining 44.1 to 192 kHz, ±10% vari-speed SPL clock-shop for jitter-free operation…

NI Komplete 9 + Battery 4

beside the „revolution“ analog sounding something coming up there will be 2 more things.. Komplete 9 – new in here (compared to Komplete 8): MONARK synth (analog modeling „minimoog style“) BATTERY 4 drum sample player THE GIANT piano SOLID EQ SOLID BUS COMP SOLID DYNAMICS -> studio fx SESSION STRINGS -> string library Battery 4 – just an ad, no real content in here.. time stretching and optimized workflow – ..

Yamaha QY – App

The Yamaha QY series is one of the better known „hand held“ workstations (sequencer and sound generator) in one box, so it is in fact a nice midi sequencer. I don’t know if it is able to control external MIDI Synthesizers QY and RM1X inspired and it has both piano roll editor and the classic MIDI arrangement view. Mobile Music Sequencer für iPad im iTunes App Store. it’s 18€.   Den QY als App als Unterwegs-Sequencer gibt es jetzt fürs iPad QY für iPad: Yamaha mobile Music Sequencer Das mit dem…

Waldorf Rocket Synthesizer

Rocket is the name of a new square shaped synthesizer by Waldorf it has a multimode filter (LPF, HPF, BPF), Audio Demo by S.Trippler (via Forum,  ) OSC with Square and Sawtooth waveforms and Hard Sync – up to 8 detuned unisono oscs and sync sound via the 1-8 oscs.. Waldorf Rocket (built 2013) – Hybrid Synthesizer Waldorf Rocket synthesizer an LFO that is also an Arpeggiator (Clock) with 3 Waveforms Decay Envelope and Switches for Sustain and Release Boost for more aggrssive sounds. Unison means up to 8 tunable OSCs (they…