Pittsburgh Modular – Fragments Generator

Pittsburgh Modular – Fragments Generator is a Eurorack Module, it’s sound generator is a set or certain quantity of ticks or pulses – so it reminds of a drumsynth for „(Hand)Claps“ to have that „multiple slap“ thing in it to resonate in a filter behind the generator. it’s about „density“ and grain sizes here, so it’s abviously inspired by granular synthesis – not the sample-grain stuff – it’s more the original grain cloud idea of having multiple clicks to become „noises“ whether they are dense and tuned in a „swarm“ of…

instant sample-to-synthesizer Reaktor Ensemble Skanner (free) algorithmicalizes samples

you need to register, but it’s free. this is a synth, that samples a sounds (looks like it is sort of algorithmically?) so you can say it instantly samples any sound and „converts“ it into something playable without being a real audio sample actually. sounds strange? the last time I heard about things like this was, when Technos Acxel Digital Synthesizer  was released – but does not look exactly like it – don’t know what „they“ have used (Stefan Schmitt, the founder of NI programmed it).  – so maybe try it out .. SKANNER  ok,…

touch controller keyboard – every key is a 2D touch controller in/with endeavor

I asked this kind of keyboard a lot, here it is – I do not think the mod wheel and the bender and all those knobs are now obsolete and of course the keys should be mapped freely – anyway – thanks for making this, this guy is obviously german, so maybe some1 over here might get into it. it’s not cheap atm, 2.8€. but a nice extension to the conventional poly pressure keyboard (which is rare since the patent is hold by ensoniq (now the pc-only soundcard company who…

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’.”…

Thunderbolt Audio Interfaces? And why the hell no 24 analog in interface?

Thunderbolt Audio Interface?. in addition to the Macbook Air Posting and the Mac / Audio situation – Apogee says Thunderbolt audio interfaces / soundcards will soon be available. High end products will come first. I doubt low end audio products will implement this standard – they will stick with USB IMHO. Apogee this is very likely to Apple abandon whole techologies, eg. killing Firewire without notice to the hardware audio makers.. “Technology like this only happens about once a decade. We are thrilled about the performance and simplicity Thunderbolt technology will…

GRP Synthesizer A4 – halved (more affordable) A8?

GRPs Synthesizers are really huge. I had the chance to listen to all of them, exept the new upcoming A4, which is in fact the one, that is made for most of us. why? it has no „doubled“ synth engine (like the A8 Analog Synthesizer )  which makes it much more afforable  plus it has everything needed, the smaller „minimoog style“ A3 Analog Synthesizer  was a bit too limited (for me). I did not really get the idea behind the A6 Analog Synthesizer , which has been reduced but has a lot more compared to the A3, so –…

Nothing but Noise – new Project by Front 242 members

Nothing But Noise, the new musical project from Front242s mastermind Daniel Bressanutti, Dirk Bergen (ex Front 242) and Erwin Jadot will do a couple of live concert to promote the upcoming album release „Not Bleeding Red“ (exptected to be released in Feb 2012). Daniel, Dirk and Erwin have created special versions of the songs for the live show to give the live performance some extra panache. :o) For the live concerts, NBN will be using 1x Access Virus TI2, 2x Access Virus TI Polar’s, 1x Dave Smith Instruments Prophet ’08,…