Archive for April, 2009

A short review of the tour documentary Flight 666 about the band iron Maiden

I found this video through Synthopia. I just had to put it here. I wonder who has made this.. it’s real computer music!

The sound computing language Max/MSP is a type of visual programming language. This means that instead of writing code, you use some sort of graphic representation of the language’s functions to create your program. Subtext is another graphic programming language. It uses blocks as prototypes for the structure of the program you create. The visual [...]

Ever wondered what neurofunk sounds like? Do you like terrorcore or noisecore? Got a large collection of illbient but havent heard of ghetto house? Or just wondering what genre of music you make yourself? Find the answers on the list of electronic music genres: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_electronic_music_genres

Through Pitchfork i found a video withe Doves doing the Black Cab Sessions. The concept is: find an artist, invite the artist with instruments into a cab, record a song. I’m a part time taxi driver, so for me this is a fun concept! No embedding of videos allowed, so to see the videos (about [...]

Through wire to the ear I discovered a new modular synth for the Iphone. I usually don’t bother to mention that particular phone too often, but this time I’ll do it, and just because the program I’m talking about is so bloody cool. The program in question is called Jasuto. It’s a soft synth that [...]

Eowave Persephone MK2 Eowave Persephone 2 features: 2 analogue oscillators with tune, fine tune, space, 12dB LP filter, LFO duophonic pressure and position sensitive ribbon, ribbon scale from 1 to 10 octave 16 routing presets (8 fixed, 8 assignable),  modulation key, 2 pedal inputs, pressure on the ribbon 4 CV outputs, MIDI in/out, audio out, [...]

The 2009 Musikmesse in Frankfurt, Germany started today. I’m not there but I read about it at Sonicstate, Harmony Central, Synthopia and Music Radar. Here are some of the most exiting new products I’ve found: Akai Miniak minisynth/vocoder Developed by Akai together with Alesis, this is a promising new synth. Alesis hardware has in my [...]