Jasuto Iphone/Ipod modular synth

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 [...]

Highlights from 2009 Musikmesse pt 1

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 [...]

The history of multitouch

Bill Buxton of Microsoft research has made an overview of what has happened in multi-touch research. For those of you who thought multi-touch first came with Jeff Han or the Iphone, have a look at this page. The picture on top here is from the Multi-Touch Tablet developed at Toronto University in 1985. By the [...]

A peek into Richard Devines studio

Electronic artist Richard Devine makes very interesting but intensive music in the Aphex Twin/Autchre domain.  He has a nice studio in Altlanta. There’s a feature on Richard Devine and his studio on the electron-users netsite, read it now as PDF. Listen to his music at Myspace Also check out http://www.richard-devine.com/

RozzBox demo videos

RozzBox update: I found a couple of interesting videos on youtube showing the RozzBox V2: The following video shows an old RozzBox (not V2) used with a Monome 128 controller: Pretty cool stuff!

Resonator Neuronium

The Resonator Neuronium isn’t new, but I found an excellent demo on Youtube: Another one here: This synth is made by Jomox synthguru Jürgen Michaelis. It’s sound is generated from six analoge resonating neurons making some fascinating evolving sounds. This is a boutiqe synth released in 2005, but you can still buy it if the [...]

RozzBox V2

There’s a cool new synth made in Germany called the RozzBox V2.  It looks like this: Features: 4 oscilaltors plus noise, external input and ring modulation waveforms: saw, pwm (pulse), triangle and wave 14 additional waveforms +  2 waveforms that can be drawn by hand 2 serial filters pr voice – one digital (lowpass/highpass), one [...]

IR fra norsk stavkirke

Om man er registrert bruker av Audio Ease Altiverb kan man laste ned en impulsrespons fra Gol stavkirke som står på Norsk Folkemuseum på Bygdøy. Impulsrespons- og konvulsjonsteknologien har blitt veldig populær, men er kjent for å bruke mye minne og prosessorkraft. Altiverb går vel for å være en av de beste programmene for IR-klang, [...]

Sony PCM-D50 Field recorder

I found a review of this new Sony field recorder written by Mark Nelson. Read it here. There have been lots of these small recorders popping up the last few years. I have the 1st geeration M-Audio Microtrack that I bought when there weren’t that many to choose from. I’d much rather want this for [...]