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Moog Taurus III Bass Pedals
Saturday Synth Porn : Here are a few more shots, via Sweetwater , of the new Moog Taurus III bass pedals.
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First Look: Tristan Perich’s 1-Bit Symphony
The ambient gurus at disquiet snagged a copy of Tristan Perich’s 1-Bit Symphony , a unique piece of audio art: 1-Bit Symphony isn’t a CD; it’s a small homebrew electronic device nestled inside a CD case. It is, in that way, a kind of parallel to the Buddha Machine (and the ...
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329 Free Drum Loops
Drummer and drum loop guru Ryan Gruss is starting off the holiday season early with a free package of 329 drum loops: Since we’re approaching the holiday season, I figured I’d get in the “giving” frame of mind by rounding up every single loop I’ve ever posted on this site and zip them up into ...
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Cakewalk Drops Price On SFZ+ From $60 To $0
Free Music Software : Cakewalk has dropped the price on its SFZ+ Professional SoundFont Player for Windows from $60 to $0. Description: rgc:audio’s revolutionary SoundFont player sample-playback engine, packed in a professional VST/DXi instrument. Outstanding sound quality, stereo ...
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The Beautiful Tattooed Underground Superlegend Kendra Demos The Electro-Harmonix V246 Vocoder
Click here to view the embedded video. This is one of the stranger official product demos we’ve seen in a while. And strange is good. First, the beautiful tattooed underground superlegend Kendra demos the Electro-Harmonix V246 Vocoder by doing her best T-Pain. After a little ...
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Free Sample Library Features The Twisted Sounds Of Circuit Bent Toys
Click here to view the embedded video. Illuminated Sounds has been doing twisted things with children’s toys, and they’ve got a free sample library to prove it – James’ Circuit Bent Library : Here is a Collection of samples from a few of my own circuit bent toys. ...
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The Moog Taurus III Bass Pedals In HD Synth Porn Glory
Synth Porn Saturday : The Moog Taurus III Bass Pedals in all their glory. Click on the image to get the full-screen HD surround-sound photo of this droolworthy butt-shaker. Moog’s selling these for 2K. Check the big photo and you’ll see why it’s going to be worth it .  ...
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Auto-Tune Named One Of America’s Hottest Brands
Click here to view the embedded video. Want proof that the world is going to end in 2012? If that video isn’t enough, consider this: Auto-Tune has been named one of America’s Hottest Brands by AdAge . Here are their reasons why: Auto-Tune was, for a long time, a product ...
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Drawdio Lets You Turn Almost Anything Into A Theremin
Drawdio Lets You Turn Almost Anything Into A Theremin
synthtopia.com — Click here to view the embedded video. This is a demo for Drawdio – a pencil that lets you “draw” instruments. While creator Jay Silver compares it to a theremin, it’s closer to a Tannerin or Electro-Theremin. via wakeupsilver : Imagine you could draw musical ... Drawdio Lets You Turn Almost Anything Into A Theremin
Tomita Style Version Of Stravinsky’s The Rite of Spring
Click here to view the embedded video. This is Paul Shillito ’s Tomita-style version of Stravinsky’s The Rite Of Spring Introduction . Shillito calls this his classitonic style – influenced by the electronic interpretations of classical music done by Isao Tomita and ...
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WAy Out Ware’s iSample 2.0 For The iPhone
Click here to view the embedded video. Way Out Ware’s Jim Heintz demos iSample 2 (App Store link), and makes some pretty freaky sounds along the way. Here’s what’s new in iSample 2: sample trimming with pinch to zoom, two finger scrolling and scrubbing sample ...
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Mark Knight & D.Ramirez vs Underworld – Downpipe
Click here to view the embedded video. Official – Mark Knight & D.Ramirez V Underworld – Downpipe via toolroomrecords : The tallest building in Dublin city was wired up with two huge 100,000 Euro screens. The combination of Underworld’s unmistakable talent for ...
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Max For Live Video Theremin
Click here to view the embedded video. This is a demo video for an Ableton Live video theremin, create with Max For Live in Ableton Live 8 . via akihikotube : Max For Live (ableton & cycling’74) Video Theremin Tutorial Patch
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All About The Sherman Filterbank
Click here to view the embedded video. The Sherman Filterbank is a powerful, real analogue, solid hardware instrument, with a unique sound. In this interview, Herman Gillis talks about origin of the Sherman Filterbank and more. Click here to view the embedded video. via acodike
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New [BLOK] Modular Synth For Windows
[BLOK] is a new modular synthesizer for Windows, originally designed as a platform for teaching audio synthesis to students. Features: Classic synthesizer modules such as Oscillators, Filters, Envelopes and Effects Easy to use interface. Blok was originally created as an educational ...
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New Kits Let You Build Your Own Analog Drum Machines
Click here to view the embedded video. Developer Eric Archer is now shipping his Andromeda MK-1 and MK-2 drum machines, DIY minimal drum machines “designed as an experiment of making the most minimal drum machine possible using analog circuitry”. In the video above, Archer ...
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Propellerhead’s Reason Soul School
Click here to view the embedded video. Propellerhead has released a new funk-flavored ReFill, Soul School , that features the soul sounds of the 60’s and 70’s. To introduce Soul School, Propellerhead put together several very nicely done videos that introduce the library and ...
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Free Music Friday – Herzog’s First Summer And The Running Dream
Click here to view the embedded video. Here’s a bit of ambient goodness to start of Free Music Friday – Herzog’s First Summer And The Running Dream : first summer and the running dream” contains 5 tracks with a complete duration of 30 minutes. Compared to his earlier ...
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Mindblowing Touch-Based Self-Organizing Map For Electronic Music
Click here to view the embedded video. The video demonstrates a mindblowing touch-enabling self-organizing map for automatically organizing and browsing a library of 600 electronic music songs.
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The World’s Cutest Kitty DJ
We do our best to avoid “cute kitty with music gear” photos at Synthtopia. You can only get so excited about another shot of somebody’s cat peaking out of their Buchla modular synth or sleeping on their Korg OASYS. Jaded as we may be, though, this is the cutest kitty DJ ...
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