Silent Way AC Encoder

YouTube via expertsleepers — April 15, 2010 — "A brief promo for Expert Sleepers Silent Way AC Encoder, part of the Silent Way suite of plug-ins for Mac OS X and Windows.

http://www.expert-sleepers.co.uk/siwa..."

Eigenlabs Eigenharp: Hear It, Know It, Love It

YouTube via gearwire — April 15, 2010 — "Understanding the potential of something as sophisticated and multi-faceted as the Eigenlabs Eigenharp can be overwhelming at first blush. To really help us wrap our feeble brains around this unique instrument we enlisted the help of developer and Eigenlabs founder James Lambert.

Mr. Lambert talks a little about the surprisingly long history of this new-to-the-market instrument, and does an impressive job detailing all its most important functions and features in under eight minutes. You also get to see and hear the Eigenharp Alpha and Eigenharp Pico in action in this, the most efficient Gearwire tradeshow video ever created."

Korg Wavedrum: We Get All Handsy With It At AES

YouTube via gearwire — April 15, 2010 — "The reborn Korg Wavedrum got a lot of attention at AES, but we were still able to get a some close-up video of this retro-gem in action. Korg rep James Sajeva gave us the skinny on the differences between sampling and modeling (the Wavedrum specializes in the latter), as well as what the probable street price of the new model is going to be."

Polyphonic front end

YouTube via organfairy — April 15, 2010 —

"I am about to record a demo with my newly constructed mini modular analogue synthesizer. But I intend to blend in some chords too which the synthesizer should process.

To generate the chords I am going to use this little organ or polyphonic front-end that I made some years ago. The idea is the same as in the Paia Oz/Gnome duo: An organ-like instrument provides the chords and the actual synthesizer gives the chords their timbre and volume.

The music in this video is played on the Technics SX-C600 organ and the Roland SH-2000 synthesizer.

Sorry about the sketchy half-finished schematics in this video. When I made the mini organ I didn't know that I was going to present it in a video."

Korg microKorg XL Limited Red [engl.]

YouTube via MusikSchmidt — April 15, 2010 — "http://www.musik-schmidt.de/gb-Korg-m...

www.musik-schmidt.de

Musik-Schmidt,
eine Niederlassung der S-MUSIC GmbH & Co. KG,
Hanauer Landstrasse 338,
60314 Frankfurt,
Germany

Facts of the Korg microKorg XL LR: * Display: Custom backlit LCD * Keyboard: 37-note Natural Touch action * Switches: 7; Bank (2 position), Octave Up and Down (toggle), timbre select (2 position), Arp On/Off, Vocoder On/Off, Write, Exit/Shift * Knobs: 7; Volume, tempo, program select (genre and category), real-time assign, edit menu selector * Wheels: Pitch and Modulation * Polyphony 8 voices (up to 4 when the vocoder is selected) * Program: 128 * Number of timbres Maximum 2 (when using Layer, Split, or Multi) * Synth 2 oscillator + noise generator * Multi-mode filters * 16-band Vocoder, adjustable level and pan for each band * Format Shift function, Formant Hold function * Effects Timbre: 2-band EQ * Master: master effects (17 effect algorithms) * Arpeggiator UP, DOWN, ALT1/2, Random, Trigger (6 types) * Step Arpeggiator * Audio In (Line): Jack * Audio In (Mic): Jack * Output: L/Mono, R with jacks * Headphone jack * MIDI: In, Out * USB connector B type * Power supply: DC9V * Included items: XLR Gooseneck Microphone with windscreen, Power Adapter"

myVST Demo: Red Shift 2

myVST Demo: Red Shift 2 from myVST on Vimeo.

More VST on: myvst.com/

Paranormal Spectrums - Sinister sounds for movie and game scores

YouTube via NativeInstruments — April 14, 2010 — "This video descripes the concept and creation process of "Paranormal Spectrums", the new Kore-powered instrument that specialises in dark and tension-filled soundscapes. Paranormal Spectrums is designed for the creation of horror-genre style atmospheres for movies and video games.

More info can be found at http://www.native-instruments.com/par..."

"Native Instruments Introduces PARANORMAL SPECTRUMS

Berlin, April 15th, 2010 – Native Instruments today introduced PARANORMAL SPECTRUMS, a new KORE-powered instrument that creates mysterious and unsettling sonic atmospheres. For use with KORE 2 and the free KORE PLAYER, PARANORMAL SPECTRUMS is a powerful resource for suspenseful film and game scores in the horror, thriller and mystery domain, and is also suitable for dark electronic music styles.

Based on atmospheric field recordings, unusual sampled sounds and intricate synthesizer programming, PARANORMAL SPECTRUMS offers a wide assortment of evocative pads and sinister soundscapes, as well as intense mallets, flutes, bells and synth sounds that are both original and highly playable. It takes advantage of the integrated engines of KORE 2 and KORE PLAYER, combining the advanced sampling features of KONTAKT with the versatile synthesis functions of MASSIVE and ABSYNTH and the sound processing capabilities of GUITAR RIG to create deep, complex and charismatic sounds that can be efficiently modulated and brought to life.

PARANORMAL SPECTRUMS provides 100 KoreSounds with eight morphable Sound Variations each, resulting in 800 individual sounds. Concise parameter assignments allow for immediate, intuitive sound tweaking in KORE 2 and KORE PLAYER. Full musical metadata for all presets also makes PARANORMAL SPECTRUMS integrate seamlessly with any individual collection of KORE instruments.

PARANORMAL SPECTRUMS is available for download in the NI Online Shop for $79 / 69 EUR."

The Nebulophone

YouTube via drbleep — April 09, 2010 — "Bleep Labs introduces the Nebulophone, an Arduino based stylus synth with a light controlled analog low-pass filter.
Get the the kit or completed synth at bleeplabs.com" Pre-Order Here

And a user video:


YouTube via JorgeCortez01 — April 13, 2010 —

Józef Skrzek plays great Minimoog solo

YouTube via rockowy — November 24, 2006 — "Great Minimoog solo played by Josef (Józef) Skrzek (SBB) on his solo gig in 2004. You can find whole concert on CD "Viator - Znak Pokoju" (Viator - Sign of Peace)."
via felmoe

Some only "play" their instrument...

flickr by Aston Farmington

"I share with it a small portion of myself with each session. This one has been with me for a long time, and has been tickled into singing beautiful harmonies whilst balancing a cocktail glass. I pity the youth who, rather than express themselves, are content with "beatz". Not only do I pity them, but I find them disgraceful."