The Maxitribe - KORG's New Synth?

via the sequencer.de forums

To be announced on 9/4

Looks a render using the MiniBrute.

Update: and another render below.

via @tremorcore

New Roland is a Jupiter-80 Rack - The Integra-7

See the magazine scan added to the original post here.

AudioCubes Featured at Electro-Music Festival 2012 in New York

"The Electro-music festival 2012 has been confirmed, with acts from several electronic musicians from all over the US and Europe, such as Mark Mosher, Lux Seeker, Shivasongster, and many others.

The festival organized by electro-music.com takes place in Huguenot, New York at the Greenkill Retreat Center. Last year over 60 artists performed live at the festival, and this year's edition is expected to be even greater. The event will span 3 days in September (7-9), and alongside the musical performances, workshops, jam sessions, laptop battles will take place.

The Electro-Music festival is also called “the Woodstock of electronic music” by the Philadelphia Inquirer. It is an annual event festival organized by electro-music.com, a “cooperative community where artists and enthusiasts participate and benefit together” as they describe on electro-music.com.

One of the highlights of this event will be the live performances with Percussa AudioCubes. Electronic musicians Mark Mosher, Jeremy dePrisco aka Shivasongster, and John Morley aka Lux Seeker, will bring their AudioCubes to the festival to perform live with the cubes. In addition, Jeremy will demonstrate the AudioCubes during a workshop he's organizing about Reason 6.

More information about the performances and the schedule can be found here.

About AudioCubes and Percussa

AudioCubes by Percussa are smart light-emitting cubes that can detect each other's location and orientation in a network, as well as sense distances. The AudioCubes can be used for sound design, music composition, live performance, as well as many other uses, because of the several software applications Percussa created for the AudioCubes. More information about Percussa and the AudioCubes: http://www.percussa.com

Interesting Links
Music Mark Mosher: http://markmoshermusic.com
Music Shivasongster: http://shivasongster.com
Music Lux Seeker: http://soundcloud.com/lux_seeker"

Free Open Source FM Synthesizer for Max4Live and AudioCubes via PERCUSSA

"PERCUSSA today announced SOUNDOR, the free and open source FM Synthesizer for Max for Live, the visual programming environment in Ableton Live based on Cycling 74's Max/MSP. SOUNDOR is available as a free download from the Percussa website, and allows users to explore FM Synthesis using hand and finger gestures, through AudioCubes' high speed and low latency sensors, requiring no MIDI mapping or
programming.

SOUNDOR features 4 oscillators each with their own waveform mixers, allowing the user to mix sine, square, sawtooth, triangle and noise waveforms to create totally new kinds of waveforms. Each oscillator section also features a state variable filter (SVF), and can modulate any other oscillator in pitch and/or amplitude. Each oscillator's output can also be sent via its own ADSR to a master out, for lots of sound possibilities. Oscillators can overdrive each other through the built in waveform mixer, and can be controlled through the MIDI Keyboard as well as manual settings.

SOUNDOR integrates seamlessly with AudioCubes: rather than having to MIDI map the AudioCubes onto parameters in SOUNDOR, the moment an AudioCube is plugged in, it is automatically connected to any of the waveform mixer parameters and filter sections, through an easy to use connection matrix in the synthesizer. The 4 high speed low latency sensors of AudioCubes can control multiple parameters simultaneously and can even be inverted. A pedal input allows the user to keep the sensors values in place, while the hands are near the sensor, allowing exploration of the parameter space of the FM synthesizer while at the same time allowing rigid locking of parameters to keep the sound steady once an interesting combination of parameters has been found. SOUNDOR supports the well known preset system of Ableton Live and Max4Live, so presets can be saved and recalled just as for other Max4Live devices.

SOUNDOR is free and open source (creative commons, noncommercial, attribution, share-alike - see http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/). PERCUSSA encourages users to download the synthesizer and to come up with their own versions and modifications.

Availability and Pricing
SOUNDOR is available from PERCUSSA as a free download from
http://www.percussa.com/downloads/
For video and audio demos, see http://www.percussa.com/software/soundor

About PERCUSSA and AudioCubes
PERCUSSA creates hardware and software for artists, educators, and researchers working with sound, music, visuals and physical computing. Our AudioCubes hardware and software are used for generative composition, live performance, sound design, music education and therapy. AudioCubes come with easy to use applications, as well as powerful development kits, compatible with visual programming languages such as Max/MSP and Pure Data, as well as low level programming languages such as C and C++. AudioCubes are used by thousands of artists around the world.

More information about PERCUSSA and AudioCubes is available from http://www.percussa.com/"

ANimALOGICA Bologna Synth Meeting Videos by Noctivaga Musica

YouTube Published on May 23, 2012 by Noctivaga Musica - 1st 3

Playlist:
ANimALOGICA Bologna Synth Meeting 1a Edizione 1/3
ANimALOGICA Bologna Synth Meeting 1a Edizione 2/3
ANimALOGICA Bologna Synth Meeting 1a Edizione 3/3
ANimALOGICA Bologna Synth Meeting 2a edizione - GRP A8 Synthesizer - Published 6/12/12
ANimALOGICA Bologna Synth Meeting 2a Edizione - Synthesizers.com
ANimALOGICA Bologna Synth Meeting 4a Edizione - Seminario Giorgio Rossini 1/2 - 8/24/12

Note I focused mainly on the synth demos here. For performances and lectures see Noctivaga Musica's YouTube channel here.

knobcon update

An update via knobcon's organizer, Suit & Tie Guy

"The Hyatt has extended our booking window. you can now book a room at the 79 USD rate until the 31st.

also, we now officially have sponsors. they are Five12 and STG Soundlabs. there will be door prizes, drawn out of a hat by someone who is not me, of merchandise (software and synthesiser modules) from the sponsors."

thank you,
Suit & Tie Guy
suitandtieguy.com
stgsoundlabs.com

http://knobcon.com/

The Harvestman Homicide Censor

via Scott Jaeger on Facebook

"Figured it out. This was bothering me for 4 years."

http://www.theharvestman.org/

Note the Arabic numbers.

The Bob Moog Foundation Timeline of Synthesis Coming Soon

via The Bob Moog Foundation on Facebook:

"In an effort to become your source for electronic music history, we have created the first of many historical timelines that we will be releasing throughout the year. We intended to release the timeline last week. However, we have made the conscious decision to postpone the publication of the timeline while it is being reviewed by experts in the field. Bob was fond of saying "Get it right the first time", and that's exactly what we are making every effort to do. Thanks for your patience! It will be worth the wait!" http://moogfoundation.org/timeline/latecomingsoon/

MacBeth MacBeth Mk1 VORTEX Video - squelchy!

YouTube Published on Aug 29, 2012 by macbethsynthesizers


"This is a short video of the MacBeth Mk1 VORTEX Analogue Synthesizer module in action with a MacBeth Mk1 Filter 'A' switched between 6db/Octave and 24 db/Octave. I've also used a Mk1 Mixer 'A' and a Mk1 Dual EG with built in VCA. The VORTEX is a complete synth in a 5U format- 6 space size! 2 x LFOs, 2 x VCOs, 1 x Noise, 1 x Mixer, 1 x Filter and Dual Egs with built in VCA. Here the whole lot is being driven by LFO 2 set to S&H on the VORTEX!"

Images via Ken MacBeth on Facebook

Wolfgang Palm Shares The PPG WaveGenerator App - Show And Tell

YouTube Published on Aug 29, 2012 by PPGWavegenerator

"In this video, creator of the PPG Wave, Wolfgang Palm gives and extended show and tell of the new PPG WaveGenerator App for iPad."

iTunes:
WaveGenerator - PPG - Wolfgang Palm
iPads on eBay

Update: take a look at 2:28 on. This is interesting. On previous wavetable synths you can only transverse wavetables in order. You can set which waveform to start and end with and the direction, but you can't draw the path like this. The implementation might remind you of Animoog.

Update:

PPG WaveGenerator iPad App - Show And Tell 2 Creating Wavetables

Published on Aug 30, 2012 by PPGWavegenerator

"Wolfgang is back sharing more of the wholesome goodness found in his new baby PPG WaveGenerator App."

PPG WaveGenerator Show And Tell 3 Part 1.mov

YouTube Published on Sep 11, 2012 by PPGWavegenerator

"Wolfgang shows some more tricks and tips with the new PPG Wavegenerator App."

PPG WaveGenerator Show And Tell 3 Part 2.mov