I am happy to announce Soundfly is offering a 20% discount on courses for supporting members of MATRIXSYNTH! If you are a member of the site and are interested, send me an email I will forward you the discount code. Be sure to check out Soundfly even if you are not a member of the site as many of their courses are currently free, including all of their synth courses.
"The demo floor was dominated by Modular Synthesizers. Audio Damage, and Blue Lantern Modules were on hand to show off their modules to an enthusiastic crowd."
New Blue Lantern Assist eurorack module gets a sneak peek.
"The rhythm of this melody is a little unusual: It is made by running a simple low frequency square wave through a homemade spring reverb. I have never tried that before.
Another first for me is to connect an envelope generator to the pitch control so that each notes starts by the tone generator ramping up the frequency from zero and ramping down again when the note is released.
Finally I am using the little "cigar box synth" for the solo in the middle."
"Soundfly launches new free course with YouTube star Andrew Huang on making music with found sounds in Ableton Live
Andrew Huang has gotten millions of views on YouTube for making creative songs using only balloons, glasses of water, dental equipment, pairs of jeans, and much more. Soundfly's brand new series Any Sound Will Do, launching today, will pull back the curtain on how he does it — and teach you how to turn everyday objects into musical instruments using a microphone and Ableton Live.
Pretty much anything can be a musical instrument, with the right knowledge and a copy of Ableton Live. In this series, some of the world's best at using found sounds in their music take you through their approaches to capturing, manipulating, and shaping everyday items to make more interesting music. The free series includes two micro-courses: "Capturing and Warping Samples in Ableton Live" with Ableton Certified Trainer, Brian Jackson, and "Making Music From Everyday Items" with YouTube star Andrew Huang. Both courses are completely free and take only an hour of your time!
"Deluge by Synthstrom Audible. Portable sequencer, sampler and synthesiser.
Pre-orders close midnight Nov 25th (US ET)
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"You barely need to lift a finger to make catchy, rhythmic grooves with a NOISE Groove Kit. When you press the Lightpad Block surface, you trigger drum patterns that evolve and interact as you use your fingers to slide and glide.
Every movement takes your groove in a new direction, and subtle changes in pressure vary the rhythm and timbre of each drum pattern."
"Short excerpt of a self-playing system that has been evolving here over several days. Chordal structures from OSC-02+ Quantimator, side processed through Elements. Other random elements also appear from time to time thanks to some very fuzzy logic processing. Audio taken direct to camera with no overdubs or post-processing."
Ingredients: 1 sound of your choice, recorded into iPulsaret (any onboard mic will suffice). Mix and fold into a rough dough using iPulsaret's many parameters. Set to one side to cool. Then introduce some noodlings of filter resonance from the Atlantis, followed by a simple sequence of notes, into which you blend various waveforms until it starts to get boring.
Fortunately for me at least, such things don't seem to get old.
Recorded into Cubasis on an iPad with Virsyn's Audio Reverb. This composition started life as an iPulsaret recording, but in this version the Atlantis part was actually recorded first, then the iPulsaret overdubbed afterwards (thus making timing easier). Just a few recent, contextual video clips this time. It never seems to stop raining.
Thanks to everyone for your continued support, it means a lot."
