Dark Days
Dark Days is the result of a seemingly simple community challenge from Free Beat -- use a provided sample and create a song. Beyond that, there were no real rules or limitations imposed.
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A collection of 22 issues
Suzanne Ciani -- Electronic Musician, Composer, Sound Designer
I find it interesting that, while her instruments are newer and she has embraced a workflow that incorporates both Buchla modular synths and computer and iPad apps, her core approach to creation remains as it was nearly 50 years ago.
A Little Synth History - Tom Oberheim
This video, about the history of Oberheim synthesizers, popped up on my YouTube suggested videos feed, and this morning I took a little break and watched it. It's a pretty interesting video if you're at all interested in the music industry in general, and electronic music
Discovering Electronic Music
Fran Blanche of Frantone posted this fascinating film by Bernard Wilets, which looks at early electronic music, to her YouTube channel, and I just had to share it. The film features several people who went on to make their names in electronic music, including Rory Kaplan, Douglas Leedy, and Jean-
Arturia Gives More Freakiness!
Arturia have announced another new update to the MicroFreak! Version 4 adds a new User Wavetable engine, enhances the sequencer, makes UI improvements, and more! MicroFreak really is the freak that keeps on freakin'!
Some [Over]simplified Science of Sound Synthesis - Ring Modulation
Following a recent Discord discussion of Ring Modulation in sound synthesis, I put together a little video demonstration of the something called "ring modulation." In synthesizers, this is a method of using one audio source to modify, or modulate, another. It's also the basis of amplitude
Korgs I've Owned Part 6 -- Kronos 2
What's really impressive is that Kronos family has been the top of Korg's heap since 2011. Again, rightly so. There's not really much it can't do. It is quite literally, a complete music workstation and recording studio in a single box.
NAMM Believe In Music Week -- Selected Videos, Announcements, and Livestreams
Updated selected videos from NAMM 2021 Believe In Music Week. There's no particular order to most of these -- just the order that I was able to find and view them. I'll be adding as I go through the dozens and dozens of related videos, so check
Korgs I've Owned Part 5 -- Kross 2
With the Kross 2, Korg have made a fairly complete workstation for someone on a really tight budget. It relies on Korg's EDS-i sound engine to produce over 1,000 sounds, and has an additional 128MB of PCM memory dedicated to pianos.
Birthday "Gifts" from NAMM 2021
Korg
There was some interesting after chatter and a few reactions on the net to Korg's modwave announcement yesterday, one of which was that some folks don't want 37-key keyboards. They want a full 61-key keybed for things like the modwave, the wavestate, and