July 2009 Reason Wizardry - Thor Audio-Rate Modulation from Jeremy Janzen on Vimeo.
Nucleus SoundLab get freaky with Thor's routing in Reason. Interesting stuff for anyone with a modular / semi modular soft synth.
Showing posts with label modular synths. Show all posts
Showing posts with label modular synths. Show all posts
Thursday, 17 December 2009
Thunderous noise
Nucleus SoundLab get freaky with Thor's routing in Reason. Interesting stuff for anyone with a modular / semi modular soft synth.
Monday, 16 November 2009
Free Modular Synth
Blok is a simple, easy to use modular synth environment designed as a tool for teaching synthesis to students.
It's available as a standalone program, VST or Buzz Machine, and is straightforward enough for beginners to use without drowning in a sea of possibilities.
With 5 types of oscillator and a bundle of controllers and modifiers, including filters, delays, waveshapers, LFOs and envelopes, this is a very versatile package.
Blok even includes external knobs so that parameters can be automated from your host software.
You can read more about Blok, check the manual and download the installer here.
And there's a pretty detailed wiki here, which already includes tutorials on synthesising specific sounds such as kick drums and hoover basses and should become even more comprehensive over the coming weeks.
Friday, 13 November 2009
Friday, 4 September 2009
Synth Britannia
A new series to air on BBC 4 this Autumn / Winter explores the late 1970s electro-pop scene.
"The music will appeal to alienated youth everywhere... and Germans."
The Beeb's blurb says:
In the late Seventies small pockets of electronic artists such as The Human League, Cabaret Voltaire and Throbbing Gristle were inspired by Kraftwerk and J G Ballard to dream of the sound of the future against the backdrop of bleak, high-rise Britain.
Gary Numan's 1979 appearance on Top Of The Pops heralded the invention of synthpop, which would provide the soundtrack as Britain entered a new, ruthless era in the Eighties.
Depeche Mode, four lads from Basildon, came to embody the new sound, while post-punk bands such as Ultravox, Soft Cell, Orchestral Manoeuvres In The Dark and Yazoo took the synth from the pages of the NME and onto the front cover of Smash Hits.
By 1983 the Pet Shop Boys and New Order were pointing to where the future of electronic music lay – in dance.
With contributions from Philip Oakey, Vince Clarke, Martin Gore, Bernard Sumner, Gary Numan and Neil Tennant, it should be well worth a watch.
"The music will appeal to alienated youth everywhere... and Germans."
The Beeb's blurb says:
In the late Seventies small pockets of electronic artists such as The Human League, Cabaret Voltaire and Throbbing Gristle were inspired by Kraftwerk and J G Ballard to dream of the sound of the future against the backdrop of bleak, high-rise Britain.
Gary Numan's 1979 appearance on Top Of The Pops heralded the invention of synthpop, which would provide the soundtrack as Britain entered a new, ruthless era in the Eighties.
Depeche Mode, four lads from Basildon, came to embody the new sound, while post-punk bands such as Ultravox, Soft Cell, Orchestral Manoeuvres In The Dark and Yazoo took the synth from the pages of the NME and onto the front cover of Smash Hits.
By 1983 the Pet Shop Boys and New Order were pointing to where the future of electronic music lay – in dance.
With contributions from Philip Oakey, Vince Clarke, Martin Gore, Bernard Sumner, Gary Numan and Neil Tennant, it should be well worth a watch.
Tuesday, 26 May 2009
Aries Modular + Eventide PitchFactor = Awesome
Dusty pointed us towards this demo of an Aries Modular synth being processed by an Eventide PitchFactor. The demo was posted in youtube by the good people of BigCityMusic. We are still debating if it is legal to have sexual feelings towards a piece of kit.
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