Midomi is a new site, now in beta testing, that lets you search for music by singing the tune into a microphone. The site lets you search for a song by singing, humming or whistling a bit of the tune. The site then offers search results that include commercially recorded tracks or versions of the… Read More New Site Lets You Find Music By Singing Tune; Not So Good For Electronica
Gear4music has launched several new on-line quotation facilities on their web site, allowing PC-based customers to put together a complete line-up of instruments or PA equipment and get a quote. Similar on-line quotation systems have been used by computer retailers for many years, letting people assemble a custom PC system in virtual form and get… Read More Gear4Music Lets You Build Band Online
DJ Diva joins DJ Portial Surreal on the short list of topless DJs. She’s probably the only topless skydiving DJ, though! She started her career in 2002, taking a training course at the Dutch DJ school in amsterdam. At her first gig, it was very hot and several women were topless, so she took her… Read More DJ Diva – The Topless, Skydiving DJ
Matrixsynth is a website/blog dedicated to anything and everything about synths. Matrix, who runs the site, is active on many synth-related lists and forums, and when he sees something of interest, he posts it on Matrixsynth. As a result, the site covers everything synth, from the serious to the humorous; the trivial to the items… Read More Matrix Synth
Bleeps and Bloops is a Live Journal blog that follows the creating of a modular synthesizer built around Synthesizer.com modules. From the site: What this journal is about? I’m building a modular synthesizer over the next year (and beyond!) through Synthesizers.com’s “Build a Modular Synthesizer in a Year!” program, or as I call it, the… Read More Bleeps and Bloops – Modular Synth Blog
Video Synthesizers usually refer to analog devices from the early ’70s driven by oscillators, similar to analog audio synthesizers. They create and modify video in realtime. Audio Visualizers features information on video synths and related items and technologies.
Squeezytunes is an interesting new blog that covers electromechanical and mechanical keyboard instruments (ie. not modern synthesisers), including all types of organs, squeezeboxes, pianos, even Ondiolines (see photo, right). No synth coverage, but interesting pre-synth stuff and oddball weirdness, too.
Bent-Tronics is a site that carries specialty electronic parts for circuit-bending and other electronic experimentation. Its selection is small, but it carries many items for benders that can be hard to find. Their selection includes body contacts, potentiometers, knobs, LEDs, connectors, switches and tools. Bent-Tronics
Bent-Tronics features components specifically for instrument circuit-bending. The site calls itself the “World’s first circuit bending store,” and carries body contacts, joysticks, knobs, LEDs, connectors, switches and tools. “My goal is to provide one central site that offers essential supplies for fellow circuit benders,” notes the site’s owner. “I’ve spent hundreds of hours on the… Read More Site Features Circuit-Bending Supplies
Voxengo has relaunched their web site, offering visitors a lot of new features. First of all, the Voxengo web site now features a new redesigned look and feel. Beside viewing normal product pages you can now conveniently browse through product group pages where you can quickly find a product suitable for a specific audio processing… Read More Voxengo Updates Site
