2015 NAMM Show Preview: Akai Professional today introduced a new line of control keyboards, the Advance Keyboard series, that’s designed to provide deep integration with virtual instruments. Available in 25-, 49-, and 61-key sizes, the Advance 25, Advance 49, and Advance 61 let you load, play and control your virtual instrument plugins directly from their… Read More Akai Professional Intros Advance Keyboard Series
Developer Alexander Nowak has introduced Launch Buttons for Android & iOS, a MIDI control app for Ableton Live that’s like a virtual Launchpad. Launch Buttons works with Mac OS X and Windows XP/Vista/7/8/8.1 and lets you use your mobile device as a Live controller. Here’s a video demo:
zMors Modular – an iOS app designed to be used as both a standalone software modular ssynthesizer and as an element in a hardware modular synthesizer – has been updated. The new version adds new modules, including a BPM clock module, a matrix mixer module and more. Here’s what’s new in zMors Modular 1.1:
AudioKit is a new open source platform for audio synthesis, processing and analysis on iOS and OS X. It’s evolved from the Csound computer language for audio. As CDM’s Peter Kirn notes, “what AudioKit is in effect is Csound as an audio engine, with Objective-C and Swift as the API.”
In the latest episode of the Echoes podcast, host John Diliberto talks with multi instrumentalists Daniel Holdsworth and Aidan Roberts about their two man performances of Tubular Bells For Two. Composer Mike Oldfield played over a dozen instruments on his signature work. With Tubular Bells For Two, Holdsworth and Roberts have taken on the challenge of… Read More Tubular Bells for Two
ludoWic “skip a day” (ft. Rias Baarda & Dave van den Dries) was uploaded by: T ludoWic
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Sunday Synth Jam: This video captures a performance (with multitrack backing) of Alla Hornpipe from Handel’s Water Music, Suite #2 in D major. The performance, by Mark Smart, is dedicated to the memory of his father Mervin Smart (1934-1991,) who loved Handel’s music.
Arturia iSEM and Elektron Monomachine demo plus Eventide Space was uploaded by: MIDERA
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Ken Karsh- Echo Pad, Svep, and Reverb Demo (Improv) was uploaded by: Ken Karsh
Duration: 490
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homage morton feldman was uploaded by: Todd Barton
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