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…
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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…
A Little Synth History – Tom Oberheim
This is post 1 of 14 in the series “Synth Pioneers” This series highlights pioneers in electronic music. It is not intended to be a deep dive, but rather a
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
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
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
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,…
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