All Your Synth Are Belong To Us

Saturday Synth Porn: A slideshow of images from Synthesizer Heaven, aka Five G. via jboberg Relative News

Open Mic: How Did You Soundproof Your Studio?

// We’re putting together a post on soundproofing a home studio, and would like to include as much of your advice as possible. How did you soundproof your home studio? Where did you purchase the materials? What plans do you have for the future? What issues need to be dealt with? What tricks and tips can you share? Each week we open our mic to readers and lurkers alike to come out of the woodwork and tell us your thoughts and opinion, your experiences and mistakes, what you love and what you hate. We want to hear from you, and here’s your chance. Relative News

Synthesize a Mini Pluck with Sylenth1

// Today I would like to show you a mini pluck sequence. I use this sound quite a lot in my productions, and invented the term “mini pluck”. It is used in several trance songs – especially in uplifting trance – but you can use other genres as well In this tutorial I’ll show you how to create a “mini pluck downer” type patch in Sylenth. This is basically a pluck arpeggio with a filter being modulated in a random rhythm. I use Ableton Live to create it. It is suitable for giving backing support to other parts of the song. Other words it’s a backing track just give some feel your tracks. Step 1: Create a Track Let’s insert a MIDI channel in Ableton and insert the MIDI clip. The length of the clip is three bars. Change the grid to 16th notes and draw some notes on C#4, E, G#, A and don’t leave any silence between them. So as you see the notes is rising on the scale. Duplicate this sequence until you reach bar 2.3. So the sequence looks like the following. This will act... Relative News

Would You Let A Drummer Slow Down Your Sequencer?

New B-Keeper responsive click-track software lets drummers set their own pace Relative News

M-Audio Venom Review By Nick Peck: A Virtual-Analog Synth That Even Spider-Man Would Love.

Avid’s M-Audio brand has a long track record of providing audio products with a great deal of functionality at an entry-level price.read more Relative News

Moog Makes Microtuning Mainstream

Phatty Tuner Alternate Scales Editor was uploaded by: MoogMusicIncDuration: 160Rating: Relative News

Antares Auto-Tune EFX Vocal Toolkit: A Vocal Effect Plugin Suite

With the Antares Auto-Tune EFX Vocal Toolkit, you will get a complete collection of vocal effect plugins designed to make your vocal tracks sound polished and ready to go.read more Relative News

Source Audio at NAMM, Sound Minds: Enhancing your musical creativity with effects

Source Audio has announced Sound Minds: Enhancing your musical creativity with effects, its special artist appearance program for the 2011 Winter NAMM show. Relative News

Chimera Synth BC6 Walnut limited edition and tape echo simultation

YouTube via theau61 | January 08, 2011 | "Having fun with the BC6 I just offered to my brother for his Birthday. Testing it in Mom's atelier.This synth has some incredible versatile sound.Coming soon, a track with it on Soundcloud" Relative News

[NAMM] Lâg Gig Bags

Lâg Guitars is offering a line of soft padded gig bags, semi-rigid gig bags, and hardshell “Crococases,” offering custom-fit protection for all body styles in the Tramontane line of acoustic guitars. Relative News