NI Synthsgiving

INCREDIBLE offer from Native Instruments...from November 27th to 30th:
Reaktor 5 down from €379 to €99
for the dubstep wobble crew Massive is down from €179 to €99
and Absynth and FM8 same prices too!

Damn these software companies are spoiling us these days...who feels like spoiling the AudioLemoneers with a gift of Reaktor? (the gift that keeps on giving...)

Mastering with Bob Macc

The more info and perspectives you can get on mastering your music the better, and here's an interview with a true pro: Bob Macciochi, a bit of a legend in bass music circles (an a nice guy to boot!).
Via Hyperblazing

Ableton is 10

Ableton has been on the go for 10 years now and to celebrate they're doing some great discounts and upgrade offers for all you lovely folks! Never been a better time to buy so go have a looksee!

BX Cleansweep FREE plugin

Brainworx have just released a new FREE plugin for all you Mac and PC users. BX Cleansweep is a low and high pass filter designed for use at the mastering stage. These guys do some pretty impressive plugins so this is a great chance to grab a freebie! While you're there snag their BX Solo plugin which allows you to seperate Left/Right/Centre information from your mix. Nice.

Touch Clock (Wogglebug Tip)

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"Following the Make Noise manual's suggestion for "stopping" the Wogglebug's clock by patching an otherwise unconnected cable into the Clock Input, I thought I'd try touching the end of the cable to advance the clock..."

For more details on the patch just click this to get to the original posting.

For another sweet sounding wogglebug patch have a look at navs.modular and if you fancy trying to build a wogglebug you can get Grant Richter's schematic here. Here's a pic of a wogglebug build into a CD case using Grant Richters schematic.

Designing Synths with Dasz Garncarz

PART 3

"For LiFT Studios Broadcast 023 Haig Armen talks with Dasz Garncarz, a synth & interface designer about the challenges of interaction design and his work on the Nord Modular G2 synthesizer."

Dasz was the creator/owner/entrepreneur of Opcode's Revolve 100M sequencer (1999) as well as a crucial force behind the Infusion System's I-Cube (product and software development).1

There are 3 parts to the interview - PART 1 and PART 3. Might be a little dull but there is some interest for those who like designing their own interfaces in synthedit/max/usine etc.

ToneMatrix-flash based Tenori-On

Simple...but loads of fun. Go play here. The ToneMatrix is part of Andre Michelle & Co's (HobNox) AudioTool project, a flash based synth/sequence/record environment that looks mighty impressive.

Kaosillator Demo from Tokyo

On a random trawl of Tokyo's tech stores (drooool), I met Ade who clearly knows how to work his way around Korgs portable micro-synth, the Kaosillator. Here he is making it look way too easy.

Novation+Ableton Launchpad controller

Bit behind with this one but Novation have teamed with Ableton to release a 64 button grid style controller that can be used to control things such as clip launch, panning, volume, scenes etc. It can also work with other software using Novations' Automap software. I think this looks pretty tasty and at £150 quite a bargain! There's a competition to win one+Live8 over at Novations site, as well as tutorial videos.