If the modern HiFi amplifier or tube amplifier clips when you use it to play back audio recording, you are doing it wrong. With tube guitar amplifiers pushing it to clipping to get certain distorted sound is often intentional. Modern take to get the same guitar sound is to use DSP based effect pedals to →
https://techcrunch.com/2018/03/02/googles-song-maker-experiment-makes-making-songs-easy/ Google has added a new instrument to its Chrome Music Lab: Song Maker. Song Maker allows you to make songs. Everything happens in the browser. Song Maker is essentially an easy to use sequencer that lets you draw melodies in the browser. You are able to define a sequence of notes using a chessboard →
Most pop music is pretty much produced using computers. Is ‘Algorithm Idol’ poised to take its place in the pop music mill? Pop music automation is a field of study among musicians and computer scientists with a goal of producing successful pop music algorithmically. It is often based on the premise that pop music is →
Robert Moog is considered the inventor of the modern synthesizer. Robert Moog, inventor of the modern synthesizer, was born on May 23, 1934. Moog is credited with creating the first voltage-controlled subtractive synthesizer to utilize a keyboard as a controller. He demonstrated it at the AES convention in 1964. In the mid-1960s, Dr. Robert Moog →
Incredible Marble Music Machine is the best description for the band Wintergatan – REAL working mechanical genius. The music you hear is played by using 2000 marbles in Marble Machine built and composed by Martin Molin. Look at the video: The best part for all makers: Wintergatan documented the whole build process in an eight →
Seen at Espoo Mini Maker Faire: interesting LittleBits Korg Synth kit Here is Korg littleBits Synth Kit video by Electronic Musician Magazine →
Nowadays you can find very much music from YouTube. With YouTube can play music easily, but could you be a DJ with the material found from YouTube? It seems you can play DJ with material from YouTube in your web browser. I found an interesting service YouTubeMixer where you can be a DJ that mixes →
Nowadays you can make music on on your browser – even if you can’t really play real instruments. I have earlier written about Patatap, and here are some new finding on this field: ACID MACHINE BETA is a in-browser tool (uses HTML5 “magic”) that emulates Roland’s TB-303 bass synthesizer with built-in sequencer. It brings the →
ProTracker was a very a popular freeware tracker for the Amiga platform. ProTracker allows the user to create sequences of notes called “patterns”, which are chained together to form a complete song. It is amongst the programs that first allowed for widespread creation of music without studio equipment (very popular in 1990′s). Music created in →
I visited Microsoft Tech Days 2010 two days ago (I got free ticket), and if you are interested in technical stuff I leaned at the event and understand Finnish, you can my news report of that event published at Prosessori web site. I saw a quite interesting musical performance on the evening party. There was →