Phoenix Synth Meet 2016
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Modular madness dominated the demo floor!

Drum8, 8-Bit Drum Machine Sampler for the Apple II

Riccardo Macri has written Drum8, an 8-bit sample playback drum machine for the Apple II. In the early 2000s I had quite a vintage computer collection. TRS-80 CoCo2, Apple IIe, Amiga 500, Commodore 64, a couple Atari XL series, and a couple others that I can’t recall. Sadly, I had to…

Circuit Bending sound design app SoundScaper, now with MIDI control

SoundScaper, the circuit bending sound design app now has MIDI control in version 1.2 The updates have been coming fast. Igor Vasiliev has been busy. What is new in SoundScaper: Complete MIDI control for all faders, knobs and other modes Possibility to create MIDI control maps for different controllers Two different…

Synthesis & Samples Hackathon in NYC this Saturday ft. burnkit2600 and littleBits Korg Synth Kit Workshop

Monthly Music Hackathon is hosting their Synthesis & Samples Hackathon in NYC this Saturday. burkit2600 The folks at Monthly Music Hackathon NYC are focusing on Synthesis & Sampling this month. From their site: Make new art from scratch! Learn about recent research, tools, and art related to sound synthesis and audio…

Circuit Bending sound design app SoundScaper has been updated to v1.1

The circuit bending inspired sound design tool, SoundScaper is now at v1.1 I’ve mentioned SoundScaper by Motion Soundscape (aka Igor Vasiliev) before here, here and here. Now v1.1 has been released. Here’s what’s new:  Advanced control panel for all faders and rotary knobs opened by double tap. Simple automation of changing…

‎SoundScaper 1.0, the Circuit Bending sound design app‬ for iPad has been released

Igor Vasiliev/iMusicAlbum has gotten SoundScaper approved at the iTunes app store. As we mentioned earlier this month SoundScaper was pending approval at the iTunes app store, and it is now available here for $5.99. A recap of the description: SoundScaper is an experimental sound mini lab for creating unusual soundscapes, atmospheric…

Critical Vibrations releases Circuit Bent Collection Live Pack

Circuit Bent Collection, a new Live Pack from Critical Vibrations has been released. Built from a huge library of samples recorded from circuit bent toys, keyboards, and drum machines, it contains 140 instruments for Ableton Live 9. From their site: “This collection isn’t just the glitchy lo-fi toy sounds you…

Circuit Bent sound library for Ableton, Kontakt & Logic on sale, only $9.99!

Puremagnetik has released Hyperbent, a collection of sounds including over 200 clips and over 500 individual multisamples from over 80 circuit bent and hacked electronics. Read more after the jump: Hyperbent comes with sounds from these 6 Puremagnetik libraries: Artifact – A library of sound palettes created from digital anomalies and…

Casio SK-1 makes Attack Magazine’s list of 9 samplers that defined dance music.

“We won’t pretend the SK-1 is the definitive sound of thousands of club tracks… the SK-1 looks like a toy, feels like a toy and by today’s standards it most definitely is a toy.“ There, now we got that out of the way, you can understand a little more about it…