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Eclectic, Reminiscent, Amused, Fickle, Perverse Do you remember mix tapes? The owners of Mississippi Records—a vinyl-and-cassette-only record store located on North Mississippi Avenue in Portland, Oregon—most certainly do: They’ve put together the best mixes we’ve never seen (because you can get them only by visiting the store in person). But a Bay Area record label called Root Strata has digitized dozens of these tapes and distributed them (as free downloads) online.
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The Dummy Guide To Cold Wave Dan Nixon on adventurous minimal synth music from the early 1980s, which is actually an incredibly interesting and weird story. This March, Angular Recordings will release the cold-wave compilation COLD - WAVES AND MINIMAL ELECTRONICS VOL .1 . The idea of Cold-Wave as a genre remains a difficult beast to try and capture, file or contain.
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The latest models of handheld and portable two-channel audio recorders use removable solid state memory (e.g., Compact Flash, Secure Digital), hard disk cards (PCMCIA/PC Card, Microdrive) and internal hard drives for storage instead of tape (e.g., DAT) or rotating optical disks (e.g., MiniDisc, CD-R, DVD-R). They are: All of these recorders are starting to get popular for concert and general high-resolution audio field recording. One exception is the Apple iPod Video 5G. Even though it is not a high-resolution recorder, since there are so many of them out there and we are frequently asked about it, we chose to include it anyway. In addition, Sound Devices has released their 722 recorder.
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Audiomulch - Interactive music studio A truly amazing tool for creating your own audio. Whether you are a pro or a beginner you can make electronic music on your computer using this powerful application. I know because I've done it! Indie music website with plenty of electronic, experimental & funny music- but you'll have to search for it. Musicians can upload their music and get it rated & reviewed.
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The Analogue Monologues is a new series of mini video documentaries. In each webisode Vince talks about one his analogue synths and explains where the on/off switch is. This series proves, once and for all, that he really doesn't know much about anything (a must see!).
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April 20, 2009, 10:08 pm After more than a year of insights from six very different musical artists on songwriting (and other mysteries), Measure for Measure is closing down — temporarily. As a coda of sorts, we asked the contributors to consider their experience writing about the songwriting process, and whether it had any effect on their actual songwriting. Not surprisingly, the responses varied — from a fond farewell to a hyper-conscious comic strip.
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The old website was nice and all, but it was also very old and hard to maintain. It was mostly hand-coded, which bloats once you've got more than two product pages to care for. Product pages were spread across several domains. Slowly there would be a lack of corporate identity.
Modulate This! - A Blog for Electronic Music Artists: U-He Zebra 2.5
I’m just now getting around to experimenting with some of the new features in Zebra 2.5 which was released in December. A couple of big new features worth noting are: New effect plugin Zebrify that allows you to use Zebra 2.5 effects on any synth. In the picture above (click to enlarge) I’m using it to add effects to U-HE ACE but it would work with any device. I love the idea of mixing FX from one synth with sound sources from another.
The biggest difference between you guys and the competition is that when you say you have over 1000 sounds, you really mean it. Each sound is distinct and interesting! -Reg T Magenta is an amazingly flexible drum rack for ableton, to my mind the best. -Richard S "Your sounds are really exotic.