The Theremin, the very first electronic instrument The theremin, originally known as the ætherphone/etherphone, thereminophone or termenvox/thereminvox, is an early electronic musical instrument controlled without physical contact by the thereminist (performer). It is named after the westernized name of its Russian inventor, Léon Theremin, who patented the device…
Retro synth revival, a Philip K. Dickian sound world The legendary ARP 2600 As to a retro synth revival… …Behringer has recently announced then materialised their plans to make affordable “clones” of legendary instruments like the Minimoog, ARP 2600 and the like… One might feel we…
Overview of the studio setup of Brainvoyager Hardware Custom build desktop PC (CPU: Intel® “Skylake-S” Core i7-6700K 4,0 GHz) Crucial 32 GB DDR4-2400 “Ballistix Sport LT” Quad-Kit RAM 1 Samsung 850 EVO 1 TB internal SSD 3 Toshiba DT01ACA300, 3 TB internal HDD 1 Seagate Expansion Desktop 4…
The music sequencer: what is it and what can it do? A music sequencer is a machine that ‘plays’ musical performances. It tells equipment that can make musical sounds (ie, play pitches, chords, or make any kind of noise) what musical notes to play, and when to play them….
Ableton Live 9 shifts the focus back It’s been four years since Ableton Live 8 was released. Can you believe it? Empires rise and fall in less time than that. Despite this apparent stagnation, though, Ableton has continued to expand, and Live is now more popular than ever,…
Spectrasonics Omnisphere software synthesizer for Mac & PC Spectrasonics’ ambitious new sample-based power synth explores the realms of psychoacoustics and organic synthesis while running on a Steam engine — what can this all mean? Let’s find out… Wouldn’t it be nice to live in a universe where…