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Find zen-like calm with these perfect miniature synthesizer videos
We all need a way to center, a way to lower our blood pressure and cure insomnia. Forget ASMR or videos of ocean waves or whatever. Just watch these mesmerizing videos of tiny, tiny, tiny accurate models of classic synthesizers.
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Arturia’s Juno-6 chorus recreation is free this week as a plug-in
It’s one of the all-time great chorus effects – and now you can bite off just the chorus of the Roland Juno and use it as an effect, for free, with this giveaway from Arturia. We’ve got that – and one competing free chorus, for good measure!
Peter Kirn - December 22, 2020
Music tech Software Tech
Bitwig adds a free 808 – multisampled and 808 bass and Grid patch ready
Bitwig’s new 808 freebie is massively multisampled and uniquely integrated with Bitwig Studio – which opens up the possibility of playing bass lines on it or integrating it with modular patches in The Grid.
Create Analog OSes: someone booted MS-DOS from a vinyl record
Peter Kirn - November 23, 2020
DIY + Unusual Tech
KORG has a sneak peak of a new DX7-like FM synth – the opsix
Peter Kirn - January 17, 2020
Gear Music tech Stories Tech
If you’ve got $7500, you can also have an E-mu SP-1200 sampler remake
Peter Kirn - January 17, 2020
Gear Music tech Tech
Behringer 303 clones revealed: $149 street
Peter Kirn - November 11, 2019
Gear Music tech Stories Tech
The E-mu SP-1200 sampler is getting a reboot: SP 2400
Peter Kirn - June 17, 2019
Gear Music tech Tech
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