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This Novation Synth Comes with Moroder’s ‘Stache and Shades
The synth renaissance has led to yet another interesting wrinkle: the limited edition celebrity synth. But before we get to that, apparently the first thing you need to know is that Giorgio Moroder really loves his Novation MiniNova. The little synth, with its vocoder and dial-up presets, has apparently followed him around on tour. Making […]
Read moreDaft Presets? Reason 7 Effect is Instagram for Music; How to Use – or Misuse It – and Why [Video]
Propellerhead’s latest cheeky tutorial makes no apologies. Reason 7’s Audiomatic Retro Transformer is, they say, the equivalent of tapping a filter on a phone camera app like Instagram, bundling lots of different sound attributes together into a single push-button setting. Ironically, their example is a send-up of the distinctive sound of Daft Punk’s poppy, fuzzy […]
Daft Punk Addendum: Help, The Computer Made Me Use Presets!
I hadn’t actually seen this quote from Daft Punk. I don’t want to beat this issue like a low-polygon future Derezzed horse, but I realized I missed a very important quote from Billboard. Bangalter: We really felt that the computers are not really music instruments, and we were not able to express ourselves using a […]
The Daft Punk Press Problem: Nostalgia for What?
- May 24, 2013
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