Sound Design and Composition

Thngs that interested me. Sounds, approaches and toys.

By ShapedNoise

ShapedNoise
Spent 2 years with a real one when first released. Sumptuous
Synthesizers
Arturia recreates Oberheim OB-Xa - and it's somehow even more massive - CDM Create Digital Music
cdm.link
May 19
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Hell yeah
DSP
Valhalla Supermassive - Valhalla DSP
valhalladsp.com
May 4
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Mac App Store
How to update your Mac to Mojave – not Catalina – for the new Logic and more
cdm.link - Peter Kirn
Unless you have brand new Mac hardware, it's likely you want to run macOS Mojave for now for greater compatibility. Here's how to do it (including …
May 15
ShapedNoise
Your Mileage May Vary
AudioGridder by Andreas Pohl - DSP Server Audio Units Plugin and VST 3 Plugin
kvraudio.com
April 23
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Electronic Music
Make Noise Introduce 0-CTRL Desktop Sequencer - Attack Magazine
attackmagazine.com
Make Noise have announced the 0-CTRL Desktop Sequencer, an eight-step Eurorack-standard tabletop sequencer for modular and patchable synthesizers …
May 8
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Kraftwerk
How Kraftwerk Helped Shape the World of Modern Music
nationalinterest.org - Adam Behr
Florian Schneider and Ralf Hütter: pioneering use of synthesizers in pop music.There are few bands whose influence was such that it can unequivocally …
May 11
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Web gigs.
Streamlabs is an easier, free all-in-one streaming app, now on Mac, Windows, iOS, and Android - CDM Create Digital Music
cdm.link
April 3
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At a time we have to stay seperate… THIS looks Useful
Audiomovers
audiomovers.com - Audiomovers LLC
Jul 19, 2017
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Some Fun Squoinks
Suss’ing the FREAK
shapednoise.com - kirke
January 15
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Yes!
My Moogfest set, made only with an iPhone
www.youtube.com
May 12, 2019
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Tom Whitwell - Mr MusicThingModular - Martin Yam Møller
martinyammoller.com - Author Martin
[Editor: I gotta preface this interview with the fact that I’m a very pleased that Mr. Whitwell has agreed to be interviewed. His blog, MusicThing, …
March 15
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That time in 1965 when a teen Ray Kurzweil made a computer compose music and met LBJ
cdm.link - Peter Kirn
At age 17, Ray Kurzweil – he of the “singularity” – wrote a pioneering piece of “AI” music software, and showed it off on a TV show with Steve …
March 3
ShapedNoise
These guys are RATHER BRILLIANT
Introduction to Smart Operations in Nova GE and SlickEQ
www.youtube.com
February 17
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Borderlands 3
The gold-standard granular app just got a huge update – Borderlands 2.1 for iPad
cdm.link - Peter Kirn
Borderlands was already a breakthrough – an instrument that lets you explore all the timbral frontiers of granular synthesis. “2.1” sounds small, but …
February 2
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This is one of the most fantastically useful music app on an iPad. Not just another fucking mini Moog. Totally ALL ABOUT TOUCH.
Samplr, the genius sampling app for iPad, is also getting a long-awaited update
cdm.link - Peter Kirn
February 4
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HEXO for Live is an arpeggiator transformed into a polyphonic compositional tool
cdm.link - Peter Kirn
Somehow, it started as an arpeggiator. But this Max for Live tool by K-Devices is now an advanced, polyphonic, polymetric tool for dreaming up …
January 2
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Synthesizers
Op-ed: KORG has transformed synthesizers by letting them run plug-ins, says Sinevibes
cdm.link - Artemiy Pavlov
No new ideas in synthesizers? Not so, says independent developer Artemiy Pavlov. He was excited enough about KORG’s direction that he’s written about …
Nov 20, 2019
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Machine Learning
Deezer’s Spleeter is an open source AI tool to split stems, for remixes or … karaoke?
cdm.link - Peter Kirn
The real power of machine learning may have nothing to with automating music making, and everything to do with making sound tools hear the way you …
Nov 21, 2019
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Death Metal
HUMAN EXTINCTION PARTY is all the AI-generated gore and death metal you can stream
cdm.link - Peter Kirn
If we’ve learned one thing about artificial intelligence, machine learning, and music generation, it’s that AI makes some damned fine death metal.I …
Nov 11, 2019
ShapedNoise
Word!
White Privilege and the Electronic Music Artist – BELP shares one European take
cdm.link - Peter Kirn
Nov 7, 2019
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Useful! Also, subscribe to CDM. 👂🏼🙃
Blackhole routes audio between Mac apps, even on Catalina, as ideal Soundflower alternative
cdm.link - Peter Kirn
Oct 28, 2019
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Listen.
Apps
Listen to ambient sound from around the world, recorded with a 4’33” app
cdm.link - Peter Kirn
Oct 31, 2019
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Autechre streamed a 12-hour set live on Mixlr Sunday; listen to all of it
cdm.link - Peter Kirn
With eclectic sounds ranging from experimental hip hop to IDM, the legendary Warp act seems to have made an unexpected virtual DJ appearance over the …
Oct 15, 2019
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Quick! This ffmpeg cheat sheet solves your video, audio conversion needs, for free
cdm.link - Peter Kirn
Video, audio, convert, extract – once, these tasks were easy with QuickTime Pro, but now it’s gone.ffmpegto the rescue – any OS, no money …
Oct 11, 2019
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VCV. Braids mutable
What are all the synths hiding in Mutable’s modules (and their free VCV ports?)
cdm.link - Peter Kirn
Oct 2, 2019
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This is BIG.
LiveCore is a free low-level, live patching for Reaktor
cdm.link - Peter Kirn
Sep 20, 2019
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Less IS MORE.
How focusing on one tool cured writers block, and made one sharp, chilly, ‘stoic’ EP
cdm.link - Peter Kirn
Sep 17, 2019
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Please stand up.
Bob Moog with imposters on a 70s game show is one of the best things ever
cdm.link - Peter Kirn
Aug 29, 2019
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Free
Music Production
Reverb are giving away their complete $841.58 drum machine sample collection, free
cdm.link - Peter Kirn
Aug 27, 2019