Pieces Vol. 2 or 4 seconds of Noise Into a Symphony

From the Intelligent Machinery site:

Pieces Vol. 2 is the second effort in a project designed to stretch the borders of incidental sound composition. The project invites participants to create new tracks using the provided set of four-second sound samples culled from various live performances.

Sounds like some fun.

There is some addition comment on the ccMixterblog.

Tech 21 Character Series or More Modeling Boxes

Tech 21 has come out with there character series. If you are not that familiar with Tech 21 there are the company that came up with the SansAmp which was one of the first and most successful amp modeling products. They have a pretty good rep. You have a lot of choice [...]

Radio Havana or More Boutique Redals

Heavy Electronics is another boutique pedal maker. There seems to be more and more spring up all the time. I think that is great. I like to make ‘em myself but if you are not into that why not have more choices. I why not those that [...]

Bent Plugin or circuit GUI

de la mancha has released a new freeware plugin bent. Me being a little bit of electronics tinker I of course love the GUI.

He describes it as:

bent is a circuit-bent resynthesis effect. It will recreate the incoming audio into an approximation of itself using a waveform-morphing audio oscillator. Depending on the volume and pitch [...]

Livid’s New Controller or Ohh! The Buttons & Knobs!

Livid Has this new fancy controller that comes in two flavors wood which I like(pictured) and metal. The surface is loaded this lots of controls as you can see so it can do all those things that you can do with lots of controls.

From the site:
Real-time MIDI Performance [...]

More Homemade Instruments or Bang the Propane

You can find more information and how to’s at his site. Including how to make a hang drum out of a propane tank.

Thing-a-day or Stick, Nuts, Eggs, etc.

Leap year is only making it hard up at thing-a-day ranjit is making a musical thing for ever day in February. This goes to show anything can be used to make music. You can find more of his wonderful weirdness at moonmilk.

Small Room Acoustics or Room For Improvement

I found a good article on small room acoustics from GCM Recording Studio. I know must don’t have the means or room for a professional studio in your home. There are some good point in this article that we all can use. The is some good sceincy explanation of the why [...]

C64 or the World According to SID

I just discovered C64 Music. It been around a few years and I wish I had heard of it sooner. If you like or have any interest in 8 bit music, SID chip or geek retro computing you must check it out. The is so much cool stuff.

Source Audio or Wave Your Hands Like You Just Don’t Care

Somehow I have missed these but Source Audio have cool effects. If you have missed them too you might want to check them out. Motion control is cool but combine with wireless operation makes them even cooler.