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Usine had been around for quite some time and always improving both the Pro and Free versions since it's beginning. Now Sensomusic has released Usine Stage. An in-between the free and the pro version product. Usine Stage is a reduced version of Usine Pro for advanced users. Some features are absent like VST exportation, the sequencer and the number of tracks is limited but Usine Stage is a good starting point to experience all the power of this software. So you feel limited with Usine Free? Try Usine Stage!

Corona is a 32 and 64-bit, virtual analog and wave synthesizer for Audio Units, VST hosts featuring 3 VA + WAVE oscillators, up to 14 combine modes between oscillators resulting in extensive timbres, 8 destination matrix modulations, 3 LFOs, 3 ADSR envelopes, unison, chorus, delay and limiter effects with high-quality sound and analog modeled filters using a straightforward and easy to use interface.

An algorithmic vision of perfection and precision. It’s Grade A class, Number One in its division. ValhallaRoom is a versatile, true stereo algorithmic reverb. It features several original reverberation algorithms (including the new Dark reverb modes: Dark Room, Dark Chamber, and Dark Space), and has been designed from the ground up to produce a wide range of natural reverberation sounds. Sounds range from tight ambiences and rooms, through traditional hall and plate sounds, all the way up to vast modulated spaces. The algorithm designs have been influenced by some of the “classic” room simulation boxes, as well as state of the art modern theory.

JEN SX3000 Kontakt instrument based on the strange little Italian mono synth of the same name. The Graphical user interface has been designed by renowned GUI designer Anders Hedstrom (Flavours of Lime) who has done an amazing job creating the front panels and user interface.

Whoah that was fast. Last week VirSyn announced their new Addictive Dynamic Wavetable Synthesizer for iPad. There was no promise of a release date. Today they have announced it's release with an introductory price of $5.99. Nice. Addictive Synth is available now through iTunes.

Din Sync shows how to use the Free SyncKontrol app from Korg with your modular synth. He explains that at the very least you will need to amplify the output and ideally use something like a Maths to control the pulsewidth of the clock, though it will work without one if amplified. It's really just a click sound. The signal is not very strong though so if you a feeling ambitious you can use the included schematic from Din Sync shown below to build a DIY noninverting amplifier.

VJ Franz K recently reviewed the new Korg MonoTribe in only the style that VJ Franz can do. The emphasis in these videos is on sound and tweaking. Throughout the videos is embedded text explaining features and what VJ is doing. Probably a good thing then to watch and listen to them and ask VJ questions later. Should you have any. He does a great job at showing the MonoTribe's potential beyond the mere tweak and toggle that all the other videos show.

Syntheticbits posted his latest video demonstrating among other things a multitasking beta version of the Little MIDI Machine app for iOS with FunkBox app handling master clock duties. The multitasking beta of Little MIDI Machine is synced up on the same iPad and sequencing two hardware synth parts on an SE Omega 2 synth using CoreMIDI through the iO Dock. To top it off he's got the Korg MonoTribe synced using Korg's SyncKontrol app on an iPod Touch, and is sequencing itself. Nice track. We hope to see more apps that support multitasking in iOS real soon.

Voices of the Ancients is an exciting release from ambient electronic musician Chad Kettering. For two years Kettering has been meticulously crafting a worthy successor to his debut album Into The Infinite. With Voices of the Ancients, Chad Kettering immerses himself into the history and culture of the ancient civilizations who inhabited the North American desert southwest. The ancient people of this mysterious land embraced a unique connection between life and survival within the harsh desert landscape and the powerful metaphysical forces that emanated from behind this world of form. Come explore and experience the powerful dynamics between form and spirit through the lens of Kettering’s latest creative artistic vision. Check out this promo video below and learn more about the film and Chad Kettering at http://www.chadkettering.com/

SampleTank® for iOS is the mobile version of IK’s SampleTank for Mac and PC, the leading virtual sound workstation for the studio, now available for your favorite iOS mobile device and designed for live performance. It is a 4-part multi-timbral instrument with a sound set of over 1 GB of samples for over 500 acoustic, electric and electronic instruments (including a selection of the best workstation sounds from SampleTank, orchestral sounds from Miroslav Philharmonik and synths sounds from SampleMoog) plus a selection of over 1,000 melodic and rhythmic patterns that span every musical genre. SampleTank for iOS brings the power of the most popular computer sound module – which has appeared in thousands of award winning records from world-class artists – to your iOS device

A Summer concert doesn't get any better than this. A leading figure in the UK's electronic music scene for over 20 years, Mark Jenkins has performed as a member of White Noise and with singer Arthur Brown and members of Can, Gong, Van Der Graaf Generator, and Tangerine Dream. He is the author of the acclaimed book and CD "Analog Synthesizers" and is the first musician in the world to release a CD created entirely on the Apple iPad.

Hosted by Kevin Kissinger and Shane Morris, the KC Regional electro-music festival encompasses all styles of electronic music, DIY instruments, performances, collaborations, and demonstrations. Free and open to the public for all ages.

VirSyn has introduced another new synthesizer for the iPad. Addictive Synth is a dynamic wavetable synthesizer. VirSyn's announcement offers the notion that it was never so easy to create beautiful sounds and driving loops. The unique dynamic wavetable synthesis allows you to explore an unprecedented wide range of sonic territory. From acid loops, crystal clear percussions, realistic human choirs to complex musical soundscapes nothing seems impossible with only a handful parameters to tweak.

Check out this nice slick video announcement about the new iRig MIDI from IK Multimedia. iRig MIDI is an ultra-compact standard Core MIDI interface for iOS that connects any MIDI compatible device to the iPhone®, iPod touch® and iPad®.

Just how whacky can folks take the synth world? Apparently with creativity and the ability anything can be made into a synth. TECH|DISOBEY|LAB created this spud powered synth and video showing a potato powered transistor oscillator with light dependent resistor, which gets its power from potato battery. Low power circuit is based off Forrest Mims light-dependent oscillator. More info and videos can be found at http://techdisobeylab.wordpr...

EpicSynth is a polyphonic synthesizer supporting CoreMIDI and Line6's Midi Mobilizer MIDI interface. EpicSynth was inspired by legendary analog synthesizers of the 1980s. It's designed from the ground up to be easy to use, powerful, and fun!

Whether you are an experienced musician or don’t have a musical bone in your body, you can make great music on your iPad Aurora is our pattern based musical sequencing software. By simply choosing a musical scale every note you play is in perfect tune, leaving you to make your own great sounding music.

Kyle Evans aka Yaktronix posted his latest video about his continuing progress on a digital synth project that he plans to start producing very soon. The synth will be reprogrammable from any computer and the code can be easily bent or created from scratch. It also has an LFO controlled analog resonant lowpass filter to fatten up the sound.

Sonivox get's it's Dubstep on by introducing Twist - Spectral Morphing Synthesizer, an innovative new approach to synthesis and sound design from SONiVOX's Nemesynth Audio Research Group. TWIST offers unmatched, yet almost effortless control over some of the most unique sounds you will ever design.

Zeromoon received the great honor of having a full episode of The Sound Projector dedicated to some of the music that we have released over the years. The setlist was curated by the braintrust behind The Sound Projector, Mr. Ed Pinset. The ZeroMoon edition was originally aired on July 15, 2011 and is available as a podcast from The Sound Projector's website. Since 2004, The Sound Projector Radio Show broadcasts live from London on Resonance 104.4 FM every Friday, 5.30pm-7pm. Usually hosted by Ed Pinsent, occasionally with special guests who bring their own records. Get the ZeroMoon podcast at http://www.thesoundprojector...