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There’s a disturbing amount of free sound-making stuff out there, enough to clutter up your VST folder and make you forget where you put that multi-tap delay you wanted. It’s a beautiful thing. So, as a regular, erm, public service, I’ll be semi-regularly rounding up some of the free instruments and effects appearing around the Interwebs.
This week: a brilliantly deep reverb, plus everything from a beat box (as in human beat box) to a motorcycle simulator.
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We’ve seen QWERTY keyboards recycled into various music controllers, but here’s a DIY project that makes actual sounds:
A home-made synthesizer based off of an old function generator and a standard qwerty board. Three wave types–sin, square, sawtooth–and HI+LO outputs. It connects to the keyboard with a stereo 1/4″ cable (TRS) so new controllers can be made.
QWERTY Keyboard analog synth [Matrixsynth]
Funny: after all these years of talking about how great dedicated music controllers are as a way of getting away from your standard computer input, people just keep finding ways of reusing that input. Previous examples:
QWERTY Keyboard Instrument: Samchillian Tip Tip Tip Cheeepeeeee
Custom USB Keyboard for Controlling Ableton Live
Pimp my Ableton Controller: Custom Keyboards, Custom Paint Jobs
… and, for your feet:
Get loopy with the DIY $10 Ableton Footcontroller (no soldering required)
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Correction: the South by Southwest Music Festival in Austin is not making a preview of all the bands playing the festival this year, so someone else has done it for them (Thanks, Wells in comments, for setting me straight). But, hey, perhaps this not-so-kosher torrent will lead you to some good music — or, best of all, motivate you to go hear someone live. I’m sure somewhere in there there’s even an electronic artist or two. You’ve got 700 songs — nearly 4 GB of stuff. Just get ready to hit the “skip” button to find the stuff you like.
Use it as a preview of what you want to hear if you’re lucky enough to be going to Austin, or use it as a free virtual South by Southwest and save on the hotel, air, and pass costs.
SXSW Showcasing Music Torrents
via: South By Southwest (SXSW) 2008 700 Song Torrent [GarageSpin]
In fact, if you are going to Austin, let me know — I’d love to have a write-up of the music portion, as I’m going just to interactive / film / gaming.
Photo: Hometown Invasion Tour.
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At long last, the Yamaha Tenori-On, the unusual sampling/sequencing instrument bestrewn in light-up buttons, is getting its worldwide release.
And it’s going to be an amazing party.
Launch cities:
The tour kicks of in Frankfurt first on March 12, then hits the other towns April 8 - 25, finishing where the Tenori-On was born: Tokyo.
Launch artists:
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