Molten Music Technology Blog

A bit later than advertised this is February’s music tech news including my favourite announced at NAMM and things since. Products released pre-NAMM will appear in the January edition. I also talk about the Thomann Synth Reactor event to which I appear to be invited. Check the timings below.   Podcast Version   Video Version   http://www.moltenmusictechnology.com http://patreon.com/robinvincent Intro – 0:15 Thomann’s Synth Reactor – 2:15 Behringer Crave – 5:45 Arturia MicroFreak and Audiofuse Studio – 9:58 Make Noise QPAS – 15:26 Rossum Electro-Music Trident – 17:14 Steinberg AXR4 – 20:00 Native Instruments M32 and Audio 1 and 2 – 21:05 Stylophone GEN R8 –Read More →

As NAMM hots up I thought I’d get this in early and do a proper round-up next month. This month Korg pull out all the stops with two new Volcas, a new Minilogue and Gadget 2.0. Nektar get into the virtual instrument action with Bolt – Akai Force a new music production box on us – Casper’s Dark Matter module gets released – Erica Synths put plasma distortion into Eurorack, Mind Music Labs ELK still hasnt turned up in anything useful – Audient release a guitar focused audio interface and the so do IK Multimedia – Stylophone have another go – Bitwig Studio goes completelyRead More →

A yummy selection box of new releases to talk about this month. Things like Chronoblob 2, Arturia Pigments, Prok Drums, Complex-1, Elephant and Chameleon, Mr Typo, CRAFTsynth, Voltage Modular, SampleTank 4, TRK-01 Play and Behringer. Podcast version http://moltenmusictechnology.com/podcast/mmm-dec2018.mp3   Video versionRead More →

Coming up this month we have the Muton is probably the most useful module I’ve come across, Tracktion build a sampled instrument of the Behringer Model D, we get lost in the never ending grey of Alpha Forever, Grid has us snapping together MIDI controllers, Joué give us a rubber grand piano, Cubase hits version 10, Stagelight hits version 4, Lancinantes drones on and on, Birdkids give us the best synth called Raven since Quasimidi, Lots of FM action with WaslioFM and Flow Motion while Dtronics adds knobs to Yamaha Reface DX, Haken Audio ContinuuMini is a MPE solo strip, we climb into a virtualRead More →

Lots of fascinating stuff to talk about this month. People go polysynth crazy over the Moog One, Akai fire up a controller for FL Studio, M-audio and Fluid Audio release audio interfaces with nice big knobs, Soundbrenner come up with the ultimate musicians utility watch, TouchAble Pro makes the leap to Windows, Riffer makes your DAW sequencing feel more analog, and Novation put analog style sequencing into a controller keyboard, MINI-MU lets you sew your own chiptune controller gloves, Pipes brings massive sample instruments to hardware, we have a super bunch of synths from AtomoSynth, GS Apollo, Analog Fusion and Future Sound Systems and 4MSRead More →

It’s all been a bit suspiciously lively this month. The kids have gone back to school, autumn seems to be making it’s mark and we’re a month away from getting a heating system installed in our house. But no matter, what’s been going on in music technology, synthesis, software and hardware? Podcast version: http://moltenmusictechnology.com/podcast/mmm-sept2018.mp3 Erica Synths release their still not quite finished Techno System – Vladimir gives us a new version of the dazzling Euclidean Circles and we all pretend to know what that is – Audiophile Circuits League take on the awesome Sinfonion – Native Instruments release a whole bunch of stuff – Endorphin’sRead More →

Amidst the August Bank Holiday madness I bring you a sand baked and heat stroked Molten Music Monthly. It turns out that playing with your balls can actually be a musical instrument – Tracktion release version 7 for free and secretly make some cool software instruments – Percussa SSP takes on VSTs – Folktek grow more modules in their garden – Aeolin Meditation chill into complex additives – CYPHER 2 and CRUSHER X embrace MPE – Apogee add their voice to tax concerns – Strange Science Instruments try to tell us why – ModulAIR is a slightly dodgy but fun virtual modular and we findRead More →