mmm-june-2017

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Welcome to the super summer hotness of the June edition of Molten Music Monthly. This is my round-up of everything that I thought was cool this month in the world of computer music, music technology and modular synthesis. So it’s software and hardware – interfaces and synthesizers – Eurorack and virtual studios – knobs and Surfaces the whole lot, in one place. Lots to get through this month so let’s get on with it. Text continues below the video:   Surface Pro If you follow my Twitter feed you may have noticed that something had gone terribly wrong with my preorder of the new SurfaceRead More →

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Welcome to the May edition of Molten Music Monthly. There’s no specials, shows or rants this month, it’s just good old music technology. So what’s been going on? Well, Reason embraces the world, Deckard has a dream, Windows gets a new version and Surface a new laptop, Modularism tries to curate some awesome music, Little One gives us a virtual fatty, you can get sound tattooed onto your body, Invasors gives us a decent synth for Kontakt and something is going on with MP3. Let’s get to it. Text continues below the video… Reason VST Support Well “Reason” and “VST” – two words I neverRead More →

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Superbooth is the coming together of synthesis manufacturers and enthusiasts for 3 days of intense electronic noise making. In only it’s second year as an independent event it has evolved into one of the most interesting and engaging gatherings on the music technology calendar. It’s an opportunity for independent modular and synthesis makers to demonstrate their products alongside the more established manufacturers. And, perhaps more importantly, it’s a chance for us users to get our hands and ears on some fabulous bits of gear. Check out the video for the full report.Read More →

Molten Music Monthly March 2017

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Hello! It’s spring! February is usually completely dead in terms of music technology product and this year it hasn’t disappointed – it’s very quiet. Something about the time between the NAMM show in January and the Musikmesse at the end of March. So there’s been bugger all to talk about. So instead, and in celebration of the YouTube channel about to hit 1 million views – wayhey – I thought I’d have a bit of a rant – it’s cathartic, healthy I think to give voice to the horror so we can move on with a spring in our step. You know me – everRead More →

Molten Music Monthly - January 2017 NAMM Show Special

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The last couple of years of NAMM have been a bit sort of “meh”. There’s always been a few cool new things to talk about but it’s often underwhelming. This year it’s all gone off in completely different directions. On the computer music side it’s even more “Meh” than usual – I’m really struggling to find anything interesting to talk about. I mean both Roland and PreSonus released new USB audio interfaces that look like everybody else’s. And Steven Slate thinks he’s invented the virtual studio. Then what? Well, just a couple of things I’ll get to in a minute. On the other hand, inRead More →

Molten Music Monthly December 2016

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This month we get very touchy feely with Yeco in my full review. We discover how to create the ultimate synth workstation with Gig Performer. You can build your own MIDI controller with Mine. I have a look at the only soft synth you will ever need with Vengeance Avenger. Cubase reaches version 9 and borrows some cool features. We get our glitch on with Timeshaper and Tim Exile gives us a machine with 5 years worth of loops in it with FLOW. We’ve also got the latest Molten Modular news and a couple of my best things of the year because there was someRead More →

Tweaking Windows 10 for music production

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Here’s my official guide to tweaking and tuning Windows 10 for music and audio production. If your system suffers from glitches, from clicks and pops in the audio then this is going to help you. It will smooth out audio playback, reduce latency and give you more of the CPU to run effects, instruments and beats. For best results you should combine your computer with a decent audio interface, with ASIO drivers. This guide was made using the Microsoft Surface Book but it applies to any laptop, tablet or desktop computer running Windows 10. Please make sure you are running the latest version of Windows.Read More →

Molten Music Monthly November 2016

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Thunderbolt has finally come of age on the PC and that’s mostly what I’ll be talking about. It’s caused a lot of confusion in the industry – to me as much as anyone – but the dust is starting to settle and everything is becoming clearer at last! In other news we have the continuing illuminated keyboard wars, ImageLine re-writes FL Studio Mobile for every platform, Unfiltered Audio give us an alarming amount of delay, Microsoft woo us with the Surface Studio and a nice big knob, IK Multimedia believe they’ve physically modelled the talent of a bass player, and we have some weird newRead More →

Molten Music Monthly - October 2016

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We’re checking out what was fab about the Roland 909 day, we have a shed load of pianos from Spectrasonics, an ultimate audio interface from Focusrite, weird vocal noises from Jussi, iZotopes Neutron is doing all our mixing for us, D16 conjure up some vintage delays with some weird bloke, Behringer get their Deep Mind all augmented, Keith McMillen K-Mix is finally released on Windows and Tim Excile tells us to take it slow with reverb for sloths. Modular But first. I’m going to introduce you to a new thing – I’m never short on ideas, just the time to make them happen. But anyway,Read More →