A little while back I covered a track by a uk artist called Neko Neko. The track was a remix of Time by Pink Floyd from Dark side of the moon, with promise that the rest of the album was going to come out soon. Well I’ve been sleeping and the album, titled Orange side of the moon, has been released and is doing the rounds on the net. I have to say it’s grown on me enough to post it up here, which I usually don’t do.
Worth checking out if you like hip hop/trip hop stuff with a tip towards old school and 90′s hip hop and people like DJ shadow or Four tet.
Akai are feeling generous and have released a free module for Reaktor designed to work with Akai’s LPD8 drum pad controller. The module comprises of analog drum machine samples and is quite good so go download it for yourself and have some fun.
The nomome is in early development but if your the proud owner of a new launchpad download it and try it out. Don’t forget to rep Matt DiFonzo and send him any bugs you get. You need max/msp runtime and a virtual midi port to run it. All available for free.
E-mu are currently giving away their Proteus VX 2 synth, all you have to do is sign up for thier newsletter. Spam email address at the ready. Well worth a gander I think.
Proteus VX 2 is a sampling synthesizer so it could be useful for making some cool sounds. It runs in standalone and VSTI modes and comes with a composer bank with plenty of presets to get you going.
I’ve just upload a review of Togu audio line’s Tal bassline synth for your reading enjoyment. Tal bassline is an awsome synth that somewhat resembles the Roland SH-101 and is capable of some great baseline sounds. Its a stable plugin too which would make it great for live work and best of all it’s availble for free!
It’s nice to see a big music software company showing a little bit of Christmas generousty and in this case it’s Native instruments. They have relesed the Kore sound pack compliation Vol 1 which you can download for free. To use it you’ll need the free Kore 2 player which also has some sounds bundled with it. The sounds range from synthesizers, acoustic instruments, percussion, groove construction kits and multi-effects patches and are taken from 12 different Kore packs.
Kore free player
Although you might not like the sounds this will be a good way to test out Kore 2 which is aimed to be used live.
Emulating the Fender Rhodes piano is never an easy job but GSI have surpassed themselves and challenged the leaders in the market with this tasty offering. Article includes free download of plugin.
