Introducing Korg Volca FM, Ableton Loop to return in November, and tributes paid to Prince.
“Exceptionally talented, with a vision for his music that bordered on obstinacy.” The Guardian‘s Alexis Petridis pays tribute to Prince, who died yesterday aged 57.
Introducing Korg Volca FM. The latest edition in Korg‘s Volca series is a three-voice digital synth, reproducing classic FM sound engines, and featuring a 16-step sequencer with pattern chaining, making it easy to manipulate distinctive FM sounds. See designer Tatsuya Takahashi introduce it in the video above.
Snookerstar DJ Steve Davis. A mini documentary from BBC Music marking this year’s Record Store Day follows snooker legend Steve Davis swapping snooker balls for decks, as he meets techno artists and fans during the build up to his set DJing at Bloc Festival earlier this year. Watch it here.
A Free Limiter Plugin From D16. Available free to registered D16 users, Frontier is a new limiter plugin with a simple and clear interface and excellent sound quality, which can be used as very transparent mixing or mastering limiter, featuring optional soft clip and a self-adaptive algorithm for automatic gain makeup. Find out more and download here.
Ableton Loop to Return in November. Taking place in Berlin, 4-6th November, Ableton invites like-minded music-makers to the second annual Loop conference, scheduling another programme of talks, lectures, workshops on music production, as well as inspirational live performances. Sign up to receive email notifications about tickets and program updates here.
OTO Machines’ New BAM Reverb. OTO Machines introduces its BAM Space Generator, a stereo reverb processor featuring 7 highly musical algorithms inspired by, and built from the same technology as, vintage 70s and 80s digital reverberator units: 16-bit converters, 20-bit fixed-point processing, analogue filtering, and an input transformer transient simulator. Watch the official video intro above.
Novation Circuit Components. Novation‘s Circuit Components is a suite of free tools for expanding the Circuit hardware groovebox, giving you all you need to design, create and customise your own unique instrument with sample import, a complex patch editor, and a librarian that backs up a Circuit for recalling sessions. To use Circuit Components, update your unit to the latest firmware, v1.2, here.