miniMusic has released Pianofly, a music synthesizer and piano keyboard application for Apple’s iPhone platform. Pianofly pairs a live-scrolling, multi-touch keyboard with a FM synthesizer and a concise interface allowing anyone to create and edit instrument sounds easily. The first feature you notice in Pianofly is the scrolling keyboard....

Focusrite has released 21 new compressor emulations and one new EQ emulation for their Liquid Mix users. The compression emulations are based on two compressors. The API 2500 Stereo Compressor (serial number 001475), provides feed-back or feed-forward options and variations on ‘knee’ and ‘thrust’. The Millenia STT-1 (serial number...

Now we know where some punters get their moves… The movie above shows three excerpts of videos analyzed in this experiment by Patel, A.D. Iversen, J. R. Bregmen, M.R. and Shulz taken from their 2009 “study” Experimental evidence for synchronization for to a musical beat in a non-human animial – published online April 30, 2009. Each...

Clavia claims to have “hand picked some of the planet’s best synthesizer sound programmers to create their individual – and ultimate – Nord Wave sound banks. The mission was to bring out the big, bad synthesizer in the Nord Wave, and to exploit its unique sonic character to the limit.” The banks reflect the musical heritage and...

Due to a rub with EMI, Danger Mouse, the artist who launched his career with a brilliant mashup of Jay-Z’s “Black” album and the Beatles “White” release, will attempt to utilize online music file-trading to distribute his new endeavor with David Lynch, “Dark Night of the Soul.” For some reason that not yet public, EMI...