NOISE ENGINEERING BASIMILUS ITERITAS ANALOG INSPIRED PARAMETRIZED DIGITAL DRUM SYNTHESIZER Basimiuls Iteritas is a parameterized digital drum synthesizer with its roots in the analog world. At its heart it is a simple six oscillator additive synthesizer with adjustable waveform, harmonic spread and decay. Adjustable attack including a noise oscillator is also included. These are summed…

Amazon broke with tradition Monday and released some statistics on early adoption of its new Prime Music service. Although vague, the numbers seem to suggest Prime is off to a decent start. But, again, the numbers are vague. Launched June 12, Prime Music is a facet of Prime, a paid service that gives Amazon members…

The U.S. Justice Department is asking a judge to dismiss a lawsuit by Insane Clown Posse, which objects to a report that describes its fans as a dangerous gang. The government says the rap-metal duo from the Detroit area and its fans have no standing to sue. It also says it’s not liable for any…

With his These Days… album due out this week, Ab-Soul sat down with Complex to speak about the release, sipping lean, and including a Jay Z or Nas reference in each of his albums up to this point. During the interview, Soul also broke down his status as a T.D.E. artist and the misconception that…

Sting has opened up about death and drugs in a wide-ranging new interview with Daily Mail. In the lengthy feature, the music icon talks about the inspiration of his latest solo album, The Last Ship and the last conversation he had with his dying father – while also reflecting on his own mortality and how the ticking clock manifests in…

Last week, Kanye West, Steve Stoute and Ben Horowitz held court in Cannes, France as a part of the annual Cannes Lions International Festival of Creativity. In a seminar titled “Technology, Culture, and Consumer Adoption: Learning to Read the Cultural Landscape,” West prefaced his words by saying he didn’t want to make any “over-the-top statements…

Chuck D recently posted an image of a letter he received from Tupac Shakur. The letter, said to be written in 1995, features the following message for Chuck from ‘Pac: “I’m sure u know how highly respected & loved u R by me so your letter definitely warmed my heart. I was also touched by…

This series of videos, by Faxi Nadu, offers a modular synthesizer ‘crash course’. Nadu uses the Sonic Core Scope DSP platform, but most of the concepts apply to modular synthesis in general. Topics covered include building a 1-oscillator synth, a 3-oscillator synthesizer, noise, sync & chaos, waveshaping and more. [Synthtopia]

The highlight of last week’s American Association of Independent Music’s Libera Awards  was Bruce Iglauer of Alligator Records’ acceptance speech upon winning the A2IM Lifetime Achievement Award.  Here Iglauer, discusses the history and perseverance of Alligator, the many challenges facing the indie music community and the wisdom one can learn from “Tooter Turtle.” I am…

Here’s a cool plugin that you’ll find useful for so many reasons. It’s the Eventide Utrachannel channel strip that features a pair of dynamics processors that include an emulation of the famous Omnipressor, and a micropitch function from the Harmonizer. The plug also has a 5 band EQ, a gate, and a feature known as…