This video, via Chris Stack at experimentalsynth, captures synth designer Tony Rolando, synthesist/vocalist Robert Aiki Aubrey Lowe and sound designer/composer Richard Devine talking synth at a recent seminar at the Make Noise factory in Asheville, NC. [Synthtopia]

Music software maker Cakewalk has announced the availability of their vintage keyboard VKFX Bundle (designed by Overloud) for the ProChannel platform.Overloud VKFX is a virtual rack packed with “outstanding” models of vintage analog effect processors, especially suited for keyboard players. It captures the sound of the original masters, which were often the key element in defining…

Intellijel Designs has introduced the Dubmix Voltage Controlled Mixer Suite:   Introducing the DUBMIX , DUBMIX AUX expander, and DUBMIX MINI expander. This has been a long project and it is finally in production and should ship in a few weeks. We thought a lot about how a VC Mixer would work in a modular synth…

In the third installment of Techno Fundamentals, electronic music producer and Dubspot instructor John Selway continues the “one note lead” technique with Ableton Live’s Analog instrument. Selway picks up from the previous lesson, polishes the sound, adds effects, and some real time automation to start the arrangement process. Just in case you missed the previous…