9 Jun, 2022
The New England Synth Fest has announced a summer series of live electronic music performances. The shows will be performed in the immersive full dome environment of the Charles Hayden Planetarium at the Museum of Science in Boston.
This summer’s Synth Fest events happen on the second Thursday evening of each month, beginning June 9.
The June show will feature dome performances by Metal Tiger with visuals by Anagram, Jade Rose & Jame Coyne, and Violet Nox with visuals by DebStep, as well as lobby performances by Campos, Snowbeasts, and Oxalis. Tickets are $10 and can be purchased on the Museum of Science website.
The New England Synthesizer Festival calls itself “a loose-knit inclusive community of synthesizer hardware and music enthusiasts.” Since 2004, the group have been supporting exhibitions, meet-ups, performances, and education, all surrounding topics related to synthesizers. Their events are open to the public and welcome attendees with experience from beginner to expert. The June 9 SynthFest performance has sold out, but tickets for the July 14 and August 11 shows are still available. Find out more about the group and about the summer concert series, visit NESF website
9 Jun, 2022
Are you looking for a better alternative than buying dedicated DSP hardware?
Well, Audio is currently developing a platform that will enable you to harness this power in your DAW; in fact, it’s just released an early-access plugin that demonstrates how this technology can work.
GPU Audio promises to “dramatically enhance performance by offloading processing from a computer CPU to its GPU”. It is VST3-compatible and is said to work at extremely low latencies.
The platform is also upgradeable and scalable, with support for multiple GPUs. The theory is that, by harnessing the power that you already have, you don not need to invest in any kind of ‘walled-garden’ DSP hardware.
The early-access plugin is a convolution reverb and works on PCs with NVIDIA GPUs. AMD GPU support is on the way, though, as is a full beta suite of plugins, Mac OS support and even a new DAW.
Find out more and sign up on the GPU Audio website.
9 Jun, 2022
Have you seen foldable MIDI keyboards before! Meet the 88-note hammer action MIDI keyboard that breaks into backpack-friendly pieces
The Piano de Voyage Model B takes things a step further by being an 88-note hammer-action controller that can be broken into pieces.
The successor to the Model A, this splits into four keyboard sections, plus a master module that takes care of connectivity and also contains a sound module. Apparently, as well as the 88-note version, smaller 64 and 40 key models are also in the process.
Definitely portability is great, but that won’t mean much unless this instrument actually plays like a piano keyboard. You can sign up for development updates on the Piano de Voyage website.
