Chase Bliss shared this preview of the Generation Loss MKII – a sort of “Boards Of Canada” hardware effect, described as “a study of tape in all its forms.”
It’s inspired by the sound of VHS tape audio.
“We decided to start from scratch this time and really explore what tape is all about,” they note. “We took apart VCRs, we analyzed anything we could find with a tape in it, from camcorders to cassette decks.”
Features:
Explore different tape models and find your match.
Introduce unpredictability with the customizable Failure knob.
True stereo I/O, with unique failure-based stereo spread.
Flick back to classic mode at any time.
Generation Loss MKII also features advanced connectivity and customization options, including MIDI, CV and Expression control, presets, and internal modulation of any or all its knobs.
You hum it, Deezer will play it: music streaming service says that it can now identity those songs that are stuck in your head.
It is a common problem. You have a song that you can’t get out of your head (like the one by Kylie Minogue) but do not know what it’s called so can’t listen to it. Where to turn?
The answer is Deezer. A new ‘industry-first’ feature for Deezer’s SongCatcher function, as the music streaming service has just added a ‘humming feature’ to its SongCatcher function. This is designed to identify those unknown earworms just by humming, singing or whistling into your phone.
“Everyone knows how frustrating it can be to have a song stuck in their heads, and we’re very proud to be the first music streaming service in the world to give our users the opportunity to identify a track by just humming, singing or whistling it directly in the app,” said Alexandra Leloup, VP Core Product, Deezer.
“As we keep improving the algorithm, the feature will become faster and even more accurate when it comes to recognizing songs across our 90 million track library.”
After Later Audio (ALA) has introduced a new series of Eurorack modules that are clones of classic Mutable Instruments designs.
MIC line currently includes:
Resonate – a full-size hardware replica of the Mutable Instruments Rings module:
Dice – a replica of the Mutable Instruments Marbles module; and
Cumulus – a replica of the Mutable Instruments Clouds.
Other Mutable Instruments clones are planned.
Mutable Instruments’ founder Émilie Gillet recently announced that there will be no new modules from the company and that production of existing modules is ending.
MI modules have been released with open-source licensing, though, which means that other companies can make clones or derivative works, like the virtual Mutable Instruments modules in VCV Rack, the Behringer Brains and the Arturia MicroFreak.
