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MicroKits owner and inventor David Levi – let us know about an unusual analog synth he created, the Synth-a-Sette.

The Synth-a-Sette is described as “Part synthesizer, part cassette, all analog sound”. It’s a pocket synth that you can play with your fingers on touchpads. But it also comes with alligator clips that you can attach to the touch pads and then clip onto fruits, forks and other conductive objects, so that you can turn them into musical instruments.

“My instrument might be more on the ‘beginner’ or closer to the toy side of the market,” notes Levi, “but I think this is a good way for people, especially students, to get their hands on electronic music. There’s two different ways to get creative, all in a package that fits in cassette case!”

Here are a few more examples of the Synth-A-Sette in action:

 

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About The Developer:

The Synth-A-Sette was created by musician and inventor David Levi – about 10 years ago he created a unique instrument, the Magnetic Cello.

After a few years working in the toy industry at Hasbro and Mattel, he started his own company in 2020, MicroKits. His first product was a STEM (science, technology, engineering and math) theremin kit that lets kids build an instrument from individual electronic components.

He notes, “After the success of the theremin kit, I was able to put resources into designing the Synth-a-Sette. It took more than a year and a dozen prototypes to create the final synth, but I’m really happy with how it turned out.”

The Synth-A-Sette is available from Amazon and directly from MicroKits for $49.95.

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Soundiron has Sitarion, an electric sitar virtual instrument for Kontakt.

What they say about it:

“Sitarion is a powerful virtual electric sitar library designed to harmonize tradition and innovation. Chithrinie Nirupama sampled her beautiful custom sitar built by luthier Sanjay Rikhi Ram Sharma. This library fuses the timeless characteristics of the sitar with modern advances of recording techniques, mapping, scripting, and playability.

Sitarion is the complete package: rich, deep multi-samples and a vast collection of live performance phrases. It includes plucks recorded with 6 velocity layers and 12 round robin for every note possible on the sitar, as well as the Chikari and resonant strings. Sitarion also has many ornamental articulations: hammer-ons, meends (slide/bend) both up and down with semitone and whole tone varieties, and krinthans (a special Indian technique combining hammer-on and pull-off). These special articulations have multiple dynamics and varying speeds. All multi-samples include both damped and open variations.

The library also comes with over 3000 live performance phrases spanning 6 different BPMs and 6 roots, utilizing a wide range of keys and scales. Our flexible GUI gives you access to real-time articulation selection and performance features, key-switch and mapping options, arpeggiator, phrase sequencer, and full FX rack, all packed into an intuitive and customizable user interface.”

Audio Demos:

Sitarion is available now, with an intro price of $79 (normally $99).

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This video captures a live performance of the Terry Riley classic, In C, played by a group of 11 musicians, using various instruments from the Swiss Museum and Centre for Electronic Music Instruments (smem) collection.

The October 8th, 2022 performance was the closing night of the exhibition Patterns, Loops and Textures. On Minimalism and Electronic Music, held at bluefactory, Fribourg, Switzerland.

Terry Riley’s In C, from 1964, is one of the most popular works of musical minimalism. The piece is for ensembles of any size, and consists of 53 musical phrases, ranging from half a beat to 32 beats, that you can play any number of times, but you try to stay within 2 or 3 phrases of the other musicians in the group.

Musicians

• Julie Milani: Sequential Circuits Prophet 5
• Timothée Verheij: Arturia Microbrute
• Arthur Holliger: Yamaha DX-7
• Isabelle Vauthey: violin
• François Aubort: clarinet
• Laurent Steiert: Buchla modular
• Emmanuel Küng: modular synthesizer (noise and percussions)
• Christopher Curtis: modular synthesizer (bass)
• Christophe Lesimple: Roland SH-101
• Lucien Müllener: drums
• Mikael Dürrmeier: arranging & direction, live mixing & sound spatialization, samples & Arturia Drumbrute

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