Developer Sanel Mittal let us know about Normal By Proxy, a free virtual band practice room, where you can jam online with your friends.
Normal By Proxy puts you in a virtual jam room – first person, with a bunch of synths and drum machines.
It’s free to play, without any sign-up.
“Just create a room and share the room number with your friends,” explains Mittal, “and start jamming on synced up machines while talking shit to each other through proximity chat.”
Normal By Proxy is available now, as a free, browser-based practice room.
In the video, sound designer and synthesist Ian Dixon introduces his free Korg MS2000 patch editor and librarian.
His Korg MS2000 Editor Librarian is a free, browser-based Web MIDI editor and librarian for the Korg MS2000. It’s designed to make it easier to manage patches, audition sounds, load SysEx banks and edit programs in real time.
Here’s what he has to say about the MS2000 Editor Librarian:
“The MS2000 is a brilliant virtual analogue synth, but managing lots of patches from the front panel can be slow.
This editor lets you enable Web MIDI, read the programs from the synth, save and reload larger patch libraries, load compatible MicroKorg SysEx banks, send sounds to the MS2000 without overwriting memory, tweak oscillator, filter, envelope, LFO, effects and motion sequencer settings, and try controlled randomisation for new happy-accident sounds.
Topics covered:
00:00 Korg MS2000 editor-librarian intro
00:31 Free browser-based Web MIDI tool
00:56 Enabling MIDI and choosing ports
01:08 Reading programs from the MS2000
01:34 Saving an MS2000 patch library
01:48 Loading compatible MicroKorg SysEx banks
02:22 Sending patches to the synth
03:00 Auditioning sounds without overwriting memory
03:27 Real-time editor overview
03:48 Oscillator wave selection and DWGS waves
04:56 Filter controls
05:14 Visual filter and amp envelopes
05:42 LFOs and virtual patch routing
06:11 Sending full edits, voice modes and effects
06:50 Motion sequencer controls
07:10 Randomizer and happy accidents
07:31 Naming, sending and writing patches
07:53 Making the MS2000 feel like a modern patch browser
08:05 More editor requests and outro
Dixon’s Korg MS2000 Editor Librarian is available now as a free, web-based application.
Reason Studios has released Reason Free, a scaled-down free version of Reason that provides provides a standalone version of the Reason Rack that runs inside compatible DAWs, on Windows and macOS.
The free Rack includes 15 devices, including synthesizers, drum instruments, effects, MIDI processing and routing utilities, including Europa, Kong, Monotone, Scream 4, The Echo, RV7000 MkII, Scales & Chords, Combinator, Pulsar and MIDI Out.
The Rack retains its modular back panel, allowing users to connect devices, split and merge signals, and create custom signal and modulation paths.
Reason Free is available now as a free download and can be kept permanently. There is no trial period, expiration date or watermark. The Rack plugin is available in VST3, AU and AAX formats for compatible Windows and macOS DAWs.
