Gesture control for Cubase, on the road with PMR Records, the Radiophonic Workshop returns and your chance to win a vintage Minimoog signed by Gary Numan.
Cubase iC Air gestural control. Steinberg has announced a free add-on for Cubase 7 which enables users to control various parameters through hand gestures. Steinberg also have the dev team at Intel on board, with plans to expand into speech recognition, individual finger tracking and facial analysis. Check out the video above, and get the app here.
PMR Records go into the valley. This documentary for Noisey follows the London crew and their signees Jessie Ware, Disclosure and Julio Bashmore to California as they prance around at Coachella.
Win a Minimoog signed by Gary Numan. The Bob Moog Foundation is raffling the Studio Electronics-modified vintage classic for $20 a ticket. Worth a punt? Try your luck here.
Monotone Delay ribbon synthesizer app for iOS. Justus Kandzi has released this cheap-as-chips Monotron-inspired app, available in the App Store now. Here’s a video demonstrating how it compares to the Korg Monotron Delay.
SFX keeps gobbling. Sillerman’s mega empire grows as he buys Major German dance promoter i-Motion for $21 million. The company operates eight festivals in Germany, Poland and Belarus. Who next?
Draw your own MIDI controller. Touch Board is an electronic routing board made using (conductive) Electric Paint and Arduino functionality. Developed by Bare Conductive, the project has well exceeded its Kickstarter target, but is still accepting pledges for pre-orders. Have a look here.
BBC Radiophonic Workshop on The One Show. The iconic collective, who have been enjoying a new spring of life after a 20-year hiatus, appear alongside Blue Peter alumnus Matt Baker, clearly terrifying him with their eccentricity and analogue gear. Then follows a delightful live performance of the Dr Who theme tune by the old electronic rockers. Watch it here (from 52 minutes).
Fairchild Tube Limiter plugin collection from Universal Audio. Building on UA’s 2004 Fairchild 670 plugin, they have improved the original Time Constants and gain reduction curves, and modelled the complete tube-powered amplifier and transformer for the first time. Upwards of $50,000 on the vintage market, these notorious compressor/limiters have been emulated for $299. More info here.
Linn and Smith join forces again. Roger Linn and Dave Smith, creators of the Tempest among others, show off the forthcoming Prophet 12 Rack being controlled by the Linnstrument. Check out the video above.