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Ueberschall has released 8 Bit Stylez, a new Elastik Soundbank featuring low tech sounds for high level music.

The legend is back to consume your desires and take your feelings to the edge with fresh steps and tricks for your next mega mix. For serious gamers / DJ‘s/ producers.

We captured all the fire and modulations in the heart of SID‘s sonic arsenal. These sounds explode from the disk and gel onto your trax. From fast flashbacks to futurist attacks, you‘ll find the tools you need to squash the competition. C64 in every light, burned for the purpose of moving sound to new heights. Now as time moves forward, so does SID in an all new texture. The sound which is alive in all of us, evolves with us. But now these sounds are mapped out for you, and the game is pre-loaded. These samples are your secret codes and keys to move up to another level.

We feature 30 powerful energy-boosting Construction Kits to help you find and unlock the hidden motivation for your hit trax. In addition there are more than 1,000 unique SID synths, drums, vox, fx and grains with many styles and loops included as well.

The sound library for Elastik Player (VST/AU/RTAS) is available to purchase for 49 EUR.

More information: Ueberschall / 8 Bit Stylez

Prime Loops has announced its Arcade Flashback sample library.

Up your game with “Arcade Flashback”, the pixel pounding new sample pack from Prime Loops. More than just a nod to nostalgia, this retrospective take on old skool game sounds emulates the golden age of the arcade, bringing the 8-bit orchestra back to life!

K.O every enemy with this array of pulsating pings, rising chimes, percussive punches, frenetic fuzz and flipped out glitches! Scoring a mighty 350MB+, “Arcade Flashback” will reward you with some classic 8-bit crunch in blistering 24-bit clarity. Stretch and squeeze any of the loops and samples in this pack to any desired tempo and the quality will remain totally uncorrupted!

If you’re looking for a sample pack that blasts the past straight into your mix, “Arcade Flashback” is the name of the game – take control now and allow this fusion of classic and new sounds to leave you well and truly wired!

The sample pack is available to purchase for £19.95 GBP.

More information: Prime Loops / Arcade Flashback

Some interesting things I found recently:

# PERSPECTIVE LYRIQUE via Make:Blog

An interactive architectural mapping.
Fete des Lumieres / Lyon / France / 2010

A mapping by 1024 Architecture, projected on the facade of former Lyrical theater the “Celestins”. The building deformations and figures were controlled by the audience, using a microphone and an audio analysis algorythm.

More info at 1024architecture.net and 1024d.wordpress.com

# Thumbs Up for Madrona Labs AALTO Software Synthesizer (Modulate This! – A Blog for Electronic Music Artists)

Mark Mosher shares some info on the Aalto semi-modular software synth.

Peter Kirn over at Create Digital Music did a post on a new synth by Madrona Labs last month. Even though I wasn’t in the market for a new synth right now I ended up buying this Aalto within an hour or so of downloading the demo so I wanted to pass this along and help promote Madrona’s great work. At $99 this is an incredible value.

# Flickr: LEGO Album Covers via wire to the ear

# Talking About The Upcoming Sound Packs With Elliott Fienberg

Nick of Nick’s Tutorials:

I just finished recording a really enjoyable conversation with Elliott Fienberg, the man behind the Wobble Tech Radio podcast.

We chatted about some recording industry news and talked a bit about my upcoming Ableton Live packs that I’ll start releasing in the next month or so.

Check out the recording here, and be sure to check out Elliott’s other episodes: http://mixlr.com/mrtunes/wobble-tech-radio-10-with-the-ableton-tutor

# Open-Source Rockit 8-bit Synth Kit Coming

Peter at Create Digital Music:
Chicago-based hacker and synthesist Matt Heins is working on an open source synth kit. As a co-creator of the MeeBlip open source-synth hardware, I’m biased — I want more open synth hardware! So this is looking like some great company. The instrument is 8-bit, with analog filter circuitry, coded in C.

AfroDJMac has released Nintendo Rack, a new download in a series of free Ableton Live racks.

Dirty, lo-fi, 8-bit, nostalgic. This weeks Ableton Live Rack was created with the sound card of a Nintendo Entertainment System. Maybe it’s just because I grew up spending more time playing video games than I’d ever admit, but the bleeps and blips that come from this magical machine have a warmth and familiarity that hits home. The samples that make up the virtual instrument were made by connecting a MidiNES cartridge to a Nintendo and sampling certain notes.

The Nintendo Rack for Ableton Live is available as a free download from AfroDJMac.

More information: AfroDJMac

Simple-Media has released retro-gsx and Cathedral, two new virtual synthesizer instruments for Windows.

A new addition to the retro-gs series of instruments with a completely new build, retro-gsx offers even more SID inspired chip sound goodness thanks to the built in ‘advanced wave sequencer’. Capable of recreating an incredible range of authentic SID sounds, easy to use, versatile and powerful. If you liked retro-gs01 and want even more creativity or you are just looking for a VST instrument to recreate those classic 8-bit sounds then look know further than retro-gsx.

Cathedral is a new approach to the task of recreating the sound of a pipe organ. Rather than use a large sample library, Cathedral uses a hybrid analogue synthesis and physical modelling approach to create an ultra-flexible instrument without a huge file size and with reasonable CPU performance. Cathedral offers up to 6 programmable, 4-level stops that can each be set to 1 of 3 pipe types and any 1 of 14 different footages. Cathedral includes a built in reverberation unit, essential in recreating an authentic pipe organ sound and additional filtering and modulaion to enhance the sound even further. Cathedral is presented in a beautiful and easy to use interface to allow for intuitive programming.

retro-gsx and Cathedral for Windows (VST) are available to purchase for £10 each.

Simple-Media has also released two new freeware instruments: Striker and Voc-Two.

Striker is a physical modelling instrument created to reproduce the sounds of various types of tuned percussion such as marimbas, vibraphones and other instruments where a hammer or mallet strikes a block.

Following on from Voc-One, Voc-Two allows you to create realisitc string ensemble and choir sounds without the use of samples. It includes a wide range of controls over the source sound generation and the morphable formant filter making it a surprisingly flexible instrument for creating rich and atmospheric pads and realistic ensemble sounds.

More information: Simple-Media

Plogue has released version 1.5 of Chipsounds, a virtual synthesizer which authentically emulates vintage 8bit-era sound chips.

The most advanced 8-bit sound chip emulator is doing even more to save endangered sound chip species!

In addition to having a totally new Interface and improved sound authenticity, Plogue is saving 3 new sound chips from extinction and adds many additional features.

Changes in Chipsounds v1.5

• Totally different skin (fits on all monitors and ebooks).
• Current mixer strip is always available.
• You can now enter some values using keyboard.
• New Amplitude LFO added.
• Two asignable drawable user LFOS.
• New: uPD1771C (as used in the Super Cassette Vision).
• New: uPD65010G (as used in the PV-1000).
• New: M5232 (as used in the Poly-800).
• DMG-01′s wave channel now has extra phase modulation (Pmode) and vertical offset (VPOS) settings.
• Added new MIDI Delay Module.
• Added Swing to Arpeggiator.

Chipsounds is available to purchase an instrument plug-in for PC and Mac (VST/AU/RTAS) for $95 USD.

More information: Plogue / Chipsounds