Korg’s new masterpiece when it comes to putting out the right product in the right look to the right price at the right moment. We just thought, that the Volca-series was more or less “over” – and suddenly this neat looking sampler is coming to us in winter 2014. Ah, one notice. You can’t directly sample with this one. But there is a iOS-app, that lets the transfer sounds to the hardware. So only a 0.75-sampler. The second drawback might be the low sample rate of only 31.25kHZ, 16-bit sampling.

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See it on pouet.net. Please download the demo, the original soundfile is included!

I am currenty evaluating “Syncthing” – the first open source implementation of the a decentralized file-sync system. Imaging it like Dropbox or BitTorrent Sync. This thing is an open source project, so you can peer into the source-code and compile it yourself. Since file-syncing is a part of the internet-infrstructure, I think it is really important to have this one open source!

The first test of Syncthing was successful and I can encourage everyone to try this out and have an eye at this project.

Hey, you want to check out this spacey-themed game, called “Futuridium“. It is instant fun, has got a neat futuristic design, a notable cool style, uplifting music – and it is a game that is hard. (Did you notice? We face a revival of hard games again. I guess also Flappy Bird did its part to this revival as well…)

The experts will notice, that this game is actually a remake of the good old game Uridium.

Cyril is a new tool, that enables you to live-code visuals. It is based upon OpenFrameworks, has its own, easy to learn syntax and it’s still early in development. I will definitely keep my eye on this.

Somehow I disliked most of “the other” live-coding tools like Fluxus or Overtone, because of the cumbersome syntax of the scheme/lisp-derivates.

PS: Did I mention, that I work on an own live-coding tool in Ruby with PureData as backend? Check out SuperSonic (still alpha) and get updates at my Nodepond-blog.

“Level” is an album from Disasterpeace from 2008 I almost overlooked. The sound is rough, but well thought-out, reminding me most of the time of soundtracks of MegaDrive games or the 16-bit era in general. Moody, opulent, but always with that extra-dash of Disasterpeace’s genius.

A nice blend of playing video games and music at the same time – or to be more precise: to use video-game mechanics as an extended input device to order to organize sound. An interesting concept to build upon!!

Here you’ll get the idea:

In the center stands also the Illucia patchbay controller – an limited and very nice looking controller. Get them, while they’re available.

Read the whole story at Creators Project. Via The Good Evil.