Alesis offers free M1 Active MkII Studio Monitors

….with a purchase of any Fusion keyboard.
Awesome deal!

Offer available Here

Top Ten Drum Machines of all time

There is no real news of drum machine releases by main manufacturers on the horizon. With advent of computer based recording setup hardware, drum machines have not been in the spotlight as of late. A look on ZZounds and froogle is almost barren and a closer look shows that some of the top sellers are over ten years old. Is this a testament to great drum machine hardware? Or is the drum machine of a dying breed?
With that in mind I give you the Chip Collection - Top Ten Drum Machines of all Time
after the break…

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DIY Synthesizer Pages

I love the skull and cross bones warning text of the tube synth section:

Warning: The voltage levels in this circuit are lethal…

via make blog

Link

Guy makes awesome laser-whip sounds on rack synths

Check out this guy’s amazing laser sounds!

He’s using:

• Plan B VCO’s (warning has sound)
• MOTM Triple Resonator
• Doepfer A149

This makes me want to buy more analog gear and get creative by staying off my computer!

Click here for the video

Free discoDSP Highlife VSTi / sampler

This thing looks awesome!

From KVRAudio.com

discoDSP has announced that HighLife is now freeware. It previously retailed for $99.

HighLife is a “VSTi freezer” and Sampler. It loads into your VST Host as a VSTi but it also allows you to load another VSTi into it and then “Freeze” the current preset and save this as its own preset. You can then unload the hosted VSTi to free up resources. It features a sample editor, five built in effects, flexible modulation, parameter morphing and high offline resampling quality using 512 point SINC.

discoDSP

Free Phaser VST

KR Phaser version R.1.1.0

Looks like it does all the normal phaser functions. I always love free plugins, even if its for Windows.

Available at K Research

JX-8p Reason Refill

JX-8P Complete Reason Refill 2.5 GB
Now available in the Chip-Store!

Buy Now

5.1 Channel Surround in Reason

A quick tutorial on how to set up 5.1 audio mixes in Reason.

• Features quadraphonic reverb & pans.

My wish list for Reason 4 would include better surround support, but this tutorial is pretty cool until then.

Also on my wishlist for Reason 4:
Optical Audio plugs on the back, so I don’t have to keep wiring stereo channels.

From Reason Freaks Click Here

Ferrari Pixel Project - Now Live

My side project Ferrari Pixel Project has gone live. It can be accessed at www.ferraripixel.com or www.ferraripixelproject.com.

Click Here to visit the site.

Its like million dollar homepage, but its 5x its scale. The Ferrari Pixel project culmulates into a real world art project:
A Ferrari F430 will be completely covered in pixels that anyone can purchasefor $1 each on paypal or by check. It offers permanent web space & car space as well as more oppurtunities for big businesses!

Not only will you be participating in the most expensive collaborative art project ever, you will be making a kids dream come true.

Click Here

Anthology 2

I have never used Anthology before, but any release optimized for Intel Macs is a good thing!

Eventide say that this new Mactel upgrade will allow users to take full advantage of Apple’s newest computers, including the Mac Pro with quad-core architecture, for faster processing speeds when operating the company’s digital plug-ins.

Click to Read Sonic State Article
Check Out EvenTide (what a crummy page!)

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