A few months ago, I was asked to work as a producer/sound-designer on a low-budget indie record. The artist intended to recreate a certain late ’70s/early ’80s vibe (think new wave meets electropop). My job was to capture the ‘sonic essence’ of that era. I thought it would be interesting…
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hardware reviews
Sonic Joy Awards 2017 – Our Best Of The Year
Welcome to the 2017 Sonic Joy awards! As you probably know by now, the Sonic Joy awards are our humble tribute to the music tech industry. It doesn’t pretend to be ‘the ultimate list’, but hopefully it will help you to discover some new tools and make awesome music!…
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Soniccouture and Chris Watson Together Again With Haunted Spaces – Xmas Sale Starts Today!
Great news from Soniccouture. Legendary field recordist Chris Watson (Cabaret Voltaire, anyone?) returns, 4 years after the release of the popular Geosonics library. Maori burial caves, ancient temples, cold war bases, deserted art galleries and many other creepy atmospheres morph together in this brand new vector synthesis instrument (powered by…
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Soniccouture Electroacoustic Review – Vintage Drum Machines With A Twist
Soniccouture is an outfit based in London, comprising of two talented chaps who started out making sample instruments for Yamaha and then creating Kontakt instruments in 2005. Dan Powell and James Thompson have since expanded the company outwards, and although the quality has always been excellent, the quantity of sample…
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Lumen – An Electronic Hang Drum With Soniccouture Samples On IndieGoGo
Guy Jackson, a software programmer from South Africa, had a dream: he wanted to make an electronic, hardware Hang Drum type instrument that would perfectly replicate the experience of playing those great instruments. He, like so many others, was frustrated at the lack of availability and high costs of the…
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Soniccouture Box of Tricks Review: Imogen Heap’s Sound World In A Library
Soniccouture’s Box of Tricks is an expansive sample library, the brainchild of a unique collaboration with Imogen Heap. If you are familiar with Imogen Heap’s colorful music, you probably know what to expect from Box of Tricks. Not only are there thirteen sample-based instrument modules – array-mbira, cello, cocktail-kit, tongue…