Everything about Sigma, synthesizers and music in general. http://sigmablog.studiomanus.com/ Wed, 08 Sep 2010 19:49:01 +0100 Active Blog by Active 24 www.active24.com Sun, 07 Jun 2009 18:37:00 +0100 http://sigmablog.studiomanus.com/26174/ Finnish  weekly radio show presenting electronic and experimental music has been online for 20 years! Spacecommander Jukka Mikkola celebrates this event by offering before unpublished music from several finnish artist on MP3 format in Space Junks web-pages. This offering is valid until 4th of july 2010 !!    http://www.yle.fi/radio1/musiikki/avaruusromua/   The artists are: Pekka Airaksinen, Corporate 09, Dystopia, E-Musikgruppe Lux Ohr, Hepa Halme, Koneveljet, Esa Kotilainen, Petri Kuljuntausta, Lackluster, Jussi Lehtisalo, Mac Mavis, Nemesis, Anton Nikkilä, Ozone Player, Pharaoh Overlord, Rihmasto, Tapani Rinne, Rinneradio, Esa Ruoho, Jarmo Saari, Sigma, Siniaalto, Niko Skorpio, Mika Vainio, Verde, Winterplanet, Jari Ylämäki, Zoät-Aon   /Manu sigma@studiomanus.com Sat, 05 Jun 2010 22:16:00 +0100 http://sigmablog.studiomanus.com/25959/ Photo-pages has all new design. Added photos from Echigoya Music that is a small musical instrument store in Tokyo Japan. I have never seen so many synthesizers in so small room. Check the photos here: http://www.studiomanus.com/Assets/Pictures/tokyo/index.html and here is the link to Echigoya (japanes pages): http://www.echigoyamusic.com/used/search3.cgi?CATE=Vintage   /Manu   sigma@studiomanus.com Thu, 29 Apr 2010 16:10:00 +0100 http://sigmablog.studiomanus.com/25958/ It is on the way to CDBaby and iTunes. New SOAM-pages are here: http://www.studiomanus.com/soam.htm There is also a free MP3 sample of the first composition in CD called "I Robot". This was inspired by i-Sobot robot that I bought from Japan. It is great ! It can play Air-Guitar ! Here you can find more information: http://www.isobotrobot.com/eng/demos/special.html     /Manu sigma@studiomanus.com Thu, 29 Apr 2010 15:54:00 +0100 http://sigmablog.studiomanus.com/25546/ Silence is over ! My first solo-project "Secret Life of Electronics" is almost ready. I assume it will be released in march/april. There are nine compositions about one hour music.     /Manu sigma@studiomanus.com Tue, 23 Feb 2010 16:13:00 +0100 http://sigmablog.studiomanus.com/24047/ BHAT is now online on CDBaby where it can be downloaded:     /Manu   sigma@studiomanus.com Sat, 12 Sep 2009 20:29:00 +0100 http://sigmablog.studiomanus.com/23950/ Finnish synthesizer wizard Esa Kotilainen has released (after 32 years) a new solo-record Turquoise Planet ! Esa is performing 9.9.2009 in Tavastia Klubi Helsinki. His last electronic solo-record was legendary Ajatuslapsi (1977).                                 /Manu sigma@studiomanus.com Wed, 02 Sep 2009 12:18:00 +0100 http://sigmablog.studiomanus.com/23757/ What amazing plugin from NUSofting (http://nusofting.liqihsynth.com/strings_dream.html)! This is virtual-analog string machine synthesizer. They have emulated octave-divider circuitry, BBD-delay ensemble-chorus, phat analog phaser and reverb. Everything is very easy to use and the sound is very FAT and ANALOG !! I easily created some Crumar Performer sounds with SDS. I have heard many classic string machines and I must say that this sounds so real that you no more need to power your real machines. Price is only $69 (50€) ! Manual is online and it has a great explanation of classic string synthesizers sound http://dashsignature.com/SDS/SDS_help.rtf.     /Manu sigma@studiomanus.com Thu, 06 Aug 2009 20:14:00 +0100 http://sigmablog.studiomanus.com/23610/     Radiophonic composition "Between Here And There" can now be listened on SoundCloud.     Between Here And There by Sigma   /Manu sigma@studiomanus.com Mon, 20 Jul 2009 13:55:00 +0100 http://sigmablog.studiomanus.com/23546/ This was a must to get hands on ! I am using a MAC and MOTUs Digital Performer DAW (and a lot of analog gear) so this was a logical purchase. Thats how I argued it to my wife ... Volta needs a DC-coupled analog-interface for converting audio-outs to control voltages. I am using a MOTUs 828mkII interface so also this was in order. 828mkII happens to have eight audio-outs so I can use eight simultaneous CV-outs. I also have ADAT-recorders so I can convert 828s ADAT-out to eight audio-outs so that gives a total of 16 CV-outs !     Volta has 24-slots where each can hold a CV-source. You can use a second instance of Volta-plugin for an other 24 CV sources. Everything is always in sync with the host software (if you want). What is great there are LFO and ADSR-envelopes in Volta so you can release your analog LFOs and ADSRs for some other purposes. Volta has an automatic CV-calibration tool for volts/octave or hertz/volt VCOs. This works amazingly good. I managed to calibrate my Korg MS10 for 8-octaves and SCI Pro1/Roland S100m for 7-octaves for pitch tracking. Amazingly I managed to calibrate my MOTM 320 VC-LFOs for 5-octaves tracking so I can use them as VCOs with Volta !     I tested also Voltas step-sequencer objects with my Korg MS10. It sounds dangerous close to my SEKU/MS10 combination ! You must select full-range in Voltas step-sequencers to get larger output CVs for MS10s pitch and cutoff control. In http://dvdborn.blogspot.com/ there is a good article how to control MS10 with Volta.   /Manu sigma@studiomanus.com Fri, 10 Jul 2009 15:12:00 +0100 http://sigmablog.studiomanus.com/23221/ Moog Little Phatty inspired composition on Gear-pages:   http://studiomanus.com/Assets/MP3/Moog_LP.mp3   All sounds are from Moog.   /Manu sigma@studiomanus.com Sun, 07 Jun 2009 18:37:00 +0100