The creation of chords and stabs remains one of the most frequently asked questions on music production forums. Specificly about those floating-around-your-head chords as heard in nowadays dubstep, dubtechno and related genres. The building blocks are actually quite basic stuff, nevertheless many people think way too complex. Let’s have a look. » read on!
October 13th, 2009 in Gear/Production
Tagged with Dubtechno, Music production
Good news everyone, the first public beta of Buzé (an attempt to develop an alternative to Buzztracker) is available after the huge core rewrite. Version 0.5.8 adds and changes a huge number of things. I didn’t check it out myself yet (lack of time, the redesign is still on first priority) but the changelog sounds promising. Can’t wait to have a play with it myself. » read on!
July 21st, 2008 in Gear/Production
Tagged with Buzztracker, Download, Music production
BeatEd is a 16 track, step sequencer style, sample based drummachine for Symbian S60 mobile phones. It’s freeware developed by suckho/byterapers and looks like pretty much fun. » read on!
June 19th, 2008 in Gear/News
Tagged with Download, Music production
Taking a day off from working on something and recharging your batteries can do miracles. You have a much better view on it, maybe fresh ears for mixing a track or ideas for final touches on a design. Around 8 years ago the DSP gods seemed to have a bad day and Oskari lost the most recent version of his sources for Buzz. Reasonable enough to drop the project. As it seems, he recently didn’t sleep too well – there was something still craving on his HD asking to be done…
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June 11th, 2008 in Blog
Tagged with Buzztracker, Music production
I’m a midi controller addict, i currently have 4 of them (Axiom61, BCF2000, MK225c & Drehbank) and if something new jumps around the corner it instantly raises my interest. Above combination serves all my needs for studio production and spinning as long as i don’t leave the house. Pity, the final word on the mobile frontier hasn’t been spoken yet and it’s like the industry doesn’t care much. Seems as there aren’t many DJs amongst those who layout midi controllers – or why in devils name does every recent controller have to feature a big and bold jogwheel? » read on!
May 13th, 2008 in Blog/DJing
Tagged with Music production
So, here’s the promised 808 for the awesome Hobnox Audiotool browser app. To add a little bit more spice they also introduced a compressor and bitcrusher stompbox. Thanks David Noel/Hobnox for coming around and passing the information. » read on!
May 8th, 2008 in Gear/News
Tagged with 303, 808, Music production
I recently ran into an awesome web application that may help you improving your music skills a lot – if you’d like to. Pity, should have discovered it years ago, i may have started to compose music rather than just pressing buttons… » read on!
April 21st, 2008 in Gear/Production
Tagged with Music production

ERRR WHAT? Insane! Above screenshot shows a little application called Hobnox Audiotool that runs in your browser. Yep, like, in your browser! April fool? No way. » read on!
April 2nd, 2008 in Gear/Production
Tagged with 303, Music production
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