Microtuning Virtual Instruments - Part 2
This article is intended for computer musicians and composers who are getting started with making microtonal and xenharmonic music using MIDI controlled virtual instruments that feature full-controller...
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This article discusses some of the popular microtuning file formats and is intended for computer musicians and composers who are using MIDI controlled virtual instruments to compose microtonal and...
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Microtuning Virtual Instruments - Part 4
Back in 2005 I wrote a short TUN tutorial that was published on the Scala home page, which was originally written for the manual of the LinPlug CronoX VSTi. Since that time, Manuel Op de Coul (the...
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New Album: VA ~ Subversio (Dubbhism Deluxe)
Dubbhism, Split Notes and Xen-Artsproudly presents release announcement on dubbhism:VA ~ Subversio (Dubbhism Deluxe)VA ~ Subversio (Dubbhism Deluxe) by ~ dubbhism ~Other news...This week there will be...
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Xenharmonic FMTS VSTi 1.1 | Maintenance Update
Xenharmonic FMTS VSTi An FM Synthesis VSTi for the Creation of Microtonal and Xenharmonic MusicHas been updated to Version 1.1Enhancements and bug fixes: Added exponential response to the Filter 1...
View ArticleMelodyne inventor Peter Neubäcker (film portrait)
A video that should be of particular interest to musicians interesting in musical instrument intonation - aka - microtuning...Melodyne Editor 2.0 is simply one of the greatest technological and musical...
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IVOR | Microtonal Virtual Analog Synthesizer
New VSTi AnnouncementIVORThe Microtonal Virtual Analog Synthesizerby Xen-ArtsIVOR is a two-oscillator subtractive synthesizer that features full-controller MIDI Pitch Microtuning using MTS (MIDI Tuning...
View ArticleMicrotonality In Bass Music | Noisia
Noisia - Diplodocus (Kill The Noise Remix)Note the microtonal string lead during the breakdown in the middle of the piece.Fun track!
View ArticleVideo Art with Xen-FMTS
Here is an interesting video of exceptionally high quality, in which video artist and composer, Jeffrey Plaide, uses the Xenharmonic FMTS VSTi in the creation of the accompanying soundtrack.See more of...
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Other Time (2011) | Reloaded
It had been requested that some of the music previously available on Xen-Arts before the change of file-sharing services be re-uploaded, and in particular the Other Time EP. In preparation for doing...
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Split Notes | Sean Archibald - Sean but not Heard (2012)
Just in case Xen-Arts visitors missed it...Back in June there was a new full length album release on Split Notes by microtonal music Netlabel owner, Sean Archibald, entitled Sean but not Heard.Check...
View ArticleMusic made with Ivor from voyager25
The biggest payoff for spending innumerable hours producing freeware microtonal VSTi, is eventually getting to hear the music made with them.Check out the xenharmonic tracks, some of which apparently...
View ArticleBrendan Byrnes - Micropangaea (2012)
New sighting on the xenharmonic radar today...Brendan Byrnes - Micropangaea (2012)This is an amazing sounding record just out on the Spectropol Records label, from an extraordinarily talented composer...
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Tony Dubshot meets MK-Ultra ~ Klee in Dubb
2012 has produced an incredible crop of amazing sounding records, and the harvest continues with the new release from one of my personal favorite producers, the dubmaster, Tony Dubshot.Great xen-bass...
View ArticleAlio Die - Deconsecrated and Pure (2012)
Over the past couple of decades or so, there have been a number of noteworthy creative audio artists from the Italian electro-acoustic/soundscape/ambient scene, who have produced a large body of some...
View ArticleSonic Imprints
There is a sort of perceptual gestalt – an imprint or impression – that happens while listening to music, as the memory registers the various pitch heights of an given intonation system. It happens as...
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ZynAddSubFX | Microtuning Features Updated
ZynAddSubFX | Windows VSTi | Microtuning Features UpdatedFor Windows and Linux based computer musicians who may be new to exploring alternative intonation systems (aka microtuning, xenharmonics) and...
View ArticleSleepwalking
A highly microtonal inflected classic...Santo & Johnny - Sleep Walk 1959The definitive original.The Ventures - SleepwalkOne of my personal favorite renditions; perfection. Amazing bass, snare and...
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XenFont | Microtonal SoundFont & Subtractive Synthesis VSTi
New VSTi Announcement XenFontA HYBRID SOUNDFONT & SUBTRACTIVE SYNTHESIS VSTI FOR THE CREATION OF MICROTONAL AND XENHARMONIC MUSICBy Xen-Arts XenFont is a two oscillator, hybrid SF2 SoundFont &...
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Sean Archibald • day:dot EP
Xenharmonic composer and Split Notes label owner, Sean Archibald, has released a fantastic sounding new record on Faturenet Recordings, entitled, day:dot EP.Excellent compositions, sound-designs and...
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