Both Bent and Alex from Transistorbass will be present at The Gathering, the worlds largest computer party, this easter. We will be acting as “mentors” for young and aspiring musicians, teaching them how to get the most out of todays digital tools as well as a few tricks-of-the-trade. If you are attending The Gathering, be sure to sign up for the mentor-programme!
Our friends in the excellent demo-group XPLSV made this really cool “Tron”-inspired invitation for the Blockparty demoscene event in Cleveland, Ohio this April. They wanted a track from Transistorbass to build upon, and therefore the tune “Zenith” was born. Most likely it will be available online in a short while, but we want to tweak the mix a bit first.
Check out the demo (and the track) below:
We were recently asked to make a track for a game teaser, which is now released - please check it out! The game is called Perpetuum, and it is a massive online multi-player game featuring robots, railguns, rockets and teleports - how cool is that?!
“Perpetuum is a massively multiplayer online role-playing game. It takes place on the distant planet of Nia, the discovery of which ignites a struggle for the acquirement and control of the undepletable energy resources found there.
Humans themselves are unable to reach the planet, but by infecting the local synthetic lifeforms with nanovirii, they take control over parts of the infrastructure.
The Agents of Perpetuum, selected and trained to this task, depart from their human form forever to conquer this new world. We’re taking off soon. Are you ready for the challenge?”
No news on the release date yet, but we have a feeling this will be a big hit in the MMORPG community. We’ll post the video here as well as soon as Vimeo is done encoding it.
Ok, if you’re into making electronic music, you absolutely need to get yourself a copy of Vibe-EQ: It is absolutely amazing!
http://www.stillwellaudio.com/?page_id=34 (there is a free version with a nag-screen, and the full version only costs $39 dollars, so get it now!)
Transistorbass at Elektrostat 2008.
Photo by Greger Stolt Nilsen (gregersn@gmail.com) - Copyright © 2008 Elektrostat
Transistorbass at Elektrostat 2008.
Photo by Greger Stolt Nilsen (gregersn@gmail.com) - Copyright © 2008 Elektrostat
So, we got some requests from people who wanted to know what the last track we played at Elektrostat 2008 was (the one we played while walking off stage). It is a track called Trashin’ and it features (almost exclusively) the wonderful piece of kit called the MIDINES which allows you to use the sound-chip in the NES (Nintendo Entertainment System - you know, that box you had under your TV in the 80s and earliy 90s :) with normal MIDI-signals to make music. It is just such a cool toy! Anyho, here is the track:
Trashin’ (Elektrostat 2008 walk-off track) by transistorbass
Do you know of TAL (Togu Audio Line) already? If not, you should. They make a suite of very nice VST and VSTi plugins that you can use in your sequencer of choice (Logic, Sonar, Acid, Cubase, ProTools etc.)
Our favourites include the U-No-62 (a very nice Juno-106 clone) and the BassLine (a sweet SH-101 clone). You can get some great sounding stuff out of these small (and again: free!) plugins, so if you’re into music making, be sure to take them for a test-drive.
