How´s Grandpa Soundstone doing? Some of you might have noticed, that the series about grandpa Soundstone hasn´t got new parts for some time. http://www.rofilm-media.net/web2018_094.htm Has the series – which was announced as “100 parts of making mistakes” - been cancelled after only 3 parts? No, it hasn´t. Grandpa Soundstone (aka Rolf Kasten) is already busy working on part 4. But it needed some conceptual changes. The series is still … … about crossing the borders between art and science … about learning and about documenting the process of learning … about the mathematcal, technical and physical foundations of music and sound … about coding software, which shall process sound … about building hardware modules to produce sound, to controll software and to operate other gear … about looking under the hood of computers, learning their structure and how they work in depth But the series won´t be a live documentation, a one...

CrusherX – Version 7 The new features of accSone´s granular processor will be unveiled at Suberbooth 2018 (3 – 5 May 2018). But some highlights have already reached the surface. (read more) CrusherX – Version 7 The new features of accSone´s granular processor were unveiled at Suberbooth 2018 (3 – 5 May 2018). The new version has got a formant filter to produce vowel-like sounds, it supports touch screen control and has a reworked user interface, the processing of parallel working generators has been optimised, new MIDI mapping functions have been integrated and 13 new modulation parameters – so called “Adores” have been added. I´ve produced a short video showing the new features: https://youtu.be/Dc2cLU19cs4 Let me quote what accSone´s page tell about the new version: “ Crusher-X version 7 will again present a couple of features that are unique in the world of granular synthesis: It introduces a grain formant filter mode with "a-e-i-o...