Vibrations, is the entry by director and animator David J. Nolan to the Red Bull film contest at Filmaka. The video features the 24/7 Family breakdancers and music by Tobias Peterson (Sum-1). The audio track, I Play Music, used in the Vibrations video was produced by Tobias several years ago as PsychoSID on Acid Planet, before he switched to the Sum-1 monicker.

GeoSuPhat, who uses the excellent free softsynth Oatmeal VSTi from Fuzzpilz that we wrote about last week, has provided us with a free bank of 64 presets to make available for download. The presets were created using the randomise feature of the Oatmeal interface, to show just how versatile the generator actually is. A very [...]

This video show the Aurora usb midi controller, DJ mixer running on open source software. You can build the device yourself or if your not into tinkering, just buy it. The controller itself is quite nicely assembled and visually appealing with the leds pulsating from the backlighting of the device.

Ableton releases a maintenance update for their Live 7 sequencing and recording software. Version 7.0.10 fixes several problems with the Live program, some of which were causing the program to crash. Included in this update were the following bugfixes: [...]

Mixxx is a free digital DJ mixing platform. Its open source software, a complete package with features for both amateur and profesional DJs alike. Fully featured with vinyl and MIDI control, can use multiple soundcards. The software is constantly being improved and updated. It was written by and for DJs with features constantly being improved based on users input.

Oatmeal by Fuzzpilz is another one of the top must have vst synths that is available for free. The designer is well known for his work with the Buzz Machines sequencer and its plugins. This is no exception and is a very complete and well thought out softsynth package. Oatmeal is a two oscillator polyphonic subtractive synth with a great sound and a lot of tweakable effects.

There have been quite a few new music releases in the last couple months from Sum-1, Der Basser and GeoSuPhat. All of the music on Togeo Studios is free and released under a Creative Commons license by Togeo Music. You are encouraged to download, share [...]

A video for the music track March Of The Sybots off the Mecanical Monkeys album release by Sum-1 (Tobias Peterson). The video was created with the free VJ software Visual Jockey.

You can get the video at Last.FM on Sum-1s video page.