Craig Anderton created The Minimoog Tribute, an affordable expansion pack for Cakewalk’s Rapture and Rapture LE synths that “covers” the classic sounds rather than duplicates them, using his personal Minimoog. I interviewed him for CDM at NAMM and discovered that a portion of the proceeds from sales of The Minimoog Tribute go towards the Moog Foundation, a charitable organization devoted to preserving the personal archive of Bob Moog. It’s not just a collection of personal effects, it serves as a veritable archive of the history of electronic music itself and deserves to make it through time for future generations to explore and peruse.

Read more: Craig Anderton’s Tribute to Moog: Rapture Presets, and a Call to Save History

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Deru: “Yuri’s Night Mix 2008″

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Download here: GigaSize (requires registration)

Tracklisting:

* B12 - Soundtrack of Space
* Future Sound of London - Ill Flower
* Alexei Zakharov - Peace 3 (X3: Reunion)
* Future Sound of London - Everyone in the world is doing something without me
* Low Profile Society - Example 10
* Vangelis - Rachel’s Song
* Global Communication - 14.31
* The Black Dog - 18 4 3s 555 [Part 2]
* Yasume - Rengoku Condensed
* Mr Projectile - Underneath the Evening
* Abfahrt Hinwil - The Light
* Elegi - Despotiets Vesen
* Cliff Martinez - Wear your Seatbelt
* Bola - Pfane Pt. 1
* Posthuman - Beautiful Beast
* Miles Tilmann - Through the Tubes
* Flotel - Untitled (Norberg live)
* Michael Land - The Madness of the Crystals
* Biosphere - Warmed by the drift
* Digitonal - Antares (Yuri’s mix)

DigiMixed by Andy.Digitonal for Yuri’s Night, April 12th 2008.

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During Yuri’s Night in San Francisco you will have the opportunity to win a Tenori-On if you can create the most futuristic digital music interface / instrument (PS: The lineup is a veritable who’s who of contemporary, forward thinking electronic musicians: Amon Tobin, Tipper, John Tejada, Lusine, Scuba, Digitonal vs. Posthuman, [a]pendics.shuffle, Deru, Tycho, Mr. Projectile, Dr. Toast and Ganucheau).

Musicians have led many of the most innovative digital technological breakthroughs — the first digital synthesizer (at Bell Labs in the 50s), breakthroughs in modular electronic systems (modular synthesizers of the 60s), pioneering advances in digital storage and processing, unusual wireless interfaces and gestural controls decades ahead of the Nintendo Wii, and touch- and multi-touch tools years before the iPhone and Microsoft Surface.

But that’s all in the past. This is a design challenge for the future. We want to hear the best, most forward-thinking, generally coolest, Second Space Age-worthy instruments and digital music interfaces. If aliens land — as they did when met by a classic ARP synthesizer in Close Encounters — we want to be able to give them a great show.

Need extra incentive? The grand prize winner will take home a Yamaha Tenori-On.

How to enter

We’re looking for designs of “instruments” — whether self-contained, electrically-powered devices or hardware interfaces for computers. That can include tangible interfaces, physical computing, hacked hardware, custom-built synths and electronics, and other gadgets. These must use at least some custom software and/or hardware.

You are limited to one computer and one input device — but the “input device” can be as complex as an interactive table. If that sounds vague, just remember — ultimately, the judges and audience decide. Wow them, and all will be well.

Enter the Futuristic Music Design Challenge at Create Digital Music

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That being said, NAMM itself was pretty cool. Here’s Peter Kirn and I’s overview: The NAMM Win and Fail lists.

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