The July issue of one of music technologies most respected magazines, Sound On Sound, is now out and contains a great in depth review of Circle by Nick Magnus.

We are delighted with review as Nick highlights and understands all the keys points of what we are trying to achieve with Circle.

He states in the round up:

“Circle is a versatile soft synth with an innovative, flexible and visual approach to designing sounds. Its potential for creating classic analog synth sounds, hard edged digital weirdness, ambient textures and other worldly effects, makes it suitable for all forms of electronic music. Newbie synthesists should find it very educational, while the more experienced will find plenty to get their teeth into.”

Visit Sound on Sound’s website here.

On Saturday 30th and Sunday 31st of May, the web store was closed for routine maintenance.
The store is now open again.

A tutorial on how to create a bassline like that of the song Breathe by the Prodigy using Circle was posted on MusicRadar today. Follow it here.

Mo Volans, a regular contributor to EQ, Remix and Music Tech Magazine, presents a series of step by step tutorials for designing sounds with Circle.

Tutorials 1 to 3 are available now, with more being added in the coming weeks.

When complete the series will provide a great resource for beginning sound design right through to building complex sounds.

If you are a teacher or lecturer of sound design, we would be greatful of your feedback in how to adapt the series for the classroom.

If you are a music producer, let us know if there is anything you would like covered by the series

Visit the Circle tutorial section of the website here.

We have updated Circle to version 1.0.7

The following issues have been fixed:

1) Circle not launching in Cubase SX 3.0 on Power PC.
2) Arpeggiator going out of sync with the host over time has been fixed.

The disruption to FAW emails has been fixed.

We are currently encounter a disruption to the FAW mail accounts.
The accounts affected are: info@futureaudioworkshop and support@futureaudioworkshop.com
During this time mails sent to these addresses may bounce. If this occurs please resend the mail
at a later time when the accounts are back online. We hope for this to be fixed over the coming hours.

We are pleased to announce that Amptec are now handling the distribution of FAW software in the Benelux region. If you are a dealer in the Benelux region and would like to stock Circle then contact leon.hoeks(at)amptec(dot)nl

Circle has picked up two awards in the Janauary issue of Beat Magazine, Germany. The awards given to Circle were: Innovation Award, for workflow designs and the Editor’s Choice Award.

We’ll be attending the SynthFesta in Tokyo Japan with our Japanese distributor Media Integration. SynthFesta is a trade event organized by the Japanese Synthesizer Programmers Association.
It takes place from 27-28 of November, for more details visit here.