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.

We would like to thank all of those who attended the talk we gave at the DEAF Festival in Dublin. It was great to meet you all and we appreciate the feedback on Circle and audio software in general. If you have any follow up questions or feedback, feel free to send them through to info@futureaudioworkshop.com

Gavin.

On Sunday the 2nd of November at 10pm GMT we began maintenance of our server. During this maintenance period, the web store, forum, weblog and Circle Activation process were offline. Due to unforeseen circumstances, the scheduled work was unable to be completed by the predicted time of Tuesday 4th at 6pm GMT. The maintenance is now complete with all web site operations are back up and running. We appreciated your patience during this time.

NUI Maynooth is a leading research institute in the area of music signal processing. We’re delighted to be working with them on some interesting new modules for Circle, the first of which is an new take on FM Synthesis, based on the paper presented at this years DAFX Conference by NUI Maynooth researchers Dr. Victor Lazzarini and Dr. Joe Timoney.