Great keyboard player of Pink Floyd, Rick Wright is no more. Death has reached him at the age of 65. Without his work, the electronic music scene would be very different - his early work with electronic devices, his organ playing techniques, and the still-on-top album, The Dark Side of the Moon influenced heavily all the first generation e-music stars in the seventies.

Before any official info, all the important data has leaked about the new synth module of Dave Smith. It is Mopho, a fully analogue monophonic synthesizer, with a 2-oscillator architecture, and equipeed with the legendary Curtis filter chip. It has three ADSR envelope generators, and handles an audio input, too. A separate arpeggiator plus a 16 x 4 note gate seuqencer is working to play pattern textures. Price is a decent 439 USD.

Two new exiting software for the very musical mobile phone: first, PianoChords, a simple application for two dollars. It teaches chords very effectively, with showing them onscreen, and playing back on a good quality piano sample. It knows more than 50 chords starting from any of the 12 root keys, and you can shift them real-time as you want. Check here its website.

Second is Cosmovox, a Theremin-like program, which modulates the sound with your movement of the phone: you can wave, twist, shift, and some sound parameters could be predefined to assign to a specific movement. To learn more check its website, and experience the expressive video that shows how it works.