MATRIXSYNTH: Friday, January 16, 2009


Friday, January 16, 2009

NAMM: MicroKORG XL - NAMM 2009


YouTube via soundonsoundvideo

NAMM: NAMM '09- Access Virus TI


YouTube via audiomidicom
"A preview of the new Access Virus series with v3 software from Anaheim NAMM 2009. Available from www.audiomidi.com!"

DIY Analog Synth Demo #6


YouTube via rodriemi. follow-up to these posts.
"On http://arsamus-lineal-tml01.blogspot.... you can see details

This is another a demo of an do-it-yourself analog synth I designed and build. This video shows some capabilities of the synth.

Mix with no effects

Remember I just want to show the synth no my performance skills!!!"

Water-controlled chipmusic! (Toriton and SEGA Mega Drive)


YouTube via littlescale
"The toriton water music controller is controlling the SEGA Mega Drive soundchip inside the SEGA Mega Drive in real time."

OXFORD OSCAR

via this auction


the minimoog synthesizer operation manual

via this auction





Roland Juno-6 Polyphonic Synthesizer JU-6


via this auction

click the image for the full size shot.
"SPECIFICATIONS
* The Roland Juno 6 is a 6 voices and 61 keys polyphonic synthesizer.
* The digitally controlled oscillator that offers exceptionnally stable pitch.
* The real 6 voices polyphonic synthesizer completly equipied with 6 VCF's, 6 VCA's and 6 ENV's period.

* An Arpeggio function that enables you to enjoy wide variations of the patterns by changing the mode and the range
* Chorus effects that expect the sounds for a rich performance.
* A key transposed function that allows you to transpose to any key

DIMENSIONS
* 1,6m width (5'.2") x 0,1m height (0.3') x 0.38m depth (1'.2"). Weight : 11kg (around 25 pounds)"

Yamaha CS-40M

via this auction
"4 VCO unison mode is hecka phat! It has so many unique features that make this synth very useful for anyone's setup. It has a ring mod, duophonic, sine wave generator on the VCA that allows you to make deep bass patches while using the band pass/hi pass filtering! The sine wave gen. really fattens things up and I really wish all synth had this feature. It has patch storage! cv and trigger in. This is by far superior to the cs-5, cs-10, cs-15, cs-20m and is really one of yamaha's best analogs possibly second to the cs-80. These are super rare in the USA and because the large size makes it very expensive to ship from japan, this unit is on US voltage 120v so you won't have any problems."


NAMM: Volta Screenshot

via Gur of TipTop Audio

Not picking favorites here, but I think VOLTA stole the show this year.

The L.L.Electronics Rozzbox


The L.L.Electronics Rozzbox from Makingsound on Vimeo.
"Overview of the Rozzbox.
Review, sounds and more soon.
Check updates on makingsound.free.fr"
The review with sounds are here in French [Googlish here].
http://www.rozzbox.de/

NAMM: Roland Prelude

"Portable, Affordable Home Entertainment
Prelude represents Roland’s next generation of home-entertainment keyboards, featuring high-quality sounds and musical styles, built-in amplification, and an affordable price. Prelude is portable, and packed with an impressive library of contemporary sounds and authentic ethnic styles.

Hundreds of essential, contemporary sounds inherited from Roland’s top sound modules

Multi-format song player that allows song data to be played directly from USB Flash memory (MP3, WAV, AIFF, and SMF format)

Stylish, lightweight design

Built-in speakers with impressively powerful sound

Flagship Sounds
Don’t let Prelude’s affordability mislead you ― it sounds like a keyboard costing twice the price. Prelude is equipped with hundreds of top-quality sounds derived from Roland's famous sound modules. It also features 128 polyphonic voices for smooth performance, even with stacks of sounds playing at the same time.

Play-Along Styles
Prelude is packed with a wide variety of contemporary sounds and intelligent backing styles, plus loadable banks of ethnic sounds and styles from around the world. Style Converter and Playlist Editor software is included so you can customize and arrange your songs via PC.

Fun, Friendly Features
Prelude’s USB Memory Player allows direct playback of MP3, WAV, AIFF, and SMF files from a USB key. For karaoke fun, the Center Cancel transforms your favorite pre-recorded songs into “minus one” type sing-along tracks. For dazzling performance effects, wave your hand over Prelude’s invisible D Beam to manipulate your sounds in unique and exciting ways."

No details on whether this is editable but the specs do list:
User Memory Performances: 128

Synths with built in speakers always intrigue me for some reason. The HS60 and Juno-106S for example are full blown Roland Juno-106es with built in speakers.

Ableton Live + Piezo + Salt


YouTube via BrianWilliamGreen
"The idea it to make background and texture layers with this.
Just a quick trial tho."

A simple theme close-up


YouTube via attorks

"This video has close-ups so you can follow most of what is happening. The difficulty was that at some point I play the bassline with my left hand and had to do all the camera positioning and the solo's with my right hand. The first sequence you hear is performed by the MFM Modular using the Synthesizers.com Q150 filter. The second sequence you hear is performed by slot A of the Nord Lead 1. The third bas sequence is performed by the Synthesizers.com Modular using the CGS Steiner filter. The bassline is performed by the MiniMax ASB using the AKAI AX80 keyboard. The solo's are performed on the Nord Lead 1 (slot B) and on the Korg 900PS. I had to shorten the video a little bit because of the YouTube limit of 10 minutes. The original video is 10:43 long and you can see or download it from my website."

DSCN4526.jpg

flickr by photojim

I just like this shot for some reason. Something about minis with there face panels down. Be sure to see it full size.

NAMM: Volta First Look


Volta First Look from stretta on Vimeo.
"A quick tour of Volta" Don't miss the full write-up on The Stretta Procedure.
Update: see this post

NAMM: MOTU VOLTA Connected to Plan B Modular

via Califaudio

microKORG meets Roland Handsonic 10


YouTube via krazydrumr47
"microKORG influencing the drum sounds on a Roland Handsonic 10"

NAMM: WNAMM09: Muse Announce The Muse Box


see the write-up and comments on Sonic State.

Be sure to see Sonic State's NAMM coverage for more including a glimpse at GMedia's ImpOSCar 2.

NAMM: WNAMM09: Roland Strap On AX-Synth Demo


see the write-up and comments on Sonic State.

NAMM: WNAMM09: Native Instruments New Groove Box


see the write-up and comments on Sonic State.

【DEMO】KORG OASYS #1


YouTube via musictrackjp.

[Note this not a NAMM post. I'm just keeping up so I'm not overwhelmed after NAMM. BTW, yesterday I think I broke a record for number of posts: 70. I actually did 7 after midnight, so I put up a total of 77 posts in one day. Remember you can click on any NAMM label or the NAMM link on top right for NAMM only posts. People ask me why I don't go to NAMM. I wouldn't be able to keep up if I did. :) One day I will go...]

【DEMO】KORG OASYS #2

【DEMO】TENORI-ON And VirusTI Snow


YouTube via musictrackjp

NAMM: virus ti os3 - distortion experiments1


YouTube via dvdlernkurs
"some experiments with the new distortion and ringmodulator fx of virus ti os 3.0."

NAMM: V-Synth GT Version 2.0 Quick preview


YouTube via RolandChannel
"http://www.V-Synth.com
Roland V-Synth GT, the world's most expressive synthesizer evolves with a Version 2.0 software update. Features include a recharged cutting-edge sound set, dozens of newly enhanced effects, an Import Files feature, an enhanced user interface, and more. These new features strongly support sound design and live performance."

NAMM: Akai Professional at WINTER NAMM 2009


YouTube via AkaiProVideo
"Winter NAMM 2009 is the place to be for the latest news and about what Akai Professional's development team has been cooking up. http://www.akaipro.com/contentmgr/sho..."

NAMM: Show Coverage on The audioMIDI.com Blog

http://www.audiomidiblog.com/

Pictured:
John Bowen Synth Design Solaris
"Here we have the John Bowen Synth Design Solaris. Lovely beast, isn’t it? Mr. Bowen is one of the original masterminds of the classic Sequential Circuits Prophet-5, amongst other things, and he’s been hard at work with this virtual analog monster for some time. Four oscillators, crazy modulation… trust me, this one SERIOUS polysynth. It’s almost ready to go too… John says it’ll ship in a couple months at around $4000."

NAMM: Korg at 2009 NAMM Show

flickr by Synthesizers
(click for more)

full size

Yellow KORG M50

MOTU Volta Done with Max/MSP

via wetterberg on Muff's Modules and More (Muff Wiggler)

"Alright, so this has been the holy grail for me in terms of modular synth+computer integration, and I had all but given up:

my fa-101 has DC blocking capacitors (and I'm not overly keen on hacking it wink ) and my 828mk1 had been bricked by horrible drivers...

I had even started looking into weird OSC->CV solutions, and had cash in hand, ready to buy the Kenton Pro 2000, which is expensive, and still only runs at midi resolution.

Well, now things have changed! I magically got the 828mk1 to WORK and I speedily set up a test rig to see what I could get out of the unit.

IT WORKS! Oh my GAWD this is so cool! I have a 4-way step sequencer, a fully synced ADSR and an LFO modulating an LFO, coming out of 5 different outputs, and as far as I can tell the voltage is REALLY high - good enough to do proper pitch scaling and so on - this RULES! It also happily generates trigger outputs, although I am going to build a trigger interface instead.

So - what does it sound like?
http://wetterberg.dk/uploads/828_modulator.mp3
(sorry for the crummy recording, weird interference on my recorder... wasn't there when monitoring directly, grumble)

What's going on?
the patch is 110 VCO->116 waveform processor->106-1 Xtreme filter

Computer is step sequencing PWM, clipping and symmetry CV and filter cutoff. Not too fancy, just enough for me to play around. Manually adjusting resonance and levels. adsr is going to the filter (yes, that's right, I'm not using an adsr in my modular!) and the lfo-modulated-lfo is controlling the filter as well. both lfos are sinewaves, and going into audio range is so damned easy.

The sequencer patch was just thrown together quickly - every 8 bars all 4 8-step sequencers are randomly set. But the results are surprisingly funky, if you ask me. I'm looking forward to attempting something sequenced on my Lemur! eek!
What does it look like?"

Synton Syntovox 221


via this auction, via the comments of this post

"incredibly rare Dutch-made vocoder. One of only roughly 20 originally produced, this vocoder originally sold for the equivalent of 6000 Euros and is quite possibly the finest vocoder available to man. Aimed firmly at serious electronic musicians and studios, users include Wendy Carlos and Bruno Spoerri.

This unit was supplied to us without power supply. We had our engineer custom build a suitable unit for 240V operation. This is included in the auction and the vocoder is now up and running, fully working and ready to be put to use producing some amazing sounds.

This item is generally in good condition as the photos illustrate. Unfortunately some of the control knobs are missing their end caps, and there are minor marks and scratches on the unit. One of the pins on the matrix is broken but still usable (just shorter than the others) and the pot for the second filter band has a damaged stop meaning that it can be turned through 360 degrees. Despite these minor issues the unit is fully functional and sounds incredible.
More info on the unit is available at the following websites:

http://www.dutchsynth.nl/Syntovox221.html

http://web.inter.nl.net/hcc/davies/vocbasy2.htm

http://www.manhattansoundlab.com/spacelab/vocoders/synton/221.spec.html"

Two New Serge Tracks via cebec

http://www.virb.com/cebec

NAMM: Open Labs MiKo

"MiKo LXD

The Gen5 MiKo LXD is the latest addition to the Open Labs® products line. Using a 15” touch-screen, 37 black and white keys, external backlit QWERTY keyboard and running Windows® OS, MiKo LXD is an entirely new class of portable music instrument. This portable media work center was specifically designed for the electronic musician, music producer and today’s digital lifestyle.

MiKo LXD’s optimized Windows OS natively supports virtually any music application or plug-in developed for a PC. From Pro Tools™ to Nuendo™, Native Instruments™ Komplete™ to Spectrasonics™ Omnisphere™, MiKo LXD does it all with ease.

MiKo LXD is equipped with the new Bump MP™ integrated drum module, designed to allow the user to create beats and trigger any sound, loop or sample in real-time. Enhanced with a special Open Labs version of Guru™ from FXpansion™, key features of the Bump MP include: (16 plus 1) fully assignable pads, note repeat, max level, fixed level fader, transport controls, chromatic mode, hold, pad tune, multiple groove preset and eight engines with 24 presets per engine.

MiKo LXD is also equipped with the new Open Labs Mix/Edit controller. The mixer section consists of multiple fully assignable controls including: (8) encoders, (8) lighted buttons, (8) faders, (4 X 4) banks (total of 128 channels) and (1) master volume fader. The edit section consists of multiple, fully assignable controls including: (8) encoders, (1) LCD display (for encoders), (4) buttons and (4) banks (total of 32 control parameters).

MiKo LXD has the most relevant and compelling sounds including: Open Labs The Master’s Series Library™ produced by multi-platinum producer Mr. Porter (Denaun Porter), as well as Open Labs’ own V5™ sound, sample and loop library.

Open Labs Riff™ is an entirely new concept in virtual instrument hosting. Written from the ground up by Open Labs, Riff encompasses over six years of live performance and studio production knowledge gathered from some of the world’s top artists, engineers, composers, and producers. Its advanced features include: Live Controls™, which allows the user to create any number of virtual controls in real-time that can be mapped to various effects and other parameters. Advanced intelligence allows any number of virtual controllers to manipulate any number of other virtual controllers, providing automation for virtual instruments and effects. Rewire allows for this powerful host application to be used within any DAW program.

The MiKo offers superior mobility in a compact package. It’s perfect for working in a project studio of performing live – where creating beats, guitar and vocal multi-tracking, and DJ/VJ capabilities are as necessary as playing a keyboard.

The MiKo’s assignable Master and DJ controllers elevate live performance beyond normal application. For instance, you can trigger Mp3’s in real time, then grab audio waveforms via the touchscreen. To top things off, throw some real-time drum, bass, and vocal lines on top of your mix.

Open Labs instruments are equipped with Firewire, USB, PCI EXPRESS and an Ethernet port, allowing access to the Internet via a broadband connection. Open Labs tech support can log-in to your system, and our online technicians can remotely view and diagnose any issue – while you are still in your own studio.

We’ve included over 200 world-class virtual instruments and effects with over 20,000 presets with virtually unlimited capability for third party plug-ins and applications.

MiKo LXD Dimensions: 34"(L) X 19"(W) X 7"(H) Weight (base configuration) 38.8 lbs."

LX5 and XXL pictured below. More info: http://openlabs.com/products.html

Digital Short: Doogie Howser Theme


via John and via kri

KORG DS-10 scribble acid


YouTube via openchallenge
"i was randomly scribbling and ended up with a nice acid line"

Another ARP 2600 Synthesizer Video Clip


YouTube via 123synthland
"Here's an improvised performance on a vintage ARP 2600 we just put up for sale. We stopped posting full front panel videos since someone copied one of our patches. Not that this particular patch is anything special, mind you, but people should come up with their own patches. Ya know?"

Moog Sample and Hold Model 1125 Demo w/ Vintage Minimoog Analog Synth


YouTube via 123synthland
"Here's an improvised performance on a vintage Moog Sample and Hold unit. This flexible box is controlling one of the many vintage Minimoog synthesizers we've lovingly serviced and sold. The S+H is currently up for sale.
Enjoy the noise and email us anytime at minime123@onebox.com"

Vintage Linn LM-1 Drum Computer made famous by Prince, Human League, etc


YouTube via 123synthland
"We buy, sell & trade vintage analog synthesizers, but you probably knew that already. Here's an improvised performance on an original Linn Drum Computer LM-1 we recently sold to a well known musician. The cover's off as I was doing a final inspection and test before shipping it out. These Linn sounds were all over 80s synth records, especially Prince and Human League albums. We've got another LM-1 in stock that we will probably put on the market soon. If you look closely, you'll see a vintage Emu modular synth in the background. We love our modular synths. Enjoy, and email us anytime at minime123@onebox.com"

Some History on the Development of the Moog Little Phatty

For whatever reason a thread cropped up on AH questioning Bob Moog's involvement with the Little Phatty and specifically whether he was involved at all. One, I remembered the project started when he became ill and two, core bits of the tech is based the Voyager! Even if he wasn't hands on, much of the technology that makes it what it is would still have come from him. I don't get it. That aside the following is an intersting insight to Bob Moog's involvment as well as the involvment of his team.

"Bob was completely involved in the genesis and design of the Little Phatty. He was actively working on the project when he became ill. He wired up the first prototype, which was built from a modified Voyager analog board wired directly to a panel of pots. The original idea was a stripped-down all analog two-oscillator performance synth, with a minimal but effective feature set and a knob per function on the panel. No MIDI, no patch memory.

This concept did not survive any opinion surveys, which all indicated that MIDI and memory were required features. Once we added a digital board to the design, the knob-per-function interface became too expensive to keep cost within our target for an inexpensive two-oscillator performance synth.

So, the final Little Phatty interface was conceived, using a knob per synth section rather than a knob per function. I believe this layout was conceived by Axel Hartmann. The Real Analog Control [RAC] system, where pots are both scanned for digital value and physically switched into the analog circuits which they are controlling, was conceived by Steve Dunnington.

So, Bob Moog brought the Little Phatty project into being, and shaped its original feature set. Most importantly for this project, he select Cyril Lance in particular to be his assistant/successor, after a very discriminating search. Cyril stepped in at the point when the project code-named "el P" was making the transition from all-analog to midi & memory, so he designed the Little Phatty digital board as one of his first projects for Moog Music. Prior to this, of course, Cyril had been a consulting engineer, a particle physicist (graduate of Cornell; same university as Dr. Moog), and of course a touring blues guitarist of some repute. Even though the digital board design was ultimately Cyril's, it was done in close reference to the digital board of the Voyager, which was rather similar to the digital board of a Memorymoog. As for the Little Phatty analogue board, it is comprised almost entirely of circuits taken directly from the Moog Voyager. The're the exact circuits Bob designed well before his untimely passing, simply configured for a different synth concept. The circuit layouts and corresponding component values for a given little subsection are generally identical between the Voyager and LP.
A notable exception is the Little Phatty's Overload circuit, which was designed and painstakingly tweaked by ear by Steve Dunnington. I think he did a good job with that circuit.

So, the LP has Bob's Voyager oscillators and Bob's Voyager envelopes (complete with quirks and circuit errors just like on the Voyager), the same implementation of the ladder filter (only times one instead of two), the same VCA design. An instrument is a whole The digital control, the RAC system, the panel layout, overload... these things were designed by other people, all of whom desired to continue Bob's legacy and to create a real, playable instrument that stood on its own merit. I should mention that the original Little Phatty firmware was written by Chuck Carlson, a programmer who had worked with both Moog and Buchla prior to working on the LP.

I have been the alpha tester for the Little Phatty firmware as it has developed, and I've gotten to make a suggestion or two along the way.

I'm writing this instead of getting sleep here at the NAMM show, so I'd better leave it there.

Hope this helps,
Amos"

Note Axel Hartmann also designed the interface for the Voyager, and a numbe of other synths. Check out this post for the list of synths. You might be surprised. He is the face of many of our modern day knob laden synths.

MIDUINO

"The MIDUINO is a combination of MIDI (Musical Instrument Digital Interface) and the Arduino, which is based around the ATmega168 microcontroller. The Miduino is a breadboardable Arduino clone. The Miduino design kit comes with an ATMega168 pre-loaded with bootloader. The design can be utilized for general microcontroller projects or for specific MIDI designs.

The board design comes with a built in Opto-coupler and 4-way DIP switch which allows MIDI IN and easy setting of MIDI channels (1-16) if required. MIDI out is also available. The Miduino board is designed to be expandable. So MIDI IN is looped to MIDI OUT, on all the board designs."

via Palm Sounds

Old Days - KORG Wavestation Sequence



"An instrumental track using the Korg Wavestation for the main pads and the new Moog arpeggiator..."

You can find a link to the mp3 on khoral's Cafe 80.

NAMM: DoubleDeka Ultrasonic VCO Now Available

You might remember this one being announce back on 9/6/2008. It is now available via BrideChamber. Not official NAMM news, but it is new and it is NAMM season so I'll add the labels for those looking.

"From Ian Fritz, The DoubleDeka Ultrasonic VCO is here!!!

From the Documentation...
This unique VCO consists of an ultrasonic oscillator core followed by a parallel pair of waveform generators. Each waveform generator consists of a switched multi-octave divider followed by circuitry to generate a 10-step waveform using a set of 10 slider potentiometers. Also included are a novel synchronization circuit with two different operating modes and a built-in "digital ring modulator" (DRM) for producing a wide variety of synchronized and anharmonic sounds. The oscillator core is highly stable (better than 20 ppm/K in the prototype) and features wide-range, accurate tracking (better than 0.05% over fifteen octaves). The variable waveform generator provides fine control over an enormous range of available timbres."

Voltage controlled delay (AMORE)

Note this one is not new. I found it on this electro-music.com thread which states it's about half a year old. Normally I wouldn't call this out, but it is NAMM season and I know people are looking through them NAMM goggles... Remember, old can be new here. You can find more info on Bergfotron.

"Delay isn't one of the ”classic” modular synth modules. Maybe this is because analog delay chips became available when the synth industry had moved on to non-modular and polyphonic synths.
This module is based on the MN3207 BBD chip or it's modern equivalent, the BL3207. The latter is still produced and can be had for a very modest sum of money (you can buy it here). This is a 1024 stage chip and the board should also work with the 2040 stage BL3208, if you want a longer delay. The board also uses the companion clock chip MN3102/BL3102.
The delay time is voltage controlled, by using the VCO part from a standard 4046 PLL chip. An exponental converter controls the frequency of the PLL VCO. The delay circuit and anti-aliasing filters is based on the MN3207 application circuit from the datasheet. I increased the cutoff of the anti-aliasing filter by dividing all capacitor values with 1.5. Note that the BBD chip runs on +10 V single supply, which is the maximum supply voltage. So for this module, the +10 volt pin on the AMORE connector is used and therefore you need the 10 volt supply that is specified in the standard, in addition to +15 and -15 volts.
The board also contains a 3080-based VCA, which is used to give voltage control over the delay feedback. There is a high pass filter that rolls off the bass in the feedback loop. Otherwise the self-oscillation will occur at a very low frequency (1/delay time), which isn't very musical. If you don't want this bass roll-off, you can substiture the 15 nF capacitor with a 1 µF one.
The feedback loop has external connections so you could patch in other modules in the feedback loop if you want. Note that there is a jumper on the board for completing an internal feedback path (below/to the left of the 4046). This jumper must be removed if you want to use an external feedback path. The jumper can also be removed for troubleshooting. The CA3080 OTA can be difficult to find nowadays but you can get it from Banzai Effects, where you can get the BBD chips too."

Holding Pattern

via Buchla Tech

"As I wait for my silkscreen guy to come back into town and the rest of the back-ordered parts to arrive, I give you a picture of a 258 clone with no front panel legend."

NAMM: More pics from day 1 on fdiskc/bleepology

Click here, followed by NAMM Shows, Winter, and go from there.

via bleepology

Pictured here:
Waldorf Booth
Radikal Technologies Spectralis 2
Felix the Cat and a guy that look remarkably like Felix the Cat

NAMM: Big City Music NAMM Shots

More images and coverage on the Big City Music blog.

Note the current images are from the Big City Music booth.

Pictured: Bob Williams of Analogue Systems

NAMM: Amateur Chemist NAMM Shots

You can find more images on Amateur Chemist.

Pictured: KORG M50 in Yellow, White and Red.

Manufacturers - Update

Just a heads up that I added quite a few manufacturers to the list. Check them out.

NAMM: MOTU BPM


MOTU BPM from stretta on Vimeo.

NAMM: Ableton Live 8

"New in Ableton Live 8

Version 8 enhances the Ableton vision of creative, real-time digital music with a wealth of new techniques, effects and most-wanted workflow improvements.

Groove patterns can add life and swing to straight sequences. Live 8's new groove engine lets you apply groove patterns in real time, extract grooves from audio or MIDI sources, quantize audio and MIDI in real time. It also comes with a new groove library.

Live 8 introduces a new, more direct way of working with warping and some important Warp Mode enhancements. You can now warp audio events by adjusting the events themselves on the timeline. Beats Mode has been updated, and there's a completely new Complex Warp Mode. Plus you can slice audio files to MIDI tracks based on transients.

A much-requested feature, the Ableton Looper effect gives you classic sound-on-sound looping without the limitations of a hardware device. Looper is set up for remote operation, so you can record, overdub, undo and more without touching the computer.

Live 8 includes five powerful new effects: Vocoder, Multiband Dynamics, Overdrive, Limiter and Frequency Shifter. These effects cover all the well-known aspects of these devices, but really shine due to some innovative features and enhancements from the Ableton labs.

Version 8 makes Live easier with a number of most-wanted enhancements and some deceptively simple detail work including real-time crossfades in the Arrangement View, enhanced MIDI editing, group tracks, a screen magnifier and more."

New in Ableton Live 8

Version 8 enhances the Ableton vision of creative, real-time digital music with a wealth of new techniques, effects and most-wanted workflow improvements.
imageNew groove engine
Groove patterns can add life and swing to straight sequences. Live 8's new groove engine lets you apply groove patterns in real time, extract grooves from audio or MIDI sources, quantize audio and MIDI in real time. It also comes with a new groove library.
imageNew warping engine
Live 8 introduces a new, more direct way of working with warping and some important Warp Mode enhancements. You can now warp audio events by adjusting the events themselves on the timeline. Beats Mode has been updated, and there's a completely new Complex Warp Mode. Plus you can slice audio files to MIDI tracks based on transients.
imageLooper
A much-requested feature, the Ableton Looper effect gives you classic sound-on-sound looping without the limitations of a hardware device. Looper is set up for remote operation, so you can record, overdub, undo and more without touching the computer.
imageNew effects
Live 8 includes five powerful new effects: Vocoder, Multiband Dynamics, Overdrive, Limiter and Frequency Shifter. These effects cover all the well-known aspects of these devices, but really shine due to some innovative features and enhancements from the Ableton labs.
imageWorkflow enhancements
Version 8 makes Live easier with a number of most-wanted enhancements and some deceptively simple detail work including real-time crossfades in the Arrangement View, enhanced MIDI editing, group tracks, a screen magnifier and more.


New in Ableton Suite 8
Ableton Suite 8 is a package which gives you a rich world of sound, perfectly complementing the tools and features in Live 8. Suite 8 provides all the instruments a musician could hope for, including a wide range of synths, a powerful sampler, electric and acoustic drums, mallets, numerous sampled instruments: 10 instruments in all. Here's what's new in Suite 8.

Ableton Suite 8's library completely surpasses everything that Ableton has ever offered before. With the creative professional in mind, Ableton has put together a well-balanced and comprehensive tool set and, above all, a wide-ranging set of beautiful sounds.

Collision is a unique instrument for authentic mallet sounds and creative percussion. Co-developed with AAS, it uses physical modeling technology to reproduce real-world instruments such as xylophones, marimbas and glockenspiels, but also provides enough depth to create truly dramatic new instruments and sounds.

Latin Percussion is a collection of acoustic percussion instruments such as congas, bongos, timbales, claves, shakers, tambourines and bells from the worlds of Brazilian, Afro-Cuban and African music. It also comes with clips and grooves, so you don't only get the drums, you also get the drummer.

Operator, Ableton's renowned do-it-all synthesizer, has been given a major overhaul. We opened up the hood, took a long hard look inside and did some serious hot-rod stuff. New filter types, more modulation routing options and additive wavetable synthesis with drawable partials make Operator more powerful and flexible than ever."

vids and more: http://www.ableton.com/pages/live_8/announcement/home

Zn'shñ : Mudam 2009 (Live)


YouTube via znshn
"Zn'shñ (Elvire Bastendorff & Franck Smith) live at Mudam Luxembourg, Musée d'art moderne Grand-Duc Jean. Recorded January 14th 2009.

IF POSSIBLE USE HEADPHONES OR CONNECT YOUR COMPUTER TO A QUITE DECENT SOUND-SYSTEM.

Invented and defined by Franck Smith, the term Zn'shñ signifies: the gleam of dark colours. Deliberately antithetic and intentionally enigmatic, Zn'shñ is enthused by Butoh iconography, Japanese Gagaku aesthetic and Tibetan rituals codification. Operating as a dual electronic unit, Zn'shñ deepens a series of very specific works around phonocrafting and noise manufacturing.

http://www.myspace.com/znshn
znshn AT hotmail DOT com"
Tags from the video:
"Franck Smith Elvire Bastendorff alternative digital techniques electronics Odiolorgnette Zn'shñ Mudam Luxembourg Musée d'art moderne Grand-Duc Jean Yamaha TENORI-ON Benfox Dual Tone Generator Kaossilator Korg Kaoss Pad KP3 Space Echo Jomox M-Resonator Moog Low Pass Filter Bass Murf MI Audio Pollyanna Moogerfooger Phonocrafting noise manufacturing"

sequencer module S4 owyheesound


YouTube via nathanielscott
"This is my first original design. The circuit design is very simple and I give the numbers to the four ships I used to build it towards the end of the video. This system was designed to be compatible with moog systems though I still have to cut down the panel to be the correct dimensions to fit into a moog style cabinet.

Since this video I have added a couple of enhancements like portamento (aka glissando or glide) and others. This has been a fun project and I am looking forward to desiging and builing other useful modules."

【DEMO】Percussa Audio Cubes


YouTube via musictrackjp

NAMM: Akai MPC5000 OS 2.0

"Meet the new OS. Not the same as the old OS.

The MPC5000 is the most talked-about MPC in the music industry today. It’s the latest evolution of the unquestioned standard in sample-based music production. The MPC5000 builds on the MPC foundation, combining powerful sequencing, sampling and processing with the feel of the exclusive MPC pads and Q-Link assignable controls. It adds never-before-seen MPC advancements such as a virtual-analog synthesizer, a streaming hard disc recorder, incomparably high-resolution sequencing, and over 100 other new capabilities.

MPC5000 OS 2.0 is a free, new operating system upgrade that includes more than 25 additional improvements, many of which are developed to accommodate the specific requests of the people who use the MPC5000 every day. MPC5000 OS 2.0 will be available Spring 2009 as a download at akaipro.com/MPC5000.

Home on the range.
The most requested, exciting, and powerful new feature we’ve added to OS 2.0 is the ability to create and load Keygroup Programs. And with it, in MPC fashion, comes a massive array of cool Keygroup helper tools.

Now with the MPC5000, just like with our legendary S-series samplers and legacy MPCs, you can create chromatic key-mapped sample programs that take a sample and spread it across a range of notes of your choosing, automatically adjusting the pitch of the sample chromatically. You can then play these notes with the pads or an external MIDI keyboard or controller.

What does this really mean for you and your production? For starters, no more time-consuming program creation or relying on an external keyboard for your sounds. SHIFT+PAD will select a Keygroup, you can set range via MIDI if on range parameter, plus you can select a Keygroup via MIDI to select the next Keygroup with the note played. Another new feature is the ability to assign the root note of a sample assigned to each individual layer on a single pad. You can also pan each layer individually in Keygroup and drum programs. Imagine the sonic possibilities!

More good news for all old school producers - you can now import S1000, S3000, S5000/S6000, Z4/Z8, and MPC4000 format sample libraries, including Keygroups, from Akai Pro and third parties. Now you can migrate fully to the MPC5000 platform.

Hustle and flow.

Music production is all about creativity, workflow, the tools at your disposal and making it all come together as seamlessly as possible. So designing a music production device is rooted in finding the best possible collaboration of its elements. OS 2.0 makes production with the MPC5000 friendlier with such time-saving improvements as the new MultiEdit function which enables you to edit and apply parameters such as tuning, filters, pitch, pan—every parameter of the filter screen—to a group of pads, all at once. This streamlines the production process by empowering you to perform group editing.

Get around.

We just upped GRID EDIT’s abilities. You can now see and edit controller automation and event data in the new Controller Grid Edit Window. We also gave the sample editor some love as well.

We’ve added a ZOOM function to each individual slice in Chopshop mode for even finer editing of your samples and beats. This takes the guesswork out of cutting a beat and ensures you get what you want every time.

We’ve added a slew of navigation shortcuts you’ll appreciate. For instance, you can now assign the sample you are working on in TRIM mode to a pad by holding SHIFT and striking the pad of choice.

We’ve improved the Effects, Synth and Mixer pages by adding a new Take Over Mode to the knobs and sliders. This is a great help when going between many different pages where you are using the Q-Links to change parameter values. Parameter values will not jump to the position of the knob or fader until the original values zero crossing is passed. This allows for seamless mix and edit moves in realtime.

It pays to play.

Improving upon the all ready impressive mixing capabilities of the MPC5000, you can now toggle between the hard disk Audio Track Mixer and the Sequencer Track Mixer with one button without having to interrupt playback of the song. This speeds up track creation in a big way.

You can now quantize Track and Pad Mutes in real time to the internal clock or that of an external device. This means that if you use an MPC5000 to trigger clips and tracks live, your mute punches will be perfectly in time.

Marrying performance and production, the MPC5000 now supports full automation of the mixer and effects.

If you have an MPC5000, you know it comes loaded right out of the box. Now that even more capability is coming to should check out the new OS for your MPC5000. Or upgrade to the flagship MPC and get all of these new features along with it.

MPC5000 OS 2.0 will be a free download in Spring 2009 from the Documents and Downloads tab on the MPC5000 page."

http://www.akaipro.com/spotmpcos2
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