Ableton Live 10 Announced with New Wavetable Synth, Echo, Drum Bass, and Pedal Devices

Published on Nov 2, 2017 Ableton

"Live 10 introduces four bold devices, new features and improvements that keep you in the flow, and an expanded sound library. Plus, a built-in Max for Live, extended Push features and much more."

Playlist:
Ableton Live 10: What's New
Ableton Live 10: Capture
Ableton Live 10: New Device Visualisations on Push
Ableton Live 10: New MIDI Clip Editing on Push
Ableton Live 10: New Step Sequencer on Push
Ableton Live 10: Workflow Improvements
Ableton Live 10: Wavetable
Ableton Live 10: New Audio Effects

Also see: Ableton LIVE 10 First Look at We Are Robots London

And an overview of the new Wavetable synth by AfroDJMac:

Wavetable Ableton Live 10 Tutorial and Walkthrough

Published on Nov 2, 2017 AfroDJMac USA

"Wavetable is Ableton Live 10's new wavetable synthesizer. It's incredibly powerful and deep. In this video I show you the ins and outs of how everything works, as well as Wavetable's spectacular Push 2 integration."

And a brief description on each new device via Ableton, where you can find some interactive pics with additional details:

"Create with new devices

Meet Wavetable, Echo, Drum Buss and Pedal: new devices that mean colorful new sounds are possible with Live’s instruments and effects.

Wavetable

Immediately playable, infinitely capable, Wavetable is a new synthesizer built by Ableton. Shape, stretch and morph sounds using wavetables derived from analog synths, and a range of other instruments and sounds. Start sculpting sounds right away—even without a deep knowledge of synthesis—or explore its rich palette and potential through an intuitive interface.

Echo

Echo brings together the sound of classic analog and digital hardware delays in a single device—your new go-to delay. Drive and shape sounds with its analog-modeled filters, turn up the noise and wobble for vintage imperfections, or add modulation and reverb to create diffuse soundscapes, wailing feedback and more.

Drum Buss

Drum Buss is a one-stop workstation for drums, capable of adding subtle character or bending and breaking drums to your will. Add warmth and distortion with drive and crunch, take control of dynamics with compression and transient shaping, dial in and tune boom and control bass decay with the dedicated low end section.

Pedal

With separate circuit-level models of overdrive, distortion and fuzz guitar pedals, Pedal brings the character of analog stomp boxes to Live. The effect goes all the way from subtle to reckless—it excels at warming up vocals and other instruments, driving synth sounds or completely smashing drums. And of course, it sounds great with guitars."

Cwejman S1 Mk2 Semi-Modular Analogue Synthesizer

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Concert Featuring Nonlinear Labs C15

The C15 in Concert - Tim Sund Quartet from Nonlinear Labs on Vimeo.

"In October 2017 the Berlin-based keyboardist and composer Tim Sund introduced the C15 to the concert stage by playing a complete show solely on two C15s. We recorded and filmed the concert with his inspired and expressive band at Kunstfabrik Schlot in Berlin."

Update: re-published 11/29/2017

iOptigan - Optigan for iPad & iPhone - Demo Song - midori2tree - Optiganally Yours

Published on Nov 2, 2017 optigandotcom

iTunes: iOptigan - Stefan Stenzel

"Pea Hicks of optigan.com and Stefan Stenzel of Waldorf present... iOptigan!

Now available in the iOS app store!

PLEASE NOTE: if you're listening to this demo on a mobile device, you may have trouble hearing the keyboard part in the right channel, due to a YouTube quirk. For best results, please listen on a regular PC.

This is a demo of iOptigan running on an iPad Air. The music is "midori2tree" by Optiganally Yours, which is an old song that appeared on various compilation albums. The disc used is "Rollin' Easy.""

Exploring Apps 02 // Ribbons : Expressive Electronic Instrument

Published on Nov 2, 2017 Computing.Sound

"Exploring the 'Ribbons' iOS iPad app by Olympia Noise Co..
Here I'm using the apps internal sound engine, but it also can send MIDI."

via iTunes: Ribbons : Expressive Electronic Instrument - Olympia Noise Co.

Note Ribbons has been out for some time now, but I do not think I've featured it here on MATRIXSYNTH before now. The following are some screenshots and details captured for the archives.

"Ribbons is an extraordinarily fun and expressive musical instrument for iPad.

Inspired by early electronic instruments such as the Ondes Martenot and the Theremin, Ribbons (formerly "Ondes") emulates the fluid playing style of those classic instruments with an interface and synthesis engine firmly grounded in the present day.

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Rare Roland MPU-500 Sequencer

If anyone knows more about the Roland MPU-500, let us know. This is the first post to feature one.

It was spotted by Riva Lima on The MATRIXSYNTH Lounge Facebook Group. I ran a quick Google search and I couldn't find much info, but I did find a car cigarette style adapter for it on Amazon! You know, for the one person out there that wants to use it in their car. They also have a standard replacement adapter for it. The adapters are actually from MyVolts who make chained power supplies for the Korg Volcas and Roland Boutiques.

There is no manual for the MPU-500 on Roland's manual archive, but I did find the following references:

"MRD-500 RHYTHM BANK - S-MRC (PC ONLY)
This is the Roland MRD-500 Rhythm Bank software. This file contains many rhythm patterns for the MC-50/MC-50mkII or MC-500mkII MicroComposer. Use the PKUNZIP program to uncompress this file to a floppy disk."

MRM-500 SMF CONVERTER (PC - 57K)
"This SDISK file is the MRM-500 Standard MIDI File converter for the MC-500 and MC-50. This SDISK file is the S-550 Library Converter for the S-50 sampler."

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Buchla and Serge

Published on Nov 2, 2017 verstaerker

"the easel plays the bg-bassline and the serge the lead and grungy sound sequence
utilizing the wavemultplier and resonant eq

both are sequenced by the powerful squarp pyramid"

Axoloti & Bass Station 2 on the hill tops #5

Published on Nov 2, 2017 Matthew Tyas

"An improvised session, using a Novation Bass Station going into an Axoloti DIY Synth used as a 4 track Looper, reverb and delay. Recorded live in Gan, on the dreamy tops."

Quad Gate Delay (Malekko) - Overview Video

Published on Nov 2, 2017 DRD_Tutorials

"This video provides an overview to the Quad Gate Delay module by Malekko Heavy Industry.

Visit Malekko's webpage, www.malekkoheavyindustry.com, for more information on their module, or checkout my channel for more videos covering other awesome things!

Enjoy!
- Dan"

How to Connect MIDI Devices Over 1km Apart

via EurekaSound:

"EurekaSound releases MIDIMizer-Long Range

MIDI communications over a kilometer away!

Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, November 2nd, 2017 - EurekaSound LLC is proud to announce MIDIMizer-Long Range, that allows musicians to cable together MIDI gear at distances of over one kilometer away.

The MIDIMizer-Long Range system consists of two boxes with the following features:
two MIDI In ports
two MIDI Out ports
one RJ45 port for the long distance Cat5 cable
one micro-B USB port for power
The wiring diagram below shows how to connect the system:

"MIDIMizer-Long Range solves the problem of connecting MIDI gear from stage to mixing board at the back of the hall, or even between buildings" said Dave Graham, co-founder of EurekaSound.

About EurekaSound
Incorporated in 2009, EurekaSound LLC creates unique and custom gear for musicians. For more information, please visit www.eurekasound.com."