some heavyhanded MIDIMuRF abuse

via Amos on the AH list:

"Hey all,

Just finished MidiMuRF firmware v1.0 and it's officially in production... woohoo!
I recorded a bit of messing about last night as I was doing the final testing and thought it would be fun to share.

This is a little mix of no musical consequence... just some string chords from a VST synth (Alchemy) run thru the MIDI MuRF in a couple of different modes, and two layers of percussion (sequenced samples) also given the MuRF-overkill treatment.

technical details: The string synth is samples-only; all of Alchemy's effects layers are turned off. The drums are sequenced by me using samples from Battery and Goldbaby's Cassette808 kit.

Sequenced, arranged and recorded in Ableton Live; output to 44.1kHz 16bit .wav and converted to 320kbps CBR mp3. Wave files available if anyone is interested (about 16MB each).

The drums have some VST compression after the MuRF to even out the dynamics a bit; no other effects. The string line in the full mix has a 25%-wet ping-pong delay after the MuRF because that's how I'd use it "in real life" -- the string solo track has no effects, just string synth thru MuRF.

In the full mix, you first hear the string chords that are the entire melodic content, dry with no MuRF. Then you hear the MuRF filtering these chords with a factory preset "animation" pattern synchronized to the MIDI clock. After this, you hear one of the new MIDI note modes, where the MuRF filters are gated/played directly from a MIDI keyboard using notes C4-C5 (1 octave of white keys). I preformed the MIDI "live" then quantized to 16th notes and played the quantized notes into the MuRF to get the tight yet humanized gate effect from the filters.

So ok... probably took longer to read all that than it will take to listen to the clips... so here they are. :-)

full mix:
http://seamslikereality.com/moog/midimurf/midimurf-liveplayedfilterstrings.mp3

strings solo (gated via MIDI notes played "live" (quantized after the fact)
from a controller keyboard):
http://seamslikereality.com/moog/midimurf/midimurf-strings-solo.mp3

drums solo (2 layers, each is dry drum samples thru MIDI MuRF synced to host
tempo):
http://seamslikereality.com/moog/midimurf/midimurf-drums-solo.mp3


This does not even begin to scratch the surface of what you can do with this pedal... The MIDI implementation opens up a world of new possibilities. I'm pretty excited.

Not sure if this message counts as "spam" or not... if so, please excuse.

All the best,

Amos"