Stellaratmosphere

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http://www.youtube.com/user/HootHinge
http://soundcloud.com/clavavisage
"theory an important operator is the
classical Lambda Operator, Λτ"

All Paia 9700 dubs processed with Audiomulch.

This Digital Forest

YouTube via cray56 | Feb 24, 2011 |

"I love audiomulch"

Novation Launchpad with Audiomulch

YouTube via GoldenMaster288
"A video of me using a a basic user configuation of the Noavation Launchpad to use with Audiomulch and some VST's to do some matrix-mixing and pattern switching. Check out the full review on my blog: http://www.bagger288.com/goldenmaster"

AudioMulch 2.0 - drum synthesis with SouthPole envelopes

YouTube via AudioMulch. Update: see this post for more details.
"From http://www.audiomulch.com/blog Demonstration of using SouthPole filter contraptions to synthesize kick and high hat sounds from white noise, and gate percussion sounds, all controlled by the Metasurface for rapid parameter changes."

SouthPole ​Expedition ​Part ​2: ​Modulation ​Mixing ​and ​LFOs on AudioMulch

via AudioMulch
"In part 1 of this series about AudioMulch's SouthPole contraption I presented the basics of resonant lowpass filtering. I gave an example of using AudioMulch's automation system to create rhythmic patterns of filtering by automating SouthPole's Base Frequency, Resonance and Gain. If you haven't read it you might want to check out part 1 here. This week's post picks up the story with an explanation of SouthPole's modulation mixing system. Then we'll look at some examples using SouthPole's LFOs (low frequency oscillators) to create various types of time-varying filtering."

AudioMulch 2.0 live-patching screencast audio software

YouTube via AudioMulch
"This live patching demonstration was recorded for the launch of AudioMulch 2.0, June 5, 2009. An AudioMulch 2.0 patch is built from scratch, starting with a single guitar sample.

This is what we came up with the night before version 2.0 release but we'd love to see some AudioMulch users create and upload their own live-patching videos.

AudioMulch 2.0 is available at:
audiomulch.com

Thanks to Tobias Hengeveld for kindly giving permission to use a guitar loop sampled from his new album."

AudioMulch 2.0 - SouthPole Basics

YouTube via AudioMulch
"From http://www.audiomulch.com/blog Preview of the soon-to-be-released version 2.0 of AudioMulch Interactive Music Studio. This short screencast demonstrates the simplest function of the SouthPole contraption as a resonant low-pass filter. Just as applicable to AudioMulch 1.0."

AudioMulch 2.0 - Illuminating the Shaper Contraption

YouTube via AudioMulch
"Preview of the soon-to-be-released version 2.0 of AudioMulch Interactive Music Studio. This short screencast demonstrates some uses of the Shaper contraption which are just as applicable to AudioMulch 1.0. Demonstrating at 2:09 that if you're not careful it is possible to drive the Shaper into nasty clipping even after you've gone to the trouble of limiting the output.

the automated metasurface controlling a simple voice synthesis patch. Sadly our screen recording software makes the real-time manipulation of the metasurface seem jumpy -- in reality it's as smooth as yacht rock. Created for the AudioMulch blog: http://www.audiomulch.com/blog"

AudioMulch 2.0 - metasurface meets speech synthesis

YouTube via AudioMulch
"Preview of the soon-to-be-released version 2.0 of AudioMulch Interactive Music Studio. This short screencast demonstrates the automated metasurface controlling a simple voice synthesis patch. Sadly our screen recording software makes the real-time manipulation of the metasurface seem jumpy -- in reality it's as smooth as yacht rock. Created for the AudioMulch blog: http://www.audiomulch.com/blog"
via this post on AudioMulch where you'll find more info.

New AudioMulch Blog

http://www.audiomulch.com/blog

The first post is "AudioMulch ​2 ​– ​less ​pain ​with ​patchcords"

via fac on the forum

AudioMulch 2.0 Preliminary Information

via AudioMulch.com where you will find more info including pricing.

"AudioMulch 2.0 is now in the final stages of development. Due to the scope of development things have taken longer than anticipated. The release will take place on May 1, 2009. Apologies to existing users for the delay, and thank you for your patience.

AudioMulch 2.0 is not just a new version, it is the next generation of AudioMulch. It will provide a foundation for a new cycle of feature development and improvements that will be rolled out in regular updates after the 2.0 release. Currently we are focused on delivering a stable and reliable release as soon as practical.

AudioMulch 2.0 will run on Windows (XP, Vista) and natively on Macintosh OSX (Intel only). Click the screenshots at the right for a closer look at the current (unfinished) user interface.
Features

AudioMulch 2.0 will be backward-compatible with AudioMulch 1.0. It will provide all AudioMulch 1.0 functionality. The Macintosh version of AudioMulch will be able to load AudioMulch 1.0 patches.

Improvements to the AudioMulch core will include:
* Significant performance increases for audio processing (up to twice the efficiency in some cases)
* Patchable MIDI routing
* MIDI and Automation control of Metasurface, tempo and transport
* Support for complex time signatures including automated time signature changes and additive meters
* Improved support for consumer multichannel audio
* Settings for enabling audio, MIDI and network functions at start-up

The AudioMulch 2.0 user interface has been re-coded from the ground up. This has lead to numerous work-flow improvements, including:
* A new Patcher with advanced drag-and-drop patching
* Dockable windows improving multi-monitor operation
* Faster access to MIDI control and parameter values
* Floating Parameter Control (formerly Parameter Modulation) window
* Nameable contraption presets"

This Sunday at Dorkbot Melbourne, Australia

*4pm, Sunday 28 September, 2008
Level 1, 124a Johnston St Fitzroy 3065 (just east of Brunswick St).

This Sunday Dorkbot Melbourne, Auatralia.

::: Ross Healy (aka Cray) :::
::: VICMOD - Melbourne DIY Modular Synth Builders :::

Ross will provide a glimpse into the world of VICMOD, a group of musicians and synthesizer enthusiasts who meet monthly in the Melbourne CBD to discuss and construct modular analog audio synthesizers. Each month the group builds a different module, often those designed by Ken Stone (http://www.cgs.synth.net/). Ross will also demonstrate some of the modules which have been built at VICMOD over the past couple of years.

Experimental electronic artist Ross Healy has been an active member of the Melbourne music scene since 1988 and has released recordings around the globe with projects such as This Digital Ocean, Amnesia, 56k Siko Spunji, and Horaku . These days he releases and performs under the 'Cray' moniker, making music with his 95 module modular synthesizer as well as software instruments.

::: Ross Bencina (aka Mulchwerk) :::
::: AudioMulch 2.0 progress report :::

For the last 2.5 years Ross has been working on a new version of his AudioMulch software musical instrument ( http://www.audiomulch.com ) which is now reaching the final stages of development. Ross will provide a preview of what he's been working on and will discuss some of the details of the AudioMulch 2.0 development process.

Ross Bencina is a composer, performer, software developer and digital instrument maker, with a strong interest in improvised electroacoustic music. He has performed solo and with collaborators around Australia and internationally. Ross is the creator of AudioMulch interactive music studio - software for electronic music performance. In 2004 and 2005 Ross collaborated with researchers at the Music Technology Group, Pompeu Fabra University in Barcelona where he contributed to the development of the reacTable musical instrument. Ross is the director of Sonic Fritter Pty. Ltd., which sells AudioMulch and provides software development and consulting services for audio-related applications.

http://www.audiomulch.com/~rossb"

Minion Samples

Remember Minion? Title link takes you to some samples sent in via Brian Comnes. Note the zip is just the zipped version of the mp3s.

"2 dry 2 wet with Minion driven by AudioMulch and extracted to Wav then MP3 . The Airporter clip wet really got nice, dark and organic with Minion, much less bright than the dry version. As the www.devine-machine.com site says when you just have to have 4 filters driven by 12 LFO, whatcha gonna do?? The eye candy while it is operating is definitely cool. Price is right too - FREE!. This program will give AntaresTech FILTER which I also use quite a run for the money ...FILTER is $120"

AudioMulch

Via Brian Comnes:

"Audio Mulch is bar none my favorite sound toy for traveling on business.....it is totally self contained, so it is even smaller than dragging a Mono Evolver in the brief case , plus you can do it on the plane ride, while any hardware companions have to wait til the hotel room. Audio Mulch is much like a "soft modular" in that you put objects on a work surface, you patch them with connectors and away you go, it has a Cycling74/Max kind of feel but is much higher up the food chain. What is really fun is that VST plugins are supported so I push FruityLoops and Microtonic on the work surface and then the real fun starts. I haven't tried it yet but you can route external audio too. If there is an negative side is that there is no MIDI out to control outboard devices, but then that is what Ableton Live is for. If you travel and like the concept of modulars as opposed to just tweeking soft synth, this is the best $80 you can spend

Peace Brian

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here is a description of the screen shot and 32 bar sound file Chemutengure - Mbira Melody by Brendon Bussy.

This patch is based on a transcription of an Mbira (Zimbabwean thumb piano) melody composed in the 1800's. (transcription from "Making Music"; Claire Jones; Academic Books, Zimbabwe; 1992).

The original piece apparently imitates the sound of wagon wheels (!) and is based on a typical African 12 beat cycle. I created this patch to see how a complex African melody would be translated by Audiomulch.

This particular version is in fact designed to be played on a Karimba (a smaller version of the Mbira), so I used the frequencies of the approximate piano note equivalents of the Karimba keys, slightly detuned where necessary. I first worked out all of the frequencies and then assigned them to specific 'fingers'.

The melody:
*Melody structure
- I created the melody played by each finger by automating the frequency presets of 4 TestGens.
-To create the 12 beat structure, I divided each bar into 12 by snapping to 1/8th triplets.

*Melody sound
- As a side effect of the rapid volume & frequency modulation of the TestGen, a 'knocking' sound is generated. This contributes to the rhythmic (unbalanced wheel!) feel.
- A side chain consisting of Shapers and EQ fattens up the straight TestGen sound.

Percussion:
*Percussion sounds
- I used DLGranulator to quantise and filter single tones genererated by Arpeggiators.
[I got this idea from someone on the AM forum - sorry can't remember who :( ]

*Percussion rhythm:
- I created a typical African 3 over 2 beat feel by quantising separate beats with 1/4 note (2 beats) and 1/4 note triplet (3 beats) divisions."

Sanfrancisco Electronic Music Festival via Brian Comnes

Remember the SFEM? The following are Brian Comnes' notes on the last Friday of the event.

act 1 - Barbara Golden, a big Bay Area name in alternative music came out and read a piece of prose about getting lusty with some now dead poet, allegedly Lenoard Cohen's mentor, and there was a home slide show of her in the 70's with canned bouzuki music - a nice prose spoken word piece, but wierd for the SFEMF is you think about it

Act 2 was Steven Roden, his rig is in the picture I attached and as far as I can tell it is a few guitar delay boxes and some sound sources, harmonicas, slide guitar, and including the wooden peach crate which is apparently rooted in some electronica history , very nicely done piece but it put me to sleep, hardly synth porn..... here is another shot from the sfemf press photos site, hey he's playin a harmonica, not biting his nails.

Act 3 part 1 was a 12 minute set of Risset Tones (Risset tones are based on the work of Roger Shepard in the 1960's and the further developments made later by Jean-Claude Risset, RissetTones is designed to create an acoustical illusion. Perhaps best explained as the aural equivalent of the barber pole, the product of the RissetTones is a gliding tone which seems always to be moving either up or down in pitch while staying in the same general position.) Bottom line is that it was about 9 minutes too long, heck I could have done that with a copy of AudioMulch and 2 mouse clicks, a lot of people were looking at their watched at the 5 minute mark, to top it off I think it was from CD and not genrated live.

Act 3 part 2 piece by Toronto-based James Tenney whose piece which was played back from CD with a live percussion overlay by percussionist William Winant. He showed up with about 80 pieces of kit, including tuned Bundt cake pans, assorted pan lids in addition to a gong, tympani and other more traditional drum stuff but look at that other attched picture and you will see a door bell buzzer (!) in a box that was fileterd by opening and closing the lid, the canned track part seemed to be random synth burps and gee if I had 80 things to bang on I'd like to think I could keep it going, he had some great techniques though with the gong and tympany by rubbing on them with a mic'ed stick of some sort

the best of the evening was before the show .....a multimedia installation at Recombinant Media Labs by Semiconductor....the venue is superb, you are surrrouned by ten 15 foot wide by 8 foot high video screens in a 30X45 foot room and it has 16 channel surround, the video was NASA video and still shots of the sun using the solar energy patterns worked down to audible levels and added harmonics, i.e. the whiter the screen the louder the music, ...its a really cool way to experience solar flares to say the least

also I didn't see it but on Thursday night Brenda Hutchinson was playing this rig"

Gregg Janman's Modular Noodlings

Gregg recently posted this MP3 on the Analog Heaven mailing list, as an example of the Metalbox 8008, a Roland TR-808 kick drum clone. The MP3 also includes a Blacet and Wiard modular. I asked him if it would be ok to post the sample as I thought it was really good, it's very clean so you can hear each instrument clearly. He gave me the go ahead and a whole lot more. Below are some notes by Gregg and a few more samples and descriptions of each. Very, very cool. Thanks Gregg!









"i post a lot of info about my modular to the black dog forum here.

i have a 37 module (and still growing but nearly complete i feel) frac
rack system with a mobius and fat controller sequencer, and a
moogerfooger mf-101 lpf. apparently it's the only frac rack modular in
japan ;)

that dimension c track is two modular voices (one blacet pwm wave into
moog filter, one blacet/wiard miniwave into blacet stonz phaser into
wiard boogie filter, both sequenced by the same cv from the mobius) plus
effects (2 blacet time machines plus a boss dimension c pedal) tweaked
and recorded live in one take and then post processed digitally with a
little reverb, compression, limiting and eq. the weirdest thing is that
if you listen to it for a while, it REALLY sounds like a grand piano!!!

here are some other modular noodlings:

1. http://darkflame.hermetech.net/Musick/Babaluma-ChineseLantern.mp3
   
   an example of putting the feedback signal of a delay through a phaser.
   the main patch is the wiard noise ring output quantised by the miniwave
   to a pentatonic scale set to "play" the vco's randomly, through the
   above mentioned effects.



2. http://darkflame.hermetech.net/Musick/OneDropDrums&Acid.mp3
   
   slow and dubby acid with the heavily modded tr-606.



3. http://darkflame.hermetech.net/Musick/Babaluma-VeryPhat.mp3
   
   an excercise in phatness.



4. http://techno.dogsquad.co.uk/darkflame/DoubleDelaySweep.mp3
   
   how BIG can those blacet time machines sound?



5. http://techno.dogsquad.co.uk/darkflame/3SquDroneEndorphin.mp3
   
   a long drone, nice but boring? would make a good "bed" for other stuff.



6. http://techno.dogsquad.co.uk/darkflame/Babaluma-TheKindThatWinds.mp3
   
   techno track, lots of modular, 606 and 8008.



7. http://darkflame.hermetech.net/Musick/Babaluma&Decadnids&Elf-Maggie-YamatoFluteMix.mp3
   
   splitting a stereo mix digitally into m/s components, then processing
   the m and s signals through DIFFERENT modular patches, back into the
   digital realm where the m and s signals are recombined into stereo...
   mmmmm....



8. http://darkflame.hermetech.net/Musick/Babaluma-HymnForJohn.mp3
   
   a complete track featured on the http://www.darkwinter.com/ album "full
   cold moon", a tribute to john balance of coil, and featuring tangerine
   dream/coil style modular sequencing.



9. http://darkflame.hermetech.net/Musick/Babaluma-TsunamiTidalWaves(PowerAmbientRemix).mp3


a full track, and one that i'm very happy with, even though it's old and
was made almost entirely in the digital domain (audiomulch on the pc). i
hope to be able to make stuff like this with just analogue gear in the
future.

anyway, feel free to post any of this stuff on your site. i'm always
looking to collaborate or master other people's stuff when my schedule
allows.

best wishes and thanks for listening and commenting, i really appreciate it!

gregg janman."

Thank you Gregg!