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Tuesday, October 29, 2013

FL Studio Performance Mode | Multi-touch Jam

Published on Oct 29, 2013 Image-Line·521 videos

"nucleon & sacco do some impromptu jamming at the 2013 Image-Line developers meet.

sacco - http://www.image-line.com/documents/p...
nucleon - https://www.youtube.com/user/Electroc..."

Novation Launchpad Mini, Microsoft Surface & Lenovo IdeaPad Yoga 13.

Techmology! - Deadmau5 with Prototype Surface Controller

Published on Oct 28, 2013 deadmau5 ·179 videos

"Thanks to our partners over at microsoft and their PPI team, our team were able to make some pretty righteous touch software that drives the OSC / Midi to... other ... stuff. ;) ... its still early in development, but were making great progress. Heres a quick demo!"

Wednesday, October 23, 2013

Microsoft Surface Music Kit Videos


Published on Oct 23, 2013 surface·91 videos

Playlist:
Surface Music Kit -- Download songs and templates
Surface Music Kit -- Use Song View
Surface Music Kit -- Use Loop Mode
Surface Music Kit -- Use Mute and Solo buttons
Surface Music Kit -- Match pitch and tempo with imported sound
Surface Music Kit -- Import sound to use in remix
Surface Music Kit -- Record and import new patterns
Surface Music Kit -- Add effects to remix using sliders
Surface Music Kit -- Export your remix to MP3, WAV or WMA

Tuesday, October 08, 2013

Random Reaktor Stuff

Random Reaktor Stuff 01

Published on Oct 8, 2013 Dennis Harms·2 videos

"I just threw some of my small Reaktor weekend projects into one ensembe to see how it sounds like, you can hear and see the result in this video.

All the instruments in this ensemble are just ideas or prototypes or however you want to call it. Especially the "Circle Seq" thingy is a really basic idea I realized very quickly yesterday, I have quite a few cool ideas where to go with it though (Recursive modulation between the LFOs that run the sequencers should be fun for example!).

I'm doing nothing is this video by the way, all the instruments are entirely self running.

Sorry for the bad video quality, one day I'll learn how to use all this fancy video stuff."

This on the Surface Pro.

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Update:


Random Reaktor Stuff 02

Published on Oct 8, 2013 BrontoScorpioMusic

"Another random Reaktor jam using some of my smaller, unfinished ensemble ideas.

I'm controlling the routing matrix of the Node Seq via a MIDI keyboard, everything else is self running. This ensemble does not use any samples, everything is generated in realtime."

AudioTool + MS Surface Pro: No need for iPad apps...

Published on Oct 7, 2013 acemonvw·65 videos

"Just started messing around with Flash-based Web apps using the Surface Pro. I'm guessing you could do this stuff with Android tablets, but... this is pretty fun on the Surface pro (with the digitizer pen)."

Follow-up to AudioMulch + MS Surface Pro tablet: Music production demo

via Michael Dennis Raleigh on The MATRIXSYNTH Lounge

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Monday, October 07, 2013

AudioMulch + MS Surface Pro tablet: Music production demo

Published on Oct 7, 2013 acemonvw·64 videos

"Just tested out AudioMulch on the Microsoft Surface Pro tablet. It works like a champ. Just use the pen to work on your music. No stuttering, glitching, or problems what-so-ever!"

Follow-up to: Using the Microsoft Surface Pro to Edit the Clavia Nord Modulars

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Saturday, October 05, 2013

Using the Microsoft Surface Pro to Edit the Clavia Nord Modulars

Clavia Nord Modular (and G2) editors + Microsoft Surface Pro demo

Published on Oct 5, 2013 acemonvw·63 videos

I'm actually the person referred to in the video that asked about using the Surface Pro to edit the Clavia Nord Modular (I have the Micro Modular). Big thanks to acemonvw for testing this out! I was curious if the touch interface would work well. It appears that with the pen it indeed does. One thing I didn't think about though, was whether the Micro Modular would be recognized by the editor running on Windows 8. You'd think it would but someone I know and trust wasn't so sure. Also, I recently switched to a Mac and tried the editor using Wine which runs Windows programs. The editor picked up my MIDI device but oddly it did not pick up the Micro Modular.  If anyone out there has a Nord Modular and a Surface Pro, let us know if the editor picks up the hardware and works with it.  Regardless, the G2 editor does work, produces audio and best of all, it is free.  If you have a Surface Pro, you have a free modular.

Update: it looks like it works with the Roland UM-ONE MIDI out on Windows 8 as you can see in this video with an Acer W510.

Video description:
"This demo goes through using the Nord Modular (0:00) and G2 (6:00) editors on the Surface Pro. If you want to just know 'Does the Surface Pro work well with these editors?' my answer is 'yes, but...'

The 'but' being that it seemed most useful using the pen throughout. While I at first felt that your fingers would work fine for knob twisting and such, even on the Nord Modular editor (not G2), I looked back at the video and felt that my finger still had trouble catching the knobs. However, I would say WITH the pen, you would have very little trouble using the editors. I hope you enjoyed the video and that it provided you with some insight into this combination. Please let me know if you have any questions. Thank you :)"

via Michael on The MATRIXSYNTH Lounge.

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Tuesday, October 01, 2013

NI Maschine + Microsoft Surface Pro Demo #2

Published on Sep 30, 2013 acemonvw·61 videos

Follow-up to this post.

"It works. Using AISO4ALL driver. VSTs that were active:
2 Massive vsts
5 reaktor
1 drum kit (stock 909 from Maschine, with 1 metaverb effect)

I had a lot of glitching and stopping because of some processes in
Windows. I advise that you reset your computer before using..."

via Michael Dennis Raleigh on The MATRIXSYNTH Lounge

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Thursday, September 26, 2013

NI Maschine + MS Surface Pro demo... it wasn't quite as expected


Published on Sep 26, 2013 acemonvw·59 videos

I believe this is the first MS Surface Pro user video focused on making music.
Update: all working now.  See this post.

The original post:
"So I thought it would be cool to use the MS Surface Pro as an interface
for Maschine. I was able to make some fun beats with it and use it
fairly well, but it would freak out every so often. I thought I had it
under control when I was making this piece... but it ends abruptly when
the CPU just gives out. The audio cut out just fine apparently, but you
can see at the very end the software and hardware just give up. Welp,
that's why I like hardware grooveboxes, they don't just give up on me
when I'm writing stuff (of course, the Surface Pro isn't THAT great of
a piece of hardware either, but I did expect it to manage this song).

Yes, the levels seem to be off, I just wanted to experiment with
Maschine and the Surface Pro... It was a failed attempt I think."

Update: see this thread on The MATRIXSYNTH Lounge for some additional details.
Some notes on what was running:

"To be fair. I believe I have 5 reaktor vst's going, a few massive vst's going, one other NI vst that does drone-y things (can't remember its name), as well as some samples for drums..."

"The way I recorded the audio, was for Maschine to sample the master audio, which probably added to the fun. Oh, AND Maschine and all samples and VSTs are loaded on an external micro SD (class 10) card..."

This was also run with Windows Pro native audio drivers out of the box. Asio4all drivers and/or of course an external audio device might help.

Update2 via Tony Scharf in the comments before the updates from the Lounge: "The amount of RAM and storage speed in the surface pro is just totally in adequate for something like Maschine. You would have to have VERY high latency times for it to run. Also, I'd like to know if he is just using Maschine, or if there are any plug in FX being used. That would probably push it over the edge.

The surface pro 2 would probably fair better. Also, a more optimized application like FL Studio would probably run better given how FL Studio will run on a crappy netbook well. Maschine is many things but it is NOT lean."

Update3 via Michael, aka acemonvw on The MATRIXSYNTH Lounge: "If you're interested in knowing, I have studied Maschine and the Surface Pro and find they work pretty well together. I have had much fewer hangups since switching to the AISO driver. I also found that a few services were causing issues randomly 1) Windows Modules Installer Worker, 2) WMI provider host, and 3) System. System was strange in that it was at about 30% CPU forever. Maschine only took up 10% CPU when running using 2 reaktors, 1 massive, and one Kontakt. Pretty impressive actually!"

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Monday, September 23, 2013

Microsoft Announces Surface 2 "Remix Project" with MPC Style Control Pads

Remix Project -- Linkin Park's Joe Hahn

Published on Sep 23, 2013 surface·69 videos

"Joe Hahn explains why the Surface Music Kit is an easy way to start remixing music the way you want. Learn more at www.surfaceremixproject.com."

"The Surface Music Kit is compatible with Surface 2, Surface Pro, and Surface Pro 2. Internet access required for installation." Go with Pro if you want to run the full gamut of Windows apps. RT only supports apps specifically designed for it. Also I don't not believe Windows RT supports external MIDI devices. If you know otherwise feel free to comment.

The following video focuses on other snap on interface options for the Surface.  Remix Project makes an appearance.  Further below is a video on the Remix Project from Engadget.

Surface Workshop at Art Center College of Design

Published on Sep 23, 2013

"Three weeks before launching its new line of products, the Surface design team took a trip to Pasadena, CA, where they held a 3 day workshop with renowned design school Art Center College of Design.

The group of 11 students chosen for the workshop were the first people outside of Microsoft to see a new accessory the design team has been working on: a music attachment that clicks into a Surface and allows users to easily remix music. They asked the students: what else would you want to attach to a Surface? They code named these attachments blades."

Microsoft Surface 2 Remix Project Hands-On | Engadget

Published on Sep 23, 2013 Engadget·1,050 videos

"Microsoft Surface 2 Remix Project Hands-On. Read on at Engadget:"

http://www.engadget.com/2013/09/23/microsoft-surface-remix-project-hands-on/

"Inside the application, you'll find "stems" (things like the bass track of a song), "clips" (the intro to a pop song, say) and "oneshots," which include sound effects like claps. From there, you can drag and drop the tracks into a workshop area, not unlike the way you'd handle media in a video-cutting program (or any other digital audio workshop, really). What's especially cool is that the Touch Cover here is pressure-sensitive, just like the new Touch Cover 2, so if you want a light drum sound, you can tap it lightly; if you want something more intense, just start mashing it with your fingers..."

This one in via Soviet Space Child.

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