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New synth prn is up on the IDOW Facebook Gallery. Scroll down to the bottom when you get there.

Pictured: Big City Music showroom & Aries Modular at Big City Music.

Waldorf Lector Demo part 1/2 (Synthesizer section)

YouTube Uploaded by ESSEKNOB on Mar 19, 2012

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The Waldorf Lector's synthesizer section... not only a vocoder!
Drums made with Waldorf Attack (the Waldorf Edition VST)"

via Piero Peet

General Elektriks - David Lynch Moments (Arte_One Shot Not_2010)

YouTube Uploaded by lleicoob on Feb 11, 2010

"General Elektriks - David Lynch Moments (Arte_One Shot Not_2010)"

Roland SH-101 solo at :41. This one in via Xavier.

Pablo Penas [Corsynth] @ Störung Festival 7 [Corsynth]

Pablo Penas [Corsynth] @ Störung Festival 7 from Störung on Vimeo.

"Pablo Penas at Störung Festival 7 [21.04.2012, Barcelona]
**Workshop from 3.30pm to 7.30pm (in Spanish & English)

Workshop: Sound Modular Experiments
Modular synthesizers are the origin of the synthesizers we use today. Understanding how they operate is to understand how most of synthesizers in the market work, both software and hardware. This workshop will build on the most basic concepts such as control signals, functional units, etc. to venture into more complex patching techniques that will allow the participants to experience the creative freedom obtained with the management of these systems. Know the rules and then break them.
Corsynth is the modular project of Pablo Penas, based in Galicia. An adventure starting on 2011 with the aim of making a small contribution to the world of modular synthesizers. The idea behind Corsynth is to manufacture useful and functional modules that enable the user to expand the sonic possibilities of their systems.

storung.com
corsynth.com"

Ableton DJ Template Pro: Walkthrough [For Akai APC40]

DJ Template Pro: Walkthrough from Will Marshall on Vimeo.

"This is a walkthrough of my DJ Template for the Akai APC40. It provides an overview of all the core features, but does not go into detail.

To download the template, visit WillMarshall.me"

Install and setup video here.
Follow-up to Live Looping for the APC40

Ethero 2 Live Demo

Ethero 2 Live Demo from Michael Aldridge on Vimeo.

"This is just a quick demo of Ethero 2 running live on my iPad 2.

The video shows a couple of the preset scales in the app. The synth sounds are from the Moog Animoog which is running in background-audio mode and being controlled via virtual MIDI ports.

Ethero 2 will run on iPhone 3GS, iPhone 4, iPhone 4S and iPad 2.
MIDI is sent over virtual ports, WIFI and via the Camera Connection Kit. Of course, your mileage will vary with the use of virtual MIDI ports as there's quite a lot of processing going on. It works best on the iPhone 4S and iPad 2 (and I guess 'the new iPad', but I can't test that... yet!)"

You can find Ethero 1 on iTunes here (description below - not sure if Ethero 2 will be a separate app or upgrade):

ethero - glidepro

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"Description

*ATTENTION*
To all users with retina-display devices, an update has just been posted to the App Store that will improve performance!

Ethero is the iPhone’s answer to the etherophone, or Theremin as it’s better known. The Theremin is one of the earliest electronic instruments ever created and it’s now famous for it’s signature eerie sound.

The traditional Theremin is usually controlled without any physical contact, with the player using each hand to control both the pitch and the volume of the sound. Ethero works in a slightly different way, but it still attempts to emulate the real instrument!

Ethero takes the amount of light coming into the device’s camera and translates it into a sound frequency. So, waving your hand or another object in front of the device camera will change the pitch of the sound. The more light coming into the camera, the higher the pitch.
To control the volume of the sound, simply touch the screen of the iphone and move it up and down the screen.

There are a couple of other useful features of Ethero...

- a simple calibration facility. To get the full frequency range of the instrument even when in poor lighting conditions. Press the cog icon, hold your device still then press the tick icon. If you want to reset the calibration, just press the cog icon again and press the cross icon.

- an LFO (low frequency oscillator) which adds that trademark eerie ‘wobble’ to the sound. Press the ‘LFO on’ button to switch it on, and again to switch it off.

- a lock to chromatic frequencies. This makes the instrument easier to play if you’re just getting used to it, as only frequencies on the ‘usual’ chromatic scale are played and the ‘glide’ from the sound is removed. Press the music-note button to switch to chromatic mode, and again to switch it off.

Hope you enjoy playing Ethero, but do make sure you don't turn the volume up too loudly. Protect your ears!

If you have any problems or ideas, just head over to http://michaelaldridge.info/ and drop me an email."

Frantic Party Mix (FrantaBit Pedal Review....)

Frantic Party Mix (FrantaBit Pedal Review....) from Rodrigo Constanzo on Vimeo.

"FrantaBit bit-crushing pedal in a review turned into techno jam....

Shot and edited by Angela Guyton

rodrigoconstanzo.com
ironether.com
angelaguyton.com"

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Live at the Graham Foundation, Madlener House, Chicago, IL, March 10th, 2012 ; presented by Lampo.

Update: the original video for this post (via kwf on Vimeo) appears to have been removed from Vimeo. Above is a playlist of the event from seijinlee on YouTube.

"KEITH FULLERTON WHITMAN
SAT MAR 10 8pm
Graham Foundation
Madlener House
4 West Burton Place

At long last, Keith Fullerton Whitman makes his Lampo debut. To mark the special occasion, he offers the U.S. premiere of "Rhythmes Naturels," created at the legendary INA-GRM studios, plus a live modular synth improvisation.

Alors, last October Whitman spent a week in Paris, commissioned to develop a new piece for François Bayle's Acousmonium, an 80-speaker sound system designed in 1974 for the Groupe de Recherches Musicales. Pierre Schaeffer formed GRM, a studio and collective, in the late 1950s to encourage the development of electronic music. Members included Luc Ferrari, Iannis Xenakis, Bernard Parmegiani, among other lions; in the late 1960s Bayle became its director. For a whelp like Keith, the residency was "a life-long dream come true." And, he says, "The piece turned out exactly as I hoped."

Here, he'll do his new work in a 4-channel mix. Here, he talks about the residency, etc.

Keith Fullerton Whitman (b. 1973, Bergen County, N.J.) is a composer and performer obsessed with electronic music, from its mid-century origins in Europe to its contemporary worldwide incarnation as digital music. Currently he is working towards implementing a complete system for live performance of improvised electronic music, which incorporates elements from nearly every era. He has recorded albums influenced by many genres, including ambient music, drone, drill and bass, musique concrète and krautrock. He has recorded and performed using several aliases, of which the most familiar is Hrvatski. Today most of his work is recorded under his real name. Whitman lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts."

Eardrill Sequencing

YouTube Uploaded by djangosfire on Mar 19, 2012

"An analog 'sequencer patch' I came up with using mostly Eardrill Modules.

The patch is a quick demo to show it's possible to use an Eardrill "Slew" ModuleModule as a basic voltage source. This was done by patching the the Slew Out into it's In - then "jump-start" the feedback loop using an outside voltage (in this case, I used the Dlfo).

Once you have a steady voltage, you can send/split it to a bank of attenuators (I used a Verbos 254v this this time) for "tunable sequencer stages" - which are in turn sent to an Eardrill "Source Selector" module.

Now add the Pendulum Ratchet as a clock source, and you have a fully functional 4x step analog sequencer with loads of patch programmability.

One other thing I did for fun, was use a Buchla 255 as a pre-set bank of sequence transposition voltages."