The Best Thing at the Messe

Title link takes you to the video on Sonic State. This is pretty cool.

Ableton and Cycling '74 Partner

Cycling '74 and Ableton to Codevelop New Products

The world of creative media software tools is about to get a lot more interesting. A new strategic partnership between Ableton and Cycling '74 promises exciting developments on the horizon for digital media creators, producers, and performers. Ableton CEO and cofounder Gerhard Behles and Cycling '74 CEO David Zicarelli are pleased to announce this unique alliance between the two dynamic and innovative audio/video software companies.

"We've been excited by the idea of bringing the worlds of Ableton and Cycling '74 together for a long time," says Behles, who has been a fan of Zicarelli's company for many years. "In our own musical work," Behles says, "we have been avid users of Cycling '74's products since long before Ableton existed."

Behles and the rest of the Ableton team have long been inspired by Cycling '74's commitment to empowering creative people. "Cycling '74 represents the idea that artists should be free to create the tools to match their unique creative vision—that the making of the tools can become part of the creative process," says Behles. "That's an inspiring thought, and we admire the Cycling '74 team for delivering on this fascinating promise."

Zicarelli was first introduced to Ableton through musician, composer and conceptualist Robert Henke. "Robert was a big Max user," says Zicarelli, referring to Cycling '74's graphical development tool for music and multimedia. "He introduced us to the people at Ableton, and he suggested almost immediately after Live was released that he would love a way for the companies' products to work together." Zicarelli found Henke's suggestions hard to resist. "Robert can be very persuasive when he talks about what he would love to see."

Zicarelli expresses admiration for the care and sheer effort that has gone into the creation of Ableton's flagship product, Live. "One of the things we've come to appreciate about Live," says Zicarelli, "is that its ease of use comes out of incredible attention to detail. Ableton works very hard to make it seem as if the software just works. That has been very inspiring to try to apply to our own product development."

Behles describes the creative vision and hopeful spirit behind the collaboration: "We feel the Cycling '74 approach to designing software for the creative community perfectly complements Ableton's. By integrating the technologies in a meaningful way, both companies can stay focused on their key strengths, avoid diluting their product philosophies, and bring the best of both worlds to the creative user."

Modular Synth, Closeup

flickr by Overand.

microq

flickr by still_burn_his_lips

Nord Wave PDF

Title link takes you to the pdf on Clavia's website. I mirrored a copy here.

Superbooth Tour on Sonic State

Title link takes you to the video.

Unfortunately it sounds like this is the 6th and final Superbooth according to Andreas, the host of the tour (pictured). At the end of the video he states he will be taking next year off and should be back the following year.

Superbooth website

Broker/Dealer - Opening Night Music Video

YouTube via ghostlyintl. Sent my way via moni. Make sure to watch this one through. Massive gear p*rn towards the end.

all this synth to video hype

Via loscha:

"A lot of digital cameras these days have Video Out jacks on them. I've been experimenting, running mine though effects units, filters and so on. It still sounds a little bit too much like when you accidentally plug the audio to the video out on your DVD unit, but, I'm working on that.

A keen Lynch fan reference in that title....."

Title link takes you to the mp3.

Apparat Organ Quartet - Konami

YouTube via ProphetV. Anyone know more about these guys? I found it on Wiel's Time Capsule where you'll find another video. Apparat Organ Quartet page

Update via the comments:
"The band doesn't have a webpage but they are on MySpace and there is also stub on wiki about them."

KORG DSS-1 Sample

Title link takes you to a KORG DSS-1 track - "Don't know yet." It was performed by Henry and mixed by daddio of tapewarm. There are some very interesting textures. The DSS-1 always fascinated me. You could draw your own waveforms on in by adjusting a slider over time. I remember playing with one once and was fascinated by the waveforms I could come up with. It's also said to have the best filter.