Korg Lambda brass and EP strings

YouTube via kennykeyboard
"The Lambda brass setting by itself uses 2 oscillators which can be detuned. It shares one filter envelope which is more noticeable with staccato playing. The EP strings is nicer since it allows a slow attack for the strings part. The person mentioned at the end has a music theory book with which she will slap me for not resolving my harmonies."

Prophet 08 mushy strings playing

YouTube via kennykeyboard

prosthetic

YouTube via ripe909
"A mellow acid track featuring the SE BassLine x0xb0x as 303.
SE BassLine for sale at http://www.socialentropy.com/bassline

Sequenced on the genoQs Octopus, with 909 for drums and a little Machinedrum and virus TI."

Can Using Loops in FL Studio Get You In Trouble?

There's a fascinating thread running on the Image-Line forum as well as the Velvetacidchrist forum. In short someone used a loop in Image-Line's Fruity Loops, and someone else is threatening to sue for unauthorized use of the sample.

via dirtycircuit on the Image-Line forum:
"I used the loop 'Berlin' in one of my songs on a cd I recently finished only to be contacted by an angry deadmau5 threatening legal action.

WHY ARE THESE AVAILABLE AS LOOPS AND WHY AREN'T THEY CREDITED OR NOTED AS HIS??
I would NOT have used it had I known it was his

Also what am I to do at this point. the cd is on iTunes and Amazon, so i can't just take it off myspace and forget it.

I'm really upset with the FL team over this. Now I look like an a-hole"

You can find more on the velvetacidchrist forum as well.

I decided to download the Fruity Loops demo to see what it stated in regards to use of it's loops. If you go to Help followed by Product Information followed by Samples and Sounds you will see the following at the bottom of the page:

"All samples are royalty-free, which means you can use the samples in your own compositions and songs without paying any further royalties. You are not allowed, however, to resell or redistribute any or all of the samples as a sample pack or sample CD."

The two tracks in contention:
"Berlin" at: http://www.myspace.com/dirtycircuit

The original trac "Faxing Berlin" by Deadmau5:
Deadmau5 - Faxing Berlin

YouTube via Cupradude. Note there are some comments on YouTube as well.

Update: This reminds me of two commercial acts that released two separate songs based on the same loop; IMonster's Daydream In Blue and Beta Band's Squares. Both used "Daydream" or "Day Dream In Blue" by the Belgian band Wallace Collection in 1968. You can read more about the source sample as well as its use by IMonster and Beta Band here on Wikipedia. Both tracks were released around the same time. via the Wikipedia article:

"Coincidentally, at almost exactly the same time as I Monster were releasing Daydream in Blue, The Beta Band were just about to release their single Squares from their 2001 album Hot Shots II. Squares also used the same melody as the original throughout and had the original song's chorus line. On realizing the clash with I Monster, The Beta Band were forced to pull the single and released Broke from the same album instead. Squares, however, may be found on the first soundtrack for HBO's Six Feet Under. Also by coincidence, the two vocalists for these two versions sound quite similar, which led to people thinking that Daydream in Blue might well be the work of The Beta Band or that Squares might be the work of I Monster."

IMonster - Daydream In Blue (censored version)
[unfortunately the uncensored version appears to have been pulled - Update: found it - it's further below]


Beta Band - Squares


Update: Found the uncensored version of IMonster's Daydream in blue. WARNING: this is one is definitely NOT SAFE FOR WORK.

Hampshire Jam 7 Videos and Photos

via Gordon:
"I attended Hampshire Jam 7 last weekend (traveled there from Boston!) and have uploaded some short videos to YouTube and a number of photos to Flickr:

Redshift at Hampshire Jam 7


Free System Projekt at Hampshire Jam 7

YouTube via aquakarn

Keller, Schoenwalder & Broekhuis at Hampshire Jam 7


Photo set

Regards,
Gordon"

Shine on you crazy diamond on Kurzweil K2600X by S4K

YouTube via Space4Keys
"Demostration
Keyboard: Kurzweil K2600x
Patch: Shine on you crazy diamond intro
Performed by Keywiz83
www.space4keys.com'

The First Day Drawdio Ever Existed

YouTube via wakeupsilver
"This video shows how the children at Drishya and PICO Crickets both influenced the way Drawdio evolved"

Korg DS-10: The Descent from Rigel

YouTube via btsoldier
"I was trying to get the biggest, most textured sound out of a single DS running the DS-10. I'm not a musician so I apologize for the ridiculous "melody" in the middle."
KORG DS-10 on Ebay
KORG DS-10 on Amazon

Moog Little Phatty Vs Clavia Nord Lead 3, testing by S4K

YouTube via Space4Keys

OSC OSCAR

images at this auction
"OSC OSCAR analog monophonic synth with MIDI. Rel. M2 which, I think, is the last version ever distributed.

The synth works perfectly and still looks like new. Few small and minor signs, but overall pretty fresh and clean.

It is just been fully refurbished by X-Tended Lab, Berlin. Every switch and pot cleaned, the keyboard contacts replaced and the whole power supply recapped, which is a sick point of this actual synth. A total of nearly 400 Euros have been spent for the restauration. The result is a synth which plays and sounds like new.
The original X-Tended receipt, showing the full list of works done will be included in the sale.

In addition, the original bank of OSC Factory Sound Patches have been uploaded into the memory, for the ultimate originality.

The OSCar is a particular and deeply interesting synth. Less than 250 of M2 version have been manufactured"