"January 15, 2009 – Anaheim, CA. Open Labs®, the leader in computer enhanced musical instruments, announces it will release six new products at the upcoming Winter NAMM show. A special press conference will be held at the Open Labs booth, #5900, starting at 10:30 a.m. Thursday, January 15, 2009. Products released will include hardware, software, and other technologies that provide even greater performance and capabilities to Open Labs current products. A few surprises are planned for the event, which will be hosted by Open Labs Chairman and Co-founder, Victor Wong. The event will be taped for delayed airing on the Open Labs LIVE BROADCAST via its website: http://www.openlabs.com. Product demonstrations, special performances, and interviews will be broadcast concurrent with NAMM show hours Thursday, Friday, and Saturday via the Open Labs BROADCAST, live from Austin, Texas.
Complete listing of the programming will be made available at http:///www.openlabs.com by Monday, January 12, 2009. Please RSVP for the press conference to insure seating."
You might remember MonoMiK from these posts. MiK wrote in to let me know he has found a new host and made updates to his site which will include info on the MonoMiK as well as his other projects. You might also remember him from this how to repair a KORG Poly-61 post.
"after taking down my website a while ago, i found a new hoster this year and took the opportunity to give the site a whole face-lift. During this, i also rewrote the articles about the Poly-61 repair. I sent you the link to the old pages a year ago:
I fixed the bad structure of the old document and added some minor information about the inner workings of the Poly-61, besides this, more repair stories will appear as time allows. All the other things can also be found there, like more information about the MonoMiK including the blog about the development: http://www.mik-music.org/MonoMiK"
"AudioCubes VST Wrapper 1.0 Existing VST plugins or instruments in your DAW can be instantly used with AudioCubes through included VST wrappers from Percussa.The wrapper is compatible with popular DAW software such as IL FL Studio, Ableton Live, …
Plugins can be instantly mapped to cube sensors without MIDI Setup. Sensor info can be scaled, inverted and limited to plugin parameters and colours can be linked to incoming MIDI notes in the case of VST Instruments.
With just one cube and VST wrapper software, you can apply effects to your tracks very easily. The tiniest gestures of your hands and fingers are instantly audible."
"My buddy Alan has been working diligently on some new sound banks. Right now he has banks for the Virus TI, Prophet 08, and the Nord Lead 3. All of the above have great accompanying demos. Also, the P08 bank is currently the only commercial full bank of sounds that is available on the market:
video upload by SonicProjects YouTube via virtualoberheim. I've spent considerable time with an OB-Xa, not the OB-X. That said, its amazing how close this sounds. They nailed that Oberheim sound. "http://www.sonicprojects.ch/
SonicProjects OP-X software VSTi synth played like a real hardware synth with a Korg DW-8000 as masterkeyboard (for midi notes and program changes) and a Behringer BCR2000 to remotely control its parameters (using midi CC).
Due to the ability of OP-X for parameter feedback OP-X and the BCR are completely linked (two ways). OP-X sends a complete cc dump on program change which updates all parameters on the BCR to the values of the new preset. This allows for completely jump free operation. When you tweak a control in the software OP-X the dedicated control on the BCR does change accordingly, and of course also vice versa.
OP-X runs within Cubase SX with some TC Native Reverb and Cubase Double Delay added as send effects. The played patches are all factory presets.
To make the feedback work you must route the midi out of OP-X back to the controller device. In Cubase this can be done using a separate midi track for the back-routing (1st track: in = midi keyboard & bcr2000, the best choose "all", out = OP-X; 2nd track: in = OP-X, out = bcr2000). In more simple hosts like e.g. MiniHost just activate the needed devices in the MIDI input output mangement.
Needed versions for the parameter feedback feature: OP-X: Version 2.1 OP-X PRO: Version 1.2
The feedback feature won't work with any previous versions.
You can also watch the video in high quality with stereo audio which also works well for full screen watching. Just click the blue link at the bottom right of the video.
Unfortunately there are a lot of really bad compression artefacts in the audio stream, especially in the high quality stereo mode (strings, brass, deep basses, minimoog). They sound like bad distortions, which in fact are not there in the real audio coming out of the synth. Try to think them away. The real sound is one hundred times smoother, cleaner and bigger.
"January 15, 2009 – Anaheim, CA. Open Labs®, the leader in computer enhanced musical instruments,
