live techno session on my QY70 ...I know its a little slow ;)

YouTube via LxAxRxS
"enjoy! plesae watch full length. THANX FOR WATCHING!"

Little Star

YouTube via notepool2
"Within 15 minutes of being introduced to this Opal Prototype, 11 year old Lisa McAllister learned this melody with chord accompanyment with no previous experience on any musical instrument."

monome sonome 1

YouTube via analoq
"I mapped a subset of the sonome layout used on the Axis64 and Opal keyboards onto my monome. I learned part of the minuet in G (played in C, sorry) to demonstrate. See this: http://www.theshapeofmusic.com/note_p...
The note arrangement was invented by Peter Davies who is here on YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/user/notepool2"

mnm arp drums

YouTube via vcovcfvca
"This simple 2 bar pattern contains a BBOX track that I manipulate with a 2 step arpeggiator set as follows: SPD x6, MODE KEY, PLAY TRUE, RNGE 2OCT 0JMP 0 and AMP, FLT and LFO trigs all enabled.

Note that the two arp steps are represented by the first two (red and/or green) trig lights that I manipulate throughout the track. When the first trig is green the original trigs are playing in time with the music. When the second trig is green the "arpeggiated trigs" are being played.

If you only play the second trig (and not the first) you basically get only the arpeggiated trigs which are "off" from the original beat by whatever amount based on your arp settings. This allows you to temporarily create a funky fill or break beat that tosses the downbeat into the air temporarily.

If you pull the first trig back in after 2 beats then the listener can easily get back on track and you can keep the groove going. If you let the second trig play alone longer, however, you make things all the more confusing for the listener as the downbeat gets lost.

I start out demoing with the music, then play the beats without the music so you can hear the offset more easily. It takes some practice but this is a cool, simple, effective way to add some life into your drum tracks without programming fills manually, etc."

AKAI MPC 4000 / Norteña del Sur / Nortec

YouTube via bostich1
"'Norteña del Sur', originally constructed with the AKAI MPC 4000 (Music Production Center)

www.myspace.com/tijuanasoundma chine

Bostich+Fussible/Tijuana Sound Machine / Nortec Collective"

MicroKorg Drone A84 & Space Echo

YouTube via Rothgar777

$1 Nanoloop MIDI Sync for Game Boy!

YouTube via littlescale
"$1 Nanoloop MIDI Sync for Game Boy! More info: http://little-scale.blogspo..."

Synth Collage

via Balastron

have fun spotting the gear

Monster.com | "Battle"

YouTube via AdFreakTwo. via ghostryderx.
"A TV commercial for Monster.com."

[iPhone Beats] ir-909

YouTube via siedgey
"Here's a 606/707/808/909 application in action - you program the beats in the familiar TR-style, there is 4 patterns for each kit and all parts can be muted / solo'd just by touching the screen.

My favourite part, though, is that you can alter the pitch / decay / attack / volume by holding a button and tilting the phone. I just can't get enough of making little beats on the bus... ;-)

Anyways, here's a little pattern I made just to show it off. It was kinda hard to play with the camera in front of it so apologies for the slight shitness of it. I have another app which has 2 synths and a drum kit which I will maybe show off soon! Before getting back to making proper tunes. Ahem."

You find IR-909 on iTunes here: