MSA Remote + VDMX + Ableton Live

MSA Remote + VDMX + Ableton Live from Memo Akten on Vimeo.

"MSA Remote is a remote control application for iPhone & iPod Touch that sends OSC messages over the wifi network. This allows you to control any OSC supporting applications such as Max/MSP/Jitter, PureData, Reaktor, VDMX, vvvv, Resolume, Quartz Composer etc.

In this video, OSCulator is routing the OSC (& TUIO) messages coming from MSA Remote to midi and forwarding to Ableton Live and VDMX simultaneously. Nothing is done in post, the same signal is controlling both audio and video.

At the beginning of the video you can see the polyphonic velocity sensitive keys in action (yes, the harder you hit the keys, the louder the sound - works equally well when the iphone is laid on a table), and later on the faders, triggers and multitouch tuio-pad.

You can see MSA Remote controlling a Java fluid simulation at vimeo.com/3975324

There is a slight lag in the video feed so apologies for that.

Should be in the app store soon.
memo.tv/msaremote_for_iphone

Blog post about this video at
memo.tv/msa_remote_rejected_again_velocity_sensitive_pads_on_iphone_and_patents

P.S. you can download the original video at the bottom if you wanna read the effects in VDMX or Live."

yr3wk47 rhodes thru mopho

yr3wk47 rhodes thru mopho from longcat on Vimeo.

"the rhodes going through the mopho's lowpass filter...

it's the 1st time i've tried it so the signal through the mopho was quite distorted, not a bad sound as it goes...

about a week after the recording i filmed the sky from a point in finsbury park... clouds slowly passing...

techy stuff:

the rhodes has it's own tremolo (the speed of which is shown by the flashing red light), i sent one channel to the mopho and one channel straight to record so you hear a mix of pure rhodes and filtered/distorted rhodes, it pulses between them at the speed of the rhodes tremolo...

the clouds video is often pulsing with the LFO in the mopho (or at half it's speed), i'm changing between 2-pole and 4-pole (self oscillating) filter types, changing the speed of the LFO (which is controlling the filter cutoff frequency), changing the resonance and cutoff frequency, altering the audio modulation (which modulates the cutoff frequency from the audio)...

the mopho is reading the level of the audio input and this is controlling it's own volume...

beautiful beast meets beautiful beast... more from this kind of experiment in the future...

x"

BalHarbour Live (Sardegna) - TribalNeed

YouTube via tribalneed. "Tribalneed Live @ BalHarbour"
Roland Juno-16 and Didgiderro. more vids here.

The Quintrigger by Mr.Ugly

YouTube via doctorultra. follow-up to this post.
"Quintoscillator+logic+antilogi c=The Quintrigger by Mr.Ugly. 2009.
http://mruglysinstruments.blogspot.com/
www.myspace.com/mruglypresents
http://mruglysounds.tumblr.com"

Alesis Hr-16 custom eprom and circuit bent

YouTube via wotatwaat
"Circuit bent Hr-16 with custom eprom. Cheers to burnkit2600 for info on how to do it!!!"

The Nothing Machine by Mr.Ugly

YouTube via doctorultra. via this auction. follow-up to this post.

Conn Electric Band vintage analog synthesizer

via this auction


Not the best shot. Anyone know more about these? From the auction: "This is a rare one -- analog drum machine, reverb (very cool), organ, organ bass, auto accompinament, and tweakable monosynth playable all at once or individually."

Update via funky toofers in the comments:
"i borrowed on for a short while from reed ghazala's weird instrument collection..

it's probally similiar to the russian em-25 synth.. it's a preset machine with alot of unusual timbres.. not a whole ton of control but enough to do some interesting modulations and variations on the timbres. definately a nice synth/organ polyphonic analog..

in the short time i borrowed it i recorded a short piece in collaboration with my friend nebulagirl

Sad Melody by Sonitus Intortus

YouTube via Nebulagirl

'Sonitus Intortus sound, accompanied by Sad Sad Powerlines'

the beginning opens up with one of the sounds of the conn in pair with nebulagirl's homemade theremin. also used a sound called space junk.. and some other to do some background figures. the other sounds are some mfb synth 2. with the main background figure by a casio sk-1 sampler."

ROLAND JX-1 PERFORMANCE SYNTHESIZER

via this auction

Grey Matter E! board for Dx7IIFD

via this auction

"This is an as new, uninstalled E! board. These are one of the rarest synth related items out there. Most of them were installed back in the 80s and 90s into machines. They add functionality such as many more patches, octal mode, enhanced panning, sequencer, arpeggiator and more to a Dx7II/FD."

UFO shaped Electronic Drums by Petr Kubík

via Yanko Design via Lyle

"Designed for personal use, this electronic device sits neatly between your legs, more like a bongo, and reproduces magical beats when your hands strike its surface. With each strike, the surface produces lighted impressions of your hand to highlight the effect."