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Wednesday, August 05, 2009

Star6 Introduction

Star6 Introduction from Star6 on Vimeo.


"Get Star6 now from iTunes:
Star6
Star6 is a highly-addictive sound remix instrument that allows you to create an infinite variety of amazing sounds from your own samples or by using our free presets. Chop up beats with a flick of the wrist! Pitch any sample up and down like a Theremin! Use the iPhone's accelerometer to control Star6's powerful granular synthesis engine to change the Pitch, Speed, Gate, Sample Order, Sample Size and Randomness of the samples. Record it all with the press of a button and download recordings to your computer in a flash.

Star6 is the first fully-featured, performance-grade sample instrument for the iPhone & iPod Touch. We've worked to make it a fun yet practical tool for musicians of every skill level, play around with it and explore for yourself!

Star6 is a collaboration between musician Jason Forrest and Agile Partners, makers of GuitarToolkit. Follow us on Twitter (@star6app) to get all the release news and check our website (www.star6app.com) to see Star6 in action!

Fully compatible with iPhone & iPod Touch OS 3.0."

Star6 Premiere in Tokyo

Star6 Premiere in Tokyo from Star6 on Vimeo.


"May 22nd, 2009 @ Star Pines Cafe

Jason Forrest aka "Dj Donna Summer" Performs with Star6 for the first time in public at "Murder Channel 22". Special Thanks to Ume. Shot by "Cuyimaria" and edited by Martin Sulzer."

Sugar Bytes Eloquence

"Eloquence is an extremely powerful and intuitive MIDI stepsequencer plugin, giving you control over just about all aspects of your favorite MIDI devices. Use Eloquence to create varied and organic bass lines, screaming leads, pulsating chords, and organic pad sounds in the studio or on stage.
For live musicians, Eloquence provides an extremely versatile palette of performance options which can be triggered right from your MIDI keyboard: you can transpose, manipulate, twist up, mutate, and mangle your patterns without even getting near your computer.
Eloquence is a plugin which can be used with any major Windows or Mac VST or AU host. This includes Cubase, Logic, Kore, and Ableton Live, among others. No other MIDI sequencer plugin offers you the ease and power of Eloquence. It is 100% MIDI compliant and therefore provides the ultimate MIDI sequencing solution.

Eloquence will be released on August 15 and will cost 99€ / 129 USD.

Registered ERA users will receive a crossgrade offer for 69€ / 89 USD.

Sequencer Tracks
Pitch
The pitch sequencer works in relation to the root key and transposes it by +/- 12 semitones.
It can work in chromatic mode or in scaled mode which expands the tonal capabilities a lot.
In addition, the pitch sequencer has a flexible recording function.
Lock
Lock is part of the pitch sequencer. An active step deactivates the midi transposing. This is useful for keeping important notes and chords in key while transposing the sequence.
Gate
The Gate Sequencer creates notes and determines their velocity.
Mute
The Mute Sequencer is part of the Gate Sequencer and mutes the selected step.
Gate Time
The Gate Time Sequencer determines how long a note is held. Notes can be held up to four times the duration of a step.
Octave
This sequencer moves the pitch the pitch by +/- 2 octaves.
Pitchbend
Here you can select from 12 pitch bend figures to be engaged..
Chord
A Chord is generated using the current note in the pitch sequencer as the root note. Six Variations and four wrap-arounds for major and minor plus six special chords like diminished and augmented are available.
Break
This sequencer lets you set a multi-trigger at 2, 3, or 4 times the normal sequencer speed, playing the current scale up or downwards or just repeating the current note. 18 breaks are available.
Random
Each sequencer step can be replaced by a random value. Minor and major chords can be individually randomized to maintain the harmonic structure.

Action Section
Gatetime
The Gate Time can be increased or decreased, depending on how long you press the button.
Velo Gate
The note will only play if it is above the selected velocity threshold.
Looper
The selected part of the sequence will be looped.
Slowdown
The sequence slows down until it come to a dead stop.
Retrigger
Re-trigger the sequence by re-triggerpressing the button; upon release, the sequencer continues at its normal position..
Halftime
The sequence will play at half speed.
Octave Up
The sequence will play one octave higher as long as you press the button.
Mute
Mutes all data output.

Specials
Internal synthesizer to create patterns on the fly
Special workaround for sending MIDI with the AU plugin
Instant keyboard control for Transpose, Pattern Select, Action Section
Pattern Sequencer
Sample-accurate timing
Individual trigger and sync options, swing function"

Sound Scope Space wave shaping

Sound Scope Space wave shaping from strange agency on Vimeo.


"demo of the new wave shaping features of Sound Scope Space 1.1, including morphing, default waves, a temporary memory slot, and bit reduction!" follow-up to this post.

Catanya VST MIDI Arpeggiator Plugin


YouTube via 7AliensPromo
"Catanya VST MIDI Arpeggiator works with Cubase, Ableton Live, FL Studio (Fruity Loops), Mackie Tracktion, Energy XT, NI Kore and other http://www.7aliens.com"

Catanya in Ableton Live - First Start Tutorial


Catanya in Cubase - First Start Tutorial

Sneak Peek from 'Totally Wired' - Ken Macbeth

Sneak Peek from 'Totally Wired' - Ken Macbeth from niamhahern on Vimeo.


"This is an excerpt from the documentary 'Totally Wired', featuring the analogue genius that is Ken Macbeth, of Macbeth Studio Systems. Ken talks about what inspires him, his vision for the M5 synthesiser, and making noise. Set in Edinburgh, Scotland.
More sneak peeks to come to celebrate the DVD release of 'Totally Wired', now available on amazon.com"

Description from Amazon:
"Inside a crumbling socialist office block in former East Berlin, synthesiser store owner Andreas Schneider preaches the way of analogue to a loyal following of infamous electronic musicians, who flock to his store, 'Schneiders Buero', for unique boutique instruments. His business has prospered against the odds throughout the digital revolution in music, and in parallel, through a period of huge change in East Berlin. His is a haven for maverick instrument builders and passionate collectors alike. But as the twin forces of capitalism and digital technology seep through the last bricks of the Wall, how much longer can this analogue asylum survive?

This film about the 'Schneiders Buero' music store in Berlin, Germany, is a must-see for fans of analogue instruments and electronic music. Featuring exclusive material with Daniel Miller, Ricardo Villalobos, Dieter Doepfer, Junior Boys, Magda, Marc Houle, John Tejada, Anthony Rother, Ken Macbeth, Wowa Cwejman, Jessica Rylan and many more.

This product is manufactured on demand using DVD-R recordable media. Amazon.com's standard return policy will apply."

click here and scroll for some prior posts including more video.

Welcome to My Modular Insane Asylum!

Welcome to My Modular Insane Asylum! from Richard Devine on Vimeo.

Richard Devine's stuido.

"Just thought I would record a patch I made this afternoon on my modular system. Bits and pieces running through the H-3000 DS/E Eventide Harmonizer."

3xChua


YouTube via cirtcele
"3 Chua chaos circuits summed into two mixers. The X mixer drives a SN-Voice, Y mixer CVs a Mankato filter. http://www.sdiy.org/pinky/3..."

star trek communicator replica (circuit bent)


YouTube via puffhandy.
"ha ha ha ha ha ha i love this thing! haaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah! and my neighbors hate it! heyyyyy check it out whoooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo doggy this thing is awesome. i built stuff to trigger the thing and found bends wow! i am awesome (not really) i thought i broke it after about eight hours of work and then almost seriously cried (maybe a little) but then it came back on and i rejoiced. ahh, the cycle begins anew."

puffhandy on eBay

vactrol bass drone synth


YouTube via puffhandy.


via this auction

"this is a drone synth almost identical to the ikea tupperware synth [vid below] that i made that seemed to be mildly popular. i made a few changes: the oscillator has an overall lower range than before and i added a depth control to the vactrol filter lfo."

"hand made synth that has a deep bass oscillator and two LFOs. it was hand built by the seller in a vintage test equipment box. the analog meter corresponds to the pulse of the output and it has a really bright power light. the circuit inside looks as good as the outside, it runs on a nine volt battery that is held securely by heavy duty harware and the circuit board itself is bolted down . the filter LFO has a depth control and between the two you can make all kinds of droning, talkey-type noises. the output is 1/4 inch so it can easily hook up to your PA, recorder, mixer, or an amplifier."

Tuesday, August 04, 2009

MFOS Sound Lab Ultimate

via this auction
"This unit uses a 12VAC wallwart (included). Come with 12 banana patch cables. Features an Auxillary panel for pitch Gate trigger and modulation control utilizing the 1/4inch patch jack standard of most modular systems. This is a very good sounding and affordable battery of synth power as a stand alone unit or a powerful addition to any modular system. The synth can stand alone without a controller with free running oscillators. Very nice ambient and melodic beats can be attained in this configuration alone.

Features:
# Three Musically Accurate VCOs (sawtooth and variable width rectangular wave forms, pulse width modulation, hard-sync, log and linear CV inputs)
# VCOs provide plenty of tracking range. About 14 octaves. Very acurate pitch control with no drift; uses Tempco tempurture compensating resistors to compenate for tempurature drift.
# White Noise Generator: 3 outputs, one internal through the amp and 2 patchable outputs.
# Active Mixer (for VCOs, noise and external input) 1/4inch external input for routing other instruments through the VCA and VCF on the aux panel.
# Voltage Controlled LP Filter (12db/Oct doubles as a sine wave oscillator) with internal AR and LFO modulation and two modulation inputs, one 1/4inch input on aux panel.
# Voltage Controlled Amplifier (log response) with internal AR and LFO modulation and two modulation inputs on front, one 1/4inch input on aux panel.
# Attack Release Envelope Generator with short to very long attack release times and trigger/gate selection; inernally routed to filter and amp, 2 external outputs, 1 gate/trigger input on front panel and one 1/4inch input on aux panel.
# Two Low Frequency Oscillators (square, ramp, tri and sawtooth waveforms) with 2 external outputs each. LFO1 routes internally to modulate the VCF as well. LFO2 routes internally to modulate the VCA as well. Very short to really long frequency adjustment. Indicator LEDs
# Repeat Gate Generator (doubles as another square wave LFO) with two gate outputs. Indicator LED
# Sample & Hold (with variable sample rate and glide) 1 sampling input, 3 outputs and 1 trigger output. Indicator LED
# Attenuator Bank (for an infinite variety of modulation patches)
# Patch Panel Design (provides infinitely variable combinations of sounds)"
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