"Today we are happy to present the debut trailer for Beaterator, as well as Beaterator Sessions: Max & Clay, a live-action video of Max & Clay, two young kids creating original songs and beats using the application – a true testament to the ease-of-use and intuitive nature of Beaterator. The debut trailer features voice-over by none other than Timbaland himself as he outlines the different modes of Beaterator and their basic functionalities in a unique, musical presentation."
"What is Beaterator?
Beaterator is a suite of easy-to-use but powerful music creation tools that allows users of all skill levels to create quality tracks quickly and easily.
Live Play gets users started quickly as Timbaland guides you through experimenting with pre-arranged templates of his own loops and sounds to get things going. From there, you can take your track into the Studio to add, delete, and replace loops, or add your own vocals using the built-in microphone, or an attached microphone. When you’re ready, delve into the Song Crafter to create your own unique beats and sounds to use across all three modes. Beaterator has the power and flexibility to allow you to create great beats, stirring melodies, and complete songs to rival today’s hottest producers. When you’re ready, you can export your creation and share it with the world.
Why Beaterator?
From the very beginnings of the company, Rockstar Games has always had a very passionate connection to music, whether it be the meticulous selection process for Grand Theft Auto soundtracks, or the artists chosen to work on our original scores such as Bully, music has always played a huge part in shaping our approach to what we make. Beaterator is the culmination of those years of passion for music: an easy to use yet surprisingly deep music creation tool that you can keep with you at all times, featuring sounds created by Timbaland, one of the world’s most renowned music production legends.
Background
Beaterator started life in 2005 as a flash application on the Rockstar website, some time before Timbaland’s involvement. Beaterator’s online iteration had a fairly straight forward yet fun interface, that like its modern handheld form, still packed plenty of power and depth for those wanting to get serious about creating music. It featured loops and sounds from well-known and established artists and was a fully functional eight-track song maker.
Timbaland’s involvement was what brought it to the next level. Rockstar has a long standing tradition of working with progressive artists through all mediums, and Rockstar and Timbaland had looked for ways to work together on a project. Recognizing that Beaterator was a set of tools to allow people to create music, Timbaland came on board.
Timbaland has given Beaterator hundreds of loops and sounds from his own personal collection to get people up and making their own songs quickly. Along with the hundreds of loops and sounds that Rockstar composed for the game, Beaterator has become a hugely in-depth and sprawling library of music with which to make full-blown songs.
Beaterator is not a game in the classic sense of the term, and there are no goals or challenges to accomplish. You’re not pretending to make music – you are making music, and everything you need is unlocked and available to you straight out of the box. Whether or not you have experience in song-crafting or studio time under your belt, there is an amazing amount of value packed into Beaterator. It is more powerful and deep than any other portable music application, regardless of console or device. It is also extremely easy for novices or gamers curious about making music to grasp and we’ve taken great steps to remove the intimidation that often inhibits people from entering this world. Rockstar wants to enable people that have always wanted to make music but also make an experience deep enough that experts can use it as well.
Beaterator on the iPhone/iPod touch
Create your own songs on the go with the aid of Timbaland and Rockstar. Like its big brother on the PSP, Beaterator on the iPhone/iPod touch features hundreds of loops and sounds at your disposal to create studio-quality, full-length songs. Although the iPhone/iPod touch iteration does not feature the same in-depth editing tools as the PSP version, the experience of creating, arranging, and mixing original music remains intact."
Thursday, September 03, 2009
New KORG microSAMPLER, SV-1 Stage Piano, and WAVEDRUM WD-X
This one sent my way via Calvin. Rock oN has a post up in Japanese on three new products from KORG, the microSAMPLER pictured to the left, the SV-1 Stage Piano, and a new WAVEDRUM WD-X. Below are some excerpts translated from Google. You can find the full article in Googlish here.
On the microSAMPLER:"Last widely popular with beginner to professional sound from a compact and full-fledged micro series "microSAMPLER" is. Sampler of today's street name is not an extension of a drum machine with PAD, KORG keyboard has dared to challenge! PAD to get a limited number of voices on the music really does, it is more a practical clarity even when the keyboard attached is true to scale.
MicroSAMPLER This has been especially created with an emphasis on live performance and recording rather than just ask Shiremasu 1.9kg height of its mobility from where weight and battery that can be. Had pressed the wrong button during a live form it is placed in the sink and cabinet knobs and buttons, that can prevent any problems.
Beat Box crew performance demonstration development Shibuya, BEATSICK.JP was done by two people. Humanly and I do not think the storm of the Human Beat Box呑Mimashita breath venue. microSAMPLER presets are quite enjoy the original sound because it contains two of you for this!
Rotary knob to select the five types of sampling Sampling mode simply press the button! If we could use it without resistance to both novice samplers. This sampling mode is unique, especially as it may KEY GATE mode and press the keyboard that you want to assign Rec sampling as soon as you can! AUTO NEXT can also be sampled in real time mode to overwrite you've locked in the sequence before. These features are such as to stimulate the production Kurieitiviti also a very effective track on the live scene in the immediate asked to received the impression that.
The editor software is also available, of course, has made possible more detailed sound. Release 9 of the flow of time is ever in the price range of mid-January is likely to be the same micro-series."
On the SV-1 Stage Piano:"Modeling should include as part of focus of the sound amplifier. Simulate the VOX amplifier in such a vacuum tube circuit further "Valve Reactor" Vintejisaundo醸Shi出Shimasu a warm and fat with so! Can respond immediately on playing because it is located in a relatively small amount to the optimal control knob to play on stage, you can revert to its previous state by pushing the knob Even if play with the knob, a very It also has a useful feature. The software allows editing by the editors also finer."
On the WAVEDRUM WD-X:"First, a sound system big difference. 24bit/48kHz in high-quality, DSP technology is directly inherited, rather than the previous version of PCM system plus a full modeling approach. This existing real percussion sounds, as well as synth sounds and sound FX are available, such as sound, and the range of expression from spreading. Pressure sensor that is built better. This sensor is very excellent, and very sensitive to the strength of the fingers, and quickly react"
KORG WAVEDRUM WD-X
Update: new pics via shimamura.co.jp via Gareth in the comments. Also working video of the microSAMPLER updated above. That one via A in the comments. iPhone integration. Note the red lights just above the keys. You can see them blink along to patterns being played in the video.
Update: Specs"- 37 key (Natural Touch Mini Keyboard with Velocity)
- 8 user bank (A ~ H), 1 ROM bank
- 5 types of sampling (LOOP / ONE SHOT / GATE / AUTO NEXT / KEY GATE)
- Sample rates of 48kHz - 24kHz - 12kHz - 6kHz
- Approximately 160 seconds per one bank (Mono / 48kHz sampling rate at 159.7 seconds)
- Up to 14 voice poly (stereo / mono regardless)
- 64,000 note sequencer (one per bank notes (16,000 notes max in one pattern))
- 96 ticks / quarter note resolution (real-time recording)
- MIDI IN, OUT and USB
- DC9V or alkaline 6 x AA batteries = giving 3 hours battery life approximately
- 516 (W) x 238 (D) x 65 (H) mm
- Weight of 1.9kg
Software editor for Windows: Microsoft Windows XP SP3 or later, Microsoft Windows Vista SP1 or later Mac: Mac OS X 10.4 or late."
Update: a bigger shot in the flesh below via sequencer.de via A in the comments. Click on it.
schematics for Vestax PCM-07 PRO SCRATCH MIDIMOD
Project Calliope - Music and MIDI Signals From Space
"'Project Calliope' is a satellite being launched by a group of space & music enthusiasts on the "TubeSat" platform (http://tinyurl.com/skycall). It'll be an ionospheric detector transmitting sonifiable data back to Earth for web streaming and remixing. Conceptually, it's a musical instrument in space, played by space rather than just after-the-fact sonified. We like the idea of flying something in space whose purpose is to make music until it dies-- music from science."via the Satelite Diaries blog:
"The instrument-- a MIDI keyboard, MIDI drum, MIDI saxophone, MIDI satellite-- generates event messages that you can feed into a sound card or synthesizer. It's kind of like transmitting a player piano roll, it has no sound itself, but it lets other devices create sound."
You can find more info at the Satelite Diaries blog, Twitter @skyday, and Project Calliope.
Hawkwind BBC4 Documentary 1-9 9 videos Hawkwind BBC4 Documentary 1-9
YouTube via HawklordPXR5
http://www.hawkwind.com/
via wikipedia:
"Hawkwind are an English rock band, one of the earliest space rock groups. Their lyrics favour urban and science fiction themes.
Formed in 1969 by singer/songwriter/guitarist Dave Brock, Hawkwind have gone through many incarnations and styles of music. Critic Jim Green[1] describes their trademark sound as characterised by "that gargantuan and impenetrable pre-metal/hardcore drone, those great riffs, that inexorable drive to destinations unknown". Dozens of musicians have worked with the group; notable fantasy and science fiction writer Michael Moorcock was an occasional collaborator....
In 1981 Baker and Hale left after their insistence that Bainbridge should be sacked was declined,[15] and Brock and Bainbridge elected to handle synthesizers and sequencers themselves with drummer Griffin from the Hawklords rejoining. Three albums, which again saw Michael Moorcock contributing lyrics and vocals, were recorded for RCA/Active: Sonic Attack, the electronic Church of Hawkwind and Choose Your Masques. This band headlined the 1981 Glastonbury Festival and made an appearance at the 1982 Donington Monsters of Rock Festival, as well as continuing to play the summer solstice at Stonehenge Free Festival."
BBC4 Synth Britannia Trailer
YouTube via Synthasy2000
" In the late Seventies small pockets of electronic artists such as The Human League, Cabaret Voltaire and Throbbing Gristle were inspired by Kraftwerk and J G Ballard to dream of the sound of the future against the backdrop of bleak, high-rise Britain.
Gary Numan's 1979 appearance on Top Of The Pops heralded the invention of synthpop, which would provide the soundtrack as Britain entered a new, ruthless era in the Eighties.
Depeche Mode, four lads from Basildon, came to embody the new sound, while post-punk bands such as Ultravox, Soft Cell, Orchestral Manoeuvres In The Dark and Yazoo took the synth from the pages of the NME and onto the front cover of Smash Hits.
By 1983 the Pet Shop Boys and New Order were pointing to where the future of electronic music lay in dance.
Contributors to Synth Britannia include Philip Oakey, Vince Clarke, Martin Gore, Bernard Sumner, Gary Numan and Neil Tennant."
Juno Di Synth - Sonicstate.com Review
YouTube via sonicstate
"We take a look at Roland's Fantom G derived do-it-all, affordable, portable keyboard
More stuff at Sonicstate.com daily"
Subtle guitar treatments with the Teaspoon and Sherman filterbank
YouTube via RothHandle
"Tonight Ill be hosting a small get together at the studio presenting the Antkowiak album for the Pubhlishing company...But yesterday I decided that a guitar part needed to be straightened out once and for all. A bit of the Fuzz factory, some teaspoon and some sherman filterbank. Fun fun fun.
As usual there is a homepage. Hasnt been updated for ages. www.roth-handle.nu"
NuRule
YouTube via yamato10gallon. "nintendo KORG ds10 Original song " KORG DS-10 on Ebay
KORG ds10 mix 虹 Denki Groove NIJI
KORG DS10 Original song Slight weight
DSi Sound Deeeeeep
more tracks here
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