MATRIXSYNTH

Percussa to launch AudioCubes workshops for audiovisual artists

"AudioCubes designer Bert Schiettecatte will be hosting a series of one day workshops at his private workspace, for a select number of artists, starting November 10th 2009.

The workshops are titled "Audio Cubes: Tangible Interface for Audiovisual Creation" and are about exploring the possibilities of tangible interfaces for audiovisual artwork, in particular in sound design, music composition and live performance.

The participants will be introduced to the AudioCubes musical interface and its applications. AudioCubes are a new way to create audiovisual work through gestures and phsyical interaction with a network of intelligent wireless objects.

In the practical afternoon session of the workshop, participants will work on their personal projects using AudioCubes with the assistance of the designer.

Who: Professional artists with experience in music composition, sound design or live performance and an interest in technology, computers, human interfaces and software.

What "Audio Cubes: Tangible Interface for Audiovisual Creation" workshop

When: November 10th, 2009 and November 19th, 2009 from 9.30am to 5.15pm.

Where: Brussels

URL: See http://www.meetup.com/AudioCubes for workshop description and details "

Using Sounder to Create Generative Music with Ableton Live

YouTube via jackrealdrummer
"You can use Sounder to create cool ambient or generative music with Ableton Live as the sound source in Windows."

A few nice new things at Ruin and Wesen

via Ruin & Wesen
"Quite a lot has has happened lately at Ruin and Wesen, although we were pretty quiet about it. The first 100 minicommands have been shipped, another 100 is ready to go here in the lab (actually they just need to have the encoders soldered in), and the first monojoystick prototypes are ready. But most importantly, a lot of work has been done on the software framework that runs on the minicommand. This allows for some very relaxed controller programming, because despite the "easy" looks, at lot of things take place inside. The following list is just a short overview of the work that has been done:

* new MIDI sync (way tighter and allows for "transparent" clock merging: no latency, I use it with 3 minicommands queued one after the other)
* merging of MIDI on the second input (select which messages you want to merge: notes, ccs, sysex, clock, etc...)
* automatic recognition of machinedrum global settings and kit changes
* automatic recognition of monomachine settings and kit changes
* new monomachine firmwares
* generation and parsing of machinedrum and monomachine patterns
* a bunch of new machinedrum firmwares
* (preliminary) looper for machinedrum
* the whole framework can be used on MacOSX or Windows to write software interacting with MIDI and the Machinedrum
* and much more...

If you're a programmer and/or interested in the inner workings of the Minicommand, you can get the full sourcecode that we write at Ruin & Wesen, as well as the schematics for the minicommand..."

click here for more details and more updates including video and the PatchManager.

Roland System 100M 184 keyboard-box-manual

flickr by jobenbelgium

"Keyboard 184 on top with it's 2 original boxes and the original manual.It has 4 x cv and 4 x gate.Both cv and gate,Arpeggio clock in,Bender cv out and Total out provide both mini--jack as normal jack.So it can be used with the System 100M(mini-jack plugs) as with the System 700(normal jack plugs)."

Synth.nl Apollo Studio 1 (2009)

YouTube via Synthnl
"First shots from my new Apollo Studio. The music is a track called 'Atlantico' from my new OceanoGraphy album. More information on http://www.synth.nl"

br0keb0x mountain

YouTube via lactatingwalrus
"skweegor x0xb0x: VCO mod, suboscillator demonstration"

Circuit Bent Buddha Box 2

YouTube via littlescale
"Circuit Bent Buddha Box 2 http://little-scale.blogspo..."

Update:
Circuit Bent Buddha Box 3

Cone Drommander

Cone Drommander from 11hzRobot on Vimeo.

"This is my attempt at getting the Micron to sound like the Drone Commander. Apart from the sound of the filters, I couldn't get the variable shape LFO thing happening either. The Micron has saw and pulse shape LFOs, but I think the Drone Commander's shape knob allows you to morphs between the two LFO shapes. This can't be done on a micron. I have to get one of those things. They're beautiful music objects.
ericarcher.net/devices/drone-commander/"

11hz Robot - Form Change from 11hzRobot on Vimeo.

"This session features the Micron's distortion. I'm no distortion expert so I don't know if its any good."

Rhythm Ace 1969 Bent By Oceanus

YouTube via xd515
"Here we have a classic rhythm box made by Rhythm Ace (Before they became the infamous ROLAND) It now has a fully routable patch panel and analyser with pots to control most of the sounds. Incredibly this has no IC's or chips inside, purely transistor and diode!
Sadly my camera does not record the Bass drum to well!"