midipad

http://www.midipad.de "midipad is an exciting new app for the iPad/iPhone for music creation and live-performance.

The striking feature of midipad is its ability to directly communicate via network-MIDI-protocol. So there is no need to install any communication - peer - software on the Mac! Simply plug-and-play via Apple Bonjour - wireless. This kind of connectivity has not been used in any similar iphone-software.

This multitouch-capable midi-controller-application communicates with your Apple Mac your Windows-based PC and even standalone hardware-synths via Wifi.

So you can control all of your music-applications with just a few finger-gestures without having to sit at your desk and no annoying cable.

In the production-environment midipad can control host-applications like Apple Logic, Steinberg Cubase/Nuendo, Ableton Live etc.

It can also be used to control stand-alone applications from companies like Native-Instruments, Spectrasonics and many more.

As a live-musician you can control sub-mixes of your virtual keyboard-rig, activate setups and change parameters of the virtual instruments or even hardware-instruments - all in realtime on stage.

If you are a DJ, you can control your favorite application wireless as well. So you just might take a stroll through your ecstatic audience.

midipad incorporates various commonly used controller-types like buttons, trigger-pads, sliders, ribbon-control in one & two dimensions, rotary-knobs, or complete functionality blocks like transport-control.

midipad also reacts to midi-data from the connected remote computer, to provide instantaneous feedback for your performance.

Preconfigured setups, divided in seperate views can be activated concurrently. Using multi-touch various functionality of the remote-software can be controlled. The features to be controlled can be configured by the user in the setup."

Jen SX-2000 Synthetone Vintage Analog Mono Synth

via this auction

Specs via this post:

"* Polyphony - Monophonic
* Oscillators - One VCO (sawtooth, square, 2 rectangular waveforms); 4-octave range (32', 16', 8', 4')
* LFO - Square or triangle waveforms; intensity and speed; can modulate VCO or VCF
* Filter - 1 VCF Filter with cut-off, emphasis; 3 preset envelope settings: Repeat, ASR, and AD.
* VCA - 3 preset envelope settings: Repeat, ASR, and AD
* Keyboard - 44 keys"

Roland SH-32 Synthesizer

via this auction
"This 4-part multitimbral synth uses new Wave Acceleration Synthesis to deliver up to 32 voices of fat synth waves and entirely new waveforms. There's also a full complement of knobs and sliders-plus analog-style drums, DSP effects and a killer arpeggiator-giving musicians desktop access to a range of stunning synth sounds at an unbelievable low price.
# Powerful desktop synthesizer with massive realtime control
# New Wave Acceleration synthesis creates a variety of synth waves-67 total
# Includes standard synth waves plus new waveforms like Spectrum and Noise
# Up to 32-note/4-part multitimbral operation
# 2 main oscillators and 2 suboscillators with ultra-thick Subsonic mode
# Pulse width modulation and oscillator “hard” sync capability*
# Insert and Loop effects processors with 10 types of reverb/delay and 35 multi-effects
# Programmable arpeggiator for creating synth lines or drum patterns"

KORG MS-10

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Crumar Spirit Vintage Analog Synthesizer

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"Crumar Spirit one of only a couple hundred made, some people say only a hundred were produced but the serial on this is a bit over a 100. This comes with the original carrying bag and is overall an excellent 9/10 condition and still has a new feel to it, just a couple minor blemishes here and there it's not perfect but stunning to look at and play... To me the sound is like a modernized minimoog with a splash of pro one and roland sh. I really like the synth and it has a very unique sound, the filters are incredibly smooth and the synth sounds really good in modern music but still has a great vintage sound to it."

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ELEKTRON SIDSTATION 8 BIT MOS 6581 SYNTH

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Blue Yamaha srs 10-r KEYTAR

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Stuck in 1996 house beat

YouTube via vinyljunkie07
"Dub edits and whisky coke"

Sequential Circuits Pro One Mushrooms

flickr by white.label.syndicate
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POKEY sound chip experiments

YouTube via hotchk155. Anyone else remember that tune?
"The Atari POKEY was the classic soundchip in the Atari 8-bit home computers and many 1980's arcade games. This clip shows some of my experiments in driving a POKEY from MIDI. A PIC receives MIDI data and two 74HC595 shift registers are used to assemble the 12 lines of bus data for the POKEY so it can be driven from a humble 14 pin PIC16F688. A 6N139 isolator is placed between MIDI in from PC and the PIC's serial input. The POKEY is clocked at 2MHz from the PIC's internal clock output.

I am using REAPER to sequence some MIDI files I found on the internet. Credit goes out to the authors of these MIDI files.. also to YouTube member little-scale, whose clips inspired me to poke about with the POKEY in the first place, and Bryan Edewaard, whose crib sheet I could not have done this without."