MATRIXSYNTH

infinite melody demo

YouTube via cirtcele — April 06, 2010 — "This was originally recorded as a demo of the CGS Infinite Melody, but I quite like it so made a vid to go with it.
Original description: CGS 1/f melody, clocks and CV from CGS dual LFO, output to CGS VCO, VCO tri out to CGS Wave Multiplier, then thru spring reverb purloined from a dead organ (well, it was dead once I had finished with it)."

chipPad for iPad (Live)

New video added to this post.

SH-SYNNER - All SH-101 Track

SH-SYNNER by DyLABs
Details at Acid Box Blues

Biscuiting w/ a pinky drum synth (by Franck Smith)

YouTube via odiolorgnette — April 06, 2010 — "Biscuiting w/ a pinky drum synth (by Franck Smith) © 2010 — Biscuit by Oto Machines is a 8-bit effects/processor allowing precise Lo-Fi treatments and rate frequency downgrading. Used here with drum synth mixing adapted turntable drumming and scratching technics w/ video-game esthetic and real-time electronic beat-making (No loops and no sequencer used here).

Material in this video:
- Handsonic HPD-15 (by Roland)
- Biscuit (by Oto Machines) *FX section not used here

http://twitter.com/franck_smith
http://francksmith.blogspot.com
http://www.youtube.com/odiolorgnette

N.B. Some of the routines obtained here were partly inspired -- in their content and esthetic -- by turntablists Qbert and D-styles . Although nothing can rival real vinyl manipulation by experts, a personal adaptation of these techniques on Handsonic makes imagine new ways in real time electronics.

IF POSSIBLE USE HEADPHONES WHEN VIEWING VIDEO MATERIAL OR CONNECT YOUR COMPUTER TO A QUITE DECENT SOUND SYSTEM.

"Franck Smith" Handsonic turntable adapted techniques Roland HPD-15 drums electronics percussion Biscuit Oto Machines scratching Lo-Fi 8-bit processing Odiolorgnette"

How to Wreck a Nice Beach - Book on the Vocoder

via Melville House Publishing and available on Amazon here.

"How to Wreck a Nice Beach: The Vocoder from World War II to Hip-Hop, The Machine Speaks

The history of the vocoder: how popular music hijacked the Pentagon's speech scrambling weapon

This is the story of how a military device became the robot voice of hip-hop and pop music. Though the vocoder, invented by Bell Labs in 1928, was designed to guard phones from eavesdroppers, it expanded beyond its original purpose and has since become widely used as a voice-altering tool for musicians. It has served both the Pentagon and the roller rink, a double agent of pop and espionage.

In How to Wreck a Nice Beach—from a mis-hearing of the vocoder-rendered phrase "how to recognize speech"—music journalist Dave Tompkins traces the history of electronic voices from Nazi research labs to Stalin's gulags, from the 1939 World's Fair to Hiroshima, from Manhattan nightclubs to the Muppets.

The result is an amazing chronicle of postwar music and culture, filled with unexpected and surprising encounters. We see the vocoder brush up against FDR, Solzhenitsyn, Stanley Kubrick, Stevie Wonder, JFK, Eisenhower, Neil Young, Kanye West, the Cylons, Walt Disney, Henry Kissinger, and Winston Churchill, who boomed, when vocoderized on V-E Day, "We must go off!" And now the device is a cell phone standard, allowing your voice to sound human.

From T-Mobile to T-Pain, How to Wreck a Nice Beach is a riveting saga of technology and culture, illuminating the work of some of music's most provocative innovators."

Update: You can find an NPR segment on the vocoder and book here.

Nord Micro Modular Editor on the iPad

Just set this up. Using Desktop Connect for the iPad to connect to my Macbook Pro running Parallels and Windows Vista Ultimate with the Micro Modular Editor.

It works ok, but not great. Still feel like I'm working through a keyhole. There's a refresh delay so the knob turns and patching have poor visual feedback. Button clicks are better. Using your finger for the tiny controls isn't the greatest. I heard there will be a stylus for the iPad so that may help. I installed the Mac editor for the Micro Moduler after this and it was only slightly better.

Ipad Touch OSC Videos

Using iPad as Midi Controller

YouTube via noeecken — April 05, 2010 — "Sneak peak of my upcoming tutorial, how to use your iPad as midi controllers with Logic Studio"

iPad Logic Studio Midi Controller

"Another test using OSCulator to map midi CCs to Logic Studio using Touch OSC on my iPad. Tutorial is definitely coming!"

Also see How to use IPAD as a midi Controller for Ableton Live

via Luis Duran

Update:

iPad Midi Keyboard Synth

"Using Touch OSC + OSCulator. Logic Studio's Sculture synth demonstration."

Omnipresence 2.wmv

YouTube via Biodiode — April 06, 2010 — "This my first attempt at putting music to video. It was created in Sonar 8.5.3 with Spectrasonics Omnisphere and Trilian, the drums came from Spectrasonics RMX.

To hear more of my compositions please visit www.biodiode.com"

ARP 2600 SYNTHESIZER

via this auction

"If you're viewing this with interest you probably know something of the 2600, technically a semi-modular synth because it operates with or without patching - famous for providing the sound effects in countless 70's sci-fi classics and characters, Doctor Who and R2D2 among them."