ReBirth for the iPhone

YouTube via PropellerheadSW — April 26, 2010

"ReBirth is back! Propellerhead Software's legendary Techno Micro Composer has been resurrected and made available for the iPhone. http://rebirthapp.com

ReBirth faithfully emulates dance music's three backbone devices: The Roland TB-303 Bass synth and the Roland TR-808 and 909 drum machines. Combine these with FX units, fully featured pattern sequencers and a quick-acting, scalable iPhone interface and you'll soon be making techno on the train, trance on the tram or beats on the bus."

x TB-303 Bassline synths
TR-808 Drum Machine
TR-909 Drum Machine
Pattern Controlled Filter
Distortion unit
Compressor
Mixer
5 user mods
Pattern sequencing
Full automation
Combine patterns to build songs
Share songs with other ReBirth users

"ReBirth is back...In your iPhone! Propellerhead Software's legendary Techno Micro Composer has been reincarnated. This time around, ReBirth takes the form of a seriously block rocking iPhone music app. Released in 1997 and discontinued in 2005, Propellerhead ReBirth was the first music software to reproduce the sound and behavior of those three classic Roland devices that defined the sound of early Techno and Acid House: the TB-303 Bassline Synth and the TR-808 and TR-909 Rhythm Composers.

With dual basssynths and pattern sequencers, two sets of drum machines plus FX and mixer sections, ReBirth gives you an extremely streamlined but very powerful music production environment. Every knob and button on ReBirth's devices can be tweaked and turned in real time, so when you plug your iPhone into that massive sound system, you're in charge everything from pattern selections to the depth of those nasty Acid filter squelches.

ReBirth for the iPhone may be small and ever so cutesy looking, but it's no toy, believe it. With a fully featured song mode and advanced copying and pasting capabilities, ReBirth is a fully featured iPhone music software product that lets you arrange and compose full tracks for saving to your iPhone. You can even share your songs with other ReBirth users - one single click will upload your composition to the ReBirth server, allowing other users to enjoy your music in their iPhones.

ReBirth for iPhone – music production software for the iPhone, perfect for music making on the go and with the sought after sounds for everything from Techno to Electro, House to Hip Hop, Electronica or whatever style you are into."

Propellerheads on iTunes:


No word on an iPad HD implementation. This will of course work on the iPad, but at lower resolution.

Update: 1st user video:

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MAESTRO RARE SOVIET USSR DIGITAL SYNTHESIZER

via this auction
"Keyboard electronic musical instrument (KEMI) "Maestro" is a portable polyphonic four-voiced synthesizer with microprocessor control (KR-580) & pre-programmed timbres "presets". It has been assembled on FORMANTA factory, the one which made well-known POLIVOKS.

Number of presets- 20. There is possibility to get vibrato frequency with depth & frequency control. This instrument includes "chorus" effect with depth control, filter with cut-off frequency & resonance control. There are also "arpeggio-tremolo" arrangement with speed control and joystick that pitch shifts & vibrato depth controls.

Specifications:

— Number of octaves in a keyboard, 3
— Weight with case, 15 kg (approx. 36 Pounds)

Some examples of how it really sounds:
http://ruskeys.net/eng/base/maestro.php#sn"

video here

Korg EX-8000

via this auction

Novation Bass Station Custom Patches HD part 1

YouTube via ChrisSpazz — April 30, 2010 — "The Novation Bass Station rack is a pretty powerful analog synth in a relatively small package. One thing Youtube is lacking is a decent demo of it, with direct audio, so I thought I would contribute my own complete with custom patches I made.

I have no keyboard skills at all and I chose the Akai LPK25 for this video because of the small size & arpeggiator feature.

I'll be uploading many more synth demos in the next while so be sure to subscribe."

Novation Bass Station Custom Patches HD part 2

Dub Step Arcade Now Available

Kits are now available at The Magic Mess

"The Dub~Step~Arcade console is an analogue square wave synthesiser based around two popular oscillator circuit’s, Firstly the dub-siren which is simply a pitch that rises and falls in relation to the speed and wave-shape of an LFO (low frequency oscillator), and secondly the stepped tone generator by Forrest Mims (Known as the Atari punk console) hence the name Dub Step Arcade!
The design also incorporates basic synthesiser features such as Attack-Decay Envelope generator and LFO Modulator.



The Dub~step~arcade is available as a D-I-Y kit for you to build yourself. All The electronic components as well as pots,knobs, switches and jack sockets are provided for the following controls
1 ~ main oscillator pitch control
2 ~ modulation depth with LFO-(square/triangle) or AD gen select
3 ~ steps control with lfo-square/triangle modulation select
4 ~ attack and decay envelope generator with fire and auto repeat
5 ~ LFO modulator with speed control with square / triangle wave-shapes
6 ~ VCA level control with manual constant setting or A/D gen source select
7 ~ Control voltage input (controls the main oscillators frequency)
8 ~ Trigger input (envelope can be triggered by external sequencer)
9 ~ 9V battery or 9V power option

The kit comes with the ability to be powered by either battery or by 9Vdc from a transformer (with a 500ma rating). The design has a voltage regulator (9v) to protect against wrong polarity and as voltage supply effects pitch and volume. I recommend using rechargeable battery's or transformer supply as the current consumption can be quite high so battery life is short."

Samples at The Magic Mess
via Matt the Modulator in the comments of this video post of the Dub Step Arcade.

Numerology 3 Teaser: Evolve

Numerology 3 Teaser: Evolve from Five12 on Vimeo.

"Early testing of the Evolve function. The setup shown has pitch changes on X, gate changes on Y and velocity changes on Z. Transformations for each dimension (X, Y, Z) are fully customizable. In addition to manual triggering, this example shows triggering via three sequencers, one for each dimension."

SequencomatV3 functions

YouTube via tonvibration — May 01, 2010 — "Showing the main functions of my new Sequencomat (Midi-stepsequencer in MaxMSP with Lemur touch surface) More details at http://music-interface.com"

1Song1Week1Year - Week18 - Set01 B

YouTube via DJDJSMusic — May 01, 2010 — "Week 18 in my project to write one new song every week for the year 2010.

I noticed a few weeks ago that most of my songs only take 3 or 4 layers on the Tenori-On and I thought to myself as the Tenori-On has 16 layers would it not be possible to program in 3-4 songs into one set of blocks and fade up and down the layers for each song in order to create one longer "mix" track. Also as it takes so long to load each user sample set you could allocate the 48 samples (3 voices x16 samples each) among your 4 songs and end up with a set of blocks that could give you a continuous 20-30 minuets of playing. Or even longer if you start mixing and mashing up your songs.

So that is what I am going with Set01 -I know it's a great title:)

Last week I used the first 4 layers for Set01 A and this week I'm using the next 4 layers for Set01 B. - I've changes all layers to Score mode.
I've also used the bass line from Set01 A in this so there are 5 layers used in this song."

Roland Fantom X series Leads by S4K ( free patches / sounds )

YouTube via Space4Keys — May 01, 2010 — "Category Leads Board Roland FantomX series Format .svs .svd Files Description Roland Fantom X Leads ( FREE ) by S4K"

Stream of Consciousness - harpsicord Wizard Dream Collections ( coming soon on M3 M50 ) )

"Space4Keys — May 01, 2010 — Stream of Consciousness - harpsicord Dream
M3 M50 Wizard Dream coming soon on marketplace.


performed by Luigi Accardo

http://www.space4keys.com"

The Invisible Force Behind the Universe - Demo Video 4 TDM 3 VSti by HGFortune

YouTube via HGFSynthesizer — May 01, 2010 — "The Invisible Force Behind the Universe - Demo Video for The Dreammachine 3 VSTi by HGFortune and a little hommage to Betty Page ;-)
Tracks by Dimiri Schkoda, video by HG Fortune

Use good speakers for listening.

have fun
HG"