Block Diablo Controller & Poquita

flickr by livid instruments

via Create Digital Music (CDM) where you'll find an extensive post up on Livid Instruments' controllers.

Unboxing: RW Minicommand

Unboxing: RW Minicommand from Moxie Wanderlust on Vimeo.

"Finally it has arrived! The Ruin&Wesen Minicommand unit! This device enables limitless control/configuration via MIDI CC code to Elektron devices Monomachine and Machinedrum.

Concieved, designed, constructed by Manuel "Wesen" Odendahl of techno duo Ruin & Wesen, allows 100% "funtime live control" of virtually any MIDI based music device and beyond. Based on an Arduino microprocessor and open source firmware, one can actually recalibrate the device to tailor to one's own pleasure. I'd love to do this, but I think I lack the time and brain capacity.

Kudos to the RW team for this, can't wait to ACTUALLY use it now! More video to follow as I figure it out!

:)

ps. sorry for the bad light/camering, I was too excited to open it."

Reactable mas compr

YouTube via marcosalonso | June 30, 2010 | 1:56
Re-uploaded: "marcosalonso | July 01, 2010

Place: Sonar Barcelona
Music and performance: Carles Lopez
Video: Marc Morera (www.marcmorera.com)
Date: 18/06/2010
www.reactable.com"

Roland DDR-30 Digital Drums Module Demo

YouTube via zibbybone | June 30, 2010 | 2:28

"Quick demo of an often forgotten Roland digital drum module. With nice & crunchy (I'm guessing 12 bit) PCM samples, Roland entered the electronic drum market with the DDR30. While limited with only kick, snare and 4 toms, the DDR-30 offers several sound samples for each drum (including acoustic, Simmons-style electronic and timpanis) and many options for tailoring the sounds to your needs with pitch, amp envelope & EQ. It can also serve as a pad-to-MIDI converter for triggering other MIDI instrumennts.
In this demo, I go through the 32 drum kits that were stored in this module (not sure if they're factory kits or not) while being triggered by a rhythm pattern on my Roland Fantom X6. It might be hard to hear on your crap-top speakers, but this module really kicks. I think Infomation Society used one on their eponymous album - I'd have to check my copy of the CD+G that has their equipment list."

midi enabled Playstation running "music"

YouTube via RustyNex | June 30, 2010 | 0:30

"this is just a test to see if i can make my playstation into a midi master. it seems to work but there is a few glitches too,

its synced with my midi gameboy SP running LSDJ
arduino based."

VINTAGE SOVIET ELECTRONIC DRUM SET "FORMANTA UDS"

via this auction

"RARE and interesting vinatge Soviet drum set FORMANTA UDS manufactured at Formanta factory (it was producing Polivoks as well). Please read here about this model. The unit has 16 preset samples."

You can find a video of one here.

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TOM 1501

via this auction

Note this is the one in this video.

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Oto Biscuit vs LinnDrum

YouTube via duncanperson | June 28, 2010 | 4:53

"Just biscuiting some linndrum samples through the oto machines biscuit"

OTO Machines Biscuit demo with Korg R3

duncanperson | June 27, 2010 | 5:23

"I demo of some of the sounds the biscuit is capable of making or modifying. The R3 is the sound source in this video - it is producing a very, very basic patch - 1 saw oscillator, amp. no envelopes, no filter, nothing like that. Basically, this little box is amazing, every thing about is brilliant. The filter (especially high pass) sounds particularity good in my opinion.

Sorry about the terrible video quality, but I made up for it with good audio :D"

Dave Smith Instruments Evolver: Agressive demo

YouTube via duncanperson | October 24, 2009 | 2:40

"I was reading on the VSE forums that the best thing about the dave smith instruments Evolver was the digital waveforms, feedback, distortion, delays, output hack, etc. I had always thought it was an aggressive little synth for a few reasons.... anyway, I just had a go at making the synth sound as mean as possible. The evolver track was recorded in one take and has had no external effects added at all. all the synth sounds come from inside the evolver's box. The drums are just a bunch of 909, 808 and linndrum samples I had, the high hats and one clap have had their bit rate reduces in Ableton live."

DSI Evoler Glitch Drums

duncanperson | November 30, 2009 | 6:02

"Demo and Song sketch (in the second half). Anyway, I wanted to make some circuit bend style drum sounds so I turned to the Digital oscillators on the DSI evolver, put some crazy fm and ring mod on them and I was good to go. Most of the sounds have been slightly processed with filters and pitch shifting, but nothing that drastic. I also put an envelope routed to the pitch on the last sound. Normally I would just put a bit crusher on each drum sounds but I like experimenting!

The songs sketch was just to use the drum patterns in some way, bass is the evolver... 2 analogue hyper detuned square waves and some HP filter from Live. and the KP3 and R3 are midi controlling Live.

Thanks for watching - please rate and comment if you like! :D"

iSequence for iPad - importing samples.

YouTube via beepstreetapps | June 29, 2010 | 2:49
History of the Amen Break
"Sample import is a new feature in version 1.5.
Now it is easy to import WAV and AIFF samples from your computer via Wi-Fi and map them in the instrument panel.

In this example we used amen break and several one shot samples to make a simple arrangment.

A complete tutorial about sample editor and features like sample mapping, looping and ADSR coming soon.

http://www.beepstreet.com"
iSequence on iTunes
iPads on Ebay