"This is a rare classic Boss PC-2 Percussion Synthesizer. It was released in 1984 or so, and hasn't been made in many years. It's an entirely analog module, and has control knobs for sensitivity, pitch, decay, sweep, LFO rate, and LFO depth. It also has a sliding switch to select triangle or square wave for the LFO. It can be triggered either with the integrated percussion pad, or by plugging another sound source into the 1/4" input jack. It can be powered either with a 9V battery or a standard Boss PSA A/C adapter. The complete manual for the PC-2 can be found on Roland's web site: PDF manual."
"A very small demonstration of the 'digital' side of microKORG XL I made for a friend. It is perfectly able to imitate those 80's digital KORG type of sounds (DW-8000, DS-8, DSS-1). A little bit of modulating delay is introduced in the middle of the video. Maybe some glitched drums would work over this and I could turn this into a complete song. I just haven't had the time to do so."
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"The Synare 2: This was Star's flagship model., with one oscillator with sawtooth, and pulse waveforms, white noise generator, etc. But this had assignable functions, ie. routing the LFO to control certain parameters at once. The LFO also added a sawtooth waveform) You could also select a wide range of octaves for the pitch to sound at, along with a fine tune function. A major adjustment was the introduction of a fairly advanced sequencer with different patters, and the ability to change patterns and octaves. You could also adjust the speed and the note(s) sounded by the sequencer.
Plus, it had 16 pads instead of just four. Retail price in 1976 was $1,395.00. Made roughly from 1976-1982 Extremely rare."
"Hi everyone, I am actually working on a complete new processor for Roland TR606 I have finished most of the code, so I can play and enter drums etc works great, I had a dead TR606 and looked around for like 3 years for a replacement processor.....no luck, so I decided to just code a replacement, I want to add features like shuffle, I have completed the code for that but it does not sound correct? in my code I have a variable that gets incremented every time the sync 24 clock signal has a rising or falling edge, on the first step I add one to this variable to give 7 clock cycles before the next drum trig happens then on the next I minus 1 to give 5 clock cycles before the next drum trig, so essentially I am moving the odd steps forward a little bit, but it does not sound very good on anything above 2 shifted cycles, its weird because my code is sound, but I am guessing that it is something else I have not thought of? I noticed that other people still keep the 6 cycles per step but shift them forward? so effectively you have 7 cycles for the first step and 6 for the next is this correct? I want to add flam, midi as much as I can or have various version? if anyone can help me with the shuffle timing problem or is interested in getting one of these mods done? let me know, I will post a video soon on youtube or something or I can email you one?"
Update via locoder: "I should also mention that I have completed, some small SMD analog voice add ins for the TR606 which include a 909ish bass drum, clap and snare, as you may or may not know there is not much room inside the tiny 606, hence me making the analog voices all surface mount."
Update 6/2/12: See the comments below for new info and/or this post.
in its newest version, touchAble 1.1, touchAble team has added a number of most wanted enhancements and some new powerful extra features, making this complete controller for Ableton Live more flexible, more reliable and faster. This include: tempo control, resizable tracks and slots, relative faders, global record, new menus design, inertial scrolling, and a set of great enhancements.
touchAble is an unique iPad app is the first application to give Ableton Live users full control over their digital audio workstation, without the tiresome process of manual midi-mapping. touchAble allows live users to walk away from their computer and perform live from anywhere within Wi-Fi range (using ad-hoc connection or router) while keeping latency at a minimum. it includes five modules and two command menus, including grid clip, mixer, devices, keys, pads, transport, clip, provide a powerful, intuitive and reliable multitouch control solution for professional use. touchAble includes templates for lives plugins and is fully compatible with vsts, audiounits and instruments.
TouchAble is supported by many professional musicians, performers, djs and composers around the world, who use touchAble on stage or in studio.
Requirements: • iPad with iOS 3.1 or later • Ableton Live 8.1.1 minimum • Mac OSX 10.5 and above or Windows XP, Vista, windows 7 • touchAble server (downloadable for free : touch-able.com/Site/Downloads.html)
FUTURE MUSIC UK: "You may think about touchAble and an iPad instead of a hardware controller. A compliment indeed."
MUSICTECH MAG UK: "It can handle the majority of performance or interactive elements within Live without requiring any manual controller design or mapping, making it an easy-to-use but nonetheless powerful Live controller." 9/10
MUSICRADAR.COM UK: "The cheaper, more fully featured touchAble is a clear all-round winner. Its advanced control options give it the advantage in terms of power and make it the obvious choice for studio use and live performance."
DE:BUG MAG DE: "Definitely a recommendation for all iPad users who think about buying a controller for Live - even though touchAble isn't able to deliver haptic feedback in many areas it has advantages to physical controllers. It's worth it - even for studio-use."
"This synth has 2 sections. One is analog strings with Vibrato. The other side is an analog synth which can go from amazing leads and pads to awesome analog bass. The filter on this thing can really scream and self modulate.
The mod and pitch bend are very unique also, as it features the classic Korg Joystick which has pitch bend as the left right axis and modulation as the up down axis. Pushing the joystick forward modulates using the LFO and pushing backward uses the Noise generator."
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