Electribe EMX + ESX - Future Retro

YouTube via SlaughterClub | November 30, 2010 |

"Electribe EMX + ESX - Future Retro Electro"

coast to coast.mov

YouTube via zackdagoba | November 30, 2010 | 0 likes, 0 dislikes

"driving from LA to NY in 5 days, compressed into 5 mins. Music by Benge, made on a paia modular synth i bought at the end of the journey. see http://myblogitsfullofstars.blogspot.com for more"

Junction: New York City Taxis Generate a Real-Time Soundtrack

YouTube via kamoni | November 30, 2010 |

"Junction is a sound sculpture generated in real-time by thousands of New York City taxi cabs. Through the use of publicly available live footage from New York's Traffic Management Center, Junction tracks the movements of taxis in some of the city's busiest intersections. It uses their position, velocity and overall density to synthesize sounds. The onlooker gains a feeling of omniscience, as if "watching from above", while every tracked taxi's indeterministic movements become part of a larger symphony."

Component C29 is backwards on all TB-303's?

Interesting bit from bcbox on the adafruit (x0xb0x) forums:
"I found something very interesting... ok interesting to me at least! I recently stripped down an entire TB-303 mainboard I was doing some work on. When I got around to re-stuffing the PCB I found something curious. The legend for component C29 is backwards on the PCB, and in fact the component is installed backwards versus the schematic. I have verified this with pics from the dozens of 303's I have worked on, a few of which I show in some pics below...

The x0xb0x PCB is laid out the correct way, which would be like the schematic, so C29 is backwards versus an actual 303. This component is part of the circuit that makes up the recovery stage at the output of the filter responsible for converting the two outputs from the ladder to the single ended output at C14.
I also recorded some samples with C29 in both orientations. In each sample the first 2 bars is C29 as per actual TB-303, and the last 2 bars is C29 as per schematic."

This one in via David

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296e MIDI Control Test

296e MIDI Control Test from Lyonel on Vimeo.

"Stereo mix through a 296e, with 225e MIDI control of each band."

Eigenharp at Apple Store Covent Garden London - this Thursday

"Eigenlabs will be demonstrating the Eigenharps at the Apple Store, Covent Garden on Thursday 2nd December.

We will be showcasing the power of the instruments and how they work with GarageBand, MainStage and Logic. There will also be a live performance and the opportunity to try the instruments firsthand.

Apple do not sell our products, but will be hosting the event in what is the largest Apple Store worldwide. This store attracts a vast number of tourists from across the globe. Any sales interest will be driven to our website and then potentially to your store!

Regards,

John Newman
Sales Director
Eigenlabs Limited"

Stevie's Wonder Men - BBC Radio on TONTO

http://www.bbc.co.uk/i/w7bly/

"Stuart Maconie tells the story of TONTO's Expanding Head Band - two electronic music boffins who transformed Little Stevie Wonder into a song writing legend."

via Craig MacNeil

Robot Voice Modulator on Instructables

"This is a simple to build device that converts your own human voice into a superior robot voice. It also includes a number of sweet features like an audio-in jack so that you can plug in all of your favorite instruments, microphones and music players, a vibrato mode and awesome pitch shifting buttons. It can be shifted two whole octaves in either direction. This provides for endless hours of fun (at the expense of everyone around you)."

Instructions on Instructables.

Ableton Live Tutorial: Dubstep Talking Wobble Bass w/ Operator

YouTube via DubSpot | November 30, 2010 | 3 likes, 0 dislikes

http://blog.dubspot.com/ableton-live-...

"Ableton Certified Trainer and Dubspot Instructor Michael Hatsis aka !banginclude explains how to make 'dubstep talking wobble bass' in Ableton Live using Operator (If you don't already own Operator, check out the tutorial video Dubstep Wobble Bass Part 1 in which Hatsis used the sampler to create the mid-range bass sound and load up that preset.) Starting with the Operator sound he created in the previous video tutorial Dubstep Wobble Bass Part 2, and using the patch as a launching point, he turns off Operators B, C, and D and keeps Operator A on a square-wave, sets the LFO rate to a 1/2 a bar, and switch up the Filter resonance to 5, which gives us a somewhat mild whomp bass sound. To add the talking effect, Hatsis used Ableton Live device Redux effect to bring the sample-rate down a few levels, set the Downsample to Hard, somewhere between 15 to 24 to get the talking sound. As the LFO sweeps through the Filter's frequency, the Redux adds a vocal effect to the wobble, and as you increase the value of the Downsample, the deeper and heavier the voice gets; as you decrease, the voice gets lighter. The technique known as "digital downsampling." Hatsis returns Operator to add a little FM/make the sound grittier by turning on Operator B. Be aware of the odd effects, as the Redux plugin enhances the grittiness of the FM. Furthermore, Hatsis demonstrates other effects within Operator including Coarse value, LFO rate, and Filter settings and options, frequencies, resonance, and recaps the steps and methods at the end."

NLogSynth PRO adds Core MIDI Support

Don't miss my note below.

"What's New in Version 3.1
- iOS 4.2 support
- CoreMIDI support for controlling NLogSynth PRO with USB devices via Camera Connection Kit
- MIDI Out support (in addition to MIDI In) for Line6' Midi Mobilizer, e.g. for controlling MIDI Sound Modules with NLogSynth PRO or for interfacing to Computer via MIDI Serial Line
- Rotation: NLogSynth PRO keeps now the orientation it has started with
- Bug fixes"




iPads on eBay
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Note: So why did this get the Featured label? Because we are getting very close to the iPad becoming a ubiquitous synth device. Some might say we are already there. Once a wireless MIDI hub becomes available it will pretty much be done. Next step after that will be more processing power and MIDI syncing between apps, but not sure if Apple will allow that. Anyone know if CoreMIDI supports this? Basically an internal MIDI clock for apps running on the device to sync to?