MIDI Touch for iPhone Now Available

MIDI Touch for iPhone - Domestic Cat
"★ Midi Touch for iPhone - finally, the iPhone version of the hugely popular iPad app Midi Touch! ★
Midi Touch for iPhone brings all the great major features from it's bigger brother, and turns your iPhone or iPod Touch into a powerful wireless MIDI controller!

It's is the ultimate MIDI controller - it allows you to create your own custom controllers by placing knobs, sliders and other controls onto the screen wherever you want.

Send MIDI over Wi-Fi with latency as low as 2-5ms using either a MIDI Network Session or DSMIDIWiFi!

Features:
★ Design & save your own MIDI controllers by dragging and dropping sliders, buttons and more where you want them to create personalised control surfaces
★ Excellent responsiveness & performance - measured latency over WiFi: 2-5ms.
★ Support for CC, Note, Program Change, SYSEX, NRPN & RPN messages (SYSEX not supported by DSMIDIWiFi)
★ Support for multiple messages per control
★ Midi Feedback - keeps the controls synced to your incoming messages (SYSEX, NRPN messages not supported for feedback yet)
★ Many different control types - Vertical sliders, horizontal sliders, knobs, buttons (momentary or latched), drum-pads, X-Y-Z controllers, transport controls and preset-jump buttons
★ Easily change the settings of each control - CC number, note number, minimum & maximum range, channel, invert, size, label & more
★ All new tab control - easily organise your controls
★ Choose from 14 different theme colors
★ Import/export & share controller setups via Email, Safari, Dropbox etc
★ Multi touch - control multiple knobs/sliders etc at once
★ Full screen mode to reduce distractions and maximize usable space
★ Controls snap to each other to help create aligned layouts
★ Invert values mode - perfect for drawbar organs
★ Editor controls - copy, cut, paste, duplicate (between presets also)
★ Multiple control selection - select multiple controls to move/cut/duplicate/edit
★ Nudge controls to make pixel perfect controllers
★ Intuitive gestures - great for fine tuning controls
★ New SYSEX message editor allows entering custom SYSEX strings with the value of the control embedded into the message
★ Robust RPN/NRPN support - simply select the MSB & LSB and the app does the rest
★ Turn inputs/outputs on or off selectively
★ Advanced control options to change how controls respond to incoming messages
★ More to come!

We work hard to have first class direct support - email the developers directly from the app for a quick response. This app is under active development - if you want a feature not list please email us your ideas.

Check out http://iOSMidi.com for more info.

Please note - the iPhone does NOT support connecting hardware via the Camera Connection Kit.

★ Midi Touch for iPad has been used onstage & demonstrated at CES, NAMM, MacWorld & several Apple Stores, and been used in live performance in countless clubs and bars worldwide! ★"

iPads on eBay
iPod Touch on eBay

Twinthesis

YouTube Uploaded by sammio2 on Mar 13, 2011

"For more information: http://tinyurl.com/twinthesis

The idea behind twinthesis was to explore the 'sound' of twitter, to harness the potential of the human randomness being generated on the service. Twitter has over hundreds of millions of users world wide, a figure which is expanding at a rate of about 300,000 users a day. These users are submitting on average around 90 Million tweets per day. There is a huge amount of data there, ready to be sonified, and turned into audio.

Twinthesis is a MaxMSP based patch, that extracts the most recent public tweet, and deconstructs that information in order to generate sound. Several pieces of data can be taken directly from the tweet, including the length of the tweet, and the actual letters within the tweet itself."

DX5 messing with a Commodore C64

YouTube Uploaded by DX5 on Mar 14, 2011

"This is what happens when Jose plugs the C64 into the socket and starts to make sounds with MSSIAH midi cartridge.
This is a Commodore 64 ALDI limited version. Sold for german market with internal 8580 SID chip.

If anyone's wondering where I am from (due to my accent) I am Spanish.

Mono synthesizer demonstration. Playing DM "Shake the Disease" excerpt (hard to do with a monophonic synth if you want to play with two hands). Also "Popcorn".

Greetings to Vince Clarke at the video's end. :-)"

53 Modular Synthesizer Polyphony Experiment

YouTube Uploaded by 7thDanSound on Mar 14, 2011

"Modular synths are usually not used for polyphony since making true polyphonic voices would take a lot of cash, space and time. But if you can settle for some limitations you can get some nice results. If you go for separate sounding notes and skip individual articulation (filters and envelopes) all you need is enough oscillators. And a decent MIDI to CV converter."

Modular Percussion on the Moog Voyager XL

YouTube Uploaded by MoogMusicInc on Mar 14, 2011

"Analog noise + Snappy analog envelopes = Tight percussive synthesis

To achieve this sound:
-Noise as sound source
-Filter resonance high
-Filter cut off low
-Modulate filter cut off with ribbon controller
-Volume envelope: -Attack short -Decay medium to short -Sustain = 0
-Filter envelope: -Attack short -Decay short -Sustain = 0
-Amt = ~2.5
-Trigger mode = multitrigger"

More Details on Why Apple Rejected SoundPrism with CoreMIDI Support

See the update in this post.

The Roland Rap from 1984

"With no mention of the performer the single only has the track’s title “The Roland Rap” with writer credits on it’s label and the texts “All instruments by Roland & Musiikki Fazer 1984'"

Be sure to listen through to the lyrics.

via Turku Synth Club (Finland) where you'll find additional details.

Roland Rap 256Kbps by Wolf-Rami

Marsynth e-newsletter 2011-03-13

"Greetings all, and welcome to another installment of the Marsynth e-newsletter. I have been keeping busy the past few weeks with several things, so I thought it was about time to provide a little update.

A majority of the things I will present here have already been posted on the website: www.marsynth.com so I will keep things short here, and leave you to check out the site for more info.

First and foremost, I've announced the newest Marsynth device, the Nomad (note there is a demo video on the site now for one of the beta units). This was designed with the guitarist in mind, and it can really take the guitar to new, unexplored territories. Lots of distortion, lots of self-oscillation, and lots of fun! As I mention on the site, beta units are testing now, and I plan on having production units ready in a few months. I will be providing updates on availability once I start getting close to having the first production batch done.

In other product development news, I updated the Candela design to accept external inputs (thanks to the suggestions from the local shop here!). I plan on having a demo video up soon so everyone can finally hear what the Candela is like; its quite a ride!

I've updated the format of the info sheets that I include with all units to a nicer looking and more descriptive layout. They are now available as downloadable pdf's on the individual product pages on the site.

Finally, I've created a Marsynth soundcloud page to start putting up audio demos of all current products: www.soundcloud.com/marsynth So far there are three tracks for the Heart Breaker, and one track I did with two Nomad prototypes chained together (really fun!).

Again, thanks for all the support, and stay tuned as there will be more updates to come soon!

Thanks,

Damon Mar
www.marsynth.com"

Vox Jennings Univox

via hispasonic, via elgauchoandres
Googlish description:
"Probably one of the first monophonic synth history.
Built by Jennings, who founded the company after Vox in England.
It's 1956!
As you can see is a box lined with leather Crocodile Tolex.
The keyboard is the preamp tubes and the box is the stage and an 8-inch speaker. Has an output of 6 watts.
Is connected to the amplifier box.
With the lever control the volume.
It works great unless the vibrato effect.
It has several switches for varied sounds super interesting.
Three octaves of Fa Fa, with small wooden keys.
The Univox became very popular in 1962 when Joe Meek used it for his hit Telstar Tornados.
A museum piece and playing in the p. mother!
Change it for some interesting instrument, or study material.
It also offers reasonable economic accepted."

Another recently came up for auction here.

DinSync.info OSC303 thru Q107 (w/ Acidlab Miami)

YouTube Uploaded by scienceclubmusic on Mar 14, 2011

"HYPER INTERLACED for her pleasure
Testing out the OSC303 from dinsync.info with the TipTop Audio Happy Ending kit. CV and Gate are coming from MC-202. Oscillator is going through the synthesizers.com Q107 filter, which is pretty good IMO. Using dotcom envelope and amp modules, and Ibanez TS-808 as well.
Miami is clean."