Gakken Sx-150 DIY Analog Synthesizer

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"The Gakken SX-150 is a little analog synthesizer kit that comes packaged in a Japanese DIY science magazine. Now, these funky mini synths have started to show up around the globe, leaving all sorts of interesting beeps, blips and squeals in their wake.

Originally included in an issue of Otonanokagaku (Science for Adults), the compact synth offers up a variety of basic sound adjustments including attack, LFO, pitch, attack, decay and cutoff. A metal stylus provides you with a decent range of expressive control over the sounds produced.

And since the synth lets you plug in an external analog audio source and then modify those waveforms, the sky is the limit for the sounds you can produce. A built-in speaker means the SX-150 can produce totally self-contained audio madness."

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Xenon- iPhone Groove Synthesizer. Видео обзор Андрея Гладкова.

YouTube Uploaded by AndreyGladkov on Mar 14, 2011

"Xenon состоит из полифонического гибридного синтезатора (FM V.Analog Formant PCM), двух монофонических виртуально-аналоговых синтезаторов, синтезатора PCM, ритммашины и 5-ти дорожечного секвенсера.
Сочиняйте музыку где угодно и любое время!"

"Xenon is a hybrid of the polyphonic synthesizer (FM V. Analog Formant PCM), monaural two virtual-analog synths, synth PCM, ritmmashiny and 5-TRACK sequencer.
Make music anywhere and anytime!"

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Robert Edgar & Mark Mosher Live with Percussa Audio Cubes

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"Robert Edgar & Mark Mosher Live @ The Art Institute of California/Sunnyvale

Thursday, March 17 · 5:00pm - 7:00pm

The Art Institute of California-Sunnyvale - ROOM 602
1120 Kifer Rd
Sunnyvale, CA

No Admission Fee

Mark Mosher is performing a set in his one-man-show format. Songs will include original instrumental electronic music from recent albums performed on keyboard, matrix controllers, Theremin, and visual instruments Tenori-on and Percussa AudioCubes. Robert Edgar is performing using his Simultaneous Opposites Engine for real-time video traversals using MIDI Guitar. It should be an interesting evening indeed!"

http://land.percussa.com/

New Goldbaby iAm_K3m Kawai K3m Sample Set

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"The K3m is a hybrid digital/analog synth produced in 1986. It uses an 8 bit wavetable for the oscillators and has analog filters and VCA. It also has a very lush stereo chorus!

This synth was recorded through various tasty bits of studio hardware... things like the UBK Fatso,Great River Harrison EQ32 , A-Design EM-PEQ.

What you get is a sample based instruments bursting with character, digital grit and analog warmth. You will find musical inspiration and sonic adventures waiting to be incorporated in to your next track...

Contains 116 patches for EXS24 and 122 patches for Kontakt. Including all the wave oscillators from the wavetable and a set of drums and FX synthesized on the K3m." Free drum set here.

Vacoloco Zira Demo - See You

via VacoLoco on Synth.net

"Well, I’ve got the LFO routing in now, just the LFO delay to sort and some debugging.

I’ve also managed to get the two missing tracks into the Zira Demo, so it’s now complete. The missing tracks were the “ppg vocal” and the “wobbly bell”, I hope you enjoy this as much as I did recording it."

Beat Twirl for iPad and iPhone

"Beat Twirl is a "beat slicer" app. The app lets you analyze existing sounds and detect their rhythm with its note onset algorithms. With Beat Twirl you can work with drum loops and rhythm patterns, easily enhancing them with additional percussion sound, or create new patterns.

With Beat Twirl you can:
• Change the tempo (time) of drum loops without changing the pitch.
• Analyze percussion patterns and find the underlying timing.
• Mix-in additional percussion sounds, or replace the original sounds
• Export single beats from a sound file.

How to use Beat Twirl?
• You can record yourself singing or clapping a rhythm, than add percussion instruments to the rhythm you created.
• You can extract a rhythmic/percussive section from a song and convert it to a loop you can play along with at different tempos.
• Mix-in percussion instruments to a song to enhance its' rhythm.
• Extract beat samples from a song for use with a beat sequencer.

Features:
• Import audio from your ipod library, using iTunes file sharing or using audio copy/paste from supporting applications.
• Record using an external mic or the built in mic.
• Universal app. UI designed iPhone, iPod touch and iPad. Supports retina displays.
• Two spectrum based note onset detection algorithms.
• Manual slicing capabilities on top of the automated algorithm.
• Mix in percussion beats from a library of 300 samples.
• Export audio as wav, caf or aac. Export using audio copy, iTunes files sharing or email."

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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! ★"

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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."