::vtol:: Decimal DIY drum machine

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the Organ Dronor

YouTube Uploaded by JvGrieken on Apr 28, 2011

"This project has been a long time coming, but the first prototype is finally done. Still some minor changes to be made, mainly around the filter and a CV input for the filter. Im currently developing a kit, contact me if you're interested.
-2 triangle oscillators with fine tune knob for those tearing slow drones.
-2 triangle LFO's with interchangable capacitors to set the range.
-LFO amount for both sides
-LED reflector rate indicators
-custom filter with resonance control
-on/off and volume

sorry for the bad video quality, my camera is old and doesn't like low lighting conditions. The audio was recorded raw into ableton live directly from the output without any filtering or effects."

Playing with it self

YouTube Uploaded by jenamu6 on Apr 28, 2011

"Self playing patch, driven by KLEE and Wogglebug.
FX Deluxe memory boy and memoryman hazarai.
Macbeth M5 and eurorack playing nice."

Susan Rom - Little Intermezzo (Demo)

YouTube Uploaded by susarom on Apr 28, 2011

"Music: Susan Rom (Short Demo)

Instruments:
Roland JV-1080
Marvin VST - TromineGT
Tube Ohm - Anti Tanspirant
Reaktor 5 - Carbon
Elektrostudio - Micromoon
inclusive Skype Blop by Marko Ettlich - RetroSound ( sec. 0:09 ) ;D"

O-Generator - Clocks - Coldplay

YouTube Uploaded by ogenerator on Apr 28, 2011

"O-Generator Music Maker is an App that can be used as a musical sketchpad to compose, learn, create and develop ideas in different styles whatever your musical level.

O-Generator's simple interface achieves sophisticated results. You can create and combine chords, choose individual notes and develop unique rhythmic patterns for your music compositions using an array of real instruments from drumkits to guitars. The beauty about O-Generator is that YOU compose the music.

http://www.o-generator.com"

O-Generator Acoustic Music Maker - O-Music Ltd
iPads on eBay

Circuit Bent Speak & Math With MIDI + Korg Electribe AE1

YouTube Uploaded by JorgeCortez01 on Nov 24, 2008

"A MIDIspeak Speak & Math being used as an electronic percussion module being triggered by the Korg Electribe AE1"

via this auction
"MIDISpeak version 2 from highlyliquid (check their site for sound samples!)
Use MIDI notes to trigger words, word fragments, garbled speech, percussion and bizarre sound effects
Trigger sounds in a controlled, repeatable manner
Select several "banks" of sounds by moving the MOD wheel on your controller, also responds to othercontrollers
can be used as a regular toy when not plug it to MIDI
comes with battery compartment lid
some scratches on the surface as expected from a kid's toy
works with 4 C batteries (not included)"

Korg M3 88 Synthesizer / Workstation ~XPanded~

via this auction

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Akai S612 Sampler MD280 QD Drive, w/ Disks!!!

via this auction
"Akai S612 rack mount sampler, with MD280 QD disk drive, 11 Roland "Quick Disks" and printed manual... Interesting features of these units are the manual start/splice sliders for some interesting triggered effects, on-board LFO, a light filter, and looping effect. These 12-bit samplers were among the first digital samplers on the scene in the early 80's, and while don't have a large capacity or complicated sound reproduction, lo-fi or general phrase sampling is extremely easy to record and play back. Roland Quick Disks I have provided have Roland sound samples which are not readable by the unit, however, a small piece of tape over the square holes in the corners will allow you to record your own samples to disk with no problems. Quick disks are HARD to find, these were all that were available for a while."

Double Andore

YouTube Uploaded by henrikbjorkk on Apr 28, 2011

"Just plugged it in... Shit. This is deep."

Update:

Double Andore 2

Uploaded by henrikbjorkk on Apr 28, 2011

"More random wierdness and fun"

Double Andore 3

Uploaded by henrikbjorkk on Apr 28, 2011

SLABS: Arrays of Pressure Sensitive Touch Pads

This is a follow-up to the previous post. See that post for some events where you can check out SLABs in person.

Some info via UC Berkeley's Center for New Music & Audio Technologies:

"Goal
Arrays of pressure sensitive touch pads provide musicians with an expressive interface that can be mapped by software to behave in a variety of ways. The SLAB was designed to engage the body, to be both musically expressive and inspiring, to be easy to play at the entry level, and to be accepting of a lifelong development of virtuosity. Instead of discrete triggering mechanisms to start and stop musical events we chose continuous signal representations as the basis for the instrument. We chose Ethernet for I/O and wrote specialized Core Audio compatible drivers for OSX allowing us to send gesture data as audio data. As a consequence, gestures are tightly coupled to the sound.

One SLAB contains 24 touch pads and another has 32. We chose Interlinks’s VersaPad because of its pressure output. The x, y, and pressure of each pad is sent at 44.1 kHertz. On the SLABS32 there are 96 channels. Core Audio and Max/MSP handle this number of channels with ease using only a small percentage of the CPU. The data from the pad sensors is assembled in a Xilinx FPGA which also provides for an audio return path and connections to MIDI (Input Only) and Light Pipe. The SLABS use the Open Sound Control (OSC) protocol for programming a small display and two LED’s associated with each pad. OSC is sent to the host computer from the selector switches at the top of each column of pads."

Be sure to see UC Berkeley's Center for New Music & Audio Technologies for additional details and video.