Percussa Audio Cubes Meets Dr. Who

via Percussa

"In the last episode, “The Doctor’s wife“, glowing cubes who look very much like the Audiocubes, are used as containers for timelords. We have no official confirmation received about this, but we do know we have quite some customers in the UK, so it could be possible that these are the AudioCubes. You should have a look at the beginning of the episode as well as around the 15 minute timemark, where you can see a whole bunch of cubes."

Hadikat Raja II, Deuxième Partie

YouTube Uploaded by RADIOKLOW on May 16, 2011

"Composition for keyboard Virus TI"

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SunVox on iPad with MIDI-keyboard

YouTube Uploaded by NightRadio2007 on May 17, 2011

"SunVox official page: http://www.warmplace.ru/soft/sunvox/"

SunVox - Alexander Zolotov
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EnergyXT For IOS First Impressions

YouTube Uploaded by mvpadrini on May 17, 2011

energyXT - XT Software AS
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Casio SK-5 Sampling Keyboard PCM Synthesizer

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"Casio SK-5 specifications
Presets
Preset tones/samples: 8 preset keyboard sounds, including
Piano
Vibraphone
Dog
Surf
Trumpet
Pipe organ
Chorus
Flute
Built-in samples: 4 (high conga, low conga, lion, laser gun)
Envelopes
Piano/guitar damped tone (slow decay)
Long release (slower decay)
Reverb (some sustain after decay)
Slow attack (slow initial volume increase)
Tremolo I (fade out with some vibrato)
Tremolo II (slight vibrato)
Auto-rhythms: 10 (rock, disco, 16 beat, march, bossa nova, samba, slow rock, waltz)
Demonstration tunes
Picnic
Turkish March
Clair de Lune
Eine kleine Nachtmusik
Surprise symphony
Jingle Bells
American patrol

Sampling and playback
Sampling rate: 8-bit, 9.38 kHz
Tuning control: ±30 cents
Built-in speaker: 8 cm diamter / 1 watt output
Inputs: microphone jack (1/4th inch), line-in minijack (1/8th inch)
Outputs: audio-out minijack (1/8th inch)
Power
Auto power off time: 7 minutes since last operation
Power: 5 AA batteries or 7.5 volt negative tip polarity AC adapter
Power consumption: 1.8 watts"

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Access Virus C Desktop

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"This item Includes:
Power Adapter
Users Manual
SoundDiver Editor and Librarian Software CD
Programming Analogue Synths Book"

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phonogene

YouTube Uploaded by DrOctave1 on May 17, 2011
Audibly NSFW.
"scarface in the phonogene and some 4/4 just checking it out and playing around"

via Make Noise
"The Phonogene is a digital re-visioning and elaboration of the tape recorder as musical instrument (Firmware Engineered by Flemming Christensen, Gotharman). It takes it’s name from a little known, one of a kind instrument used by composer Pierre Schaeffer. While it is not an emulation, it does share the primitive, tactile nature of it’s namesake, and expands upon the original concepts. It is informed by the worlds of Musique Concrète (where speed and direction variation were combined with creative tape splicing to pioneer new sounds) and Microsound (where computers allow for sound to be divided into pieces smaller then 1/10 of a second, and manipulated like sub-atomic particles). Having voltage control over every parameter, it is most successful as a digital audio buffer for the modular synthesist.

The Phonogene is comprised of a pair of tool-sets which work well together. Tape Music Tools allow for sounds to be recorded on the fly, layered using the internal Sound On Sound function, manually cut into pieces using the SPLICE function, and re-organized with the ORGANIZE control. Once it is Spliced up, it is possible to create nearly infinite variations of the original loop by modulating the ORGANIZE parameter, and VARI-SPEED allows for the speed and direction of playback to be controlled continuously with one control signal. GENE-SIZE, GENE-SHIFT and SLIDE make up the Microsound Tools. GENE-SIZE divides the audio buffer into progressively smaller pieces called Genes (aka particles, grains, granules). A clock signal applied to GENE-SHIFT will step through those pieces in chronological order, while a control signal (such as the Wogglebug Smooth CV) applied to SLIDE, moves through those pieces in a nonlinear fashion. Using SLIDE, random access of the audio buffer is possible. Obviously, functions such as VARI-SPEED and ORGANIZE are useful for Microsound as well, which is why these functions were grouped into one module. The end result is a sampler/ looper/ audio buffer that is able to exist within a modular synthesizer system, and offer a vast amount of real-time sound manipulation in a fast and tactile way.

There is often the expectation that “bad sounds” such as clicks, pops, distortions, wrong notes, phase in-accuracies and otherwise, should be impossible with modern musical instruments. Many designers are making instruments which are fool-proof, and which guarantee some specific musical result, thus making it easy to create the same music, over and over again. The Phonogene does NOT use this approach. In fact, we have made it very possible to make the “bad sounds” and “mistakes” that have led to some of the greatest moments in musical history (and of course, some of the worst!). With the Phonogene, it is possible to Splice sounds in such a way that you will hear sharp contrasts, clicks and pops. This is the physics of sound! It is possible to slow down a recording to point of complete decimation, so that all that remains is trail of digital artifacts. Such are the limitations of digital sound (at the moment). It is possible to render the source material completely unintelligible, to cut busted loops, to distort digitally, to obscure, to regenerate to the point of almost no signal integrity. This is the nature of the Phonogene. If you seek the perfect looping tool, in the most contemporary sense of the word, then please look elsewhere. If you desire to explore the realm of modular, digital sample manipulation and microsound, welcome!

This module is 20HP and consumes 70mA worth of current."

the return of the FairySynth

YouTube Uploaded by organfairy on May 17, 2011

"Last winter I build a small synthesizer in a case that used to house an oil furnace test apparatus. Several people have challenged me to actually play something with the weird contraption.

And now I've done it!

I came up with a relatively simple composition that I could play on the thing and mixed in a noisy toy keyboard dance track in the beginning. The rest is played on Böhm Station One workstation, Roland E-15 and Yamaha PSR-78 keyboards."

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MIDI Drums for iPad, iPhone and iPod Touch

"MIDI Drums – Universal App
Live Performance general MIDI Drum Controller

Maui, Hawaii: Maui Media Lab's MIDI Drums is a Live Performance general MIDI Drum Controller that uses built-in CoreMIDI functionality over your WiFi network or USB when used with an iPad Camera Connection Kit. MIDI Drums features Maui Media Lab's unique reflexive drum pad for exceptional playability. No additional software needs to be downloaded or installed on anything. MIDI Drums works with Logic, Digital Performer, Pro Tools or any other MIDI application or General MIDI compatible synthesizer, sampler or drum machine.

Maui Media Lab LLC, a licensed Apple developer based out of Maui, Hawaii, has more than sixty applications available for sale in Apple's iTunes App Store for iPad, iPhone and the iPod Touch in more than eighty international markets. Maui Media Lab LLC applications for iPads, iPhones and iPod Touch devices include games, productivity tools, remote controls, musical instruments and much more.

Midi Drums is a Universal App for all your iOS Devices. Made in Maui, Hawaii."

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MIDI Drums - Maui Media Lab
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