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warmestvoyager1

YouTube Uploaded by cl516 on Jun 9, 2011

You might remember Sound8 from this previous post.

It's a very cool app that let's you play with up to eight samples at a time. You click on the screen and a small circle appears. The circle plays a sampled loop. Moving the circle adjusts the volume and pitch of the sample, one on each axis. You can move the circle by moving it with your finger, flicking it, or via the accelerometer by moving the device. You can add up to eight circles/samples on the screen at once all of which move independently. If you remember from my last post, one thing I wished it could do was bounce off of the walls so it could continue to morph. This has been added to v 1.1. You can also adjust the speed of movement so you can get slow morphs going or extreme. Drum loops and basically any sample can get pretty interesting especially when they are playing off of each other. As mentioned before, you can load your own samples via SoundCloud. Check out the previous post or the iTunes link below for more.

Sound 8 - Oliver Grimm
iPads on eBay
iPod Touch on eBay

3D Vibes [Vibes Meet Theremin]

YouTube Uploaded by intrinsicav on Jun 9, 2011

"Extending the acoustic vibraphone by embedding 3D gesture recognition using the Kinect. Kinect-Max/MSP (Kinect Datastream-OSC-MIDI)- controlling filter parameters in Ableton Live to modulate the acoustic audio input from the vibraphone in real-time. Developed by Gabrielle Odowichuk and Shawn Trail @ MISTIC."

Circuit Bent ZingZillas Zingshot by freeform delusion

YouTube Uploaded by eecouk on Jun 9, 2011
freeform-delusion on eBay

"Zingshot - Rehoused Zing Zillas Toy Banana Phone

Pitch Up/Down

Loads of buttons to press for all the different things it says

1/4 inch jack output

on/off switch

Red LED"

up and down and spike synth

YouTube Uploaded by drmoonstien on Jun 9, 2011

drmoonstien on eBay (RSS)

spike synth

Uploaded by drmoonstien on Jun 9, 2011

Update:

via this auction for the spike synth.
"GREAT STAND ALONE INSTRUMENT OR SWEET TABLE TOP NOISE SIGNAL DESTROYER EFFECT UNIT NO BYPASS/CLEAN This is a hand built totally new. noise machine built by me has fuzz modulator crushing degrade rf modulator tremolo glitch with six body contacts thats basically the input section then there is the 3 oscillator`s not including the oscillating fuzz osc 1 has a 3 way toggle that patches it to the input or as the tremolo glitcher the center is off there is a ghost power toggle so you can have power in this position and use it as an 2nd rf modulator as well. 2and 3 all have 3way toggles to select 2 differant types of oscillation on off on .so you get a vco and 2 lfos . then there is a 4x finger pad at the bottom you can trigger sweet sounds with the momentary push buttons each one has a tun able knob this is the best feature cause you can set this baby for cause and trigger multiple sounds at will and rhythmic to boot. this thing is bad to the bone and i don't feel big headed for saying so i just love this thing you can make big nasty crashes blast and spacey bleeps bloops swoops CRACKLES STATICS RADIO CHATTER ZIPS AND ZAPS MOTOR BOATS AND SCREAMS and all. this thing sounds complicated but its basically turn lots of knobs and find cool sounds its an instrument so you have to learn how to play it but if you have found this you will probably have the time of your life learning the ins and outs and unlocking its dark secrets. it has an led for each oscillator that blinks along looks real cool this machine will blow up your live show.RUNS ON 9V BATTERY 1/4 INCH IN AND OUT"

via this auction for the up and down synth

"THIS IS A SWEET NOISE SYNTH SLASH BONE GRINDING FUZZ SLASH TREMOLO GLITCH EFFECT WITH 4 BODY CONTACTS FOR TOUCH SOUND WEIRDNESS FIZZLES AND GRUMBLES AND SOUND GALL-OR 1 VCO 3 LFO =4 OSCILLATORS EACH HAS 3WAY TYPE SELECTOR ALSO HAS BONE GRINDER FUZZ KNOB 1/4 INCH IN AND OUT RUNS ON 9V BATERY ALSO DOES SOME NICE TREMOLO GLITCH STUTTERER THE SOUND SOURCE TYPE STUFF AND A SWEET ENVELOPE GENERATOR FOR SCREWED UP STUFF THERE ARE SO MANY SOUNDS YOU CAN MAKE WITH THIS."

APR - PRO/DGX

via Craigslist Vancouver.

via Kaden

Some shots of the inside below. Click on these for the super size shots.

SN 0431

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Doepfer A-155 - Analog/Trigger Sequencer

via this auction

"Analog- and Trigger-sequencer with eight steps. Two CV rows with adjustable range, glide and sample-&-hold options. three trigger-rows, one gate-row. Trigger inputs for clock, reset, start, stop. Even external signals can be switched."

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Max Mathews Featured in the New York Times Opinionator

"If the difference between 1911 and 2011 is electricity and computation, then Max Mathews is one of the five most important musicians of the 20th Century. – Miller Puckette"

"In 1957 a 30-year-old engineer named Max Mathews got an I.B.M. 704 mainframe computer at the Bell Telephone Laboratories in Murray Hill, N. J., to generate 17 seconds of music, then recorded the result for posterity. While not the first person to make sound with a computer, Max was the first one to do so with a replicable combination of hardware and software that allowed the user to specify what tones he wanted to hear." Full article on The Opinionator.
Max Matthews passed away on April 21, 2011.

This one in via Brandt.

Jazari -- wowow with Android's Voloco Pitch Tracking Vocoder

YouTube Uploaded by JazariMusic on Apr 27, 2011

On iTunes & Amazon.

Jazari on Facebook: http://facebook.com/jazarimusic"

"For this track, I coded my own pitch-tracking vocoder (a hands-free vocoder that follows your voice) as a Java external for MAX/MSP, and then I turned that Java code into an Android app called Voloco. Here's voloco in the hands of Minneapolis beatboxer and rapper Carnage The Executioner:"

Carnage with Voloco

Uploaded by JazariMusic on Jun 6, 2011

"Voloco in the Android Market: http://bit.ly/izFxk3. Carnage on Facebook: http://on.fb.me/mTJ432"