Recap! Dubspot LA Production 101 Workshop Series - Thavius Beck on Keith McMillen Instruments' QuNeo

YouTube Published on Jun 19, 2012 by DubSpot

"More info: http://bit.ly/GYc2y5
In April, Dubspot hosted a special 'Production 101' workshop at the Downtown Independent in Los Angeles with Ableton Certified Dubspot Instructors Thavius Beck, Professor Nalepa, and a few special guests. The evening focused predominently on new technology including the debut of Keith McMillen Instruments' QuNeo controller and a special overview of Teenage Engineering's OP1 by Thomas White (Natural Rhythm).

The the first part of this video recap, Dubspot's Thavius Beck debuts Keith McMillen's QuNeo controller, a dynamic touch-sensitive 3D MIDI controller that features velocity, pressure and location data on each of its pads. Beck explains some of the QuNeo's features and uses the controller in a performance environment with Ableton Live."

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YouTube Published on Jun 19, 2012 by UNDEADINSTRUMENTS

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Five Notes on the Newly Announced Microsoft Surface

The bullet points for me on the Microsoft Surface:

- The Pro version should have MIDI! You might remember from this post, Windows RT for ARM processors will most likely not have MIDI support, so go with Pro if you need it (unless they disable it for some bizarre reason). The Pro version is the full blown Windows 8 OS.

- VSTs on the tablet! With the full blown OS you should have access to every VSTi out there. The big question will be how well they work with a touch interface - tiny buttons, knobs and sliders, rotational vs. horizontal dragging of the controls, etc..

- Processing power and RAM? How well will VSTs run on it?

- Battery life? How long can it run processor intensive VSTs?

- Built in USB

If you have any notes, feel free to comment.

Sphero Orb Controller for Android & iOS

Note: links to listings are affiliate links for which the site may be compensated. "How much tech can you pack in a 3 inch sphere? Start with a sensor network – multi-axis rate gyro and accelerometer – fused together with the same kind of math that took Apollo to the Moon. Power it with lithium polymer batteries that are inductively recharged through the shell and add a Bluetooth-based command and control data link. Finally, mix in over-the-air firmware updates and internally sandboxed language extensions and you have a true robot that is an intelligent component of a smartphone app-based gaming, learning, and human-machine interaction system. Driving Sphero from the central app is just the start. An open API for iOS and Android invites developers around the world to dive right in…Oh, and Sphero is just fun."

And you can roll it around like the president:


President Obama Drives Sphero the Robotic Ball




E3 Expo 2012 Recap


Accelerometer Frequency Modulation (Shapesynth + Sphero)
YouTube Published on Mar 6, 2012 by humbletune

"Just some small testing of new shapesynth code. The frequency modulation can either be controlled by the iDevice built in accelerometer or by amazing sphere.

Shapesynth: http://www.humbletune.com/shapesynth/
Sphero: http://www.gosphero.com"

iTunes:
shapesynth - Erik Sigth
iPads on eBay

"Shape is a polyphonic synthesiser allowing the user to draw the shape of the oscillator wave form. The positive side of the oscillation is represented by 32 blocks and the negative side is its mirror, generating all sorts of possible raw retroish sounds. Shape is best experienced with akai synthstation 25 or any other midi device.

Powered by Sparrow.

+++ 16 voices.
+++ Attack.
+++ Decay.
+++ LFO envelope.
+++ Delay.
+++ Akai synthstation 25 compatible.
+++ On screen 25 key stylophone style keyboard.
+++ Arpeggio.
+++ Finite inpulse respons pong filter.
+++ sequencer.
+++ sampler.
+++ coreMIDI (usb and network).
+++ MAPI audio copy.
+++ Soundcloud upload."

I am Sampler for iOS

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The latest from Nobuyoshi Sano's Detuned Ltd. who brought us I Am Synth and iYM2125. Nobuyoshi Sano is also the man behind the Korg DS-10, DS-10+, and M01 for the Nintendo DS systems as well as KORG's iMS-20. See my mini interview with Sano-san here.

"Who are you? I am Sampler!

the simplest and most powerful sampler app ever!

i have no knobs,no technical terms but just only cute icons waiting for your tap and flick.

-up to 10 sec sampling via mic
-4 sample banks
-Lo-Fi effect
-LFO for pitch : sine,saw,pulse,noise
-envelope for amplitude : attack time,release time
-delay : up to 2 sec , it can be also used for looper
-keyboard : shake for ribbon controller mode which you can play forward or reverse your sample at your favorite speed
-import wavs (mono,44.1khz,16bit) via the sharing folder on iTunes

http://www.detune.co.jp/iamsampler.html"

iTunes:
DETUNE Ltd.

iPads on eBay
iPod Touch on eBay


YouTube Published on Jun 18, 2012 by DETUNEltd
I am Sampler for iPhone iPad -Demo 01-
I am Sampler for iPhone iPad -Demo 02- above

Fairlight CMI series 3 explained - Setting up voices + audio routing

YouTube Published on Jun 18, 2012 by karelpostthuis

"A simple explanatory video about the first setup for using the Fairlight CMI series 3.

Because there were no video's or other explanatory material about using this infernal machine i thought it would be helpful for newbie users.

The video covers the setup and loading sounds for playback and mixdown.
It also covers the configuration of the 24 channel router / mixer and assigning monophonic or polyphonic output busses.

At the end is a demo from an external sequencer (the magic Atari TT030 with Cubase 3.0 Atari) and the loading of a pre-programmed instrument line-up"

Akai VX-600 in the background.

Rheyne - 6/18/12 - Live Jam #49

YouTube Published on Jun 18, 2012 by RheyneMusic

"Download or stream the audio at SoundCloud: http://snd.sc/NLDPZP

A live looping improv jam with analog keyboards, USB controllers, and iOS devices. Equipment used: Oxygen 49 controlling NI's Massive, Akai APC20, DJ TechTools MF3D, DSI MoPho, Akai MPD26, Fender Rhodes, Moog Prodigy, three iPads running Lemur, and an iTouch (running Lemur). All audio is passed through a PreSonus 1818VSL connected to a Macbook Pro running Ableton Live.

All loops are recorded live."

Warm Leatherette - cover version on a teenage op1 - M-Z3R0

YouTube Published on Jun 18, 2012 by manufacturedZ3R0

"A cover of warm leatherette by the normal put together on a teenage op1.

Hope you like it and that it does the original justice :)"

Waveformanalogueresearch Elektro

via Waveformanalogueresearch Elektro on The MATRIXSYNTH Lounge

"computers are for porn..."

Korg Electribe EM-1

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via this auction

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