Over The Rainbow - Gattobus cover

YouTube Published on Jun 27, 2012 by gattobus

"I recorded this video during my vacation... I'm just practicing with my Eigenharp Pico.
it's been a while since my last video... but it's all right, I have a new life and I'm quite busy!
Gattobus is alive... more video to come! ;-)"

Traveling Through Grain Space

Traveling Through Grain Space from bar|none on Vimeo.

Trying to use the soundplane for something experimental which is basically a surface for traveling through a single long sample, selecting cool points and then being able to play those grains pitch-wise but with the ability to travel as well using the continuous surface.

At points if it gets disorienting, it's like trying to hone in on a radio signal using coarse and fine tuning to discover something.

Soundplane is also responding to pressure as well a x position and relative to where you first touched a pitch. I don't have y connected but I could. Pressure controls volume envelope.

arc|tangent is a new monome arc app I am working on for high resolution control of anything in a generic sense with a lot of options for routing on the fly. Resolutions are variable from highly quantized to pretty much unlimited resolution if you are willing to spin the dial enough times. Visual feedback on the arc helps you understand what is happening. This allows for very high resolution control of scrubbing through a large sample in coarse or fine increments and control of many other parameters at high or low resolution.

The sound source is Monolake - Granulator. I am just controlling it in an unusual way and with finer control than you can do with the M4L patch controls alone.

The sample is a Stretta sample of a bunch of raw takes from a modular session of his. It is totally raw unedited material.

This was a very first rough test. There are so many tweaks you can make to make the control more musical. This is very exciting and fun. Different material yields totally different results and you can approach it in many ways.

DIY dual Synth Tech module for Buchla

DIY dual Synth Tech module for Buchla from zweitesystem on Vimeo.

DIY dual SyntTech module for Buchla
an idea originally implemented by Djangosfire

It consists of two SynthTech MOTM kits (E560 deflector shield and E580 resampling mini delay) behind an aesthetically impaired Buchla panel.

Stars by Decktonic

"Tracks 1-6, 8 & 10 were made with KORG DS10+ entirely, recorded directly from my Nintendo 3DS. Tracks 7 & 9 were made with Nanoloop entirely, recorded directly from my iPad."

Be sure to check out the Decktonic Ts on bandcamp (pic captured below).

"My second album, with elements of dubstep, skwee, house, electro and progressive, made with KORG DS10+ and Nanoloop for iPad. Inspired by the work of Henry Homesweet, KODEK, Cheapshot, ???, HarleyLikesMusic, Anthony Seeha and Disasterpeace.

I wrote these songs during a difficult time in my life, a period where I was so angry and depressed that I needed to channel my efforts into something positive. I think that in these songs, you can hear my anger, and at the same time, a hint of the healing process, a positive outlook on life, and the ever important need to never stop partying, no matter how bad things may get. This is about leaving it all on the dancefloor.

A quick note for listeners: you should use a stereo system or headphones that can reproduce the sub-bass spectrum effectively. You've been warned.
credits
released 27 June 2012
Each song on this album is dedicated to someone that, in their own way, inspired and supported me in making this album a reality. Some of them don't even know it, but this album would not have happened without their influence. The dedications are:

Africa - Anthony Seeha
B@$$ J▲|\/| - Scott aka Radio Scotvoid
Act IV - Aleister aka SKGB aka mo0n.t0ne
Variations - Bryan aka bryface

Spectrum - Ricardo aka Ricky Brugal aka Da Pantz
Watch Your Dubstep Version 2 - Yao Wei Yeo
Z-Saber - Jake Allison
Fair Game - Peter aka UncleBibby
Night Drive - James of BR1GHT PR1MATE
Stars - my wife, Claudia

More special thanks:

Eric Byrnes, Sam Mulligan, Geekbeat Le Radio, Brandon Hood, Rutger Muller, HarleyLikesMusic, Jenn De La Vega, Alexander Tregaskis, Disasterpeace, Freque, an0va, Andrew Kilpatrick, Emily K Feder, Marjorie Becker, Iron Curtain, Lydia Marsala

Music by Christian Montoya aka Decktonic
thisisdecktonic.com
Love & Tonic Records #007
loveandtonicrecords.com"

Korg MS10 with Wood Sides

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App Sound: NanoStudio "Synthetik Drums"

YouTube Published on Jun 27, 2012 by appsounds

"SYNTHETIK DRUMS for NanoStudio by Blip Interactive
32 drum kits for TRG-16, over 400 single drum sounds!
infos: www.app-sound.com"

iTunes:
NanoStudio - Blip Interactive Ltd
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BEATSURFING #5: Herrmutt Lobby's TURING FUNCK - Quantize ON/OFF

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BEATSURFING #5: Herrmutt Lobby's TURING FUNCK - Quantize ON/OFF from Vlek Data on Vimeo.

iTunes:
Beatsurfing - DRUW
iPads on eBay

Herrmutt Lobby playing Turing Funck with an unquantized scene, and then the same with a QUANTIZE patch made by NONAGON for Maxforlive.

Listen to the track, download the Ableton Project and the .bs file here: http://beatsurfing.net/extend

Download the Quantize patch here: http://bit.ly/LgrlW6
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Beatsurfing allows you to draw a 3-dimensional controller and use it in two different and complementary ways. You can tap it like you would with your regular MPC or any other beatmaking device, but the best and most innovative use you can make of it is definitely by surfing your fingers along routes, colliding with objects, triggering samples or effects. It’s all about movement, and bringing back this intuitive way to make music.

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Desmond Dodecahedron

part1 from Desmond Dodecahedron on Vimeo.

Part2 from Desmond Dodecahedron on Vimeo.

Microsoft XBox controller.

KORG Polysix & Yamaha Vocaloid Come to Miselu

Malte of Miselu sends in the following news. Pics & video below via Engadget. You might remember Miselu from this post, and this post.

"I wanted to share a few exiting updates with you that we will show live at Google I/O starting today.

Since SXSW the hardware reference design continues to mature, but mainly focused on the software side and have released our music SDK alpha to a select group of developers that used our Miselu emulator environment (alpha for Mac and Linux) to the build apps.

Yamaha has produced a Vocaloid application prototype for the Miselu platform. The app (codename “MV-01”) is produced by music game designer luminary Tetsuya Mizuguchi. Vocaloid is a singing synthesizer technology developed by Yamaha that uses concatenative synthesis to splice and process vocal fragments extracted from human voice samples. Vocaloid allows to create an authentic computer-generated singing voice with text-to-lyics capability. More details.

Korg is bringing a software implementation of their world-renowned synthesizer, the Polysix, to the Miselu platform.

In addition Plasma Sound, the premiere music instrument for Android, was ported to our device. The developer didn’t have access to the hardware and solely used the SDK and emulator.

Retronyms expanded their nStudio suite for Miselu [video of early version here]. Retronym’s cofounder Dan Walton says, 'Miselu has designed something really special. Neiro is much more then a tablet with a piano keyboard attached. For the first time we have a touch based hardware platform dedicated to music. The wide control screen gives this little instrument unlimited potential. Miselu has gone the extra mile to reduce audio latency making this one of the most responsive devices we have seen.'

We are also pleased to announce the addition of Jory Bell as the company’s CTO. Jory was cofounder and CEO of OQO, a San Francisco startup that created the ultra-mobile computing (UMPC). Before Jory was at Apple Computer, where he helped design several laptop models and was responsible for co-inception of the Titanium Powerbook."

QuNeo controls Minimoog V

YouTube Published on Jun 26, 2012 by mixerguych

"Keith McMillen QuNeo controlling Arturia Minimoog V Origina in Ableton LIVE, X controlling bend on all drum pads with note, sliders controlling oscillator volumes with pressure, and filter cutoffs with slider location."

QuNeo Expression

Published on Jun 25, 2012 by mixerguych

"Synth Pad AutoFiltering and Resonator dry/wet modulating per note by X/Y, plus volume, LFOs, spin on sliders - Keith McMillen QuNeo and Ableton Live"