M-Audio Axiom Mini 32 keyboard controller

Published on Oct 30, 2012 by HarmonyCentral

"This keyboard for musicians on the go, which debuted at AES 2012, features pads, a control surface, mini keys, and Hyperlink control for Pro Tools."

Audulus Modular for iPad Now Available

Audulus for iPad Briefing from Taylor Holliday on Vimeo.

An introduction to the user interface of Audulus for iPad.

iTunes:
Audulus - Wilson Holliday
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"Audulus, the popular modular synthesis app, is now for iPad! Get it now at a low limited-time introductory price!

With Audulus, you can build synthesizers, design new sounds, or process audio. All with low latency real-time processing suitable for live performance. Audulus's user interface is clean, simple, and easy to learn, allowing you to focus on sound.


▶ Key Features:

• Fluid Vector Interface - smooth animated interaction
• MIDI control - use your control surface or MIDI keyboard
• Polyphony - process multiple voices
• Diverse Nodes - from ADSR to ZeroCross
• Patch Browser - quickly flip through your patches
• 32-bit floating-point signal processing

▶ Coming soon:

• Presets - quickly change between patch configurations
• Unlimited History - every undo is stored in the file
• Encapsulation - group nodes into sub-patches
• Audio Copy / Paste
• Audiobus support
• iCloud support


▶ Built-in Modules:

• Virtual Analog Oscillator (4 classic waveforms)
• ADSR Envelope
• Noise Generator
• Mathematical Modules: Addition, Multiplication, Subtraction, Sine, Modulo
• Random Number Generator
• MIDI controlled Keyboard
• MIDI assignable trigger
• Delay
• Distortion
• Low Pass Filter
• High Pass Filter
• Pitch Shifter
• Constant Value
• Gain
• Mapper Curve
• Piecewise-linear Spline Curve
• Sample and Hold
• Crossfade
• 4-Channel Mixer
• Level Meter
• Value Meter
• Scrolling Waveform Meter
• Input/Output
• Polyphonic to Monophonic signal mixer
• Global Time
• Sub-Patch
• Timer
• Zero-crossing Counter"

Videos of the Mac version here and here.


iTunes (Requires iOS 6.0 or later = no iPad 1 support):
Audulus - Wilson Holliday
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Wireless MIDI Bluetooth Box Finally Coming for iOS Devices?

Currently wireless MIDI for the iPad is only possible in two ways. One, via a wireless network session on your PC/Mac, or two, via OSC to MIDI via The Missing Link. The Missing Link only supports OSC to MIDI and not MIDI to MIDI when connected over wireless.

At this point in time, a simple wireless Core MIDI device does not exist.  In order for one to work it would probably need to host Apple's Core MIDI Server. Or maybe not...

iOS Musician wrote in to let us know that Jay Coggin may offer a Bluetooth device with MIDI In and Out.

via Jay Coggin's site: "Below [above] is a sort of overall diagram for the system. The iDevice sends and receives MIDI messages with a small external piece of hardware via Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE). This new type of Bluetooth is responsible for making this whole project possible, and is only supported on iDevices beginning with the iPhone 4S and newer. This includes the iPhone 5, iPad 3 and 4, newest iPod Touch, and iPad Mini. The small piece of hardware contains a MIDI In and Out port and communicates these messages with the iDevice. MIDI Out messages can be used to drive, for example, a DAW or hardware synth, and the MIDI In port can receive and forward controller messages to the iDevice."

According to the following quote from Jay on iOS Musician, it sounds like an app would handle the MIDI messages:

"In fact, maybe it’d be best to just have a really basic app that just implements my Bluetooth stuff and sends/receives MIDI messages to other apps with Virtual MIDI... I’m thinking about taking the project to Kickstarter, I’m just a really busy grad student and I almost need a little startup company to get this going."

Full wireless MIDI on iOS devices is a bit of a holy grail. I hope this happens. If you want to see it happen, leave a comment here.

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A few of my favorite strings

Published on Oct 30, 2012 by sounddoctorin

"Bob Weigel of http://www.sounddoctorin.com assisted by Mr. Baxter who asks annoying questions to help confuse me, demonstrates basic 8'/4' mix on some of the classic string machines of the 70's. The Freeman String Symphonizer, Crumar Multiman, ARP Omni, Roland RS-202, Korg PE-2000, Hohner Stringer, and the late 70's and early 1980 ARP Quartet (Siel Orchestra) and the Moog Opus 3."

Doepfer Pocket Dial, MIDI controller

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Anyone know why these match the Technosaurus color scheme rather than Doepfer's typical grey?


"This unit from Doepfer is a MIDI controller that is usable with synths, computers, rack effects, DJ mixer, etc. Since it uses encoders rather than pots, you can switch between the four banks (4 different sets of 16 midi cc's, means you have 64 controllers available in this unit on the fly) and change the values with any skipping around or jumping of values. It works great and includes the manual, unit itself and a power adapter. The power adapter works fine but has some electrical tape on it where I switched it's polarity to work with this unit.

Here is Doepfer's official bit of info on the Pocket Dial:
POCKET DIAL is a MIDI control box with 16 endless rotary encoders - in contrast to POCKET CONTROL that is equipped with 16 rotary potentiometers. This enables a jump-less change of parameters - provided that the device or software controlled by POCKET DIAL features data feedback of the new starting data after a preset change as POCKET DIAL needs the starting values of theparameters of the new preset. Another possibility is the increment/decrement control of the parameters in question. In this case the POCKET DIAL does not "know" the absolute values of the parameters but transmits only inc/dec data to the device/software. Only devices that features the data feedback or inc/dec control should be controlled by POCKET DIAL. If you need more details about this item please click here. For other devices we recommend POCKET CONTROL or POCKET FADER.

The main application of POCKET DIAL will be the control e.g. of software synthesizers. POCKET DIAL is placed in front of the computer screen so that the absolute parameter data and their changes can be seen immediately at the screen."

Fairlight Product News - 1984 CMI Series IIX

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"Fairlight Product News 1st quarter 1984. Double sided fold out color."

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Octave Voyetra Series Original Dealer Spec Sheet

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"Original single-sided fold out spec sheet for the Octave Voyetra Eight and Voyetra One. Not sure if the Voyetra one was ever released?" 

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Yamaha Producer Series CS-10 & More Ad

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"Original 10 page ad and info on the MA10, MM10, CS01 and accessories from the early 80's."

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1970s Oberheim OB-1 Literature

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1970s Black Oberheim SEM & More Synth Literature & Price List

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-Polyphonic Synthesizer Programmer Spec Sheet
-Preliminary Spec Sheet on the SEM
-One fold out pamphlet on the 2/4/8 voice synths programmers sequencers etc.
-Price List Nov 1976
-Price List June 1980
-Short list of retailers

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