For Joseph

"Ambient electronica piece featuring the wonderful patch collection padsheaven on all tracks. These were programmed by the very talented Joseph Hollo, for Zebra 2, to which I dedicate this short work."

Follow-up to this post on the patch set.

via Ned Bouhalassa on The MATRIXSYNTH Lounge

Synth1 Slated to Come to iOS in Spring

via todaichi

"synth1開発は思うように進んでないけど、来年の春までにはiPhone/iPad版をリリースしたい。その前にMac AU版を出さないとな。そしてその前にsubversionのセットアップしないとな！

写真は、iPhoneとiPadでSynth1を動作させてるところ。"

Googlish:
"synth1 development but do not proceed as expected, I want to release a version iPhone / iPad is by spring of next year. Do not make a Mac AU version before it. Do not set up for subversion and before that!

The photo, where you are running in the iPad and Synth1 iPhone."

Follow-up to this post back in October.

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Compasso Compass Synth for iOS

HOW TO USE COMPASSO:
Compasso turns your compass into a synthesizer. You select one of 3 things the compass can affect: (1) Resonance/Cutoff, (2) LFO Rate, (3) Oscillator detuning.
Tipping it also affects the keyboard octave (Left to Right)... and LFO depth (Front to Back). You also have a few settings to change your starting point, as well as some rhythm accompaniment on the back (flick up to find it).

A WORD FROM OUR FOUNDER:
Directions. We take a lot of them in life, I know I have. Ups and downs, backs and forths, tough times and worse times. All the while you sing an inner song, an inner note. Each side of the brain is an oscillator. Sometimes it feels good to detune a little- and sometimes it feels great it really does.
I made compasso because I wanted to hear the inner frequency that would make me sad and lonely (and nostalgic). Maybe I could have fun with my sadness, and maybe it would sound good- at least to me.
I encourage you to go absolutely wild with Compasso. Go absolutely wild with it and when you're alone in a hotel room or when you're waiting for the bus you'll have your own world, man! People may think you've lost it but little do they know that you found it! Have fun with it and thanks for buying it. In the end, Compasso is just a synthesizer that uses direction to make sound, and directions are something that the world has a lot of.

Best,
Thomas Ruby
Founder, Rubyjock Instruments"

Compasso Synth - Rubyjock
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OpenPipe Breakout & MIDI-USB Shield

Published on Dec 23, 2012 Xulio Coira·11 videos

"OpenPipe Breakout connected to MIDI-USB Shield with Arduino UNO. UPiper iOS app with bagpipes sounds from universal-piper.com.
Open Source Hardware Electronic Bagpipes.
http://www.openpipe.cc"

via Palm Sounds

MIDI-USB Arduino Shield
Published on Dec 23, 2012

"Arduino Shield for sending/receiving MIDI commands through USB MIDI standard class. Direct connection to PC (MAC, Linux and Windows) and Apple and Android Devices."

Imogen Heap & Her Musical Gloves at Upcoming CTM Festival

Imogen Heaps Musical Gloves on Dara O Briain's Science Club

Published on Dec 30, 2012

"Imogen Heap demos her (x-IMU-based) musical gloves to Dara on his show, Dara O Briain's Science Club broadcasted on BBC2, Dec 31, 2012. Imogen also did a short performance of her track 'Me The Machine' but time limitations meant this performance was heavily edited. A longer (but still edited) performance is on BBC i-player:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p012zmvh

More info on the project is available via:
http://www.x-io.co.uk/?p=829"

http://imogenheap.com/thegloves/

"In 2009, when Kelly Snook invited Imogen to visit to MIT's Media Lab, she realised the tech had now made this possible when she tried on Elly Jessop's musical glove. "Elly's glove could record and loop the voice with a few intuitive hand gestures. A million possibilities flooded my imagination! I was quite emotional and as soon as possible I changed my touring and recording life cycle to get to work on creating my dream setup that felt ever closer than before."

She called up Tom Mitchell, who'd worked with her before in coding her Monome for a Letterman performance and told him the idea. He loved it and got funding from the University of Western England (UWE ) to do a research paper on the work. She asked 5DT for a set of gloves to get going and began experimenting."

Details on the CTM Festival:
CALL FOR WORKS: SIGN-UP FOR THE MUSICMAKERS HACKLAB @ CTM.13!

"Throughout the week, we'll welcome artist and developer presentations from Keith Fullerton Whitman, Imogen Heap, Lucas Abela, Tim Exile, Ali Demirel, Native Instruments, Ableton, and others to be announced. Participants will share hands-on skill sessions on topics like physical computing and custom controllers, wearable technology and fashion, live visuals, Pure Data/libpd, Max for Live, Reaktor, OpenSoundControl, Quartz Composer, Processing, and more."

via Create Digital Music

MoDrum & BassLine - Audiobus -

Published on Jan 4, 2013nakanosyun·271 videos

"Well-known application corresponded to audiobus. It tried performing promptly.
http://ios-music.homewoke.net
https://soundcloud.com/nakano-syun"

iTunes:
MoDrum Rhythm Composer - Markus Waldboth
BassLine - Markus Waldboth
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Musicvideo - Stereoping - MiddleAges

Published on Jan 4, 2013 stereoping·20 videos

"A little 3d-musicvideo i made for a nice, melancolic, instrumental song i produced some years ago. Nothing perfect here, riggin, hair, special-fx - all could have been improved, but all in all it went out quite ok. I think its more funny viewing some animated pics than staring on a foto while listening to some music. The song was created on a roland mc-909 with world-srx-board. The video was made with lightwave3d and the maestro-plugin for characteranimation."

Minimoog Voyager OS + Korg MS-20 = Running with Blades

Published on Jan 4, 2013 n3bsvid·132 videos

[ http://citizenpark.bandcamp.com ]

"A little vangelis inspired improv on the MS-20 backed by the voyager on bass.

Hardware:
Minimoog Voyager Old School
Korg MS-20

Software:
Valhalla DSP Room (reverb)"

MIDI Control with Audiobus

Published on Jan 4, 2013 SecretBaseDesign·7 videos

"MIDI Control is a synthesizer controller app for iOS, with support for Audiobus recording.

Using virtual MIDI, you can control multiple synthesizers at the same time. With dual keyboards that rotate around, two people can play at the same time. Recordings made through Audiobus can be copied and pasted easily into other apps.

Introducing Audiobus support: Now you can receive live audio directly from other Audiobus-compatible apps! See http://audiob.us for more information."

iTunes:
MIDI Control - Secret Base Design
Arctic Keys - One Red Dog Media
Audiobus - A Tasty Pixel

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Echo Pad - Tutorial - Recording loops with Audiobus

Published on Jan 4, 2013 HoldernessMedia·33 videos

"How to record loops in Echo Pad. Audiobus apps are used as the input source in this video, but the methods are the same for recording from the microphone or audio interface."

iTunes:
Echo Pad - Holderness Media Inc
Audiobus - A Tasty Pixel
FunkBox Drum Machine - Synthetic Bits, LLC
Magellan - Yonac Inc.