MATRIXSYNTH

KORG and SoundCloud "Master iPolysix" Remix Contest

"KORG and SoundCloud Team Up
for Master iPolysix Remix Contest

-Wordwide contest offers prizes to iPolysix remix winners-

MELVILLE, NY, December, 2012 - Korg has teamed up with SoundCloud to offer a global remix contest in celebration of Korg's new iPad app, iPolysix. The contest, which runs from December 19, 2012 through January 31, 2013, invites musicians to create a remixed track on iPolysix from a selection provided on the contest page, then upload the remix track directly from iPolysix via "Polyshare powered by SoundCloud."

A grand prize winner and five runners up will be selected. A list of remixable tracks and complete prize and contest information can be found here: ipolysix.herokuapp.com

About iPolysix:

The new, intuitive iPolysix app evokes Korg's legendary analog polyphonic synthesizer while taking full advantage of the iPad® interface. Up to eight instances of the synth can be used in conjunction with new features that include a sequencer, drum machine, multiple effects, Korg's acclaimed Kaoss touch functionality and a complete automated mixer.

About SoundCloud

Launched in 2008 by Alexander Ljung and Eric Wahlforss, SoundCloud is a social sound platform that gives users unprecedented access to the world's largest community of music and audio creators, by providing a way to publish songs or to collaborate on new music with friends anywhere in the world via audio data export. For more information, go to: soundcloud.com"

iTunes:
KORG iPolysix - KORG INC.
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100% Element & Some Synth Cats

via GuyR: "A demonstration track of my synthesizer featuring 17 instances of Waves Element.
All sounds including drums are unprocessed straight out of the synth.
A few other Waves plug-ins were used for mastering.

www.waves.com/content.aspx?id=12081"

Novation Super Bass Station

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via this auction

KORG MS20 VCF Stomp Box

via Mark Milanovich on Facebook

"This is the result of me getting fed up with the prices of the Frostwave Resonators. I didn't need all the features the Resonator had, so I cloned the exact LP filter found in the MS-20. Controls are volume, cutoff, and resonance. I used a dual OTA to achieve this.

This is mainly used in my tabletop synth rig, mainly for my Casio VL-Tone and my Critter and Guitari Pocket Piano."

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