MFB Tanzbär - Session 2

Published on Sep 7, 2013 Jens Aderholz·83 videos

"Tanz des Bären, Live Session 2"

The Machinewerks CS X51 USB/Midi Control Surface on Kickstarter

Currently seeking funding on Kickstarter here. Click through for tons of pics and the full story behind this controller. The following is an image of the first prototype and the introduction.

"A beautifully designed & built USB/Midi Control Surface for electronic musicians & DJs. 100% programmable & compatible.

Project description
The Machinewerks CS X51 was born out of the sheer frustration of not being able to find the Control Surface we wanted.

Everything was either too big, too heavy or didn’t have the controls we needed, often they would have a lot of things that nobody wanted. It seemed to us that the market place is flooded with control surfaces that set out to be everything to everyone and have ended up being no use to anyone!

The design of many existing Controllers also leaves us cold. Cheap lumps of plastic designed to keep the costs down, with no look or feel to them at all.

Time For A Change
We decided from the start to design something beautiful, something pure, something people would want to use and own.

With 30 years experience of playing live and in the studio we know what's needed for a working artist/DJ; This is why we’ve designed the Machinewerks CS X51.

Machinewerks CS X51 Spec

28 x Potentiometer Rotaries: All fully assignable
7 x 45mm Potentiometer Sliders: All fully assignable
16 assignable buttons in a 4x4 matrix, each with a cool blue assignable LED (LEDs can respond to clip status messages)
USB and 5 pin DIN MIDI In & Out for full bi-directional MIDI support
9v DC power connector for computerless setups
Plug & Play: USB Powered*, no drivers required
100% programmable midi mapping to any hardware or computer
MacOS, Windows & Linux Compatible
Works out of the box with Ableton, Traktor, Reason, Cubase, Logic and any other programmable DAW
Aluminium Body
Anodised Body with Powder Coated Base
Portable: 390mm x 184mm x 57mm Weighs 1.4kg
RoHS compliant
Designed & Built In Sheffield, UK
The CS X51 has a beautiful form and is made from materials that will last. There are enough features to give you the power and artistic control over your performance as well as fitting perfectly in your hand luggage.

One of our other goals for this project is not only build the Machinewerks CS X51 in Sheffield, (UK) but also source and manufacture as much as possible in the UK. This may go against the grain for electronic equipment, but we believe there is a lot of talent in the UK. We are obsessed by quality and we believe the UK offers this.

We’re also working with The Designers Republic on the design of the logo and design for the faceplate, so you know it’s going to be something special, a proper work of art..."

Beardyman: The polyphonic me

Synthetic sounds come in around 5:35.

"Frustrated by not being able to sing two notes at the same time, musical inventor Beardyman built a machine to allow him to create loops and layers from just the sounds he makes with his voice. Given that he can effortlessly conjure the sound of everything from crying babies to buzzing flies, not to mention mimic pretty much any musical instrument imaginable, that's a lot of different sounds. Sit back and let the wall of sound of this dazzling performance wash over you.

Beardyman, “ruler of beats and destroyer of dance floors,” has developed a real-time music-production system that places live looping at the center of a new musical paradigm. Full bio"

This one in via Grant.

EGSY01 Synth for iOS

iTunes: EGSY01 - Elliott Garage

"ElliottGarage presents EGSY01 analog synth!

With EGSY01 you can create sounds without any limit, from modern ones to vintage analog ones.
The audio engine generate your sound mixing 2 oscillatros with 4 selectable waveforms, and you can watch the sound created on the oscilloscope screen.

You can set the sounds through the panels "Oscillators", "ADSR/LFO", "FX" and "Settings", and play with any master keyboard (CORE MIDI), or creating a wireless MIDI network, or again sending the audio signal to other apps with AUDIOBUS.

The keyboard is touch sensitive, and you can modulate the sound by sliding your finger up and down on the key or moving the pitch modulation (assignable to various parameters of the synth from "Settings" panel).

Features:

- 2 oscillators with selectable waveforms, volume, octave e detune
- 4 Waveforms (Sine, Saw, Triangle, PWM)
- Core midi/Network midi
- Vca / Vcf
- Evenlope ADSR
- Panels FX (delay + crush + noise)
- High Pass and Low Pass Filter
- Keyboard with 6 octaves and control on filter cutoff
- Modulation wheel can be assigned to different parameters
- Oscilloscope
- Presets save - overwrite
- LFO with selectable amplitude and frequency
- Audiobus
- Polyphony
- Universal App

What's New in Version 1.1
Ipad versione (universal)
selectable midi channel
panel to assign modulation wheel"

iTunes: EGSY01 - Elliott Garage
iOS Devices on eBay - Daily Tech Deals

1972 Moog MINIMOOG model D explanation, early years progressive music

Published on Sep 2, 2013 tuoettore·26 videos

"A little demonstration of the early RA Moog Minimoog from 1972, the italian group PREMIATA FORNERIA MARCONI.You can see plexy wheels, squared bottom case and fat sound of the old oscillator board!!! I'n not the owner of rights for this vid."

This was only two years after the first Minimoog was released. It's hard to imagine what it must have been like at the time. Aside from Buchla, there were no other synths. Via Wikipedia: "The Minimoog is a monophonic analog synthesizer, invented by Bill Hemsath and Robert Moog. It was released in 1970 by R.A. Moog Inc. (Moog Music after 1972), and production was stopped in 1981.[1] It was re-designed by Robert Moog in 2002 and released as Minimoog Voyager."

This one in via TUOETTORE

Korg Volca Series - London launch party

Published on Sep 7, 2013 Shem Seb·286 videos

"We got to see a live demo and play with Korg's new amazing series of analogue synths - the Volca, including the Volca keys, bass and beats range.


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For more news and reviews head to http://www.twingeeks.biz"

KORG Volcas on eBay

Abandoned Space Bass Station II

Published on Sep 7, 2013 Benedict Roff-Mash·19 videos

"This is the same piece as the album track of almost the same name but re-voiced with the Novation Bass Station II synth. I intended to do this with the Slim Phatty but it wasn't to be. The Bass Station II is such a joy to use that this was fun, slow but fun.

ALL the sounds in the mix (except for the vocode) are from Bass Station II. Sequencing, effects and mixing done in Propellerheads Reason 7."

Novation Bass Station IIs on eBay

FM AID O'SCOPE WIGGLE

Published on Sep 7, 2013 JohnLRice·217 videos

"Yet another test of the Happy Nerding FM AID module. Make sure to check out the end where I run the output of a drum machine through the module! :-)

Mattson/Division-6 SQ816 sequencer with SynthTech E350 VCO & E355 LFO at 10:19.

More information at:
http://www.happynerding.com/
http://www.noisebug.net/site/synthesi...
http://www.division-6.com/products/ma..."

Sound of Science Rack Synths Including Black Oberheim SEMs

via Sound of Science on Facebook

"New tracks coming together nicely. Some studio overhauling was in order. Gotta love the Odyssey slanted studio racks..."

Sound of Science is Tom J Carpenter of Analogue Solutions band.

Hex Zone EBM

Published on Sep 6, 2013 cephal0p0d·71 videos

"Brief demo of the in/out switch feature of the Blacet HexZone.

Yes, you need one."

via Jason Hollis on The MATRIXSYNTH Lounge:

"Reading over the manual for the HexZone, I realized the switches were both input and output, with the output going to the Summed Switch I/O jack.

I've fed a Somatic Circuits VEM into switch 4 and the triangle out on the Blacet OSC into 2 to demonstrate, with a resonant kick and two oscillator bass patch to lay under and over for structure."