Geco MIDI Gesture Control For Leap Motion - Review

Published on Dec 3, 2013 sonicstate·580 videos

"Leap Motion brings us gestural control, Geco turns it into MIDI data for control over OSC and CopperLAN too."

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Geco: https://airspace.leapmotion.com/apps/geco-midi/osx

"GECO is one of the easiest and most powerful solutions to interact with MIDI/OSC/CopperLan through touchless control. Our custom multi-staged processing engine ensures an extremely low processing overhead and near zero latency, while still providing you with beautiful real-time visual feedback and powerful customization capabilities. GECO has been designed for live performance and quick configuration during rehearsal by industry professionals that have years of experience with high-speed low-latency electronic music software.

GECO doesn't produce or manipulate sound directly, its purpose is to control other software or hardware that understands MIDI, OSC or CopperLan.

Features
40 different control streams with both hands
Any control stream can be mapped to MIDI CC, Channel Pressure, Pitchbend and Pitchwheel messages on 16 different channels
High-resolution OSC support with customizable paths and OSC server selection
Full support for CopperLan data output, assignment, learning and mapping storage
Tunable gesture boundaries with support for defining dead zones around the center positions
Instantly switch between related control streams by opening or closing your hands
Carefully designed GUI for an immediate overview of the active MIDI mappings
Real-time low-latency visual feedback of your hand movements and MIDI data
Integrated virtual MIDI port on MacOSX, additional freely available software can be used to send MIDI to other applications on Windows
Connects to any known MIDI output port on your computer, for instance hardware synthesizers, on both MacOSX and Windows
Fully customizable user interface (colours, graphical elements)
Flexible document management that can be loaded while performing gestures
High performance and near-zero latency engine with virtually no CPU impact when the real-time visualizations are hidden
MIDI decimation setting to allow integration with legacy hardware that has limited MIDI bandwidth
What's New
Version 1.1.0
Added gesture axis boundaries that are configurable per document with minimum and maximum limits. This also allows for dead zones to be created around the center.
Added Channel Pressure (Aftertouch) as a supported MIDI message.
Added OSC output through per-gesture configurable channels.
Added configurable per-gesture OSC paths.
Added CopperLan output through per-gesture configurable channels.
Added CopperLan gesture destination learning.
Added per-document CopperLan assignments storage.
Per-gesture specialized output data rendering for either MIDI, OSC or CopperLan.
Experimental support for MacOSX 10.6.8 without any guarantees of stability nor performance since this in not an officially supported platform for the Leap Motion controller."

IK Multimedia Announces iRig KEYS PRO

iRig KEYS PRO Overview - The full-sized-key universal mobile keyboard for iPhone, iPad, Mac/PC

Published on Dec 3, 2013

"iRig KEYS PRO gives you the best of both worlds. It's a super-compact, bus-powered, "plug and play" MIDI controller that you can use anytime and anywhere. Yet despite it's small footprint, if offers full-size, velocity-sensitive keys, allowing for a realistic playing feel. With its 37-key (3-octave) keyboard, you can play legitimate two-handed parts. What's more, it has loads of pro performance features, and comes with cables and software for iOS devices — Lightning and 30-pin — and USB for Macs or PCs.

Continue reading at http://www.ikmultimedia.com/irigkeyspro"

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"Made a funky 4U panel for my Thomas Henry Bass++ quad drum voice module, enjoy the Dub!"

Swoopster for iPad Now Available - Walk-Through Tutorial

Published on Dec 2, 2013 HoldernessMedia .·31 videos

"A complete app walk-through of Swoopster for iPad."

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"Swoopster is a wild, fuzzed out Flanger/Vibrato effect designed for Audiobus and Inter-app audio.

Process synths, drum machines and hundreds of other apps by connecting through Audiobus. Use Swoopster as an effect inside Garageband, Auria, Cubasis, and AudioShare using Audiobus or Inter-app audio.

Swoopster features two distinct modes:
PERFORM and TWEAK.

● PERFORM mode is focused around four XY touch pads. Touch to control flanger speed, manual, feedback and fuzz amount independently for left and right channels.

● TWEAK mode features large expressive sliders and additional effect parameters, allowing you to fine tune your sound.

The center panel of Swoopster's interface is part of the instrument and meant to be played in real-time, including the scrollable preset list. Tap a preset to instantly load it's settings, play different presets in rhythmic patterns, or re-trigger the current preset to restart the sweep of the Flanger. The MUTE and BYPASS buttons function as momentary switches for DJ mixer style control.

Echo Pad users loved the creative stereo imaging possible with its effects, and this approach continues with Swoopster. Both Perform and Tweak modes allow you to control the left and right channel's effect parameters independently for wide stereo sound design. You can easily toggle between linked and unlinked channel parameters by tapping the LINK button.

In addition to Audiobus and Inter-app Audio support, Swoopster can also process external instruments such as guitar, voice and synths by connecting a microphone or professional audio interface such as the Apogee Jam, ONE, or any iOS compatible USB audio interface.

For more info visit www.swoopsterapp.com or watch demos and tutorials at www.youtube.com/holdernessmedia.

COMPATIBILITY:
● requires iOS 7.0 or later
● iPad Mini/iPad 2 or newer
● Audiobus compatible (Effect,Input and Output)
● Inter-App audio compatible (effect node)
● compatible with USB audio interfaces

Features:

● stereo Fuzz, Flange and Vibrato effect processor
● versatile flanger capable of sounds ranging from smooth phasey flange to wildly distorted, pitch shifted madness
● flanger with positive and negative feedback
● independent left and right channel effects engines can be controlled separately or linked
● Audiobus compatible (supports all 3 slots)
● Inter-App Audio compatible (effect node)
● true stereo input and effects processing
● several output style options including normal stereo, wide stereo, and sum to mono

Swoopster works with just about any professional iOS compatible USB audio interfaces. Here is a list of interfaces that have been tested and verified to be compatible:

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Hammond Auto-Vari 64 with Seiko DS-250 and function generators

Published on Dec 2, 2013 acreil·71 videos

"The drum track uses a Hammond Auto-Vari 64, Boss DS-2 and Garrard GEQ-330 equalizer. Synth overdubs are Seiko DS-250 with DS-310 programmer, Ibanez SDR-1000 reverb and Roland VP-70 (VP-70 only used on the chord part). Noise overdubs are Wavetek 145 and 188-S-1257 function generators with Marantz PMD221 tape echo. 8 tracks total. Recorded 2013."

Modular Wild Presents 12 days of Modular 2013-Day 2-VCOs

Published on Dec 2, 2013 Modular Wild·80 videos

"Second in a series of 12 videos during the month of December. Each video's music started with a different foundation of Modular Sounds. This video began as an exploration of VCOs. Sound and Video by Raul Pena."

Day 1 posted here.

DX5 playing Depeche Mode "Sacred" 101

Published on Dec 2, 2013 DX5·143 videos

"101 version (the audience is a loop from Rose Bowl's audience.
Gear used:
Upper: Roland JP8000
Mid: Emu Emax
Lower: Kurzweil PC1x

Note: there is a slight unexpected ground noise at 0:55 of 0,2 secs lenght, barely noticeable. There is no cause for concern :)

Composed by Martin L. Gore"

Roland MC-909 Track by Gtechture

Published on Dec 2, 2013 Gtechture·41 videos

"Here is a track I made using the Roland MC-909 sequencer. I picked it up for $400. I think it sounds great and is easy to use. In addition to being a sequencer its a full blown sample-based synthesizer. I took the time to program all of the sounds on this track because the presets are very 'dance' oriented."

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