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Arturia MiniBrute Demo

Published on Oct 9, 2014 Kotro Laszlo Lehel

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Published on Oct 9, 2014 Pi Synth

"Brought a desktop environment back onto my Pi for this test, which saw it right on the edge of collapse. Apologies for the carnage on my desk by the way, I have a cable hell thing going on ...

But here is a Pi clocked at 'High' / 950MHz, *JUST* getting through the Slade test - in fact you can hear me laugh at one point when the handclap comes in and the 3D 'hello_triangle' test visibly stutters horribly! But you can't really hear any glitches, even though some events definitely got backed up as synthesis took too many cycles.

But a fine achievement for the little Pi - desktop environment, plus top -H, plus a 720p full-screen 3D demo, PLUS PIANA playing 7 notes of polyphony from 7 independently-configured synths.

A bit more detail for the obsessives -

The 'tune' was sequenced in Logic. Logic is playing it out of my Mac as a MIDI stream, which is routed for a variety of odd reasons through an M-Axiom Axiom 49 (USB input, out through Physical MIDI 5-pin DIN) into an inexpensive USB to MIDI adapter so that it can then be seen by the Pi as USB MIDI. The Pi synthesizes the sound and emits it through a USB audio adapter into my lovely little Minirig. The fact that a CME Pro, the USB adapter, a Bluetooth keyboard and USB audio are all hung off the Pi speaks volumes to how much they have improved USB performance in the last 2 years. The Pi is running whatever the stock desktop is that came with it, and to monitor CPU usage I have a terminal running top -H, and to really stress the cack out of it, particularly the memory interface, I have a full-screen OpenGL ES thing running.

And it works fine, but hell's bells it is redlining - the green CPU monitor bottom right shows nothign left, and that is reflected in both top -H and in my own monitoring within PIANA which tells me how close to 44100 the achieved sample render rate was, as a percentage. So the lower the better, and you can see numbers of 64-70% on screen as I lean in. 100% is bad, and it does exceed 100% at times, meaning some packets ate into the insurance policy, which is about 8 packets wide - so if 8 packets back to back average at 100% or greater, you will hear a glitch.

Impressive though, the Pi, despite being feeble and useless, is also pretty damn great. See how conflicted I am?!?!"

Elektron Analog 4 & Rytm - Feedback 2

Published on Oct 9, 2014 DJjondent

"The Elektron A4 & Rytm are a great pair. They are made for each other.
Though the video is processed, the audio was done in a single live take.
I'll put a free link to some high quality Wav files of this video on my blog later. If you wanna have a go at remixing this be my guest"

Live Set13 -Ant GM- aLtUnTuN MACHINEDRUM

Published on Oct 9, 2014 Ant GM

"Here goes the last Liveset with MD. In the last seconds of this Liveset select the wrong pattern, jeje."

ARP 2600 SOLO

Published on Oct 9, 2014 Paulo Beto

"Improvisação utilizando um ARP 2600 + Electro Harmonix Memory Man + Boss Loopstation"

Medic Modules - Cranial Saw

Published on Oct 9, 2014 DivKidMusic

"A real beast of a VCO from Medic Modules! Dual VCO with a massive on board sub. Sync features, lots of modulation options, on board mixer and as with all the Medic range, highly playable and well laid out.

Head to medicmodules.com for more information"

Roland TB-303 vs xoxbox (Clone) Acid Box

Published on Oct 9, 2014 harvistful

Tuna Knobs - TouchOSC Jam

Published on Oct 9, 2014 TunaDJGear

"So we did a little jam using Tuna Knobs and TouchOSC to control a FL Studio project."

Roland 808, 303 & Jomox 888

Published on Oct 9, 2014 DJjondent

"Love the Jomox 888. Those kicks stand up well next to the Roland 808.
We (jondent & cobramatic) are just having a bit of fun on a sat arvo. After a good red everything sounds better... The devilfish is very very different to a standard 303. Takes a bit of getting used to."