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DSI Prophet 08 Analog Synthesizer

Apple Watch: First ever generative music piece made on Apple Watch?

Published on Jul 1, 2015 Intermorphic

"This generative music piece/composition was made with the Wotja Watch App (WWA) on Apple Watch paired with an iPhone running Wotja 2.

Wotja: http://intermorphic.com/wotja

Pete and I obviously made quite a few pieces whilst building/testing the first Wotja Watch App (it comes with Wotja 2.0), but this is somehow the first one I thought to create and then record to video. It's not an example of excellence per se, but more just a bit of fun to mark the start of the next chapter in what we hope is a long and exciting journey for Wotja.

How it was done:
On the Apple Watch I used Siri to enter the text into the WWA and I then changed some of the melodic composition settings, volumes and the tempo. I also tried different included players/backing to find what I felt worked well for this piece. I turned off all the Shuffle toggles and then pressed randomise to get a colour theme.

Once I was happy with my wotja, I hooked up my iPhone 5 and recorded it to video on my Mac. I even started/stopped the wotja and and tweaked the volumes in it with the WWA :).

Finally, using Wotja on my iPhone I emailed myself the file I made (just for posterity), and then emailed myself the Wotja Music URL. If you have Wotja or Wotja FREE you can visit it to play it.

Play it now: http://goo.gl/VQiyHE.

Note: The Wotja Music URL contain the melody that the text created, but not the text itself (had I used any emojis, though, they would have been included); to share something that included the text as well, you would need to share the file.

Our thanks
We thank our wives and families for their forbearance and support in allowing us to keep going on our generative journey that we first set out on in 1990 with SSEYO Koan. A lot of ground has been covered in those intervening 25 years, but it often feels like we have barely reached the foothills of those mountains in the distance we can see. We give special thanks to our good friends and fellow journeymen Timothy Didymus and Mark Harrop without whose help we would have given up long ago and also to our other collaborators, customers and friends throughout the years.

And, of course, we also thank you for listening... We hope that maybe you, too, will want to try creating your own, personal relaxing wotjas. They are fun and easy to make and easy to share!

Tim & Pete

Tim Cole: http://colartz.com"

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Live Set.20_CriMpOsO_ - Ant GM - Elektron Octatrack + Machinedrum

Published on Jul 2, 2015 Ant GM

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Todd Barton to Perform on Buchla Music Easel with Bruce Bayard at Britt Festival, Jacksonville OR

Update: corrected the date from Friday, July 18 to Friday, July 17. Also this is in Jacksonville, not Medford.

MATRIXSYNTH Member, Todd Barton will be performing on the Buchla Music Easel with Bruce Bayard Friday, July 17, at the Britt Festival in Jacksonville Oregon.

"I'm really, really looking forward to performing with Bruce Bayard at the Britt Festival's
Performance Garden on Friday, July 17 at 8 pm.

Bruce and I have been exploring Buchla analog Music Easelss and quadraphonic surround sound now for over a year and this proves to be an exciting culmination of quadraphonic performances in this wonderful outdoor venue.

Hope you can make it!! Tickets (only $10) available here: http://www.brittfest.org/performances/quadraphonic

Come on down and enjoy new electronic music with Bruce and I along with some amazing video collages by Bruce.

all best wishes,
Todd"

Novation Supernova II 2 Pro-x 48 Voice Analog Modeling Synthesizer

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Novation // Launchkey feat. Gentry

Published on Jul 2, 2015 NovationTV
Re-Published on Aug 4, 2015 NovationTV

"We put our new Launchkey RGB in front of Gentry. Here's what he came up with.
We also interviewed him. Check it out: http://www.novationmusic.com/communit...

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For more information on the Launchkey, please visit: http://www.novationmusic.com/keys/lau...
To catch up with Gentry, go to: http://www.soundcloud.com/thisisgentry"

Previous Jul 2 video description:
"We gave Gentry a new RGB Launchkey. Then he gave us this.

For more information on the Launchkey, please visit: http://www.novationmusic.com/

To catch up with Gentry, go to: http://www.soundcloud.com/thisisgentry"

Inside Novation: Launchpad Pro Interview with Olly Burke

Published on Jul 2, 2015 AskAudio Mag

"Novation Launchpad is one of the most iconic music controllers for Ableton Live and other hardware and software. We talked to the product manager of Novation, Olly Burke about how the Launchpad Pro was created, designed and the ideas behind it."

http://www.novationmusic.com/

LoopTree - A vocal and instrumental looper for iOS

Published on Jun 13, 2015 Coding Cod

"LoopTree is an exciting new breed of looper that brings more fun than ever to creating live music! Record and group practically unlimited vocal and instrumental loops using a powerful, layered interface that gives you unrivalled control over the music you create."

LoopTree Tutorial: Recording

Published on Jul 2, 2015

"In this video I go over normal, chained and layered recording and how to use them. I also look at the following settings:

• Enable overdub
• Perform action on touch up"

iTunes:LoopTree - Coding Cod Ltd

"INTRODUCTORY SALE PRICE UNTIL 20 July 2015

LoopTree is an exciting new breed of looper that brings more fun than ever to creating live music! Record and group practically unlimited vocal and instrumental loops using a powerful, layered interface that gives you unrivalled control over the music you create.

Get your creative juices flowing and evolve your loops using the built-in filter and multi-touch beat repeat.

http://www.looptreeapp.com/

LoopTree solves the problem of destructive merging by instead combining your loops into layers. You retain individual control over your original loops and you can also control them as one using the new layer.

Note: of course nothing’s truly unlimited, but we haven’t programmed any specific limit to the number of loops or layers you can have. If you keep adding loops, eventually you will start to hear audio glitches.

FEATURE HIGHLIGHTS

• Unlimited number of loops (practically!)
• Non-destructive layering
• Beat repeat - sample, repeat and reverse loops
• Filter - add variety with an LPF, BPF and HPF

RECORDING

• Normal recording - fixed or multiple length loops
• Chained recording - select multiple tracks to record loops back-to-back
• Layered recording - equivalent of non-destructive overdubbing

LOOP LENGTH

Within a session, all loops are a 2^n multiple of the shortest loop (2x, 4x, 8x, etc). This makes it really easy to set the loop length whilst recording.

EASY TO USE

• One-finger volume/pan control on individual or simultaneous loops
• Group control - group tracks into layers; parent tracks control all layers of child tracks.
• MIDI Control
• Quantize options
• Metronome - create custom accented rhythms

SHARING AND IMPORT

• Support for IAA, AudioBus and AudioCopy/Paste
• Share sessions and recordings via email, iTunes and SoundCloud

AUDIO INTERFACES

LoopTree works well with headphones, but for truly outstanding quality, we recommend using a USB audio interface. We have tested the following interfaces:

• Behringer UCA222 and 202
• Focusrite Scarlett 18i8 (includes MIDI)"

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