"Back in January 2004, when NASA’s Rover Lander touched down on Mars, Todd Barton began creating and posting a one minute daily music composition based on that day’s image from NASA’s website. Using his new Signature Moog Voyager as the exclusive sound generator, a looper and an effects pedal he created 110 Moog Mars Musings tracks.
Soon after the first few posts Edmund Eagan responded with the idea of tying each score to a current Mars image. Near the end of February Edmund started to create and synchronize his video manipulations with the music and posted those on his site.
The mars musings project ran online every day from January 25 to May 14th, 2004.
Here are the second batch of 20 of the Moog Mars Musings project. More to follow over the next few months."
"In this performance video, Calc takes us through just some of the functionality of Novation's latest release. Sequencing beats with the 4 part drum machine, playing in harmonic sections with 2 desktop poly synths, adding mixer and FX tweaks and browsing through 32 different performance sessions, allowing you to start something quickly.
"In this tutorial video, Calc takes us through just some of the functionality of Novation's latest release by explaining in-depth his Circuit performance. Demonstrating that you can easily start something."
"TWO MATCHING 1970's ELKA RHAPSODY 490 STRING MACHINE KEYBOARD SYNTHESIZERS. BOTH POWER ON AND RED POWER SWITCHES LIGHT UP. ONE WORKS ABOUT 75%, SOME KEYS DON'T WORK. THE OTHER ONE JUST POWERS ON WITH LIGHT UP RED POWER SWITCH, NO SOUND. ONE KEYBOARD STRING LEVER SLIDE IS BROKE OFF, BUT CAN STILL WORK. BOTH HAVE ORIGINAL CORDS."
"Dan Green of 4ms performs at Modular Day Barcelona #2 at Hangar.org. Three Spectral Multiband Resonators and a vocal sampler are being used to generate all the sounds."
32 soft-touch knobs
8 illuminated switches
1 expression pedal input
ergonomic spacing of the controls
sloped enclosure for comfortable access of the controls
class-compliant USB-MIDI and additional MIDI-out via 3.5 mm socket
bus-powered
7 bit (MIDI standard, 128 unique values) or up to 10 bit resolution mode (~1022 unique values)
compatible with Mac OS X, Windows 7-10
Arduino based (ATmega 32u4), including Open Source firmware and utilities
configurable via MIDI System Exclusive messages
editor configuring the controller (currently Mac OS X only)
utility for receiving MIDI and sending OSC (currently Mac OS X only)
dimensions including enclosure (W/D/H): 260 mm / 165 mm / ~45mm - 52mm
backpack compatible
"Hackability"
The KNOBBEE 32 is built with having tinkers and hackers in mind. You can modify our Open Source firmware we wrote for the controller (Atmel ATmega 32u4 / Arduino) or even put your own.
You can configure the KNOBBEE 32 via MIDI system exclusive messages. This includes aspects such as the resolution, MIDI mapping, behaviour of the switches / LEDs and calibration settings. We have written an editor in Max/MSP which provides easy access to those settings.
You can also buy the KNOBBEE 32 with our enclosure or order our enclosure design files and built your own enclosure. (It is not recommended to use the KNOBBEE 32 without an enclosure.)
Enclosure
We have currently two types of enclosures. One uses a combination of acrylic and wood (seen above).
The other uses only acrylic
If you buy the KNOBBEE 32 without an enclosure you'll get the fully populated PCB, all knobs (not shown) and the top plate so it is easy to integrate it into other enclosures."
"My remake of the acid/techno classic of 1994 by Awex (Thorsten Adler, Tom Wax), played live with a Roland Aira TR-8, two Cyclone Analogic TT-303 Bass Bots and a Korg Kaosspad Quad. Mixed and recorded on a Tascam DP24. Performed with one hand, filmed with the other. http://classic.beatport.com/track/its..."