Roland JX-3P - Pixel Notes Music Vol. 3

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"Here's a collection of songs that I have made using a Roland JX-3P and sometimes a Korg M1 for drums.

00:00 - Intro
00:11 - Shadows Moving
00:58 - Canal
02:26 - The Dark Wave
06:49 - Midnight Fairytale
12:03 - Beaming
13:27 - Motorbike Lovers
16:07 - Heavy Handed Ballad
17:25 - Chasing Horizons

All songs and artwork created by Pixel Notes Music."

Sequential OB-6 & Prophet 6 - Pixel Notes Music Vol. 2

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00:00 - Intro
00:11 - Anthropic [OB-6]
06:32 - Neural Pathways [OB-6]
12:04 - Unweaving [OB-6]
17:50 - Failing Joints of the Machine [Prophet 6]
22:15 - Exponential [Prophet 6]
24:18 - Catching the Wind [Prophet 6]
31:17 - Shipwreck Music Box [Prophet 6]

All songs and artwork created by Pixel Notes Music.

Sequential Prophet 6 - Shipwreck Music Box

video upload by Pixel Notes Music

"Here's a song made with the Sequential Prophet 6, named 'Shipwreck Music Box'."

Sequential Prophet 6 - Failing Joints of the Machine | Catching the Wind

video upload by Pixel Notes Music

"Here's a song I made with my Prophet 6, named 'Failing Joints of the Machine'."

Sequential Prophet 6 - Catching the Wind

Sequential OB-6 & Prophet 6 Tracks by Pixel Notes Music

video uploads by Pixel Notes Music

Playlist at the time of this post:

Sequential Prophet 6 - Exponential
Sequential OB-6 - Unweaving
Sequential OB-6 - Neural Pathways
Sequential OB-6 - Anthropic

Yamaha DX7 & RX7 Tracks by Pixel Notes Music

video upload by Pixel Notes Music

Playlist as of this post:

Yamaha DX7 - Civilization
Yamaha DX7 & RX7 - Clockwork
Yamaha DX7 & RX7 - The Chase
Yamaha DX7 & RX7 - Red Moon

New Bastl Instruments SOFTPOP SP2 Released - Demos & Overview

Follow-up to this post. Overview video futher below. See the dealers on the right for availability.

"The wait is finally over. The most radical, jazziest little USB-powered analog bass synth is finally here and you can enjoy it in its full glory."
Demos by Bastl Instruments

BASTLxCASPER: SOFTPOP SP2
SOFTPOP SP2 WITH A DIRTYWAVE M8. A BATTERY POWERED STUDIO!!!
SOFTPOP SP2 WITH A MODULAR SYNTH SETUP
SOFTPOP SP2: RECORDING THE SEQUENCE FROM THE BEGINNING
SOFTPOP SP2 WITH THE DIGITAKT AND SAMPLING
SOFTPOP SP2 WITH A MIDI KEYBOARD

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Waldorf Kyra Now Available

Waldorf Kyra Sounddemo Published on Oct 7, 2019 WaldorfMusicChannel

Waldorf's Kyra is now available at a suggested retail price of €1,843.00 EUR (excluding tax). That comes out to roughly $2000 US, £1600.

"Waldorf Music announces availability of 128-voice, FPGA processing-powered Kyra VA Synthesizer sensation

REMAGEN, GERMANY: having teased the musical masses last year, then turned heads and opened ears when unveiling a preproduction prototype at The 2019 NAMM Show in Anaheim, California earlier this year, with repeat showings Stateside (at Synthplex 2019 in Burbank, California) and closer to home (at SUPERBOOTH19 in Berlin), high-quality synthesizer developer Waldorf Music is proud to announce availability of Kyra — its eagerly-awaited 128-voice, FPGA (Field Programmable Gate Array) processing-powered VA (virtual analogue) synthesizer sensation — as of October 7…

Accompanying documentation proudly proclaims that Kyra “...is one of the most powerful music synthesizers ever built.” But this is not hardware hyperbole on Waldorf Music’s part. Put it this way: with 32x oversampled hardware sound generation and 96kHz floating point sound processing providing guaranteed contention-free 128 voice channels, Kyra is guaranteed to make its musical mark as a sensational synthesizer that is as easy to use and easy on the eye as it is powerful and flexible.

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Waldorf Demos with Saga's Jim Gilmour at the Frankfurt Musikmesse in 1992

Saga - Jim Gilmour Demo - Musikmesse Frankfurt 1993 1992 Published on May 12, 2013 MadSevenFilms

"Jim Gilmour ( Saga keyboardist) in a demo at the Waldorf stand during the musikmesse in Germany.
Humble Stance, Wind Him up, Don't be late, Careful where you step, On the loose,etc ...."

Update: according the swissdoc, these videos are actually from 1992. That would make the appearance of the prototype Wave in 1992, not 1993. This post has been updated to reflect that. Note swissdoc's write-ups are from 1993 as you can see in the datestamps for the links, and I believe the production model Wave was indeed released in 1993.

Here's a blast from the past featuring a bit of Waldorf history in via swissdoc. This may very well be the only Waldorf footage from the event. Check out the non-working prototype of the Waldorf Wave in the background. 1992 was the year it made its first appearance to be released in 1993. Note the Microwave rack was released earlier in 1989. Further below you will find some notes on Musikmesse 1993 (the following year after these videos) from swissdoc, followed by a transcription of the Wave flyer. This is a fascinating look back on synth history. But first, one more video from the 1992 Musikmesse.

Update2 via swissdoc: "In addition, for those who can read and understand German, there is a big series of three articles available for download (email has to be provided) from the German Keyboards magazine. Inside Wave. Amazing level of detail plus in part three an interview with developers and users plus additional interviews with the people behind the Wave.

https://www.keyboards.de/heftarchiv/1994-10/inside-wave-1-wave-intro/
https://www.keyboards.de/heftarchiv/1994-11/inside-wave-2-tech-talk/
https://www.keyboards.de/heftarchiv/1994-12/inside-wave-3-wave-story/"

Update3: The following scans have been added to the bottom of this post:
Messe.1992.TSI.Messeinformation
Messe.1992.Preliminary.Wave.Info
Messe.1993.TSI.Show.Information
Messe.1993.Wave.Flyer

Saga - Jim Gilmour Scratching the surface - Musikmesse Frankfurt 1993 1992

Published on May 13, 2013 MadSevenFilms

"Jim Gilmour ( Saga keyboardist) in a demo at the Waldorf stand during the musikmesse in Germany.
Scratching the surface"

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The following is a Musikmesse 1993 recap via swissdoc aka George Mueller, who attended, from way back in 1993 (you'll find a transcript of the Waldorf Wave flyer text further below). P.S. for a quick look at the gear released at the 1993 Musikmesse see here and here, both from swissdoc.

"Before I go into this Wave stuff, I'd like to tell you a little about the Frankfurt Musik Messe. Those restless gear junkies, skip the next 24 lines.

The Frankfurt International Music Fair was held for the 14th time and was attended by a record number of exhibitors: 1194 from 40 contries. So it's the leading event for the music business.

The Messe Frankfurt has 10 halls of different sizes, three of them are used by the Musik Messe. Hall 9.0 is the most interesting, it's for electronic instruments, 9.1 is for guitars and amps, 9.2 is for stage light, sound and mixers. These halls are middle in size, rows range from A to F, with booth numbers up to 90 each. Hall 8 is for acoustic instruments and publishers; it's funny, all that noise from test-playing violins, flutes and so on. This is the biggest hall, rows from A to P. The monster booth of Yamaha is in the back of this hall with all their synths, FXs and personal keyboards. So it's a long walk to Yamaha. It's a bit risky in this hall, if you enter one booth, browse thru the pages of some book, after talking to the salesman you probably lost your orientation. Hall 10.1 is reserved for grand pianos and uprights. No elctricity allowed there.

It's funny, when you change from 9.0 to 9.1, all those long haired heavy metal guys. One amp or guitar company has a Hard Rock Cafe at their booth, evertime overcrowded with guys drinking cocktails or beer.

So, here we are, the promised report on the TSI shows WAVE MUSIC DEMO and INSIDE THE WAVE.

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DreamsOfWires - Volca Keys & Loopy HD

Published on Jan 25, 2016 DreamsOfWires

"If I need to think about something I'll go somewhere, often the beach. If I don't want to think about something I'll play video games. I'm not sure where making music lies between those two. Somewhere I guess.

Recording: It's just a bunch of sustained notes recorded into Loopy, using a midi fader app to control loop volumes (in this case the free version of Midi Designer), then a Volca sequence was added. The output of Loopy was recorded into Virsyn's AudioReverb."

iTunes: Loopy HD - A Tasty Pixel

New MOOG SUB 37 Paraphonic Polyphonic Synth Coming to NAMM?

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Some discussion on The MATRIXSYNTH Lounge and MATRIXSYNTH Facebook.

Update: [see Update4 below] for those not familiar with Paraphonic synths, a definition via wikipedia followed by a couple of notes:

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din drones

din drones demo from dinja on Vimeo.

"din is a free software musical instrument that runs on the GNU/Linux OS. Make music with just your mouse and keyboard. It also supports JACK, OSC & MIDI.

din uses Bezier curves for almost all aspects of sound production --> waveforms, FM & AM, envelopes, drones and FX.

In this demo we create 143 drones -- initially only on the key note, 4th and 5th notes but soon on all the microtones in-between. You can edit drones in bunches, change their levels, timbre and pitch all in realtime.

Scale: C Eb E F G Bb C (Raga Jog)
Key note: C

Download din at dinisnoise.org/​

Follow me on Twitter: twitter.com/​al_dinja

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Audio quality is better live because there is no audio artifacts due to video making, syncing & conversion; you can also resize the din board --> make it taller for more volume levels & have wider spaces between notes for more microtones.

Every pixel on the din board is a tone. Notes are tones too :)"

din bezier waveforms demo from dinja on Vimeo.

din new users guide from dinja on Vimeo.

din drones tutorial from dinja on Vimeo.

KORG KRONOS Details

via Hispasonic, translated to Googlish from Spanish:

"We have the first data and images of Kronos, the new Korg workstation. The Japanese brand has pulled the house out the window, bringing to market a synth with more than 12 GB SSD hard disk samples, 9 synthesis engines together, 16 units of effects and KARMA technology.

Features in detail

There are 9 synthesis engines on a single workstation, available in 61, 76 and 88 keys. The engines are:

* SGX-1 Premium Piano: German piano with more than 4 GB in samples. 8 layers and the choice of opening angle of the tail of the piano.
* EP-1 MDS Electric Piano, electric pianos (with sound "signature" by George Duke, Herbie Hancock Rodan Rudess or others)
* CX-3 Organ Tonewheel: integrating technology famed CX-3 in the Kronos. Drawbars controllable from its faders. Leslie Posilibidad to adjust the joystick, from speed to the position you just rotate.
* MS20-EX Legacy Analog Collection: emulation of vintage Korg MS20 synth.
-EX * Polysix Legacy Analog Collection: Polysix emulation.
* AL-1 Analog Synthesizer
* NOD-7 Waveshaping VPM Synthesizer
* STR-1 Plucked String Synthesizer: a new generation of modeling. You can choose from the material of the rope, until the tension, the execution (if pick, rub with your finger ...)
* HD-1 High Definition Synthesizer: A portion of all types of samples.

Account with a set of 16 "sets" may be, from Programs, to vans, to sequences. What makes the live performance much easier and full of possibilities. One of the most exciting new features is that you can move from one set to another without interruption of sound (so if you keep notes of the previous set, still playing).

It eliminates the concept appears rompler and integration / provision of more than 12 GB of content hosted on a hard disk SSD.

Has integrated USB connection to your computer, not just save / edit, but also as a USB interface with 2 inputs and 2 outputs.

Section 16 effects available. 9-band equalizer general. Flexible Routing. Mastering tools. 16-track sequencer."



Update:

Korg KRONOS Music Workstation- Official Product Introduction video added below.

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Burlap and AANN

Burlap 4 - Phillip Stearns 2006 (pixel form)

YouTube via pixelform.
"http://www.art-rash.com/pixelform

Title: Burlap IV
Artist: Phillip Stearns
Year: 2006
Media: Wood frame, Burlap, Interactive Electronic Components

Notes:

Two tone generators have been programmed to match the pitch of the other. Intervention using various components prevents one from ever quite reaching the other. Shadow falling on the photocells in the middle of the piece will allow the dance of the two pitches to be heard though sometimes they exceed the limit of human hearing in their ascents.

Burlap Series 2006

Burlap is a continuing series of work inspired by Peter Vogel and Marc Nimoy that explores the blurring of the electronic circuit and traditional two-dimensional art forms. Small interactive, physically programmed musical computers have been embedded, woven into a skin of burlap, creating an electronic music composition in the form of a reactive textile. Gallery guests interact with the pieces by casting shadows over embedded sensors. CMOS 4000 series ICs are configured into circuits which produce tones, sequencers, and dynamically behaving oscillators that respond to shadows cast by guests. Each composition explores themes of cyclical and chaotic structures, iterative sequence generation, and dynamical feedback systems. The visual form of the Burlap pieces takes its cues from traditional circuit design and is the result of a dialog between the functions of the different parts of the circuits and the nature of the signals shuttled from one part of the circuit to the next. Weaving the circuits into a canvas of burlap juxtaposes natural construction materials with electronic technologies, and thus presents a challenge to the notion of the circuit as something that is cold, calculated, and non-human. The Burlap itself is used as a semiotically rich signifier indicating, amongst other themes, the historical origins of computing in mechanized weaving, pre-industrial age textiles, and a return to reliance upon renewable natural resources."

AANN (Artificial Analog Neural Network) - Phillip Stearns

"http://www.art-rash.com/pixelform

This is a short documentation clip of AANN from the 2008 Juried Exhibition at the Torrance Art Museum (City of Torrance, LA, CA, USA).

Dimensions: 4x2x2 hanging installation
Medium: Electronics

AANN is an interactive, handmade electronic sculpture that responds to changes in ambient light and sound. The sculpture itself is 45 interconnected, electronic neurons that are actively responding to environmental stimuli in a display of light and sound. Constructing the sculpture in such a way that function and form are keenly interconnected, borrows from the sculptural, musical electronics works of Peter Vogel. Great care was taken in the design of the electronics to accurately mimic biological neural behavior. The resulting form of the piece was influenced in part by layering models used in neural computing, and by Fibonacci based branching found in natural systems. AANN explores the notion of interactivity with electronics by making physical the abstract processes being used by modern computer scientists to solve complex problems in pattern recognition.

The science of robotics seeks to study, mimic and recreate life through the creation of automatons which are ultimately are designed to complete tasks that serve our desires. Here with the creation of AANN, the desire is to explore the possibility of making a thinking thing, one that is allowed to have its own desires. However, in the end what AANN becomes is a sign of the industrial military complex, signifying not only the possibility of the pursuit of such idealistic techno-fetishistic dreams of machine intelligence, but also their very negation through the terminal exploitation of the very life which it seeks to replicate (and eventually replace).

Questions which arose during the course of researching and developing the work branched outwards from the decade old debate about machine intelligence and its potential impacts on society and environment. What is interactivity? What are the preconditions necessary for such interactivity? Does intelligence play a role or is interactivity a generic feature of reality. What is it to think? Is it possible for a machine to think as we do? If it is not yet possible to understand what it is to think and how we humans do it, what is it that drives us to make machines think? Are we too lazy to think for ourselves? How much does structure factor into the functioning of a network both biological and artificial? What are the implications of accepting a networked model of understanding? What is the total impact of technology on society and on the biosphere which supports it? Is it possible for a technological work to affect enough positive change to offset the potential social and environmental damage wrought in its history of development and application? Can technology exist without economies of scale, and if not, can those economies of scale be maintained in an ecologically sustainable manner?"

You can find more here.