Native Instruments: Vintage Organs Tutorial

YouTube via NativeInstruments | September 07, 2010

"This video provides an overview over all of the functions within this new Kontakt instrument. It also provides useful tips&tricks to get the best out of a simple MIDI keyboard or a dedicated organ controller.

More informations about the instrument here:

http://www.native-instruments.com/#/e..."

Zac Baird (with KoЯn) and his Korg monotron

KorgUSAVideos | September 07, 2010

"Zac Baird with KoЯn plays the hook to "Got the Life" on his monotron! Directed by Sebastien Paquet, shot with the Canon 5D Mark II. www.korn.com."
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Sealion's Monotron

YouTube via kidtronic | September 06, 2010

"Check out the Korg's Monotron in the studio, including processing with spring reverb, passing a minimoog through its filter, some noise work, and the Monotron through a Leslie 147. Lots out there on hacking them by the way, circuit board labelled for cv/gate/LFO etc."

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A modern song on the organs

YouTube via organfairy | September 07, 2010

"I haven't written the title of this melody. Because when a band refer to themselves as killers they might do something terrible to people who are mistreating their songs!

Anyway, this is one of my favourit modern songs. And it is also kind of fascinating that I haven't been able to find a waterproof explanation on what in the world the lyrics is about.

Here I play it on the Technics organ while the drum and bass comes from the ELKA X-1000. The Yamaha organ is used for the piano and brass sounds and the Roland JX-8P synthesizer is used for the arpeggios......or whatever it's called."

Acid - The Sonic Foundry Story 1998

YouTube via DjPuzzle73 | September 07, 2010

"Sonic Foundry Corporate video from 1998. This little piece of History is very close to my heart. I helped score the au­dio for this video back in the day when I used to work at Son­ic Foundry in Madison. You'll see me at about 3:16 mins in to the right (your left) of a very nerdy look­ing Mike Scheibinger. I'm hold­ing my chin and wear­ing a green hoody.

My Side Of The Story:
Ray sent me to Nashville in 1998 for the Summer NAMM convention and that is where the story really unfolds. I stopped by a demonstration at the Sonic Foundry booth and listened to their sales rep demonstrate the latest version of Sonic Foundry's ACID Pro. We had already sold ACID version 1.0 at zZounds and I of course was amazed at what this program could do simply because there was absolutely nothing else like it and it certainly was a total dream come true. After the demonstration they announced that they were hiring and if interested they were to speak with a representative back stage. I was the first and only person to respond which almost made it seem as though it was meant to be.

I could hardly wait to return home because the meeting went well and my hopes were high. I followed through with every step immediately upon my arrival in Chicago and to no avail received a phone call from Mike Scheibinger at zZounds of all places, how nerve racking. Mike was interested and eager to meet and interview me at the Madison Wisconsin home base.
My experience in Madison was almost dream like. Mike let me stay at his house the night before the interview, not even knowing who I was. He had a wife, daughter, and a dog all living in a humble home in Cottage Grove Wisconsin. Everyone was so friendly and generous. I awoke to the smell of freshly brewed coffee and the wet nose of a dog sniffing my face. Mike drove us to Sonic Foundry and we hung out all day interviewing.

My bus ride back to Chicago was not easy to tolerate as I was completely excited about the possibility of working for such a cool company. One hour into my ride home and my mobile rings. I answer it and it's Sonic Foundry's Human Resources telling me I got the job.

I worked at Sonic Foundry for about two years editing and ACIDizing loops, making demo songs, preparing remix contests for ACIDplanet.com, and scoring advertisements. Some of my most adored accomplishments were helping to develop ACIDplanet.com, scoring and producing the Acid MTV commercial, writing the script and music for the Chicago B96 Acid radio commercial, editing the content and preparing samples for the Beck and Beastie Boys remix contests for ACIDplanet.com, and and demoing products at Peter Gabriel's WOMAD tour in Seattle. Working at Sonic Foundry was such a great experience and I learned so much but it was too good to be true. The company went public and became a huge success until the market crash winter of 2000. This is when 200 hundred employees including myself lost our jobs on Christmas weekend do to company downsizing.

Luckily Mike kept me busy with freelance work. I produced all of the loops for ACID Dj 3.0 which was developed specifically to sell at Best Buy and Computer Discount Warehouse nation wide.

Sonic Foundry sold it's software and media to Sony.
I then continued to produce 6 more loop CDs for Sony Media Software but this didn't pay the bills so I decided to start my own business producing royalty free loops for ACID and Soundtrack.

The company is called Peace Love Productions. The name was inspired by the conflicts in Iraq. I've been running PLP for nine years from today and it has been a very fruitful experience. I feel blessed every day when I think about how it has helped me to grow as a person both creatively , mentally, and spiritually."

Modular Synth Meetup (SLAMM) 9/4/10

flickr set by kjackman
"First Salt Lake Area Modular Meeting (SLAMM) meetup on 9/4/2010. With VIP visitor Nyle Steiner."

"Nyle Steiner looking over prototypes of David Ingebretsen's faithful reproduction of the classic Steiner Synthasystem)"

EM-Tronic

flickr By rarebeasts
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"The EM-Tronic is a small hand held synth that makes a large range of electronic noises."

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Mike Gao presents Vocal Beater mobile app video feat. Exile, Tokimonsta, Dumbfoundead cameos

YouTube via mikegao85 | August 30, 2010

After winning several beat battles up and down the California coast, Mike Gao has released an app for iPhone and iPod Touch allowing one to beatbox into a phone, email it, then load it up in a MPC, other beat machine, or DAW.

Vocal Beater is by Mike Gao Mobile (MIGAMO).
Turn your beat box into a velocity sensitive MIDI file to email.

If you don't beat box, you can train the app with other sounds and use it as a step sequencer locked to a recorded groove.
Detected hits can be edited.

www.twitter.com/mikegao for updates
www.soundcloud.com/mikegao for beats"

Kayla Kavanagh ~ Raindance (Eigenharp Pico)

YouTube via kaylakavanagh | February 04, 2010

"'Raindance' (composed in 2006, originally for quartet - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RMuruP... performed on the Eigenharp Pico. http://www.kaylakavanagh.com"

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Battlestar Galactica Cylon theme on Eigenharp Alpha

YouTube via gbevin | September 06, 2010

"I've been studying the Eigenharp Alpha for a few months and have been looking for a nice song to cover until my own compositions are finished. I accidentally stumbled into the melody of the Battlestar Galactica Cylon theme while jamming and thought it could be a perfect fit.

The theme is heard in the series by the final five Cylons and it's a melody that Bear McCreary composed on top of the chords of Bob Dylan's 'All Along the Watchtower'. I continued improvising off of the piano song that the series' character Kara Thrace is trying to remember and made my own version of it.

This arrangement on the Eigenharp Alpha features Tonehammer's Emotional Piano, the Eigenharp's natively modeled Cello, Orange Tree Samples Evolution Electric Guitar Strawberry, Studio Devil Amp Modeler Pro and FabFilter Twin 2. The drum loops are part of the extensive collection that ships with the Eigenharp.

At the end of the song it seems that I'm taxing my two year old MacBook Pro a bit too much and there's some crackling since the CPU has trouble keeping up. It was fine while rehearsing, but recording at the same time seems to have pushed it over the edge, sorry about that. I should have expected this as these Kontakt sampler instruments are so detailed that some computers have trouble even playing them by themselves.

I hope you enjoy this performance nonetheless, do tell me what you think of it."

Eigenharp Pico - Live recording "Winter Movement"

gbevin | February 02, 2010

"If you like this song, consider supporting me on Akamusic:
http://akamusic.com/gbevin

This song got me to win the runner-up prize for the Eigenharp Alpha competition."

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