Remix Your Life with MadPad - Smule's Latest App

"Smule, the creators of top ranking social music apps including Magic Piano, I Am T-Pain, Ocarina and Glee Karaoke are unveiling their latest app - MadPad. This app turns everyday sights and sounds like your car, an empty soda can, or your friends into the ultimate percussive instrument.

See it to believe it – watch a 1991 Honda transform into a mad beat boxing video soundboard:

MadPad for iPhone and iPad [Car Remix]

Uploaded by smuleage on Sep 8, 2011

Get creative! Remix your friends, local café, or bike…the possibilities are endless. With the tap of a finger, turn your iPhone, iPod or iPad into an interactive video soundboard. Record a series of video clips to create your own set, then tap the clips to make a beat from any sound. Record your remixes and share them for the world to enjoy on YouTube.

Get a taste of the local ‘house blend’:

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Octatrack Know-How — Lesson #3: Manual Sampling

YouTube Uploaded by ElektronHQ on Sep 8, 2011

"In this film the track recorders, which take care of sampling, are explained.

The Octatrack DPS-1 is an 8 track dynamic performance sampler. The Octatrack is ideal for radical audio processing and performance oriented sampling. Every track features real-time pitch scaling & time stretch and the next generation Elektron step sequencer has been designed with maximum usability and efficiency in mind.

Read more about the Octatrack here:
http://www.elektron.se/products/octatrack"

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Pro X Fade Cross-Fader + Elektron Machines by Zviij

YouTube Uploaded by zviij on Sep 7, 2011

"Cutting Elektron Monomachine SFX60+ Elektron Octatrack w/ Pro X Fade coss-fader on Vestax PMC-05 Pro III. Also featuring Korg Kaoss Pad KP3 (x2) & Korg Kaoss quad. Performed by by sound artist & noise designer Zviij © 2011.

* Booking : zviij AT zviij.com
N.B.— Zviij's singles "Bug Machines III, IV, V" are available for download on iTunes

Zviij — (born Franck Smith) is a French sound artist, noise designer and electronic musician, active as a soloist, living and working in Brussels.

http://www.zviij.com‬

http://zviij.blogspot.com

http://soundcloud.com/zviij

http://www.vimeo.com/zviij‬

http://www.youtube.com/zviij‬

http://www.twitter.com/zviij‬

‪http://www.facebook.com/pages/Zviij/186822201343111"

ARP dc - Hal

ARP dc - Hal by SchoonerRecords
"Juno 106
Dotcom Modular [sequenced in Ableton Live]
Ableton Live

Synth battle for the parsec.

More @ http://spencergray.me"

BTW, that image is the Pakistan India border. That orange line is real. See here for a larger pic from NASA.

Crumar Spirit Korg SQ 10 expansion unfinished

flickr By elektrobahnmusik

"here is a sneak peak at part of the next system i'm taking on the road.. the panels were finished today and await fitting switches, pots, and jacks... update soon................. i know some looking at this will probably lose their minds when they see a "destroyed" Crumar Spirit. no keyboard??? why did you ruin a Spirit??? well i didn't.. it's not... i wouldn't... my Spirit actually rides in 1st class while i suffer in economy. the truth is the Spirit has had the keyboard and the wooden case removed for two reasons. the first.... so the case doesn't get destroyed by using it on the road. the second... it shaves about 25 pounds off of my flight weight. i don't use the keyboard. i use sequencers and a ton of external modulation on top of the already crazy routing it has. it behaves very similarly to a modular. i like. i use it. and all it it needs to be returned to original is pop it back in the case and plug the connectors back in. it's a synthesizer that rarely gets seen and even more rarely heard.... it needs to played not placed in a museum.. it needs to be heard and not be treated like a Unicorn...."

SunVox Tutorial Part 5 - Drumsynth and Patterns & Part 6

YouTube Uploaded by SolarLuneTube on Sep 7, 2011
All parts here.
"SunVox Tutorial Part 5 goes into the new DrumSynth module, as well as how to play more than one instrument at a time."

SunVox Tutorial Part 6 - Multisynth

Uploaded by SolarLuneTube on Sep 7, 2011

"SunVox Tutorial Part 6 speaks on using Multi-synths to trigger more than one module at a time. Very useful for more complex sounds. I notice that I completely glossed over the Multisynth's Velocity parameter - that controls how loudly the attached generators are played.

Find SunVox source songs as well as more tutorials on http://sunvoxsolstice.blogspot.com"

SunVox - Alexander Zolotov
iPads on eBay
iPod Touch on eBay

Björk's Moon App from Biophilia

YouTube Uploaded by ssnibbe on Sep 7, 2011

"Björk's Moon App from Biophilia...

http://bjork.com

(c) 2011 One Little Indian, Ltd and Well Hart, Ltd., used with permission"

"Biophilia is an extraordinary and innovative multimedia exploration of music, nature and technology by the musician Björk. Comprising a suite of original music and interactive, educational artworks and musical artifacts, Biophilia is released as ten in-app experiences that are accessed as you fly through a three-dimensional galaxy that accompanies the album’s theme song Cosmogony. All of the album’s songs gradually become available inside Biophilia as interactive experiences, currently including the first three singles Crystalline, Virus, and Moon.

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Replacing Knobs on an SCI Drumtraks & Ballad of sin by lacedj

via Lace: "The sequential Drumtraks uses common B20k potentiometers (pots). You can buy a replacement pot from your local electronics/hobby store. In this case we used a B20k pot. You simply take off the black caps of the face side, then unscrew the top inside motherboard. The pots are bolted directly to the motherboard. Unbolt them first then de-solder them, their design makes it hard to use a solder sucker so you may need to heat all three pads by quickly passing your soldering iron over them, and wiggle out the pot while the lead is molten. Just be careful not to be too hard, take the time. You can clean the pads properly once the pot is removed. There's plenty of space between solder pads.

Bend the pins upward on the new pot then bolt in place and solder it once it is secured. Screw the motherboard back in, be careful to make it fit. Don't force anything. Close the lid and put the front screws back in. Put on the caps and you're done. Weee. Sequential knobs are tough to find. If you need sequential looking caps, Futurlec sells the closest approximation I have found so far. They have 4 sizes, black and silver aluminium and other styles like roland/boss 80's looking plastic caps, with colored tops. Good for DIY/repairs. On the final shot you see four of their black aluminium pots mounted on the drumtraks.

Drumtraks manage to always sit nicely in a mix. The sounds seem basic on their own, but when played against each other in a live pattern the result shines. It's definitely a machine you want to make a pattern with and record, rather than sample.

I made a down tempo track called "ballad of sin" for the b-side of my next 7" release with the drumtraks and the CZ5000, you can hear both dry together at the beginning. The pumping reverb and effects on my voice are the compressors in the tascam DM4800 being over driven. Regardless of what goes on around, the Drumtraks just sits in there and pushes the whole track through like a John Deere tractor. The beat I made is simple yet the machine's tone makes it very compelling. That's not an easy task for a 27 year old 8bit digital drum machine with no effects."

Ballad of sin by lacedj
"A chill out down tempo track I wrote after a shitty weekend of stress at the club. I used the Casio CZ 5000 with pitch modulation to get the wide moving chords, and the sequential drumtraks for the main basic beat. The beat sample is a reconstruction. The voice sample is my voice treated and detuned in ableton."

Also see:
Trouble by DJ Lace, early version
DJ Lace - This video tape

Roland RS-202 Strings

via this auction

SN 704084

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Yamaha CS80 with Midi

via this auction

"Yamaha CS80 with Kenton MIDI and temp stablized oscillators. "

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