The LFO 2.0 for Ableton Live announced ...

YouTube Uploaded by designthemedia on Jan 29, 2012

"If you already bought the LFO 1.x, v2.0 will be FREE for you.
It will be available here: http://designthemedia.com/lfo

One year ago, it was the first efficient LFO officially supported (by us) for Ableton Live and it has a been liked & used by a lot of people.


With LFO 2.0, you can modulate each parameters of your liveset in real time.
You only have to drop it in a MIDI track, click on a button then click on the parameter you want to modulate and it works.
You can use built-in waveforms or even draw your custom one.
You can use the LFO 2.0 synced with the Live's transport, or totally free by setting up the frequency.


Features :
- modulation of ALL parameters including tracks' volume, panning & sends
- free or synced to transport
- classic waveforms (sine, ramp up, ramp down, saw, square, noise)
- custom waveform available with the whiteboard to draw it with your mouse
- presets & liveset friendly (all saved with liveset & presets)
- undo history safe
- LFO can control LFO to produce rich and complex modulations
- MIDI thru compliant (you can use it directly in your MIDI instrument track)
- GUI remixed
- all LFO2.0 parameters auto mappable to APC40


Requirements :
- Ableton Live 8.2.x
- Max for Live

Credit :
- Design, concept, implementation : Julien Bayle
- New extensions sold by C74 & coded by Jeremy Bernstein"

Pittsburgh Modular Oscillator Introduction Video

YouTube Uploaded by amphonic on Jan 30, 2012

"http://pittsburghmodular.com/oscillator/

A wide range, high quality, 8hp eurorack utility VCO. It offers a full compliment of standard waveforms including Sine, Triangle, Saw, and Pulse waves. The Oscillator offers 5 octaves of 1 volt per octave tracking, and a frequency range starting as low as 7 seconds per cycle, allowing it to double as an LFO. Additional features include oscillator reset for hard syncing, attenuated linear FM input, pulse width, and pulse width CV input."

OP-1 Kids Song "Brusha Brusha"

YouTube Uploaded by djthomaswhite on Jan 30, 2012

"Here is a rough preview of a sing I have comped together with vocals into the OP-1 on board microphone, internal synthesizers/drums and all laid down to the tape. It's a rough idea, but my son Kieran and the shows we watch (Yo Gabba Gabba, Wubzy, Sprout, Nick Jr, Sesame, etc.) got me thinking about writing some kid-focused music. Kieran is learning to bruch his teeth and I have been singing him the melody for some time now. The OP-1 made it really quick and easy to rough out a basic idea. The synth parts were sequenced with "Endless" sequencer and the drums were written with "Pattern" sequencer. "Brusha Brusha" has a catchy repetitious melody and in the least I am inspired to finish this piece of music and write some more tunes to sing with my son.

All music and Lyrics have been written by me for Natural Rhythm Music 2012."

New OP-1 Tutorials by djthomaswhite

OP-1 Tutorial: Making a Remix - Part Two

YouTube Uploaded by djthomaswhite on Jan 30, 2012
These also added to Part 1 here.

"Here is Part Two of the 3-Part "Making a Remix" OP-1 video tutorial. In this example I plug the OP-1 into the computer to capture the audio instead of using iPhone and iPad microphones. Further ideas towards the composition are presented, mostly showcasing editing and arranging of sampled audio bits within the OP. Part 3 will showcase taking these audio ideas out of the OP-1 and into Logic in the Mac to show how using the OP-1 as a launching pad for music composition can end up.

The song I am working on is "Let's Get It Together" by Manjane on Bomb Digital out of San Francisco. The final version will be the Natural Rhythm Remix and will be out for sale digitally by summer."

OP-1 Tutorial: Bouncing Tracks

Uploaded by djthomaswhite on Jan 30, 2012

"Here's an overview of some different ways to bounce tracks and audio around in the OP-1. This has been a popular question in response to my tutorial videos. The good news is you have options and there are more than one way to bounce audio. However, you can't just bounce track one to track two, and you can't bounce a track to another in an overdub fashion with a button combo. You can get this result with a little creative thinking and extra work... this is the theme of the OP to me. I hope you enjoy this video tutorial!"

OP-1 Tutorial: Bounced House Demo

Uploaded by djthomaswhite on Jan 30, 2012

"Here's a follow-up demo to my tutorial on bouncing tracks in the OP-1 that shows how bouncing (Lifting in groups or sampling from groups of tracks) pieces of some tracks can be the inspiration for a whole new musical composition. Some tips and tricks are thrown in, but this is mainly about demonstrating the process of working with previously bounced audio pieces (in this case bar at a time). Thanks for stopping by to check out another one of my videos."

NAMM 2012 Moon Modular Quantizer

YouTube Uploaded by accordoTV on Jan 24, 2012

Gert of Moon Modular at the Noisebug booth.

http://www.moonmodular.com/
http://noisebug.net/

UA726HC UA726 Clone Tested

For the DIYers

flickr set By Ramcur
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"This is the infamous ua726hc non-gold pinned that we can purshase on Ebay [here] . i ad similar result with an original. the lower the voltage the lower the temp , from this result . The tracking was out compare with an original but can be adjusted to track perfectly .. SO YES IT IS WORKING AND YOU CAN EASILY SELECT YOUR VCO FOR SAME DROP OF VOLTAGE AND TEMP """"" On the minimoog there is a blue paint dot , my gess is that moog selected there UA726 to expect standardized result , not to be too far off , so calibration can be more easy( and possible )."

This one in via JB.

Controlling an Andromeda A6 with a Steiner EVI Breath Controller

Andromeda Filter driven through CV input by Steiner EVI

"Steiner EVI used as breath controller through CV to modulate Andromeda A6 filters. Multi tonguing and human voice growling near last half to show some exaggerated modulation and possibilities."

via Infrablue on electro-music.com:

"Some real time playing around with CV input using a Steiner EVI as a breath control source. Notes and pitch bend played on Andromeda's keyboard.

All the modulation of volume, tone and filters are done in real time with the breath control through CV input by normal blowing as well as humming with my own voice into the EVI, multi tonguing and pallet fluttering into the EVI. Sound its self is from the Andromeda VCO's etc.

A Yamaha BC can do this stuff as well but it would need to be converted to CV instead of midi.

The playing is a little clumsy and also exaggerated to show the modulation... For most of the patches here, I usually like less resonance on a melodic line but these demonstrate the CV quite well.

Near the last half the resonance and growling grow progressively more extreme for demonstration. There are about 4 different patches throughout.

I was up all night excitedly playing around with the CV input... glad I finally got around to trying it! So happy to finally get breath control going on an Andromeda!

And here are a few tracks from about 17 years ago with melodies done on that same EVI using it's own analog sound module to compare. (Initial flute sound is EVI playing VL70-m module in a duet with an analog EVI square wave.)

New ADDAC Modules ADDAC503, ADDAC701 and ADDAC200P

ADDAC503 Marble Physics

"This new CV generator is a Newtonian physics simulator for modular synths."

ADDAC701 Voltage-Controlled Oscillator

"Our fully analog VCO, which promises to deliver high quality for both audio and control purposes."

ADDAC200P Power Indicator

"Our simplest module so far, plug it to the Bus Board and have those ±12v monitor leds right in the front panel in 2HP"

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The Analog Lab NYC-MaxiKorg Ext Audio In/CV Filter Mod

YouTube Uploaded by TheAnalogLab on Jan 30, 2012

"Consider if you will:

A MaxiKorg modded by The Analog Lab in NYC.

-External Audio Input
-CV Filter input for both hi and lo pass
-inputs for upper and lower voices

These input jacks route control voltages to the filter's cut-off setting. The Hi and Low-Pass filters each have their own individual control inputs. The filters are optimized for 0 to +10 Volt control signals, making it compatible with most analog synthesizers available. The voltage is combined with the front panel controls, adjusting the traveller sliders for the correct swing on the external CV inputs.

Because the Maxi-Korg does not have a way to turn off individual oscillators, the two toggle switches on top function to disconnect the Ring Mod oscillator from the signal path.

Here, we have run a TR-707 into the MaxiKorg for a quick and dirty little demo.

Enjoy!

www.theanaloglab.com"

FORMANTA RHYTHM FRET NECK SOVIET USSR GUITAR KEYTAR

via this auction
mechanical animals

"The unit has one connection plug - Soviet 5DIN. As far as I know it used as an addition to FORMANTA UDS and MARSH UDS drum sets. Unfortunately I don't posess any of these so I cannot test the unit anyhow. It has 7 buttons on front side and 2 on the back. According to manual while tapping the "SPHERIC THING" the unit sends trigger commands to the control module. Probably it can trigger any drum machine or kinda. I cannot know that for sure, sorry. The unit is in good cosmetical condition (a few scratches as seen on the photos below)."

Update via the world of next tuesday in the comments: "Keytar? More like Drumtar. Lets say your band's keyboardist gets a keytar and starts dancing around the stage wielding their axe. Pity the poor drummer stuck there in back behind his kit. Well if you have enough rubles and know the right people a drummer can be dancing around the stage too. By the way, the DIN is to connect to several channels in a drum brain, it's not MIDI. "

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