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Step Sister prototyping. Lovely analog beepiness ahoy.

Published on Feb 12, 2013 ChrisLody·50 videos

"I've been messing about with a new design of noise maker i call the Step Sister.

It is a step sequencer with a built in analog saw wave VCO, a square wave LFO which is synced to the sequencer speed, linked through a basic envelope to a resonant lowpass filter. This is just a test version and is yet unfinished. The finished version will (hopefully) have attack and decay controls for the filter envelope (this version just has 1), a selectable number of steps in the sequence from 1 to 10 and wave shaping to turn the saw wave into a pulse wave of some description. It also won't need 2 batteries as shown here. There are also a few knobs on the board that aren't connected so it a bit simpler than it looks. Honest.

It should eventually be available to buy from my Etsy and Folksy shop and if its not nightmarishly complicated to build, a kit version too.

http://www.etsy.com/shop/SymetriColour
http://folksy.com/shops/ChrisDodswort...
http://symetricolour.tumblr.com/"

TicTac

Published on Feb 12, 2013 millolab·23 videos

"Headphones highly recomended.
A morning improvisation. I used MPC500 and Machinedrum as sequencer. The firs is running on a 4bar loop, the second on a 3bar loop. I also used Blofeld, Tetra, M2000, G2 and 2 hardwired pedals (reverb&delay). All sounds are programmed by me."

Behringer BCR2000 on the left.

Korg iPolysix Tutorial Mission1 Mee Zanook Style

Published on Feb 12, 2013 Mee Zanook·13 videos

"Mission 1- Listen to 4 bars of a groove already produced and redo from scratch..
In 5 minutes we will - load song,remove default C,extend bar length,copy drums,copy pattern,change tempo,enlarge keyboard,record and manually sort notes in SEQ1,load,tweak and save new sound,automation tip,and arrange."

iTunes:
KORG iPolysix - KORG INC.
iOS Devices on eBay - Daily Tech Deals

Dave Smith Awarded Grammy for Technical Achievement Press Release

And the official press release (video link below):

"Dave Smith Awarded Grammy for Technical Achievement

Instrument Designer Recognized for Role in Creation of MIDI

SAN FRANCISCO, Calif.—February 11, 2013—Musical instrument designer Dave Smith was honored with a Grammy® award this past Saturday for his work developing the Musical Instrument Digital Interface or MIDI, as it is more commonly known. The ceremony, held at the Wilshire Ebell Theatre in Los Angeles, also celebrated the work of Glenn Gould, Carole King, and the Temptations, among others. Smith shares the award with Ikutaro Kakehashi, founder of Roland Corporation, the Japanese musical instrument manufacturer.

In 1982, Smith and Kakehashi formed a technical alliance to develop a means by which musical instruments and then-new personal computers could communicate with each other. They developed an inexpensive hardware interface and a simple protocol so that the technology could easily be integrated into new products. MIDI made its public debut at a trade show in January 1983 when instruments from Sequential Circuits--Smith’s company at the time--and Roland were connected for the first time and used to control each other.

MIDI was adopted by all major manufacturers of electronic instruments and proved especially valuable to performing musicians. It also kickstarted the home studio revolution by enabling musicians and composers to make multitrack recordings at home at a time when multitrack audio recorders were too costly for most artists.

One of the more remarkable things about MIDI is that the interface and protocol are virtually unchanged thirty years later and that--with its widespread inclusion in musical instruments, computers, and cell phones--it is more commonly used today than ever before. 'I can connect one of my latest instruments with a Commodore 64 or one of the instruments from the ‘80s with an iPad and it just works,' said Smith. 'How many other computer protocols can you say that about?'

Smith has been designing instruments for thirty-five years and they have been played by a diverse range of musicians, from Pink Floyd to Herbie Hancock, from Alicia Keys to Philip Glass, and from Oscar Peterson to Trent Reznor. Smith continues to design synthesizers and drum machines for his current company, Dave Smith Instruments. Founded in 2002, the company is headquartered in San Francisco’s North Beach neighborhood. The instruments are also manufactured in San Francisco and sold worldwide.

Video of the award presentation is available at tinyurl.com/aqfcwfd.

About Dave Smith InstrumentsLaunched in 2002, Dave Smith Instruments is helmed by legendary musical instrument designer and Grammy® award winner Dave Smith. Dave’s many accomplishments include the creation of the Prophet-5—the world’s first fully programmable polyphonic synthesizer—and his legacy as the primary driving force behind MIDI (Musical Instrument Digital Interface).

Dave Smith Instruments’ products are used by an ever-increasing roster of well-known musicians and are available from music retailers worldwide. Instruments include the versatile analog/digital hybrid Evolver synthesizers, the Prophet ‘08 and Prophet 12, and the Tempest analog drum machine. Dave Smith Instruments is based in San Francisco, where the instruments are also manufactured. For more information, visit www.davesmithinstruments.com."

Congrats Dave!

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SQ816 Sequencer - Simple First Tests

Published on Feb 11, 2013 JohnLRice·187 videos

"I have a prototype of the new Division 6 eurorack version of George Mattson's SQ816 sequencer. It is very cool and feature rich! In this video I was simply just taking the MIDI out into my Korg MS2000R. Nothing fancy, just getting used to things for now."

SQ816 Sequencer - Simple First Tests Part 2

Published on Feb 16, 2013 JohnLRice·188 videos

"More of the same as last time, me messing around with the a prototype of the new Division 6 eurorack version of George Mattson's SQ816 sequencer. This time I'm using it to run part of my big 5U modular. Nothing fancy, just getting used to things for now."

SQ816 Sequencer - Simple First Tests Part 3

Published on Feb 26, 2013 JohnLRice·190 videos

"Once again, me messing around with the a prototype of the new Division 6 eurorack version of George Mattson's SQ816 sequencer. This one is quick, a single patch I liked that I wanted to share."

Elektron Analog 4- Sequencing Complex Patterns

Published on Feb 11, 2013 iVardensphere·41 videos

"Best heard on good speakers or headphones!

In this video I'm digging deep with the sequencer. Most of the work is being done by two of the voices. Once synth is the kick drum. One other is the bassline. The rest of everything going on is the two remaining voices. The Analog 4 is capable of inserting different patches into single triggers on the sequencer but that is not what I'm doing here. The whole intro section is just modulation and sequencing of the synth parameters.

This machine is deep and is sounds stunning."