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Audio Mastering Studio for iPad Now Available

Published on May 10, 2013 Igor Vasiliev·9 videos

Update: video above added.

You might remember Audio Mastering Studio for iPad from this post featuring the Quasimidi Sirius. The app is now available on iTunes.

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"The first fully functional audio mastering application for iPad. For everyone who wants to make own music tracks excellent quality. Based on the same algorithms which used in professional plug-ins this application turns your iPad into a real mastering studio.

This all-in-one tool lets you process sound, convert audio formats, change sample rate, convert bit depth, cut part of track for preview and make fade-in and fade-out.

With very easy and clear interface you can tweak all controls in real time and listening to the final result right away.

Built-in presets let you quickly find the general mood of your composition and a slightly tweak to get a best result. If you make own preset that you want to use later, you can save it as a preset hotkey.

Audio processing features:

● Linear phase 10-bands graphic Equalizer based on phase shifting.
● Three bands Stereo Imaging with common Stereo Width level.
● Harmonic Saturator with three sets of harmonics.
● Loudness Maximizer with adjustable response speed and ceiling.
● Sample rate converter from 96, 88.2, 48 to 44.1 kHz.
● Bit depth converter supported 16, 24, 32 bits.
● Dithering with noise shaping.
● Supports .wav, .aif, .mp3 audio file formats.

Application features:

● Predefined preset hotkeys, ability to create own presets.
● All processing settings are stored for each file.
● Processing group of selected files.
● Exchange files thru internal Web service.
● Compatible with AudioCopy / AudioPaste.
● Supports iTunes file share.

Compatible:

iPad 2 and higher is recommended. Generally this application can be run with iPad 1 but there is possibility of dropping the signal out when playback, especially at frequencies above 44.1 kHz. Offline processing can be done with any iPads quite well.

Please note: This application is audio processing tool only. It does not have audio editor functions."

YEAR 2013..THE RETURN OF THE MC 505

Published on May 10, 2013 kraftzug66·60 videos

"Roland mc 505 +divano"

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Formant Synthesis 666

Published on May 10, 2013 Ebotronix·666 videos

That would be a unique form of synthesis not found on other synthesizers out there.

"Yamaha FS1r Formant Shaping, no samples, all sounds from the FS1r (int fx off)
FX Lexicon MX 400 , Line6 echopro
4 tracks
drums, drone²s and formant sequence voice"

See my FS1R iPad editor here.

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IMPREC Podcast #3- "The Synthcast" with Alessandro Cortini & More

"May 10th 2013
Good afternoon friends,

We are pleased to announce the newest podcast from Important Records:

Summary:

IMPREC podcast #3- "The Synthcast"

This weeks show will focus on the role of the analog synthesizer as a creative tool in the production of electronic music, modern composition, and sound art. This podcast highlights artists in the Important Records catalog that have made a connection with specific systems or instruments in the analog domain. Some artists have made momentary, inspired connections and managed to capture those results while others have spent decades exploring and mastering their given voltage-controlled instrument.

Each track represented in the podcast brings something unique and challenging to the table. This is not an attempt to fetishize or promote analog synthesis hardware; it is a snapshot of the results that are yielded by careful study, improvisation, and creative approaches to the technology available to artists at a given point in time. Although some may consider analog synthesis an archaic mode of expression, the tracks here attest to the opposite. There are three tracks featuring the EMS Synthi on this podcast but if you expect to hear something akin to "On The Run", well…you're in for a wild ride.

Track Listing:

Alessandro Cortini makes his Important Records debut with the track "Gloria" from the upcoming Forse 1 album. Alessandro created the Forse series of recordings using an original Buchla Music Easel. 2012

Pauline Oliveros- 'A little Noise in the system' (excerpt) from Reverberations (2012) was created on the Moog III modular system at UCSD in 1968.

Eleh- "Indictiva" from the Return LP. Eleh uses a custom Serge Modular. 2009

Jessica Rylan- 'Phantasia' (excerpt) from Interior Designs. Serge Modular feedback patch with home made electronics. 2006

Space Machine (Yamazaki Maso)- "Track D" from Space Machine 3. Maso uses multiple sound sources including the EMS VCS3, Arp Odyssey, Roland System 100M with various echo/tape delays. 2003

Christina Kubisch- 'Ocigam Trazom' from the Intorno al Flauto Magio exhibition, an interpretation of Mozart's opera 'The Magic Flute'. Performed on the EMS Synthi with processed field recordings. 1985

Astro (Hiroshi Hasegawa)- 'Artificial Lake' realized on an EMS Synthi with Tape Delay. From the album 'The Echo From Purple Dawn'. 2008

Eliane Radigue- 'Triptych Pt. 3' created on the ARP 2500 in 1978. From the album 'Triptych'.

We hope you enjoy the podcast and thank you for you continued support."

Trans Computer Maschine v1.30 released

"Cescato Musiktechnologie has released version 1.30 of Trans Computer
Maschine plug-in for Windows, a freeware Semi-modular Vintage Lead
Synthesizer + Pattern Sequencer modeled after two legendary mono
synths and a custom analog sequencer from Germany.

New features include:

- Added 'Envelopes' gate input indicators.
- Added 'Filter Cutoff Link' switch for band-pass use.
- Added 'Filter' modulation indicators.
- Added 'inverted Seq Cnt' modulation sources.
- Added labels to Sequencer 'Skip' buttons.
- Added middle position 'Preset' for Sequencer interval row.
- Added 'MIDI Ch. Router'. input indicators.
- Added mixer 'Oscillators Waveform' selection from GUI images.
- Improved Sequencer transport section featuring status display.

http://www.freewebs.com/wallyaudio/index.htm"

Elektor Formant Goes Digital with the d-Formant: Digital Formant Synth

This one in via Grant B. via Elektor

"FORMANT is an analog monophonic synthesizer published in the 70’s from Elektor magazine. It has a modular structure that allows it to be constructed step-by-step and expanded at will. It can be built at home and it is an excellent model to fully understand the operation of subtractive-type synthesizers.

This project presents a completely digital counterpart of the original FORMANT; let’s call it d-FORMANT. The basic idea is to replace the analog voltage that represents a signal with a digital 16-bits serial signal. The modular structure is fully maintained. Even the patching capabilities of the original FORMANT has been kept and the user can connect and disconnect cables while the d-FORMANT is working. All the knobs and switches can be implemented, although this first version of the d-FORMANT has a much simpler (and cheaper) user interface: A LCD, some buttons and a rotary encoder are enough to do the jobs of all the potentiometers and switches of the original FORMANT. The keyboard can be any MIDI device that sends simple “note on” and “note off” commands. The digital output passes through a DAC to produce an analog out.

The next post discuses some basic aspects that govern the entire project, while all the subsequent posts describe each module. Note that the structure of the analog FORMANT has been kept, so there are VCOs, VCF, ADSR and any module of the original design
Implementation

All parts except the DAC are through-hole. This makes the construction of the various modules very easy. The author has handled used the DAC also by hand, making a simple “adaptor”. All modules have been constructed in prototyping boards.

Further work

The design keeps its modular structure allowing expansion and modification. For example, a REVERB module, or a QUITAR FUZZY BOX can be added.

The user interface is very simple. However, its output is in RS232-type format. A possible enhancement could be to implement a user interface that is easier to use, either in hardware, or in software running on another machine (a tablet for example). The obvious benefit of the digital nature of the synthesizer is the existence of already stored sets of parameters.

The synthesizer is monophonic; however it is easier to expand the digital than the analog FORMANT to produce a polyphonic model.

The final design is cheap enough to implement it “just for fun”, and capable enough to have fun!"