Just have to show this video of the KORG KAOSS PAD…
…just because the song is so freakin good – it just has to be KORG sounds 
to do this, enjoy!!
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QsfhobG6zFc]
Have a great weekend
Circuit bent DD6 v1.2
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i0QFnnQWybg]
Cheers
Free trial of Transfuser for Pro Tools
Digidesign has introduce the Transfuser™ Preview — a free three-month prerelease version of Transfuser, a brand new, upcoming RTAS® virtual instrument plug-in for Pro Tools® from the Digidesign Advanced Instrument Research (A.I.R.) group.
Transfuser includes a heap of loops and phrases to get you started. You can use multiple drum and effects modules, slice and tag loops live, convert loops into MIDI patterns and replace sounds as you go. You can also drag and drop Pro Tools regions and audio files from your browser.
Transfuser is an innovative, real-time loop, phrase, and groove creation workstation that allows you to quickly and easily create, manipulate, and perform loop- and rhythm-based music on the fly. Ideal for electronic, hip-hop, and dance music production, remixing, and anyone working with loops, Transfuser comes packed with a variety of loops and phrases to get you started creating right away. It also offers a great way to quickly and easily modify your existing loop libraries to breathe new life into your creations.
Features
- Easily develop and tweak grooves on the fly within Pro Tools
- Offers unique tools for working with audio files, including:
- Real-time slicing and tagging of loops
- Automatic conversion of loops into
MIDI patterns/drum kits - Sound replacement in existing loops on the fly
- Musically intelligent randomization of loops for instantly crafting variations on a whim
- Offers a wide range of real-time effects for electronic, hip-hop, and dance music creation
- Includes a variety of loops and phrases, and breathes new life into existing loop libraries
- Supports full drag and drop of Pro Tools regions and audio files from your computer browser
- Powerful live performance-oriented features allow for both creative arranging and performing of grooves
For those of you who have tried it – feel free to leave a review – THANKS
Download free demo refill of the NES-001
No, this is not the emulation of Nintendo’s nextgen gameconsole. This is AES, our ARCADE ENTERTAINMENT SYSTEM ! Start the engine and your music will receive this extra portion of 8 bit flavour. 1200 samples taken straight from the Nintendo NES-001, the most popular game console produced in the 80`s. This essential sample collection is usefull for every producer who likes to give his sound that 80`s arcade character, suitable from old school NES music to modern electro or pop productions.
The original arcade gamesounds + keysampled waveforms combined with Reason’s powerfull tools -> ready for you to use as Combinator, NN-XT and ReDrum patches. As always, in our products, the Combinator patches are designed to easily change the character of sounds in a wide range.
Facts
- 169 NN-XT patches
- 45 Combinator patches
- 17 ReDrum Kits
- 1200 Samples
- Refill file count: 1431
- ReFill size: 85 MB
- all samples have been recorded 16 or 24 bit through an Terratec PhaseX24FW audiointerface
- created by e-toy (e-toy/Switzerland)
Here´s where you can download the 18Mb demo >>
DrDrone VST – electro beauty
Make sure to check this little sucker out, I have tried it with Live and it works really well
The DR1 DR.DRONE is a VST synth plugin created by Martin Wheeler (aka. Vector Lovers). The DR1 makes it easy to produce fat electro bass, rich analogue style drones, and circuit-warped FX from the convenience of your laptop. Developed and tested alongside vintage hardware (Moog, Octave Cat, Polivoks) the DR1 has a classic analogue-inspired sound all of its own. Arriving March the 1st 2008! Check for more at www.drdrone.com! First Samples now up!
New electro loops available for download + some free stuff
Burton L Music and PLP team up to bring you the Electro Rock loop collection. Electro Rock is a combination of Rock elements fused together with Electronic Dance Music. You’ll get Electric Guitar and Live Drum Beats fused together with complimenting Electronic Beats, Basses, and Synths. There are Ten session packs that can create up to Ten songs instantly. Mix and match the loops from all Ten and the possibilities are endless. Electro Rock will get your creative juices flowing right away.
Burton is also offering a special offer for those who purchased Electro Rock Loops. Click the url in the downloaded pack labeled PLP
Burton L Offer. Over 300 loops. 10 Song Packs. 24 Bit 44.1 Stereo. Wav, AIF, and RX2. Download here>> http://www.peaceloveproductions.com/Electro_Rock.html
FREE LOOPS
Get your monthly 20 free loop pack now. Download links here: http://www.peaceloveproductions.com/specials.html
Coming Soon! PLP’s BINARY GROOVES
200 Glitched out downtempo grooves recorded at 100 BPM. Great for all styles of
Downtempo, Glitch, and Breaks. Binary Grooves are flexible enough to be time stretched at 125 BPM+!!! 24 Bit 44.1 Stereo. Wav, AIF, and RX2.
Launch date May 9th 2008.
Coming Soon! ELECTRONIC DANCE TOOLS
Over 20 multi-genre micro song packs totaling over 500mb. Genres include House, Progressive, Electro, Break Beat, Mid Tempo, IDM, EDM, Ambient and more. 24 Bit 44.1 Stereo. Wav, AIF, and RX2.
Live drum sounds for Reason – tutorial
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=875-d0wHPDk]
This drum kit produced by the Propellerhead team offer something above and beyond simple one-shot samples of drum sounds with features such as:
- Multi-samples of expensive drum kits so that notes played at different velocities reflect the nuance of the real thing.
- Drum hits recorded with different sticks, brushes, mics and mic placements with the ability to mix between mics allowing you to tweak mic and room dynamics for each channel.
Below is a video showing Josh Mobley aka Neoverse drumming away with Reason Drum Kits 2.0. Shot while taking a break during production of MPR4
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6J9in1JgigU]
Pixel mania
Many of you know that I am agreat fan of manga, anime, tokidoki and similar art stuff and pixel art is no exception. Pixel art gives the same type of pleasure as C64/bitpop music and therefore I just wanted to share one of my favorite pixel sites – which in principal is just one big f-cking image – printed it would certainly cover a very large painting – a smal snap shot from it is pasted below, but be sure to click the image to see the actual one and make sure to surf around in the pixel world.
Looking for whacko synth stuff?
Back in March of 1977 the delightful Mr Serge Tcherepnin wrote a do it yourself article in Synapse Magazine for a handy control voltage “Programmer” module. Playfully he published it using the alias of Mr. “Arpad Benares” and now close to thirty-years later we are pleased to offer the very same Benares Programmer fully assembled in Modcan A-series banana format as a very limited edition!
Putting this wonderful nostalgia aside for a moment, this Programmer is a terrifically useful tool for your modular. Think of it as a Sequencer with five stages of four knobs each. You can access the stages sequentially, or individually, and in any random order of your choosing by either driving the Programmer to a specific stage with an input pulse or with your finger using its big sexy industrial crisp-action LED pushbuttons.
Each button has an individual Gate Output to activate other modules in your system, and there is a Common Pulse Out jack to fire your envelope generator no matter which of the buttons is pushed for traditional keyboard applications. Actually you can put several of these double wide Programmers in rows to form even longer keyboards!
For convenience the original design has been updated to include white Strobe Up and Strobe Down jacks. A fun new way of sequencing can be explored by putting different LFOs into both jacks at once – for push-me pull-you tug-of-war type rhythms and melodies like “three notes forward, and one back”.
Programmers can of course be used to play four-part melodies or pre-programmed chords, but they are often used to control other various parameters of a large patch such as the cut-off frequency or resonance of filters, or the amount of lag, or or the speed of a clock, or the wave selection of a MiniWave module, or literally any handful of things that need to be pre-programmed for big sweeping changes instantly, (in a live performance for example).
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