Closer look on Rapture
Rapture’s non-aliasing resampling engine technology sets a new standard for sound quality, and produces pristine, high-resolution rendering and playback. Its advanced modulation capabilities include over 40 Step Generators per patch, providing an intuitive interface for generating rhythmic sequences.
With its beautifully designed interface and extensive sound manipulation capabilities, Rapture is capable of producing the rich, hypnotic, and rhythmic basses, leads, and pads destined to put the spirit back into your music.
Bella Lune introduces Synesthesia
Phoenix based Synthpop/Electro/Indie band Bella Lune just returned from a Japanese and US West Coast tour, and are releasing their second full length album “Synesthesia” this month. To welcome the new CD release, they are hosting a www.ChildHelp.org charity benefit show on July 24th in Scottsdale, Arizona. All proceeds from the door and a celebrity auction will go to help save child abuse victims. Also contributing to the auction is Skinny Puppy, Collide, Opal Moon Designs, The Birthday Massacre, Regenerator and more. Bella Lune is also accepting donations for the charity and pre-orders for the new CD on www.BellaLune.net .
Fad Gadget drum machine
Operation: Fad Gadget Drum Machine
The sound board was harvested from a Conn Prelude Organ.
Multi-channel MIDI playback sequencer for the Apple iPad
Garren Langford has released MIDI Live (App Store link), a $39.99 multi-channel MIDI playback sequencer for the Apple iPad.
MIDI Live works with the Line 6 MIDI Mobilizer, so you can use it to control playback of hardware gear.
MIDI Live provides realtime modification of MIDI file parameters including:
- Song Tempo
- Key Change
- Instrument Assignment
- Song Cue
- Mixing Parameters
It is possible to alter these parameters while the song is playing or save for future playback. Playlists are also supported. Songs can be freely downloaded from the internet or loaded from your laptop.
Note: This application does not make sound on its own, it requires the Midi Mobilizer from Line 6.
MIDI Live is notable for the fact that it turns the iPad into a hardware MIDI playback controller – but we’re still looking for a multi-channel sequencer that works with the MIDI Mobilizer.
via PalmSounds
Closer look at Combinator
The combinator is like a bottomless pit of possibility. I always find that the more I tweak it, the more “extra-tweakable” I realize it is. Last week I reintroduced the fundamentals of the combinator for you. This week I’ll go deep with you and show you some advanced techniques you can employ. Keep one hand on your controller keyboard and the other on the youtube pause button… this one moves quickly.
Ableton at work
Trying to kick ass with Phoscyon and Nepheton. A bit harder than ReBirth.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bKluUXd8pgY
First glimpse at Alexander Randon’s Kaossonome MIDI controller
This video offers a first look at Alexander Randon’s Kaossonome MIDI controller – a new DIY electronic music controller inspired by both the Korg Kaoss Pad and the monome.
Here’s what Randon has to say about the new Kaossonome:
The Kaossonome is my first electronic music controller design. It interfaces the musician via a touchscreen, resting on top of a 256 LED matrix, and eight rotary encoders with push?buttons. Enclosed within an aluminum front panel, a dark wooden frame, and a clear Plexiglas back panel, the controller is protected from external forces and is less than an inch thick.
The touchscreen can be controlled with either a finger or a stylus and the knobs turn and toggle with ease. The Kaossonome powers and transmits serial data over USB. The serial data is then intercepted by a modified version of ArduinomeSerial, which transforms the data into MIDI and OSC. The software savvy electronic musician can design intermediate software devices to grab data from the device, route touch-screen presses and rotary encoder changes to musically defined parameters, and then send data back to the device to control the LEDs.
nspired by Korg’s Kaoss Pad and the Monome, the Kaossonome features Kaoss Pad-like sampling programs and is fully Monome 256 compliant. Additional programs include an algorithmic step sequencer, a beat synced sample chopping performance controller, and many more.
Randon is planning to sell Kaossonome kits. If you’re interested, check out his site.
Get the latest version of Ableton Live – 8.1.4
Ableton Live 8.1.4 is now available. They list improvements as:
“Combination Mode is now active when multiple Akai APC40/20s are in use. This means that the topmost controller selected in your preferences will control tracks 1-8, the second controller selected will control tracks 9-16, and so on. When an APC40 and an APC20 are connected at the same time, the APC20’s buttons will default to Track Selection, and its faders will default to volume.”
For list of bugfixes checkout the forum post – http://forum.ableton.com/viewtopic.php?f=1&t=141021
You can update to the latest version here – http://www.ableton.com/latest_versions
New material from Rotersand
Germany’s Rotersand announces a new nine track EP which will clock in at nearly one hour. The title track “Waiting to Be Born” is taken from the album “Randon Is Resistance” and appears in a reworked and a full version alongside remixes and exclusive tracks, among them a cover of Peter Murphy’s “A Strange Kind of Love”. The release date is September 28.
The ultimate pirate synth I guess
The Skull Etching combines etched artwork and electronics into a unique touch instrument. The electronics for the instrument utilise just one integrated circuit (IC), yet the instrument features two oscillators, distortion, feedback network, filter and interference/hum/radio. Touch the skulls to play the instrument!
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