Take a trip to Motown with Silicon Beats
Take a trip to Motown with Silicon Beats Retro Soul
The Retro Soul drum loop pack ups the tempo and offers nine collections of soul drum loops performed on vintage Ludwig drum kits with lots of room ambience, at a tempo range of 120 to 164 BPM. According to the manufacturer, the Ludwig drum kits were carefully tuned to capture the essence of the drum tones used in the 60s and 70s. And to make this sample pack, Silicon Beats used a large, live room to re-create the enormous, live sound typical of many classic soul songs.
Also included in the 510 MB Retro Soul pack are tambourine loops, fills, variations, and more. All in all, this loop pack includes 150 royalty-free loops in WAV, AIFF, and REX2 formats. All of the Retro Soul drum loops are royalty-free for use in either commercial or non-commercial tracks. Want to try it before you buy it? Visit the Silicon Beats Web site to download and test drive free demo loops.
Retro Soul features at a glance:
- Nine collections of soul drum loops with fills and variations
- Drum loops influenced by famous soul classics
- Total of 150 live played loops in WAV, AIFF, and REX2 formats
- All content is royalty-free
- Tempos: 120 to 164 BPM
- Total Size: 510 MB (zipped)
Silicon Beats Retro Soul is now available as an instant download for $39.95. To learn more about Retro Soul or its predecessor in the series, Classic Soul Drum Loops V1, visit Silicon Beats at siliconbeats.com.
BumChum lets you experience sound….like you’ve never felt it before
The BumChum is a new silent drum monitoring system that, according to the developer, “lets you experience sound….like you’ve never felt it before!”
The BumChum is an “Amplified Tactile Generator Monitor System” which turns the bass drum – or any other signal – into a physical thump up through the drum stool.
This thump is registered through bone conduction.
The BumChum consists two parts: a drum throne top containing a Tactile Generator, and a flight-cased Engine containing all of the electronics.
Features:
- The BumChum Engine offers full control of power and intensity.
- It is also very sensitive, so it will faithfully replicate playing dynamics.
- It will respond to long notes (beater off) as well as short notes (beater on), depending on drum dampening, tuning, and playing style.
- According to the developers, the BumChum is fantastic for playing MIDI drum kits, delivering real power and no volume for practicing.
The BumChum retails for £1199.
Vocal Beater lets you beatbox into a phone
Mike Gao has released an new $2.99 app for iPhone and iPod Touch, Vocal Beater, that lets you beatbox into a phone, email it, then load it up in a MPC, other beat machine, or DAW.
Vocal Beater turns your beat boxing into a velocity sensitive MIDI file to email. Detected hits can be edited.
Electronic project Coal-live from czech republic
Experiments with Ableton continues to grow and here is another great performance coming from Coal-live
Video of my livesetupu. I did it the first time so hopefully it will be ok. I will answer the questions. gradually I would like to publish a video on the Ableton manuals, etc. so two Kaosspady, Launchpad, 7upLive, Ableton, MaxforLive, scratch the Yamaha Su7OO and delay. Czech. Again. Perhaps it will be OK.
Chip away in Tokyo
More cool videos are coming our way from the Blip festival in Japan
Saitone@BLIP FESTIVAL TOKYO 2010
So why don´t we all get ourselves a beer synth before the weekend starts?
Matt has designed beer bottle labels that have markings on them to indicate the pitch of the note that the bottle makes when blown, based on the amount of beer left.
“Tuned Pale Ale is a product that explores the musical affordances in everyday objects and promotes social spontaneity. While drinking beer, people become musically encouraged and often start making music with objects around them. This product aims to promote more of this type of social interaction. This product aims to inform users about the musical qualities of existing bottles and to make the bottle a better instrument.”
Not only do the bottles produce music, but when turned upside down, the limited edition beer case is a tongue drum that produces six different tones!
The missing link
It is a wireless device that receives OSC and outputs MIDI. When I open my settings in my phone it shows up as a network that I can connect to. When I go to my OSC app, and press a button, an OSC message will be sent wirelessly from my phone. This message will get received by the Missing Link, which converts it to MIDI and sends it to the instrument. I can now use my phone to play a keyboard or control my mixer or MIDI LED lights.
In other words, you can slap one of these on your old MIDI gear and then control it wirelessly from an iPhone or iPad or other wireless device. There used to be a device called the Missing Link made by CP Technology that was a MIDI-to-Control Voltage adapter, but this doesn’t appear to be related to that.
Saw, square and triangle wave comparison
Here you find a nice demo of side by side comparison on basic waves from 3 synths
Roland GAIA SH01 Blofeld Nanozwerg
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3BmDxfq_yE0
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e3KU7YLNWyE
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=05gb9uRF_wA
Build your own synth controlled Nintendo
Casperelectronics modified nintendo game console controlled by modular synthesizer. For more info on building your own go to http://casperelectronics.com/finished…
Put your phaser on stunn
A bit of topic, but still 
Even the most obsessive Trekker will likely uncover fresh details in the thick chunk of photos and text titled Star Trek: The Original Series 365. The new book examines in microscopic detail each of the 79 episodes of Gene Roddenberry’s enormously influential sci-fi series, which ran from 1966 to 1969.
In this must-have Trekkie tome, concept art, matte paintings and freshly remastered production stills drawn from the CBS archives are bolstered with exceptionally detailed synopses. The book serves as an eye-popping artifact that captures the spirit of a show that regularly hit profound notes while sometimes veering into zany tangents (“Spock’s Brain” anyone?).
Star Trek: The Original Series 365, by Paula M. Block with Terry J. Erdmann, includes an introduction by Dorothy “D.C” Fontana and retails for $30 from Abrams Books.
The Enterprise travels to the planet Janus VI to determine what is killing workers in an underground mining facility. Doctor McCoy scoffs when Spock surmises that a silicon-based life form may be behind the deaths, but Spock is proven correct: The killer is found to be a rocklike beast that excretes acid at will, allowing it to tunnel swiftly through solid rock — or to disintegrate a man.
The miners want the creature destroyed, yet Spock believes that it may be an intelligent being with a rational motive behind its actions.
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