Really cool toy piano
Something for the kids perhaps 
The Critter and Guitari Pocket Piano is one of the coolest toys we’ve had the pleasure to come across in quite awhile. It’s very portable at 10 inches long and it weighs just a pound. The built-in speaker plays nice and loud. You can also run it into an amp or console from the 1/4″ jack on top.
There are six modes: Vibrato Synth, Harmonic Sweeper, 2-Octave Arpeggiator, Octave Cascade, Mono FM Synth and FM Arpeggiator.
There are 4 waveforms: Sine, Square, Triangle and Sawtooth.
The Pocket Piano operates from a standard 9 volt battery or a 9 volt wall wart (positive center).
Thanks to Josh Flynn for shooting the video!
Buchla 200e modular synth Cubism
Complex Buchla 200e patch combined with Hertz Donut and ATT4. Ableton Live Reverb and Filter FX. Visualizer by David Tin Nyo
Sneak preview of Athmoscapes
Athmoscapes – preview: A machine featuring probably the easiest way for stunning spacey soundscapes and athmospheres either let it play in LazyPlay mode or via triggering i.e. switching waves by MIDI keys or MIDI CC. So this plugin is also very suited to be used with trigger pads.
Modding the Monotron
Korg Monotron modded for darkness: The patch on the side leaves the key on and changes the filter frequency, almost like a high-pass (which makes it even more like an MS-20 ). The photoresistor reacts to different spectrum of light.
Line level voltage as a control source
djnotsomuch has shared this interesting demo
Seeing the Slim Phatty retaining CV (control voltage) inputs I wondered how well line level voltage would work as a control source. The answer:
Pretty Damn Well!
This is a tutorial/demo on how I pulled this off and everything you need to know! The Moog (notes) are controlled via the MPK25 but the filter and pitch modulation is via the CV inputs.
Yes – Line level (analog) signal has voltage. I learned some of these tricks about a year ago – once thinking CV was far out and not so easy to gain control of – wrong.
The modulation of the SF can be controlled with amazing accuracy and synchronization using an application like Ableton. The possibilities are endless – I am still trying to understand where I would like to go with this idea. For now – you have the basic knowledge – please post back ideas and break throughs! Thx.
Supporting post : http://djnotsomuch.com/moog-slim-phat…
Using the Launchpad on stage and in the studio
Mike Slott talks Launchpad
Brooklyn-based Mike Slott speaks about using Novation’s Launchpad and Ableton Live on stage and in the studio. Club footage filmed at the LuckyMe NYC Showcase 2010. Interview footage filmed next to the BQE!
Kinect MIDI controller (KMIDIC)
Microsoft’s Xbox 360 add-on Kinect has been a big hit in the videogame world, and its amazing technology has been exploited to create a movement-based MIDI controller by resourceful hacker Ben X Tan.
MIDI contoller using the Kinect.
Coded in C#.net using this: http://codelaboratories.com/nui
Very hacky ugly, yucky, alpha prototype, source code available here:
http://benxtan.com/temp/pmidickinect.zip
Next project is making a version of pmidic that uses Kinect. Then, you can control Ableton Live or any other MIDI software or hardware with you limbs. Isn’t that amazing!!!
If you are interested, you should also check out:
http://pmidic.sourceforge.net/
http://benxtan.com
If you are a musician or music business in Australia, check out and sign up to http://rockstarhookups.com.au
UPDATE:
Please watch the video for v0.2 here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fCQwNL…
Source and binaries here: http://benxtan.com/temp/pmidickinect_…
Demo of granulator Kflux for Max
Kflux is a Max For Live granulator device released by K-Devices
Kflux is a Max For Live device for granulation of sound. It’s very easy to use : it has a friendly user interface and detailed descriptions for each function/parameter.
Kflux works like a sampler : just put in your audio sample and let the granulation begins!!
Kflux can produce a wide range of sound results : streams of grains, massive granular clouds, complex textures, walls of noise, etc…
Thanks to the Max For Live total integration, each Kflux parameter is fully automatable in the Live’s timeline. No external Max objects are used in Kflux.
Mark Moshers Holiday gift to Live users
Boulder based Ableton maestro Mark Mosher is sharing some stuff in time for Xmas
In this video I’m working on an instrument rack that will end up in Ableton Live 8 Livepack format so anyone with any edition of Live 8 will be able to access the patch. The sound in the video start with found sound which I resysnthesize with an additive synth, then resample back into Ableton Sampler. Then lots of programming.
I will then use the same samples to create a version of the patch in either Absynth 5, Alchemy, or Blofeld depending on the results of the reader poll.
Why did I pick Absynth5/Alchemy/Blofeld for potentials in addition to Livepack? They all support using your own samples as OSC source and every patch I’m working is rooted in found sound, or re-synthesis/resampling so harmonic content is original.
Mark Mosher
Singing like a robot
How to use a Vocoder (Robot singing)
This video explains how to create the robot voice sound using the Vocoder in Ableton Live, as well as a bit of a run down of how Vocoders work. This is part of my latest sound design series on Vocal effects. www.cosm.co.nz
The software I used is from www.photosounder.com
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