Making a track from scratch with iMS20
VJFranzK has shared this video featuring the iMS20 with the iPad
iPad iMS20 new KORG! Making track from scratch – Zoltan’s March
Do you remember the Sequetron?
Well in case you don’t then this is for you
Showing how the Sequetron encourages building & evolving sequences on-the-fly as the mood takes you… or maybe it’s just messing about on a keyboard!
Audio recording seems a bit quiet (now I’ve uploaded it!) so you may need to crank it up.
The *only* controls used are the MIDI keys in front of the screen. All snippets are doodled/played/recorded/performed live starting with a blank sheet, or the remnants of the previous snippet, and only edited to shorten the video – no mice, qwerty keyboards or other trickery are involved!
Full info & downloads at www.philizound.co.uk
Input device is a Cheetah 5V MIDI keyboard in basic mode (any keyboard would do). Output devices are a Supernova synth in multi-timbral (performance) mode, and an EMU E5000 for drums.
Apologies in advance if it all sounds ‘samey’ …and mostly in C minor, but that’s a limitation of my music skills, not the Sequetron 
Holiday seasons means great deals
Here´s just one from Native Instruments
Native Instruments is running a limited time 50% off deal on their software:
Between November 25th and 29th, 2010, you can save 50% on all* individual KOMPLETE Instruments & Effects in our Online Shop! Choose from 70 professional products like our brand-new sound controlled synth – THE MOUTH, exclusive keyboard phrases with GEORGE DUKE SOUL TREASURES, the essential ABBEY ROAD DRUMS series, and even hardware like KORE 2 and GUITAR RIG KONTROL.
Sounds like a great deal – unless you bought NI software recently. Details at the NI site.
Celemony’s birthday
Celemony has a birthday to celebrate: the company was founded 10 years ago, and Melodyne has been with us 10 years. 10 years in which the outstanding software has gone from an insider tip to one of the most highly valued audio tools around. Celemony is expressing its thanks with 10 of the legendary wooden boxes in which the first Melodyne was delivered. Each box contains a license for Melodyne editor, for Melodyne studio and for all Celemony software products released in the next 10 years. What that means is that everyone who gets a box will receive all the software products and updates released by Celemony until the year 2020 free of charge. Here’s the Celemony press release with all the details…
To participate in the prize draw, all you have to do is leave Celemony a birthday greeting. Starting now: in the Celemony Forum, on the Facebook Fanpage wall, or on the MySpace page “Music With Melodyne” – whichever is preferred. Three people whose names are drawn from among those greetings will each receive one of the ten boxes. Celemony is most looking forward, naturally, to greetings with a touch of originality – a short film, a Melodyne anecdote, a poem or something of that kind. The fourth box will go to the person who comes up with the best greeting (selected by our jury). The closing date for entries is the 16th January 2011, the last day of the NAMM Show, where Melodyne was presented for the first time 10 years ago.
A further three boxes are being offered as prizes in competitions organized by the specialist magazines Sound On Sound and EQ. You will find further information in their recent issues and on their web sites. The three remaining boxes will be auctioned on eBay. We will transfer the proceeds of the three auctions to the charity Médecins Sans Frontières (aka Doctors Without Borders). You will find all the relevant information and links on the Celemony web site, where in January the names of the four winners will be announced and the best birthday greeting will be published.
About Celemony
It wasn’t with its patented, multi-award-winning DNA Direct Note Access technology that Celemony first turned the world of music production upside down, but with the very first version of Melodyne, released in the year 2000. When it first appeared, Melodyne was so revolutionary that only open minded users recognized the potential of the software. The notion that it was possible to reach inside an audio recording and modify notes directly was altogether too novel. Melodyne, however, was so intuitive to use and sounded so good that soon more and more musicians and producers were becoming enthusiastic about it and discovering in the process one of its particular fortes: vocal correction. Admittedly Melodyne was just as good at editing other monophonic instruments and percussive material, but it was with sensitive lead vocals that the excellence of its algorithms was most apparent. Today, with its DNA technology, Melodyne even allows you to modify individual notes in recordings of polyphonic instruments like the piano or the guitar.
What will the next 10 years bring? We at Celemony are convinced that the possibilities are far from exhausted. “Behind Melodyne lies above all the desire to understand the music in the audio data,” says Peter Neubäcker, the inventor of Melodyne and founder of Celemony, “and the more we know about this music, the better the editing possibilities we are able to offer the user. I believe that further improvements are possible here that will make Melodyne more intuitive and offer at the same time still greater creative potential.”
More information:
Via Sonic
Project 5
Nice crisp sounds from the Prophet
A short demonstration of the project-5 (prophet-5) Controller. Special designed for Gunnar´s Messiah VST Instrument.
more Info and pics at :
http://www.synth-project.de/Project-5…
The Yamaha StageMix
Yamaha has released version 1.1 of M7CL StageMix, an iPad app for controlling the M7CL digital mixing console.
StageMix provides remote control of M7CL functions via a simple, intuitive graphical interface from anywhere within wireless range.
The software has been specifically designed to allow engineers to adjust monitor mixes from the performers’ positions on stage, directly controlling mix parameters via the iPad rather than having to rely on verbal directions to a second engineer.
Changes in M7CL StageMix v1.1
- Changed image handling when memory is low to prevent crashing.
- Improved horizontal pinching responsiveness for Q adjustments.
- Added confirmation dialog for Delete Mixer function.
- Improved synchronization time after Scene Memory Recalls.
M7CL StageMix is available as a free download from the iTunes App Store.
More information: Yamaha / M7CL StageMix
Moby’s favorite bridge
here’s a slightly long tiny movie about the manhattan bridge, with some new music. the manhattan bridge is my favorite nyc bridge.
thanks,
moby
Laibach on tour
The dates for Laibach’s December 2010 European tour have been confirmed. Laibach will play the “Laibach Revisted” programme which includes new interpretations of songs from the 80s (Boji, Smrt za Smrt, Drûava, Brat moj, Ti ki izzivaö, Nova Akropola, etc. …) and a selection of songs from other Laibach albums. The second part of the tour is expected in March 2011.
Tourdates:
03.12.2010 – Zadar – Arsenal – HR – LAIBACHKUNSTDERFUGE
04.12.2010 – Rijeka – Stereo – HR – Laibach Revisited
05.12.2010 – Zagreb – Cibona – HR – Festival program
06.12.2010 – Kosice – Kasarne – SK – Laibach Revisited
07.12.2010 – Bratislava – Majestic Music Club – SK – Laibach Revisited
08.12.2010 – Krakow – Kwadrat – PL – Laibach Revisited
09.12.2010 – Prague Archa Theatre – CZ – Laibach Revisited
10.12.2010 – Budapest – A38 – HU – Laibach Revisited
12.12.2010 – Munich Backstage – DE – Laibach Revisited
15.12.2010 – London Garage – UK – Laibach Revisited
16.12.2010 – Glasgow – Classic Grand – UK – Laibach Revisited
18.12.2010 – Antwerpen – TRIX XL (Bim fest) – BE – Festival program
26.12.2010 – Hannover – Capitol – DE – Festival program
27.12.2010 – Cologne – Theater am Tanzbrunnen – DE – Festival program
28.12.2010 – W¸rzburg – Posthalle – DE – Festival program
29.12.2010 – Berlin – Huxley’s – DE – Festival program
04.02.2011 – Trieste – Slovensko Stalno Gledalisce – IT – Laibach Revisited
VST editor for the Korg Electribe MX
DirectEMX is a VST editor for the Korg Electribe MX. You can use it in a VST compatible host like Cubase, Live or FL Studio.
More info at: www.directsynth.com
Features:
- Full parameters control and automation from a VST host software (5 Synth parts and 9 drum parts).
- Interface specially designed for the EMX.
- Total recall: The whole state of the EMX is saved in the DAW project and can be loaded back.
- System-Exclusive dumps: Get all the patterns of your EMX in the DirectEMX interface, then modify and reverse-engineer existing patches easily.
DirectEMX is available now for PC (VST) for 25 EUR. A demo version is also available.
Video Wave Form Generator modules and the concepts of modular video synthesis
lzxindustries has shared a video that introduces the video oscillator
Conceptualizing the use of a Voltage Controlled Oscillator as an image generation tool is difficult. This demo attempts to explain a basic pattern synthesis technique using 3 Video Wave Form Generator modules and frequency modulation to generate a monochrome, animated video pattern.
LZX makes a line of Eurorack format modular video synthesizer modules, designed for creating and manipulating video and images.
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