Circuit bent Casiotone MT-52
TheRainDesign has shared a demo of a circuit bent Casiotone
A brief – and unfortunately very limited – demonstration of the Casiomodular, a Casiotone MT-52 that I circuit bent and re-housed.
Reaktor User Library Harvest week 46
Here’s a brief summary of what’s been uploaded to the Reaktor user library this past week.
Reaktor harvest week 46 – sound bytes by Stereoklang Produktion
Dynamic Pocket Knive by Mete Atam 
Dynamic Pocket Knive is a sequenced Gate with Envelope and LFO Modulation. It’s described to have the following gater features; morphable trigger patterns, shuffle, tempo synced envelope shaping and LFO with variable Curves and a drawable LFO. Now this sounds pretty interesting but it turns out to be a bit difficult to get going as there is no overall instructions how is works, Just some very brief parameter descriptions. All though about 10 snapshots are included I didn’t really make much interesting with it trying for 10 minutes. So be prepared to investigate some learning time to make the most with this.
Massive Modular by Mete Atam 
This is a sample based drum machine with the sequencer and the sampler split in separate instruments. This way you can mix and match between the sequencer played and what drum kit is used. Also a FX section is available. All this is mainly based on NI’s drum machine Massive split in two. There’s no samples included in the ensemble so you need to add your own. Although I made some efforts for 10 minutes I didn’t make much useful with this ensemble. Maybe I’m overlooking something obvious! It’s probably pretty cool if you get it to work… There also a midi GUI for Battery included. As I don’t have Battery I couldn’t test it.
UniPat Sequencer by Kim Bostroem 
UniPat is a pattern based step sequencer with pitch, gate and 3 CC or NRPN lanes. Patterns can be shifted back and forth, raised and scaled up and down, copy and paste of patterns, additional controls include Tune, Gate duration, and Gate threshold so all in all quite a competent step sequencer!
optimus prime by Donald Phillips 
This is an audio FX with 8 separate effects including hp filter, pitch shifter, gate, stutter, ring modulator, reverse, gain and bit crusher; all controlled by note triggers and 2 LFOs. It all reminds me of the classic VST FX Glitch!
RE pitch by Shane Higgins 
This is just an update including adding another cross over at the end of the signal chain to remove overlap between pitch shifts. There is also a gate on each band as well as a pan per band. And a few more snapshots.
Re Pitch is multi band re-pitcher effect. Multi band means that you can treat different frequency bands with unique repitch settings. There are 4 bands so it adds up to quite a few controllers but most parameters have tool tips every this is quite straight forward to use the effect. The sounding result depends obvisously on the input but I generaly got a kind of low-fi grainy sound character.
mEC by Bernd Keil 
mEC is Easy Creator by Eric Le Guenan but with 11 more snapshots and a bit more fired stereo output.
Also what seem to be a intro guide to Reaktor in Japanese is uploaded by Tomoaki Otaka.
MAGNETIC – truly realistic “Real to Real” audio tape warming effect plug-in
New effect plug-in called Magnetics has been released by Nomad Factory
Nomad Factory, leader in tube emulation technology, proudly announces the launch of “MAGNETIC”, a truly realistic “Real to Real” audio tape warming effect plug-in that gives your audio tracks the exclusive vintage tape sound which your ears crave. This effect can inject sterile audio with the warmth and character of classic tube circuitry and analog tape saturation. The plug-in features pure analog reel-to-reel tape speeds, tape/tube saturation and tape color effects, as well as a dedicated vintage style EQ and a built in Boost mastering section. The result is a creamy, warm sound that can only be achieved by MAGNETIC.
Never before has such a great sounding plug-in effect been so easy to use! At first touch, the plug-in’s interface is modern, simple, and extremely user-friendly which instantly allows you to dial in usable sounds.
MAGNETIC can be used in many different musical ways. Try using it on individual tracks to add subtle warmth and tape color to your drums or use it to create a filtered cassette AM-radio effect on a vocal. But that’s not all… when used on the master bus, MAGNETIC can warm your entire mix and “boost” it up to broadcast level. It’s just like having a 30+ year old reel-to-reel tape machine at your fingertips, without all the maintenance costs.
From Today till November 30, 2010 the new MAGNETIC plug-in will be sold at introductory price of $49 (MSRP $199) or as part of a hot Group-Buy promotion.
Learn more from the Nomad Factory website :
Download a demo of DUNE subtractive synth
Synapse Audio has released a demo version of DUNE, an advanced subtractive software synthesizer instrument for Windows and Mac.
Dune is a next-generation software synthesizer plugin designed for creating music on a computer. It was developed with the highest possible audio quality in mind and offers exceptional flexibility. The latter is achieved by its modulation system, the new differential unison engine (DUNE) — hence the name.
Despite the complexity of the synthesizer, the highly optimized code allows Dune to run even on older computers. On current hardware, many instances can be run in parallel, making Dune the perfect everyday studio workhorse. Dune was tested by professional music producers to guarantee its ambitious design goals were met. It comes with high quality sounds, mostly created by professional sound designers.
DUNE will be available to purchase for Windows and Mac (VST/AU) soon. The demo version is available to download now.
More information: Synapse Audio
circuit bent LIGHT MILES
Noystoise has shared a new circuit bending video featuring the Light Miles
short demo of the functionality and few different sounds this keyboard is capable of producing
Well, its officially cold and wet again. its time to get back to Noystoise. over the past few months i have just been taking it easy and working on small scale projects. mostly just modding/fixing things for people for petty cash. i have also been helping my friend Matt build a couple hundred FuzzStang pedals. if you are into boutique fuzz, these are where its at. please don’t ask me for the schematic though, i wont give it to you.since its become un-fun outside, i have started a couple of projects, one of which is almost done. i figured i had better catch up on my blog before i have too many big projects to blog about.This is a project among many that i have been meaning to post. i began this project in July and was finished by august. it started with a “Miles-388” keyboard, commonly known as the AK-900 or Hing Hon EK-001. i stripped the keyboard down to the chip and rebuilt it onto my Frankenstein proto-board. while exploring the circuits’ capabilities, i seem to have caused some damage to the chip internally that caused some of the keys to go silent. it was tragic but worth it considering i was able to devise a way to trigger an envelope generator to modulate a VCF. this is a mod that i would have loved to have had on my recent Orange Hing Hon.with the functionality of the keyboard hindered, i decided to build a “quick” lite version of what i would later build off of in the future. hence the name Light Miles.
Golden Ensembles for Reaktor has been updated
Musicrow updates golden Ensembles to v2.35. All the ensembles are now fully compatible with Reaktor 5.5. The new update for Golden Ensembles also includes a new reaktor ensemble: DigiFreak.
DigiFreak is a unique synthesizer that takes the Lo-Fi sound to new extremes! This powerful synthesizer combines digital wave-shaping, special sound degradation processes, granular synthesis techniques, and advanced Lo-Fi effects to produce crumble, corrupted and disintegrated beautiful sounds – with an emphasized digital character.
DigiFreak Main Features:
– A library with more than 100 disintegrated beautiful sounds.
– Fresh digital flavor.
– Extreme digital wave-shaping.
– Special sound degradation tools.
– Integrated granular synthesis techniques.
– Advanced Lo-Fi effects.
– Six envelopes and many modulation paths.
– Special feedback-loop effect.
Golden Ensembles 2 now contains 40 ensembles, synthesizers and effects for NI Reaktor 5.
The upgrade is free for Golden Ensembles 2 owners. Musicrow offers Golden Ensembles 2 at a special price of 89 EUR until December 15, 2010 (regular price 119 EUR).
Product URL: www.mcrow.net/Reaktor%20Ensembles.htm .
New stuff from Progtronica
A video by Nigel Sinfantus featuring a Re:mix of their new track
Ableton Live…Live Ableton Progtronica Novaton Launchpad Original Re-Mix: “For Soul”
“progtronica.com , A live performance from Progtronica producer Nigel Sifantus “For Soul”. All original music produced in Ableton Live and live remixed using the Novation Launchpad and ZeRO SL MKII, and with live beats programmed on the spot using the Akai MPD 24. One of the first new tracks since the release of the debut Progtronica EP “Live For No One” (released on 10/26/10 from no service required records) Sifantus is continuing the YouTube hit Ableton video blog series. For more information and to preview the new EP visit nigelsifantus.com“
Fat drums on ReBirth
iPad lovers are posting new videos, here´s a good one featuring the ReBirth
New version of Propellerheads Rebirth for iPad, this one is very good, the iPhone version are not good enough
Shared via lasercicalone
I:Scintilla – Capsella
Late night ambient synths
Loomeer305 has shared this nice late night synth jam with us, enjoy
Another night improvisation …. sorry for mistakes (-: (Yamaha RS-7000, Roland JX-305, Roland V-Synth XT, Korg Prophecy, Waldorf micro Q, Casio VZ-1, Korg 03R/W …. )
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