Mellotron Simulator for iPad
Manetron MarkII is a Mellotron simulator for iPad.
The Mellotron is an vintage sampling keyboard by analog tapes. The Mellotron had a strong impact on rock music, becoming a trademark sound of the progressive rock bands. It has been featured on the following songs & albums,
http://www.insideout.co.jp/manetron/
Holographic TV
Slightly off topic, but since many of you enjoy sci-fi as much as we do 
The holographic device plays a 3-inch projection at 15 frames per second, just shy of movie refresh rates of 24 to 30 frames per second, the MIT researchers demonstrated at the Society of Photo-Optical Instrumentation Engineers’ conference on practical holography.
The red hologram is jerkier and has much lower resolution than the one in Star Wars that sparked the public fascination with 3-D holograms in the 1970s. In fact, it kind of looks like a red blob on a staticky TV. But it’s 30 times faster than a telepresence device created in 2010 by University of Arizona researchers.
“I think it’s an important milestone because they were able to get to 15 frames per second, which is almost real time,” says physicist Nasser Peyghambarian, who led the Arizona research. “The quality is not as high, but hopefully it will get better in the future.”
The key to speed was computational power. The MIT team used a Kinect camera from an Xbox 360 gaming console to capture light from a moving object. Then they relayed the data over the Internet to a PC with three graphics processing units, or GPUs, tiny processors found in computers, cell phones, and video games that render video quickly. The processors compute how light waves interfere with each other to form patterns of light and dark fringes. Light bouncing off these fringe patterns reconstructs the original image. The MIT team used a display to illuminate the computer-generated fringes and create a hologram.
“The students were able to figure out how to generate holograms by using what GPU chips are good at,” says Michael Bove, an MIT engineer who led the research. “And they get faster every year. There’s room for a lot more understanding of how to compute holograms on them.”
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eaReckon EAReverb (Reverb VST Plugin)
EAReverb (Earthy Algorithmic Reverb) – “Open the doors to YOUR world”
Available now! – http://www.eareckon.com
I have used the EAReverb with vocals, drums, guitars and wind instruments (WIVI band), yet I could remarkably reproduce realistic and natural sounding Rooms, set just the way the early reflections in great detail to make the EAReverb to a very special space simulator, we can also dispense entirely with the reverberation room shape and only consist of space, place an X in the possible mix of individual instruments in the virtual space to position accurately.
The EAReverb does a good job and produces a dense, warm reverb, the service is ideal for an experiment, but also has some very useful Presets included for direct use
CIRCULATOR
Making “CIRCULATOR” / An installation by Jim Blashfield / 4Culture
In this short documentary, filmmaker/media artist Jim Blashfield talks about his 7 screen sound and video installation created for the Brightwater Environmental Education Center. Commissioned by 4 Culture.
Fancy a Moog Monochromatic Sweatshirt
Moog Monochromatic sweatshirt for the Moog monophonic aficionado. Black on black Men’s Classic Crewneck Sweatshirt with a glossy black Moog icon on the front and a white Moog logo on the back just under the collar.
Bonus: you’ll receive a Forty Years of Minimoog Zine if you order this sweatshirt while supplies last. Get it now at http://www.moogmusic.com/moo…
rehearsal for not breathing / meat beat manfiesto 2011 tour
dave wright and karl white rehearsing in the studio in order to leave on tour next week at
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tg4yRYH7LG0
Check out the dates and locations as well as free tickets the Meat Beat folks are giving out at http://www.meatbeatmanifesto…
Feb 2 – Seattle, WA EL Corazon
Feb 3 – Portland, OR Peter’s Room Under Roseland
Feb 4 – Vancouver, BC Venue
Feb 9 – Los Angeles, CA El Rey
Feb 11 San Francisco, CA Mezzanine
Feb 15 Denver, CO Summit Music Hall
Feb 16 – Chicago, IL Bottom Lounge
Feb 19 – New York, NY Santo’s Party
Access Virus TI Polar Darkstar Edition!
Access just released their Darkstar version of the TI Polar. This seemed like the perfect excuse to play with a Polar to Troy and I! -Brian
The Virus TI Polar is the last part of the Virus TI WhiteOut special edition. Only a limited number of units have been produced.
The technical specifications are identical to the Virus TI Polar 2009, the color scheme of the housing does differ as you can see.
This is the last part of the Virus TI WhiteOut special edition. The first two editions, a white Virus TI desktop and a white keyboard, were all sold on the first day.
Jansen Barbieri Karn- Sleepers Awake
Although Karn has sadly left us, this might be a good reminder of the great work
RIP Mick Karn (1958-2011)
42 Dual MiniMoogs or The Meaning of Life
I just had to find out what dual stacked MiniMoogs sound like now that I happen to own two at the same time. Well now I know and so can you by watching this video! Let me just say it’s close to obese. Forget computer and laptop speakers, put this on you real stereo system and play it loud!
Analog bag 1 and 2 – featuring the PolyKB II engine
Analog bag 1 offers 128 Instruments, while Analog Bag 2 contains 160 instruments.
Analog Bags are suitable for all kinds of musical genres, and propose an hopefully pleasant mix
between Bread and Butter and unique and never heard instruments.
All the instruments have been carefully designed to take advantage of both stunning VA engine of the PolyKB II, as well as its awesome and never seen real time control possibilities.
Analog Bags features
Analog Bag 1 :
- 128 instruments created by a quartet of talented Sound Designers Luftrum, Julian Ray, Kire and Tzadi
- Basses (3), Keys (18), Pads & Soundscapes (36), Leads (20), ARPs and Chord Sequences (12), Fx (14), misc (16)
Analog Bag 2 :
- 160 instruments created by the wellknown Sound Designer Duo Peter Schelfhout and Lotuzia.
- Basses (20), Keys (36), Pads (24), Leads & Plucks (19), ARPs (17), Drums & Percs (7), Fx (15) and misc (16)
Analog Bag 1 & 2 common features :
- Highly expressive instruments, with many real time expression features, including ModWheel and After Touch assignations
- All instruments have multiple tags for a perfect integration into the PolyKB advanced preset management system. Find the right preset in seconds.
- A Pdf manual including preset list, and detailed installation procedure Numerous Audio Demos are available on our site.
Price of the SoundBanks :
Analog Bag 1 : € 17 ; Analog Bag 2 : 21€.
Check out our web site : http://www.xils-lab.com/pages/PolyKB-II-Sound-sets.html
The PolyKB II version 2.0.1 is released :
This version Fixes the following issues:
- Mac Version Only : Very Rare Logic crash, depending on several parameters combination (Logic Version, OS Version, Asio )
- All Versions : Some rare Phaser issues
- All Versions : Some cosmetic issues like certain mouse over info handling.
- All Versions : Clearer choice for GUI size : Maximum size is now presented as an item in size menu
- Mac Version Only : Following Apple requirements, users presets are now located in user/username/library/preferences. This move is handled automatically.
- All Versions : Arpeggiator : some occasional issues with arpeggio memory related to entered notes schedule
Download the update on our website : http://www.xils-lab.com/pages/PolyKB_Download-Installer.html
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