David Lynch directs Duran Duran
Duran Duran have recruited noone else but moviemaker David Lynch to direct their upcoming Unstaged concert in Los Angeles for a live stream to fans across the world. The concert takes place at the Mayan Theatre on March 23 – the day after the release of their new album “All You Need is Now”. Lynch will capture the event on cameras and beam the footage around the world via YouTube.com.
“All You Need is Now”, Duran Duran’s 13th studio album, is produced by Mark Ronson (Amy Winehouse, Adele, Kaiser Chiefs, …) and mixed by Spike Stent (Madonna, Björk, No Doubt) and is said to be a “return-to-roots homage to Duran Duran’s most celebrated musical panache”. The album features guest vocals/rap from longtime Duran Duran pal/collaborator Ana Matronic of the Scissor Sisters and R&B/neo-soul superstar Kelis, while Owen Pallett of Arcade Fire contributes the album’s string arrangements.
The band also enlisted the talents of up-and-coming British art star Clunie Reid for the album artwork and packaging. Reid’s work has been recently shown at leading UK and US spaces, including the Saatchi Gallery, The Tate and the New Museum in New York. British fashion magazine POP’s creative team will provide art direction for the project.
Via SL
Modular Percussion
Yet another video has popped up from inside the Moog labs, enjoy.
Analog noise + Snappy analog envelopes = Tight percussive synthesis
To achieve this sound:
-Noise as sound source
-Filter resonance high
-Filter cut off low
-Modulate filter cut off with ribbon controller
-Volume envelope: -Attack short -Decay medium to short -Sustain = 0
-Filter envelope: -Attack short -Decay short -Sustain = 0
-Amt = ~2.5
-Trigger mode = multitrigger
New and improved gbTouch 2 GarageBand controller for iPad
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DidA17LOAH8
Harmony Systems has released Delora gbTouch 2, a free update to their $7.99 iPad application that functions as a remote controller for Apple’s GarageBand.
gbTouch 2 includes the most requested new features by gbTouch 1.0 users: track names and color-coded track type.
Tracks now have individual volume faders that adjust and show each track’s current volume setting. A “sound generator” edit panel has been added to tweak software instrument details, and all edit panels now show the corresponding track name.
gbTouch 2 also has “skins” – the look of the app can be changed to one of four styles from the iPad Settings application.
Features:
- Select current track with one touch
- Access more than eight tracks with the arrow keys
- Control transport functions (Backward, Forward, Beginning, Play, Record, Cycle)
- Enable/disable record, mute, and solo for each track
- Adjust volume per track and with Master Volume
- Disable all volume during playback with Volume Mute
- Move the playhead and designate new start and end points
- Turn off all track record, mute and solo attributes
- Show/hide the Arrange View or Master Track
- Enable/disable Metronome and Count-In
- Create a new track, duplicate or delete a track
- Undo or Redo an action, Save a GarageBand file
- Adjust Master Echo and Reverb effects
- Manipulate Compressor and Visual EQ parameters
- Enable/disable effects
- Supports installations of gbLink on multiple computers
3D audio binaural plugin for DAWs
Longcat Audio Technologies has announced the Mac version of H3D VST, a 3D audio binaural plugin for Digital Audio Workstations. The Windows version, which was previously available, has been updated also.
H3D works within your DAW and lets you place and “animate” instruments in a virtual 3D space.
Features:
- 3D object-based mixing: use the 3D interface to visually place and animate sounds.
- Longcat Audio H3D technology: when listening on headphones, H3D allows panning sound in 3D all around the listener’s head.
- Unique HRTF processing: H3D uses Longcat own processed HRTF filters in order to achieve the best spatialization effects.
- H3D Reverb: immerse your tracks with H3D Reverb, a spatialized binaural reverberation.
- Automation: fully automate parameters and 3D animation of audio tracks.
- No tedious settings: Just insert H3D plugins and start moving sounds in 3D.
H3D is available now for 99€ (incl. EU VAT) via Longcat’s online shop.
Kapture Pad – Global Snapshots in Ableton Live with iPhone/iPad
Kapture Pad extends Ableton Live’s capabilities by allowing you to take snapshots of all mixer and device parameters in your set and recall them instantly. Liine say that the inclusion of snapshot morphing makes Kapture Pad not only an indispensable live performance utility but also a mind-bending sound design tool.
WHAT IS KAPTURE PAD?
Kapture Pad is an app for iPhone/iPad to control Ableton Live. It builds on the success of specialised software originally created for Richie Hawtin’s Plastikman Live show. It offers a clean and easy to use iPhone/iPad interface to manage and perform with snapshots.
Two types of snapshots are available: Global Snapshots and Track Snapshots.
- Global Snapshots store mixer and device parameters for all tracks and all devices (yes, even VSTs and Audio Units)
- Track Snapshots allow morphing between four snapshots on a track using the Morph Pad – an incredible new way to perform electronic music with Live.
Both types of snapshots offer filtering so that you can choose exactly which devices or tracks you want Kapture to control.
WHAT CAN YOU DO WITH KAPTURE PAD?
Kapture and trigger snapshots on the fly during performance, or prepare your snapshots in advance. Kapture Pad can be used in many different ways, here are just a few:
- Be more daring: First, Kapture a great loop. Then, feel free to push the envelope and really let loose with those effects. Now, one tap is all it takes to jump right back to that perfect groove!
- Performance and sound design: Get acquainted with morphing. Never before has this been possible in Ableton Live. Kapture four wildly different sounds and discover new sounds by smoothly morphing between them.
- Set the stage for each song: People often wonder how to manage many songs with different mix, instrument and effect settings in one Live set. Kapture Pad is the answer.
- DJ-style XY pad: Wondering how to raise the bar with your DJ performances? Morph effect snapshots and create your own signature sonic weapons.
- Timed chaos: trigger snapshots with clips in Live. Combine these with follow actions and you can create fantastic changes synced to the beat.
Kapture Pad is Liine’s second collaboration with Stu Fisher, creator of LiveControl.
Pricing and Availability:
$5.99
More information:
Try Melodyne editor for 30 days without any limitations on its use
Celemony is making entry into the world of Melodyne simpler than ever before: you can try out the current version of Melodyne editor now for 30 days without any limitations on its use. Furthermore, a multi-language “First Steps” video tutorial including a demo arrangement is provided to guide users swiftly to their first taste of Melodyne success.
The trial version of Melodyne editor allows you to try out all the functions in a relaxed manner without the exasperating limitations typical of demo versions. For 30 days, you can use the trial version of Melodyne editor in exactly the same way as the full one: either as a stand-alone application or as a plug-in in the DAW of your choice, using your own material in an authentic practical context. You can save projects, open them again, and even exchange them with other Melodyne users.
You will find the trial version of Melodyne editor in the Download section of the Celemony web site. To register and use the program, all you need is Internet access. Later, you can purchase the full version from within the trial one, with no further download or fresh installation being necessary.
Like the full version, the trial version comes with a “First Steps” tutorial that offers a swift and easy way of getting to know and experiencing your first taste of success with Melodyne. The tutorial consists of a film about ten minutes long introducing all the most important functions of Melodyne, from note detection to navigation and the editing of notes, drawing examples to demonstrate their use from the supplied audio material. With this material and the ready-prepared arrangements for Pro Tools, Logic, Cubase, Live and Studio One, users can try out the various procedures themselves, getting to know and learning to master Melodyne effortlessly along the way.
Melodyne editor is the most powerful of the one-track editions of Melodyne. At the recent NAMM Show, it won the coveted TEC award for the pioneering DNA Direct Note Access technology that allows you to edit individual notes even in polyphonic audio material.
Pricing and Availability:
Free trial.
More information:
4mat – “Moonrock”
From the album “Surrender” by 4mat. http://4mat.bandcamp.com/
http://www.facebook.com/4matchipmusic
(contains some strobing effects)
GameLan sequencer
Published some time back but worth revisiting:
Just a preview of a new sequencer I’m working on… it’s based on a Gamelan and can be used on a network for group composition. It shares some code with Políssonos: vimeo.com/853673
This will also be used to play the Robotic Gamelan shown in vimeo.com/8228439
New stuff from Chemical Brothers
The Chemical Brothers have announced that their soundtrack for director Joe Wright’s adventure thriller Hanna will be released through iTunes on March 14/15th globally, in advance of the film’s April 8th theatrical release.
The film stars Saoirse Ronan, Eric Bana, and Academy Award winner Cate Blanchett.
The Chemical Brothers’ soundtrack features 20 tracks that reflect the experiences of Hanna (played by Ronan) as she is pursued across Europe.
The Hanna soundtrack is the band’s first release since Further, which was released in 2010. You can preview the soundtrack fro the next 24 hours on MySpace.
Hanna Track Listing
- 1) Hanna’s theme
- 2) escape 700
- 3) chalice 1
- 4) the devil is in the details
- 5) map sounds / chalice 2
- 6) the forest
- 7) quayside synthesis
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the sandman - 9) Marissa flashback
- 10) bahnhof rumble
- 11) the devil is in the beats
- 12) car chase (arp worship)
- 13) interrogation / lonesome subway / Grimm’s house
- 14) Hanna vs Marissa
- 15) sun collapse
- 16) special ops
- 17) escape wavefold
- 18) isolated howl
- 19) container park
- 20) Hanna’s theme (vocal version)
Goldbaby Super Analog 808
Loopmasters has released Super Analog 808, a sample library featuring high quality TR-808 samples by Goldbaby.
Punchy, warm, analog drums with Round Robin Layering. Using high-end outboard and a compulsive attention to detail… this 808 sample set is pure analog drum heaven.
Why have you created another TR-808 sample set?
For a start the 808 is one of my favorite drum machines! Secondly I thought I could offer something a little different. This sample pack has been recorded at a higher sampler rate and has extensive Round Robin treatment to recreate the feel and movement of an analog drum machine. The Tape808 used tape to give it extra Mojo… this time I have used some new high end outboard. Tasty…
Is there anything else that is different?
Yes there certainly is. This pack has tuned chromatic BD and Conga patches. So you can play them on your keyboard!
Super Analog 808 features
- 1168 x 24 bit / 96 kHz wav files.
- Instrument patches for: Battery 3, EXS24, Kontakt 3.
- Patches make use of extensive Round Robin mapping for a more analog feel.
- Also includes tuned Chromatic BD and Conga patches (Kontakt, EXS24, Battery).
- Note: the GURU pack includes the samples + Drum Mashine patches for Guru.
Super Analog 808 is available to purchase for £24.95 GBP.
More information: Loopmasters / Super Analog 808
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