Monomatic – Modular Music Box, Electromagnetic Music Sequencer 2010
Strange sounds but nice, here´s what the author has to say about it:
The Modular Music Box consists of several interconnected, plug-and-play devices that collectively reproduce the functionality of the familiar 19th century clockwork musical instrument.
At the heart of the piece is a custom-made electro-magnetic rotary sequencer. Melodies are stored on a series of interchangeable, acrylic, 10″ disks embedded with small magnets arranged in a regular circular grid. In the same way vinyl records are located on a turntable these disks are centered on a spindle and rotate over a ‘play head’ made up of a line of magnetic field sensors — effectively replicating but superseding the set of pins on the revolving cylinder that pluck the tuned teeth of a steel comb in the traditional device. Additional units are ‘daisy-chained’ to each other via single cables and include a self contained and controllable sound source (to hear and effect the musical output) and an animated representation of a dancing ballerina automaton — realised as a modern-day interpretation of the praxinoscope (the successor to the zoetrope — the popular visual parlour toy of its era — but which improved on it by replacing its narrow viewing slits with an inner circle of mirrors).
Monomatic : Nick Rothwell and Lewis Sykes
http://www.monomatic.net/
The bluebox synthesizer – how to use the bank keys
We have reported on the Bluebox before, here’s another demo:
The bluebox pocket synthesizer can also be used as a drum box, that can synthesize drum sounds that you simply can’t make on any other drummachine. Unlike most synthesizers it can also process noise in all stages in the synthesis.
* 72 preset sounds, that can be edited and saved.
* Sounds are saved and retained in flash memory.
* One octave keyboard, with real-time access to 3 octaves.
* Free sound editor for MIDI control via your computer.
* MIDI-in: Syncs to MIDI clock, Responds to Program Change, Pitch Bend, Note Velocity, Expression Controller, Breath Controller, full parameter control by CC messages and more.
* MIDI-out: Notes, Program Change, mod. wheel, CC and more is available via breakout cable.
Techno-trance meets Ewan Dobson – Time 2 – Guitar
Pretty cool I must say 
CD & Guitar Tabs available at http://www.candyrat.com
Also available on itunes and amazon
Visit Ewan Dobson at http://www.facebook.com/ewan.dobson and http://www.myspace.com/ewanguitar
Review: eXode’s Club Soundset V1 Reason 5 Refill
We have taken a closer look at the new Reason Refill from eXode – Club Soundset V1. eXode is a well known producer of high quality Refills in the Propellerhead Reason community and has released several that are available for free download at the Propellerhead site.
To start of with, if you enjoy eXode´s previous Refills just as much as we do here at Stereoklang, then you wont be dissapointed with the Club Soundset V1 Refill. And don´t be fooled by the name – “Club” is not really a name that fully defines what this Refill is all about. In classic eXode spirit the Refill is filled with very nice high quality bass lines, pads and synth keys in the spirit of Moog, Waldorf, Korg etc. Fat sounding pad CMBs has always been a strong trademark of eXode and this Refill nicely follows in this tradition.
CMBs has always been the strength of eXode and to summarize this Refill will not make you dissapointed from that perspective, if you are producing any form of electro, synth or dance music you will definitely find something that triggers your inspiration in this Refill. Specifically we enjoy the bass synths and sequenced CMBs included. From one perspective one could have wished that there were more CMBs included, with somewhat more variations and perhaps more Combinators following in the tradition of eXode’s Sonic Waves Refill which included a number of really cool arpeggiated CMBs.
Below you can find some sound samples from the Club Soundset V1 Refill:
EXode – Club Soundset V1 – sound samples by Stereoklang Produktion
New to eXode, we believe at least, is the inclusion of 15 pre-sets for the Reason KONG drum machine. So based on this one weren´t really sure what to expect – would it be a bunch of inspiring FX drum synth sounds or more standard drum sounds. Well they are perhaps standard techno, EBM, club dance drums but they are very nice sounding and true to classic sounds of the 808 and similar sounding drum machnes. I think the real treat here is the way eXode has set up the pre-sets – the combination and the placing of the drums relative to the pads. We tried the pre-sets using an Akai MPC and it turned out to work our really well, which is good from a live drumming perspective.
Finally eXode has included a large chunk of Thor patches providing you with pleasure of really getting to know the Thor synth and the power it presents the user with. Among the 128 patches for the Thor you will for example here sounds reminiscent of the Sylenth and DUNE, we like
Conclusively: Club Soundset V1 from eXode will be a nice edition to your Reason archive and we will definitely continue monitor upcoming releases from eXode, with great pleasure. Below you can read what eXode himself has to say about the Refill:
I have been at hard work designing sound that work well for the clubs.
You can listen to three teasers of this soundset on my soundcloud site. Also the original wav files are downloadable so that you can listen to them in all their uncompressed glory.
I’ve tried to show some of the sounds in a musical context and not just presets on parade. An ambition with this soundset was to create sounds for Reason that could rival with Sylenth1 and DUNE in terms of sound.
The Club Soundset V1 contains the following:
- 128 Thor patches
- 64 Combinator patches
- 12 drumkits for Kong
Pricing and Availability:
€25
More information:
iControlMIDI. Plug & Play iPad Editors for Vintage & Software synths
iXpander – iControlMIDI on iTunes
“Leveraging 2 years of experience in designing GUI for control surface and 25+ years of experience in designing synthesizers sounds, we are bringing the best of those experiences to the iPad with iControlMIDI for Oberheim Xpander / Matrix-12, namely iXpander (excluding Modulation Matrix).
iControlMIDI is a UI Friendly and Workflow Efficient Solution that let you control your MIDI machines and software, simply from your iPad.
iControlMIDI is Plug & Play (actually there is nothing to plug!).
In 3-clicks on your Mac or couple of clicks on your PC, you are up and running…
iControlMIDI uses your:
• iPad with WiFi connectivity
• WiFi router (like an AirPort)
• [MAC] MacOS / Utilities / AudioMIDISetup / Network (MIDI Network Sessions)
• [PC] rtpMIDI and Apple Bonjour
iControlMIDI let you control all MIDI controllable parameters.
Parameter Name and Value displayed on iControlMIDI UI are the same as the ones displayed on your synth if you were to program it from its control panel!
iControlMIDI offers 3-Controls per Parameter:
• + button: precise +1 parameter value adjustment
• – button: precise -1 parameter value adjustment
• Slider: full range parameter value adjustment
iControlMIDI is a Workflow Efficient Solution as it offers UI Consistent Synth Functions, for example, the VCF functions are grouped on the same iControlMIDI Page.
iControlMIDI integrates with your DAW. Real-time parameters adjustments triggered on iControlMIDI can be recorded and playback on your DAW.
iControlMIDI is a Zero [Mac] and Low [PC] Dependencies Solution; iControlMIDI relies on iOS 4.2 CoreMIDI and MacOS CoreMIDI frameworks is 100% MIDI, 100% iOS and 100% MacOS compatible and:
• Does not require to pay for additional software or have additional software installed on your Mac; requires to download rtpMIDI and Apple Bonjour on your PC
• Does not require to pay for additional hardware
• Does not require to do message mapping
• Does not require to design a UI on your Mac or PC and upload/sync it on your iPad
• Does not require to design a UI on your iPad.
With iControlMIDI, we are offering you to be immediately operational, so you can focus on your music (not on the IT/MIDI part of it!) and unleash your creativity.
iControlMIDI is designed by Electronic Musicians for Electronic Musicians.”
REAKTOR’s Newscool – Sequencer Controls
Get up the learning curve on one of Native Instrument’s REAKTOR’s most out-there sequencers…
Shared by bkallmer
What the Mooger Fooger MF-105b actually does
A run thru of what the Mooger Fooger MF-105b actually does.
Bypassed all other fx & is Bass (Ibanez SR-1000) plugged straight into the mf-105b & then into a mixer & recorded into GarageBand.
I run through some animations & how the filters work & then use it as a drive pedal.
My Dubstep Dn’B sound that I’ve created so far using a Moog MF-105b, a Moog MF-101, a Boss CE-3 chorus (on loan from a good friend) & a 80s PSK SDS-2 distortion pedal.
Arturia Moog Modular V Sound Demo
Kid Nepro Arturia Moog Modular V Collection. A cool mix of 100 new virtual analog patches that will spice up your Arturia Moog Modular V.
More info at: www.kidnepro.com
The bluebox synthesizer, a short introduction
The basic thought of the bluebox is simple. If you want to play different sounds you just hit the triggers like on a drum set. If you want to play different notes then it’s just to press the keys like on a piano. And if you want to edit a sound it’s just like an old analog synthesizer, you just press the key to listen and turn the knob.
Virtual tonewheel organ
Wildnoise has released WildOrgan, a virtual tonewheel organ instrument plugin for Windows.
The WildOrgan is a virtual Organ-simulation, which can emulate various organ types. An extensive set of controls is available and 50 presets are included already.
The plugin can be used with VST hosts and is suitable for use wit hthe OpenArt-System. In addition to the regular user interface all functions can be controller via a MIDI controller. The controller layout can be configured for optimal usage.
WildOrgan for Windows (VST) is available to purchase for 58 EUR.
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