Piratebay revisited
Just needed to share this nice picture – pirating the old scool way 
Brainwaves in music, kind of :-)
Well this is what you get. This is how to use coreMIDI in Brainwave 1.1. Brainwave is a clip based MIDI sequencer for the IPad. Bring your melodies and drum beats into life with the streamlined and intuitive MIDI clip editor. Assemble and arrange entire songs with the Arrangement editor. Control up to 16 instruments using the built-in sampler. Use the built-in audio samples to quickly get up and running, or use your own samples for even more creative sounds. Then produce and export MIDI files to be imported to your favourite Digital Audio Workstation software. All this inside of an ergonomic and minimalist user interface that will help get your inspiration to fruition.
For more information: http://www.facebook.com/pages/Brainwave/139992022734576
A must see!! Depeche Mode’s “Behind the Wheel” performed as you have never heard it before
Depeche Mode’s song “Behind The Wheel” played on the Norrköping Town House bells
Krystal System, Siva Six and more released on Alfa Matrix
In to this then check these tracks out. 5 new releases from the Belgian electro label Alfa Matrix have hit iTunes.
These include the brand new releases from Siva Six, Krystal System and the label’s newest Depeche Mode tribute featuring 31 covers by the label’s artist roster. Here are the releases and the link to iTunes:
- SIVA SIX – ‘The Twin Moons’ http://tryth.at/iplwh
- SIVA SIX – ‘Alfa & Omega’ http://tryth.at/ialir
- KRYSTAL SYSTEM – ‘Nuclear’ http://tryth.at/ikoxb
- KRYSTAL SYSTEM – ‘Nuclear Electronik Projekt’ http://tryth.at/ijdrx
- V/A – ‘Alfa Matrix re:covered vol. 2 – a tribute to Depeche Mode’ http://tryth.at/iiwk8
For the fans, you can equally order the 1st volume of the Depeche Mode Tribute on iTunes: http://tryth.at/iqom6
Nice little step sequencer with 8 steps and 8 mutable tracks
Nice 8×8 matrix mixer/multiple for all kinds of duties: Mixing of course, it’s also great for gradual building up drones through muting/unmuting etc… Very versatile and sturdily built. If you use something like the Doepfer A-160/161 Clock Sequencer for the 8 inputs, you get a nice little step sequencer with 8 steps and 8 mutable tracks. Musically these sketches are embarrassingly outdated and 20 years too late, I know, but otoh, who cares. Take it as a bit of nostalgia This channel is not for my musical output anyway, Katavist’s videos should serve (ideally) only as a source of inspiration for *your* creativity with all this new modular stuff. Thank you for watching!
The Clavia Nord Modular G2 in action
The Clavia is definitely a good synth. No doubt, computers have become a natural part of today’s music production. The process of editing sounds and sequences is so much easier from a computer screen. Still keyboard players have the need for portable instruments. Nord Modular G2 offers you the best of both worlds and provides an effective solution for the working musician. While remaining true to the traditional modular synthesis concept it manages to go where no modular synthesizer has ever gone before.
Download the free Richard Devine Modular G2 soundbank.
THE BEST OF TWO WORLDSThe G2 concept is based on a stand alone hardware keyboard with a freely configurable sound synthesis architecture and a software user interface (Editor) made for Mac OSX and PC. The sound engine in the G2 synthesizer runs on a group of digital signal processors (DSP’s), together with high resolution AD and DA converters. A G2 sound is named a Patch and is made with virtual modules and cables. Simply ‘drag & drop’ modules and cables directly on the computer screen to create your own G2 sounds. A Patch can be modeled after an existing synth or it can be the synthesizer of your dreams.THE MODULAR CONCEPTIt doesn’t matter whether you’re an 80’s retro fanatic or a producer of the most recent club music. With the G2 you can develop sounds similar to those created by old analog patch synthesizers or simulate acoustic instruments. You can also push yourself into a world of sounds that no single instrument has ever delivered before. While sample players remain cold as ice, the G2 modular architecture offers warmth and presence to your sound. Moreover, the average G2 patch uses about 3(!) kilobytes of memory, which makes sharing over the Internet a piece of cake. To get the feel of how it works, consider the way a guitarist connects his boxes and pedals. You build the sound piece by piece on the computer screen in a simple and intuitive way following your desired signal flow. Many of the G2 modules were also found in traditional analog synthesizers. Among the selection are well-known building blocks such as oscillators, filters, sequencers and envelope generators as well as more complex modules like vocoders, pitch tracker and the mystic Bode shifter. You can also build your own unique FX processors and run both internal and external signals through them. Future upgrades will be available for free from www.clavia.se. Combine all this editing power with a logical, user-friendly knob panel and you have the most flexible synthesizer ever seen – the Nord Modular G2!
In this video:
Music made with Future Retro Revolution (the basic drum) & Clavia Nord Modular G2. My video ressources are available for commercial use via www.earthviews.de
Ready for some hypnotic dancing? – New VST has arrived
The Hypnotic Dance VST Sound Instrument Set offers an ensemble of 300 synth-laden dance sounds complemented by 100 step modulator presets for your HALion Sonic (version 1.5.2), HALion Sonic SE (version 6.0.2, included with any Cubase 6 family member) and HALion 4 VST instruments. The custom-designed macro page provides direct access to solid bass lines, cutting-edge leads and spherical pads — perfectly suited for everything from trance to techno
Background:
VST Sound Instrument Sets provide high-quality content straight out of the box, expanding the used sound library with fantastic-sounding VST Sound presets and MIDI loops. In order to provide attractive sound sets Steinberg is working together with various sound designers and artists to churn out content that is categorized and easy-to-use for all kinds of music productions, while expanding the sound libraries of products like Cubase or Sequel. One or more demo songs are included to show you the full creative potential of each instrument set.
- High-quality VST 3 sound presets and/or MIDI loops
- Categorized in easy-to-use instrument presets and MIDI loops
- Exclusively available as easy download
- Windows and Mac installer available
How about making a virtual synth out of beer bottle samples?
AfroDjMac continues persistently to deliver new racks for Ableton, just as he has promised, and this week we are heading for beer. Here’s what he says about it. Ableton Live Instrument Rack created by blowing on a Red Stripe Lager bottle and sampling the tone. Effects are then layered, including a tremolo using Ableton’s Auto Pan effect. I created a little beat and left you the stems, which I encourage you to remix. Send anything you make to afrodjmac.com or soundcloud.com/afrodjmac and I will post it.
Download the Live set here: http://bit.ly/freesynth8
it includes two versions, one with Sampler and one with Simpler.
Background info:
Sometime, about two thirds into a mid-winter “I wish I was on a tropical island” fantasy, the iPod shuffle Gods brought me The Rolling Stones’ “Sympathy for the Devil.” As I found myself increasingly lost in the antics of Jagger, Richards and company, I realized that when I blew over the top of my frosty bottle of Red Stripe, the tone was perfectly in tune with the “whoo whooo’s” that adorn most of the track. As awesome as I thought this was, I couldn’t resist another cold taste, and justified it by figuring I would drink until I found an equally harmonious tone. Soon thereafter the idea for this synth was born.
I have sampled a couple of tones from those very Red Stripe bottles, as well as others from a plastic water bottle. These two slightly different tones are mixed together to create this weeks Free Weekly Ableton Live Rack. From there, I added an Auto Filter with macro knobs to control the various parameters and LFOs; next I used Ableton’s Auto Pan to create a tremolo effect that is synced to the master tempo. A delay set to repitch mode is followed to add some fun twisting effects, followed by an Erosion plug in to add some noise for character. I especially like this particular synth for its tremolo effect, which is easily modulated thanks to the macro knob.
Daybehavior out with a new single
Check out the new single from Dabehavior called Silent dawn.
Daybehavior – Silent Dawn (Single Edit) by Stereoklang Produktion
Silent Dawn, taken from our forthcoming third album Follow that Car! which will be released later this summer.
Silent Dawn is a suggestive, dreamy pop song, slow but yet with a catchy chorus. It’s representative for our specific sound.
Read more about the band here: www.daybehavior.com
Stereoklang also has an interview with the band that you can find right here >>
Check out the new Slide Control for the iPad
Slide Control is an iPad music application for musicians. This application makes improvisation easier. You can choose any scale (major, minor, pentatonic, blues …) and slide your finger to play any melody. With Slide Control it does not have bad grades, your movements are in harmony. Easier to play !! Easier to improvise !! Easier to create !! More imagination!!
Features:
★ Very simple application for very simple improvisation
★ Video tutorial Include
★ Many scale for best improvising (major, minor, pentatonic, blues …)
★ Polyphonic Control
★ Choose from 11 different wallpaper
★ Program change/ Bank change
★ All Midi CC support on Y direction
★ 16 Midi channel
★ Quick switch Sustain / Partamento / Legato
★ Quick switch Oct +1
★ MIDI Device support – connect devices via the Camera Connection Kit (near zero latency)
★ Measured latency over WiFi to OS X: 2-5ms
★ Fullscreen
★ Cool Animation
★ More to come!
Slide Control is an Midi controller. NO SOUND is generate by the ipad. You must have a virtual synth or hardware midi instrument for use Slide Control.
Compatible with all AU, VST…
In this video:
Playing with iOS Music Apps in a very different way using the app Slide Control (iPad) for controlling the Mac version of NanoStudio, a very famous app for iPhone/iPod Touch/iPad, via wi-fi coreMIDI.
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