Apple Core MIDI Sync for Looptastic, grüvtron and Ableton Live
Here is a video to show how you set-up Looptastic, grüvtron and Live using Core MIDI and WiFi. This requires iOS 4.2 or above and the latest versions of Sound Trends’ Looptastic HD (iPad), Looptastic Producer (iPhone/iPod touch) and/or grüvtron (iPad or iPhone/iPod touch). To sync with the Mac please use Mac OS 10.6 and a Core MIDI compatible app like Ableton Live, Logic, Reason, etc.
desktop orchestra
Weekend blip treat: ‘she was captain dark down weird’, a two minute, energetic chiptune anthem by montreal artist battle lava sets the sound for an illuminated lab of thirty 24″ imacs. with a mere game boy, battle lava creates novel sounds with the analog waves of yesteryear. the visuals, composed in a single flash document are split for each screen and assigned when desktop orchestra is launched. each display is controlled by a flash applet served by php and can be started and stopped on demand.
desktop orchestra is a personal project made over the course of a year while i studied graphic design in college. it involved composing a synchronized animation of lights for 30 displays, programming in multiple unfamiliar languages, setting up a server, months of trial and error and recording/editing a video. every aspect of this project involves computers and an intimate relationship with their glowing fluorescents and fiery colours. may their waves radiate strong.
internetveterans.org/orchestra
battlelava.bandcamp.com
recorded at dawson college in montreal, 2011
Making thing Endless
Endless Series is unique synthesis and effect plugin based on the Shepard Tone auditory illusion. It generates mind bending infinite scales, psychedelic drones and fascinating sonic textures and works as a tone generator, a ring modulator, phaser, flanger or resonant filter bank effect.
Features:
VST2 / AudioUnit plugin based on the Shepard Tone auditory illusion
Additive tone generator with up to 40 partials
Circular pitch ring modulator, flanger, filter and 24 stage phaser FX
Glissando, auto-stepped and MIDI stepped modes
Many options to tweak harmonicity and timbre
Stereo detune, phase offset and auto-panning
Quantise pitches to 14 different scales
Soft clipping, extra harmonics and noise modulation
Fast ASR amplitude envelope in MIDI stepped mode
MIDI reset-able for repeatable output
Integrated help system
32 high quality factory presets”
Are you prepared for a TURNADO?
Turnado is your new multi-effect tool crafted especially for massive and real-time audio manipulation, providing countless truly unique effects, creating sounds unheard of every time you turn it on. Turnado is both: hands-on stage performance boost and serious tool for studio perfectionism, giving you direct control of up to 8 different effects at any given time, with a total of 24 effects available.
The idea is simple:
Turn a knob and the effect is on.
Turn the knob further and effect parameters start to move and modulations start to apply.
Turn the knob down and the effect is off.
This one-knob-action fits perfectly for all kinds of studio or stage situation where you bang your midi controller creating wicked breaks to let the crowd dance even harder.
While each effect provides one knob to control it, underneath that easy cover you find effect parameters and modulation engines to be controlled by the main knob in all thinkable ways, which makes loading an effect just the starting point of the way you can go with it.
The powerful “Dictator” mode allows you to animate all main knobs and run that animation with just one fader. This way you easily create and control complex effect layerings and arrangements in a new and inspiring way.
Inventing the Turnado effects, the main focus was on beat manipulation, and you will find a lot of loopers, slicers and graintools, as well as distortions, filters and firstclass delays and reverbs. With the extensive modulation possibilities, each effect covers millions of unbelievable sounds that turn into something new anytime you turn the main knob. Turnado is inspiring you again and again with completely new variations of your original sound and groove.
Turnado comes for Mac/PC as Standalone application and VST/AU plugin and will be released in early summer 2011.
In this video:
Turnado takes realtime audio manipulation to the next level.
Just assign effects to knobs and crank them up! Lots of new
granulizing, freezing, filtering, slicing, looping and scratching effects
have been developed to make Turnado the best effect you ever had!
Moog Lunar Impact!
http://youtu.be/RUyx-5v84GE
Full review of Korg’s new Analogue Ribbon Station
Are you ready to open your wallet? The monotribe Analog Ribbon Station – bringing responsive realtime control to analog groove-making.
Monotribe highlights:
* The powerful sound of true analog synthesis
* 3-part analog drums, using discrete analog circuitry
* Popular Electribe-style sequencing
* Active Step and Flux features for realtime dynamic loop manipulation
* Advanced multi-function ribbon keyboard; Chromatic, Continuous, & Wide mode
* Auto-tuning provides stable pitch for accurate chromatic playability
* Selectable oscillator waveform, noise generator, and versatile LFO
* Uses the same VCF (filter) circuit as the classic MS-10/MS-20
* Sync In & Out jacks allows synchronized integration with multiple units
* Battery operation, built-in speaker and compact size deliver on-the-go groove-making
In a world seemingly ruled by digital, Korg created an analog sensation with the palm-sized monotron Analogue Ribbon Synthesizer. Korg has once again raised the analog banner with the amazing monotribe Analog Ribbon Station; a new form of synthesizer that packs an amazing array of features and technology into its compact body. Korg’s monotribe shares the monotron’s analog DNA, yet quickly delves deeper into the rich, organic, and often chaotic world of analog synthesis. In addition to analog synthesis, monotribe brings together intuitive ease of use and a three-part discrete analog rhythm section, plus the proven appeal of Electribe-style sequencing. Complete with a built-in speaker and battery power, monotribe is self-contained and highly portable.
In this video:
Full review of Korg”s new Analogue Ribbon Station.
Article: http://www.sonicstate.com/news/2011/05/26/sonic-lab-korg-monotribe/
Many thanks to those who posted questions in the comments here and on our site on the un-boxing video. I hope we answered all/most of your queries.
Advanced Noise Removal
Marie Ebbing & Jonathon Stevens offer advanced noise removal services for music and film post production using a suite of tools by the software developer Algorithmix. These noise removal tools are divided into 2 categories, broadband — including surface noise, hiss & hum; and transient — including camera hydraulics, coughs, page turns and other instantaneous noises.
Their use of these tools extends into the non-standard as well. They can remove unwanted dialog and music from stereo or multi-channel master recordings. Rebalancing or complete removal of instruments in a master recording is also possible and on occasion pitch correction to a specific instrument in a mix. All of this is done with the utmost respect to the sound quality of your original master.
Projects that have benefited from their noise removal services include:
Tron: Legacy, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, Capitalism, Public Enemies, San Francisco Symphony’s Keeping Score Series, The Lord of the Rings: Complete Music Boxed sets
Challenge: Guess the song! No one knows what this is???
Yesterday I posted this challenge and I only got one answer, which was The Dolphin Brothers, not a bad guess but still not even close. So give it a shot and guess who made this song. I am sure someone ought to know, let me know if you need more hints….perhaps this image may help:
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Hi everyone
Today your are all up for a challenge. We have uploaded parts of a song on our SoundCloud player and it is your job to figure it out which one this is 
First we would like you to mention which are the three featured artists that has produced this mini EP from 1983 and if you are truly skilled please also mention what this album was called. It is truly an interesting trio that has shaped this album so keep on guessing, we are sure you will figure it out.
Small hint – one of the three is part of one of the most famous groups of all times and they all share relations with Brian Eno.
Leave your answers in the commenst section, it will soon be revealed:
Secret song 1 by Stereoklang Produktion
MUSIC WITH 1000 PAIRS OF JEANS
Pretty funny and useless
M Jeans loves jeans.
We believe that even ill-fitting jeans have something to contribute. That’s why we asked many of our customers to send us their obsolete pair…
…And approached artist Andrew Huang to do something never heard before: Create a musical celebration of jeans.
Ableton Tutorial – Ping Pong Delay
http://www.pointblankonline.net/mixing-dance-music-course—ableton.php In this video, Danny J Lewis (Defected, Enzyme Black) demonstrates how a ping pong delay can be used to build tension in a build up before the groove kicks back in.
This is the first of the series of tutorials taken from the Mixing Dance Music in Ableton course (http://www.pointblankonline.net/mixing-dance-music-course—ableton.php)
DATAMASKIN
