Sound 8 is an interactive 8 track sound looper
In this application, each sound is represented by a circle of a different color. You can assign a default sound or any of your own imported sounds* to each circle.
A sound’s pitch and volume is altered through the device’s accelerometer or using touch input and gestures. Swipe gestures control the accelerometers speed and allow for randomization of pitch and volume. In addition, each sound’s panning can individually be set.
It is also possible to stop acceleration completely, or to automatically position sounds in “Automove” mode.
To see an example of how to import your own sound files please visit the sound8 support page.
*supported file format is 16-bit mono WAV or AIFF.
maximum sound file size (per circle) is 5.3MB, or ~1minute @44.1kHz 16-bit mono wav.
Lost on tape: All In Your Name – Featuring Michael Jackson
Video uploaded by Barry Gibb: “Michael Jackson and I were the dearest of friends, thats simply what it was. We gravitated towards the same kind of music and we loved collaborating and he was the easiest person to write with. The more we got to know each other the more those ideas entwined and it all came to this song ” All in Your Name”.
“All in Your Name” is infact the message that Michael wanted to send out to all of his fans all over the World that he did it all for them and for the pure love of music. I hope and pray that we all get to hear it in its entirety. This experience i will treasure forever.
Recorded & Filmed at Middle Ear Studios in December 2002. All footage was shot by Ashley Gibb on a high 8 camera. There is over 2 hours of footage.”
Euclidean Rhythms MIDI Pattern Demo
In this video:
This is a short demo of a Java application I wrote that generates polyrhythms based on a mathematical algorithm, also known as Euclidean rhythms. The application sends MIDI notes to connected soft- or hardware. In this demo MIDI is sent to four tracks in Ableton Live, where each track recives on a different MIDI channel.
The video serves as an illustration for an article about the software. Read it here:
http://www.hisschemoller.com/2011/euclidean-midi-patterns
Quasimidi The Raven Max Synthesizer from the year 1996
The Raven is a great quality German made performance synthesizer for creating pumpin’ dance tracks – live or in the studio (or at home)! In essence the Raven is like having a Rave-O-Lution 309 inside a professional keyboard with a sleek look and interface. Strongly aimed at the dance music genre, the Raven offers up great sounds including: Basses, LeadSynths, SynthPads, Natural Sounds, Organs, FM-Percussion, Effects, Drumsets, Tuned Drums and multitimbral Performance patches. An on-board interactive 8-track sequencer, arpeggiators, real-time control knobs and effects equip this nice synthesizer for any electronic musical venture.
The Raven can be upgraded with the RavenMAX card. This increases the sample wave memory from 6 to 14 MB. There are tons of new sounds emphasizing drums, percussion, synths and effect sounds. “Motivator” real-time tweaks can be recorded into the on-board sequencer and there are about 100 “motifs” from other artists and users for instant groove patterns! Note however that the Raven has only 24 voices of polyphony which usually means your songs may be sparse in their arrangement. But creative planning and tricks can still get you by the Raven’s limited polyphony, live and in the studio.
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synthesizer demo by RetroSound
Quasimidi The Raven Max Synthesizer from the year 1996
part1: some sequencer pattern + drums, mute, transpose…
part2: Raven Max sounds + Motivator (arpeggiator, gater, chord-trigger)
Streaming music providers Spotify in bed with Facebook
Although Spotify is not launching in the US today, nor are Facebook and Spotify planning to launch a new music service together, however, the two companies do plan to formalize their already-mutually-beneficial relationship with a neat group-listening feature for Facebook users in countries where Spotify is already available:
1. Facebook will install an icon for Spotify to the left of the news feed. We assume this would appear as a regular app would, because those also show up there, but it’s possible that, as Forbes’ unnamed sources claim, this icon would appear as a default app to all Facebook users in qualifying territories. Apparently, clicking on this icon will install Spotify — the same way the Spotify link that’s been on Facebook since last April already does.
2. More interestingly, Spotify and Facebook will apparently make it possible for users to set up listening rooms where Facebook users can listen to the same music together at the same time and chat about it — much like the feature already offered by Turntable.fm and Listening Room, but with hundreds of millions of users and countless friend networks ready to take advantage of it.
Spotify’s ability to allow even non-paying users hear the songs their friends post in full and its ability to serve up direct links to songs, albums, and playlists makes it as natural a fit for Facebook in those countries as YouTube is in the United States. In addition, Spotify already integrates tightly with Facebook (and Twitter and Windows Messenger) by allowing users to share tracks on those networks from within the desktop app, so that wouldn’t be anything new.
Spotify apparently plans to extend its already-impressive Facebook integration with a new group listening feature similar to the one that’s picking up steam in other quarters. That’s newsworthy to be sure, but some might question whether it warrants the gotta-read-it headline “Facebook To Launch Music Service With Spotify.”
Mike Huckaby with Maschine 1.6
Mike Huckaby has become the busiest remixer from Detroit in the past few years. Mike has been busy producing music on his two labels, Deep Transportation, and S Y N T H, which are well known amongst underground djs worldwide.
With highly acclaimed deep house productions and remixes for Deepchord, Juan Atkins, Vladislav Delay, Pole, Loco Dice, LoSoul, and Pacou, (just to name a few ) Mike sees no end in the near future. Furthermore, Mike Huckaby has been touring, djing, and teaching music production around the globe extensively.
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Watch and learn, as Detroit house producer Mike Huckaby creates a deep house track from scratch within minutes, using only Maschine 1.6 and The Mouth.
Rob Papen’s brand new speaker busting, body rattling software instrument
Demo of Rob Papen Punch virtual drum machine. With Punch, Rob Papen delivers a brand new speaker busting, body rattling software instrument. Punch delivers synthesized drums in the finest audio quality and with breathtaking features for the contemporary producer.
You can can use synthesis and the build in samples to build your own unique sounding drum-kit, but also your own samples can be loaded into Punch to complete your kit. Your sounds can then be crafted using the stunning features, filters and huge synth power we all know from other RP synthesizers. Punch has a unique sound but also built in sequencers, allowing you the user to have multiple patterns at your finger tips. These grooves can be triggered in a live environment to build a song, but are also great for just improvisation and jamming!
Also featured are drum-kits built by famous DJ’s which complete the arsenal of power that is Punch…
NI has released Reaktor 5.6 providing 64bit support
After some month in beta NI has released 64 bit version of our favorit modular synthesizer Reaktor. Lets see what it gives in terms of performance… anyway now you should be able to use massive sample inside Reaktor although initial reports indicates issues exceeding 2GB. Apart from the 64 bit support I would say that the updated module reference manual is very welcome improvement as the version provided with R5 was embarrassingly incomplete. Also a quite long list of bugs have been fixed. Hats off!
New and improved features:
– 64bit support under Windows and Mac OS X
– New “search box” feature for quick module/macro insertion
– Breadcrumb navigation for structures
– Mouse scrolling via modifier key in structure view
– Drag&Drop copy in structure view
– Transparency and frame hiding for XY module
– Time display added to recorder
– PNG support for picture modules
– Updated start templates
– New 700-page “Module Reference” and V5.6 manual addendum
Challenge: Guess the song!!
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
For all you Logic Pro fans out there
Apple has released version 9.1.4 of Logic Pro, the music production software for Mac.
You already know how to write great music. Logic Pro 9 streamlines the technical side of things, so you can record, edit, and mix it, too. Whether you work in a state-of-the-art studio or in your garage, now you can easily put the power of the most advanced tools to work for your projects. Tap into a huge collection of instruments, sounds, and loops for inspiration. Get set up and recording quickly. Perform complex edits in a fraction of the time. And mix down projects of any scale with full automation and surround capabilities. It’s a pro studio that’s not just for pros.
Changes in Logic Pro v9.1.4
- Compatibility
- Logic can now open songs created by GarageBand for iPad.
- Performance and Stability
- Logic now provides more specific messaging when playback is stopped because of hard drive performance issues.
- Resolves an issue in which Logic sometimes performed very slowly after a project that was saved without assets was consolidated.
- Logic no longer quits unexpectedly when copying, pasting, or swapping voices between slots in Ultrabeat.
- 64-bit Mode
- Resolves an issue in 64-bit mode in which a generic interface for some 32-bit plug-ins was displayed.
- Automation
- Resolves an issue in which moving a region to a different Arrange track assigned to the same channel strip could cause automation to be deleted.
- Drag-copy of automation curves now works as expected on grouped tracks.
- Moving an automation node that lies between two other nodes of the same value to the left or right no longer causes it to decrease by -0.1 db in value.
- Resolves an issue introduced in Logic 9.1 in which performing Undo after using the “Move Visible Track Automation to Region” command would delete the automation.
- Audio Editing
- Resolves an issue in which performing Undo after creating an alias for a region would shorten the region in No Overlap mode.
- Audio Regions that contain slashes in the name can now be successfully merged using the Glue Tool or Merge command.
- Quantization of audio regions that have stretched or compressed and contain tempo information now works reliably.
- Quantize and Q-Strength now work properly on regions created by exporting a Comp from a Take Folder.
- Resolves an issue where lengthening an audio region could sometimes cause the audio to unexpectedly stretch.
- Performing Undo after flattening Takes on a group of flexed tracks now works as expected.
- Takes no longer sometimes display as soloed when their parent Take folder is disclosed but not selected.
- Resolves an issue in which moving a take region with Quick Swipe Comping disabled sometimes did not move the corresponding take region(s) in tracks within the same Edit Group.
- Fixes an issue in which dividing a take region that had been created by merging several take regions together could cause the area to the right of the edit to disappear.
- Resolves an issue in which moving a take region with Quick Swipe Comping disabled sometimes did not move the corresponding take region(s) in tracks within the same Edit Group.
- Fixes an issue in which dividing a take region that had been created by merging several take regions together could cause the area to the right of the edit to disappear.
- Resolves an issue in which importing a Take folder into a project with a matching track could cause existing takes to be removed from Take folders in the original track.
- Control Surface Support
- Resolves an issue introduced in Logic 9.1.2 in which pickup mode for generic control surfaces did not work as expected.
- General
- Resolves an issue in which the key commands Next Screenset and Previous Screenset were reversed.
- If the Startup Action preference is set to “Ask,” it is again possible to open a project by dragging it onto the Logic icon while the Startup window is open.
- The default region quantize setting is now maintained after importing channel strips from another project.
Logic Pro is available to purchase as part of Logic Studio for $499 USD.
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