Damaging Admission and 3 Killer Techniques in Reaktor
The long-awaited conclusion of the series on Native Instruments REAKTOR’s Newscool, including a damaging admission and 3 killer techniques for using Newscool in your music.
Here’s a new free drum rack for Live, enjoy
Voltage Disciple has released a free drum rack for Ableton Live, VOLT100A,.
Here’s what they have to say about it:
The lost VOLT100A free Ableton LIVE Pack.
A 96kHz 24 bit glitch drumrack containing 22 unique tortured sounds from a mysterious old analogue synth combined with a glitch FX rack and some New York Compression.
This pack is compatible with LIVE and LIVE Suite.
Visit Voltage Disciple, download the LIVE Pack, choose install LIVE pack from within LIVE and enjoy the torture. While you are there check out our other great LIVE packs.
VOLT100A is available now as a free download from the Voltage Disciple freebies page.
Teaser: Reason Refill optimized for tablet synths
This is preview of “XYZ- Tablet Synth” combinator device from Navi Retlav – Missing Pieces Refill.
If you have tablet, or any device with multi axis controls like kinect and software for transforming it in to midi controller, this combinator will help you to play music and fx-es with your favorite synth sound. Audio Samples from this video are not included in this refill.
New Reason Refill Coming Soon !
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Reformat the Planet – the history of chip music
Reformat the Planet (RTP) is a feature length documentary which delves into the movement known as chip music, a vibrant underground scene based around creating new, original music using obsolete video game hardware. Familiar devices such as the Nintendo Game Boy and Nintendo Entertainment System are pushed in new directions with startling results.
This version of Reformat the Planet is tailored specifically for Youtube with all new annotations. If you have never watched the film before you may want to turn them off for the first viewing.
Reformat the Planet is available to purchase on DVD from 2 Player Productions at-
http://shop.indieblitz.com/2player
This all new 2 disc set features remastered picture and audio as well as tons of bonus features.
DISC 1: REFORMAT THE PLANET:
All new Director’s Cut of Reformat the Planet
Commentary track with the Filmmakers
Additional Interviews
Deleted Scenes
Trailers
DISC 2: REFORMAT THE PLANET 1.5:
All new documentary short RTP 1.5
Commentary track with the Filmmakers
Music videos
Conversations feat. Johan Kotlinkski, Peter Swimm, and David Sugar
Chip music tutorials feat. Glomag and Bit Shifter
Plus a full color 16-page collector’s booklet featuring photos and all new essays from critics and noted members of the chip community.
Kinectic sound art piece
On Rainlith, the primitive naturally granular sound of a big rainstick gets explored in real-time by cyber-age sound manipulation tools.
It’s an interactive piece in witch the movement of the audience’s body activates an electric motor, making a reflex movement on the structure that embraces the instrument.
The sound of the rainstick is captured and processed in realtime, and sent 24 meters above, filling the empty space of a old industrial cereal container. The reverberated acoustic mix is then received back by the audience in the spot right below the opening of the container.
hardware:
microsoft kinect
arduino duemilanove
H-bridge (hand made)
24v 6A DC motor
CPU
zoom H4N
FM emitter / receiver
ion ipa3 portable speaker
software:
MAX/MSP
Max for Live
OSCeleton
OpenNI
Nite
toxiclibs
Creating melodies that evolve over time
Muze is an Arduino instrumentalist who creates melodies that evolve over time.
Muze has a palette of notes that it can in-turn interpret and compose into various rhythms and phrases that are strung together to form something musical. The user can then influence these strings of notes and rhythms to create entirely new compositions. Much like you would a tune a radio to get a new song, Muze can be tuned to provide new and different melodies.
In the interest of keeping Muze from becoming another knob laden techno-fest of an instrument, interaction has been limited to just one input.
Created by Joshua Maruska and Adam Kumpf.
Find out more at: labs.teague.com
Brian Eno lecture in Russia
I was in Moscow last week, it is a shame I missed this 
“Eno talks about the history of music and painting in the twentieth century and how the two came together. He also talks about his own work in relationship to twentieth century music and painting.”
Record sounds, cut and loop them and create rhythms out of them
Jörg Piringer has released RealBeat, a sampler software that enables you to record sounds, cut and loop them and create rhythms out of them.
RealBeat for Mac is not a fully fledged sequencer or sound software it rather offers simple and fast access to sampling and manipulating recorded sounds live or at home. Don’t expect a feature-laden software but lots of fun with your own samples & sounds.
RealBeat features
- Simple interface.
- Sampler (record sounds easily).
- Text to Speech (let your computer speak for you).
- Looping of sounds.
- Modify the sound (pitch, reverse, distortion, reverb, …).
- Sequencer (make rhythms).
- Semi-automatic rhythm creation.
- Patterns (modify the rhythm easily).
- Export sounds.
- Resample sounds.
- Works with internal microphone (or line-in) and external sound interfaces.
RealBeat for Mac is available to purchase for $5.99 USD / 4.99 EUR.
Accessory – Shout It Out
Dirty fun from the masters of Power Electronics! Directed by Jörg Riethausen.
The song is taken from Accessory’s upcoming album called Underbeat.
Sequetron 8.06 Virtual Test Drive
Shows how to install the free LE version from scratch, and configure it for your MIDI playback device.
Uses a virtual keyboard so you can try it out without having to connect a real one.
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