Happy Knobbing
My little video from the modular synth gathering in Fischbach, Germany – more check sequencer.de incl. Forum / Wiki
Alien robot attacks
Goldbaby Productions has released When Alien Drum Robots Attack II, a new sample library featuring drum and fx sounds for electronic music.
WHO IS THIS FOR? People who make: Hip Hop, Drum & Bass, Dub Step, Techno, House, Dub, Break Beat… any genre that needs solid punchy drums with lots of character and plenty of variety.
WHAT WAS USED TO MAKE IT? Everything in Goldbaby’s studio! Using a studio full of vintage and new drum machines, samplers, synths, rack effects, vinyl, tape, real drums and perc, field recordings… this product will give you a huge palette of super solid drums and sweet FX.
When Alien Drum Robots Attack II features
- 2112 samples (24 bit).
- 129 Rex loops.
- 81 Battery 3 Kits.
- 40 Presets and 67 kits for Geist.
- 40 Bundles for Guru.
- 81 EXS24 Patches for Logic.
- 40 Kong Patches and 41 x NNXT Patches for Reason 5.
When Alien Drum Robots Attack II is available to purchase for $39 USD.
Analogue Modular in sync with Reaktor Space Drone
Heavy stuff I must say, enjoy
Dark Ambience theme made mainly with the A-100 Analog Modular System. for some harmonic elements i included a layer from Reaktor Space Drone and 2 samples from Novation X-Station. The beat at the end comes from Roland MC-909.
Björk goes iPad ALL !! the way
http://youtu.be/DzYDl3FuGV4
Bjork will release her new album “Biophilia” as a multimedia project, comprised of 10 separate iPad apps, one for each song. The 10 separate apps will be released under the umbrella of one album app. Expect all kind of interactive options, such as the possibility to remix the tracks in various playback modes and so on. You will be able to get the apps right here in mid-July when Bjork will premiere the apps at the Manchester International Festival next month. The app was co-created in collaboration with interactive artist Scott ‘Sona’ Snibbe. Snibbe is best know for his 2008 work “Falling girl”. In the meantime a first song popped up online, “Crystalline”. “Crystalline” is released formally on Thursday June 30th.
Via SL
Tenori-On Midi Madness
King Tet plays Tenori-On as a midi-controller using the Roland SonicCell desktop synthesizer. Recorded with Zoom Q3HD. The innovative Yamaha Tenori-On has captured the imagination of creative musicians and performers bringing new dimensions and thought processes to music construction. The recent announcement from Yamaha of the iPad variant demonstrates the excitement that continues to surround this instrument.
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VM1 prototype
1 video input has a dark brightness adjustment and the other a light brightness adjustment, this way it is easier to see the wipes.
gieskes.nl/visual-equipment/?file=vm1
“The GVM1 is a video mixer that will adjust its own video sync signal,to the video sync signal that is being send into it. Most standard video mixers will buffer the image information,and send out each frame separately according to there own video sync signal. Most likely resulting in a 1 frame delay of the video signal.”
Juno 60 and Doepfer in perfect harmony
The Roland Juno-60 is a popular analogue 61-key polyphonic synthesizer produced by Roland Corporation in the early 1980s and a successor to the slightly earlier Juno-6. Like its predecessor, the Juno-60 has some digital enhancements, used only for clocking the oscillators and for saving/loading patches. The Juno-60 synthesizer is a six-voice polyphonic synthesizer. The single digitally-controlled oscillator (or DCO for short) per voice gave the Juno-60 a high degree of stability in maintaining tune; most analogue voltage-controlled oscillators (VCOs) of the time would tend to drift in pitch and require re-tuning of the oscillator. The DCO provides sawtooth and square/pulse waveforms as a sound source, in addition to white noise and a square-wave suboscillator pitched one octave beneath the key played. Both of these additional sources can be mixed in with dedicated sliders.
The filters and envelope on the Juno-60 rely on control voltages sent by depressing the keys on the keyboard and were thus analogue. The Juno-60 features a rather distinctive-sounding 24 dB/octave lowpass filter with resonance. Unlike other VCF’s of the day, the Juno-60’s is capable of self-oscillation and thus could be used to some degree as a tone generator in and of itself. The filter section also features controls for envelope amount and polarity, LFO modulation, and keyboard tracking. In addition, a three-position non-resonant highpass filter is provided to thin out lower frequencies.
The signal is then sent through a voltage-controlled amplifier (or VCA) and a simple four-stage ADSR filter envelope. The Juno-60 provides limited options for modulating the audio signal. A single triangle-wave variable-rate LFO is provided as a modulation source; this can be mixed into the DCO to create vibrato or into the lowpass filter to generate a tremolo effect. The LFO can either be triggered manually by the left hand using a large button above the pitch bend lever or set to engage automatically whenever a key was pressed.
In this video:
Various Roland Juno 60 chords are being sent to the Doepfer A 119 module and then shaped and processed through the A121 Multi Mode Filter, which in turn is being modulated by the A 115 Sequencer.
Computer music featuring Barry Schrader
This is the second of two collaborations between Michael Scroggins and Barry Schrader in the late 1980s.
When Michael Scoggins first came to me with quite detailed plans for his computer video work 1921 > 1989, I was struck by the overriding importance of structure in the piece. While it was obviously in three large sections, the intricacies of the details of each section were such that they not only displayed specific characteristics which gave each sections its unique character, they also seemed to exhibit in visual terms the musical qualities of exposition, development, and expanded recapitulation, something akin to the classical sonata form. In addition, the precision of the timing of the movements called for composing a score that would catch the specific “hits” of the action. At the same time, I realized that constantly “stinging” the images would quickly grow tedious; some sort of deflection from the obviously expected was occasionally necessary in this regard. Finally I saw that the limitations of images and colors, which were explored in great detail of variation, demanded a similar approach in the musical materials.
I decided to employ these observations in composing the music, and also to take the attitude of scoring to a preexistent choreography. I saw 1921 > 1989 as a dance, not of human dancers, but of plastic geometric entities, constantly reorganizing themselves in different ways. The music, then, was arrived at by considering the score as if I were composing music to a dance already created. The resulting work reflects these attitudes, moving from accompaniment to counterpoint and back again to a more synchronous style of scoring, thus reflecting the overall structure and plasticity of the piece and creating a unified whole.
For more information, and an explanation of the title, go to barryschrader.com ➔ video
New open source digital musical instrument
Illusio is an open source digital musical instrument that allows the control of real-time recorded loops through collaborative and ludic performances based on relationships between sketches and sounds.
Developed in Processing and Openframeworks, it mixes multitouch technologies with the interaction metaphor of guitar pedals.
Concept and development by Jeraman, finalized in 2011.
Footage by Kamilla de Souza.
Developed with the support of Rumos Itaú Cultural Arte Cibernética 2009.
For further informations, check this site (only in portuguese):
jeraman.info/illusio
Analogue Solutions Tereshkova – Tara´s basic initial tweakings…
My friend Tara Busch in the studio.
“Analogue Solutions Tereshkova – My basic initial tweakings…I have a very simple tweak with the beautiful beast that is the Tereshkova synth by Analog Solutions.”
Enjoy 
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