Ready to tweak some real analog hardware?
KORG monotribe x 12 (Relay).
Here’s what is mentioned about the video (Google translate from Japanese):
Latest Video Clips analog synthesizer monotribe ribbon, playing with cars monotribe12.
12 and the first one to master first, all in sync by the sync cable.
Each play is responsible for three to four. You play with one at a time sequence, Once a favorite phrase and rhythm, we will relay to the next.
Background:
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 modes
* 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
Booglitchoo – prototype of a new instrument
A fairly final breadboard prototype of my new instrument: a 4-voice oscillator (NTE4093) with low pass filter (TL082) and a ‘robot voice modulator’ and bit destroyer (HT8950) all through a nice notch filter at the end (also a TL082).
Ditched the other f/x ideas and may simply add some kind of sequencer to change up the oscillator rhythms, but after going through tons of permutations this is the sound I like.
More info here:
http://sounding.com/blog/2011/06/22/booglitchoo-synth-prototype/
“HIP HOP COMPOSER” – Refill Collection for REASON 5.0
Goodness Gracious Productions and Quicktrackz Entertainment is a new team based out of the US delivering their first Reason Refill focusing on Hip Hop and electronic music artists, check it out
Here’s what they have to say about it:
Goodness Gracious Productions and Quicktrackz Entertainment announce the release of Hip Hop Composer v1.0 – The Refill Collection. Containing an arsenal of custom created new sounds for any Propellerhead Reason 5 User, the unmatched quality and sonic presence in this Refill sets this sound library in a class of its own. Select recordings picked from over 5000+ hours of studio sessions with some of the hottest names in the business along with the high quality multi-sampling of select instruments have led to the creation of this unique sound library. Perfectly
matched for todayʼs modern Hip Hop, Electronic and Dance producers Hip Hop Composer is its own virtual workstation of sounds.
* Two Reason 5 Refills – A total of 3.7GB
* Complete with Drums, Leads, Basses, Keys, Pads, Strings, Brass, Bells and Arpeggio Instruments.
* Featuring over 1,000 playable instruments patches in Kong, Combinator, NNXT, Malstrom, Subtractor, Thor and Redrum formats.
* Over 700 One-Shot Drum and Percussion samples.
Right out of the box Hip Hop Composer instruments have been layered and crafted for a thicker radio ready feel over other sound libraries that may need a lot of mixing of tweaking for a sound to fit into your production. If youʼre looking to step-up your tracks and are in need some of the hottest sounds, less hassle and an all-in-one sound library solution for Reason 5, then Hip Hop Composer is for you! Look out for it at your favorite Music Retailer or visit www.HipHopComposer.com to order, download or for more information.
* Audio Demoʼs available at: www.HipHopComposer.com
* Price: $199.99 MSRP
* Available Now at www.HipHopComposer.com
Human League tours North America
The Human League have announced their North American Tour plans for their upcoming release to be distributed this fall on EMI, titled “Credo”. This is the first tour in over 15 years that includes Canadian dates Vancouver and Toronto. They will be supported by special guests Canadian New Wave legends Men without Hats.
Here are the dates taking place in August:
- Thu 1st Alpine, CA – The DC @ Viejas
- Fri 2nd Hollywood, CA – The Hollywood Bowl
- Sat 3rd Sausalito, CA – Sausalito Arts Festival
- Sun 4th Las Vegas, NV – Mandalay Bay
- Wed 7th Sacramento, CA – Thunder Valley Casino
- Thu 8th Saratoga, CA – Mountain Winery
- Fri 9th Jacksonville, OR – Britt Festival
- Sat 10th Woodinville, WA – Chateau Ste. Michelle
- Sun 11th Vancouver, Canada – Rickshaw Theatre
- Thu 15th Denver, CO – Summitt Music Hall
- Fri 16th Kansas City, KA – Uptown Theater
- Sat 17th Chicago, IL – Oysterfest
- Sun 18th Toronto, Canada – Guvernment
- Tue 20th Buffalo, NY – Riviera Theater
- Wed 21st Philadelphia, PA – Keswick Theatre
- Thu 22nd Boston, MA – House of Blues
- Fri 23rd New York, NY – Best Buy Theatre
Experience the magic in Gravitarium2!
Slightly of track, but still a pretty cool app. Gravitarium 2 combines music, art and science in one relaxing experience. Use all your fingers to guide the star flow. You can create 10 different animations depending on the number of fingers touching the screen:
1 – Rocket, 2 – Sparkle, 3 – Energy flow, 4 – Atomic, 5 – 3D freeze, 6 – Circularium, 7 – Fish, 8 – Vortex, 9 – Lasers, 10 – Lightning.
Use different options to create spectacular drawings made of stars. You can load the “Drawing” preset from the “Options” screen.
You can even connect to random user (or a friend) and play together with the stars. You can always send a “Like” message to let the other player know you enjoy your connected game. There’s a leaderboard available that lets you discover the best G2 players.
The soundtrack is amazing! 10 different tracks push you further away into a deep relaxation state. If you’re connected to a remote user, you even share the same music ambiance.
Unleash your creativity and create unique masterpieces!
Features:
* Multitouch (upto 10 touch points in single mode, 20 in multiplayer mode)
* Thousands of particles animated at 60 frames per second
* Changing/manual colors
* Play/pause the animation
* Save snapshots to your Photo Library
* Original soundtrack (includes 10 relaxing tracks by Silent Strike)
* Multiple animation options (ex: speed, tail, size, opacity, etc.)
* Ability to save and load option presets
* Multiple play modes: default, drawing, tranquility and user defined
* Multiplayer over wifi/internet (auto-match or invite-a-friend)
* Ability to send “likes” and GameCenter friend requests
* Leaderboards: “like” count, overall time spent, overall time spent connected
* Syncronized options and soundtrack during multiplayer sessions
Reason as a powerful mastering tool
Thanks to its external audio sampling and sample-playback capabilities, Propellerhead Reason 5 makes a handy mastering solution for your music irrespective of that music’s origin platform. SO long as you can bounce your music to a WAV file, you can play it back in Reason 5 and feed it through the impressive-sounding MClass rack effects.
While that may sound fairly straightforward, there are some nuances to this method. For instance: what device in Reason 5 should you use to playback your unmastered audio? That and more are covered in this methodical how-to video.
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Improvisation with the Wicks Looper electronic instrument
Improvisation with the Wicks Looper electronic instrument. Part of the Regents Lecture concert by Amar Chaudhary at the Center for New Music and Audio Technologies (CNMAT) at U.C. Berkeley on March 4, 2011.
New powerful release from SoundCells – Digital Genome
In modern molecular biology, the genome is the entirety of an organism´s hereditary information. It is encoded either in DNA or in case of this fine ReFill it´s the AMIGA1200 encoded in Reason´s NNXT samples. The AMIGA1200 (code-named ‘Channel Z‘) with it´s 8-bit Paula chip was extremely popular among producers all over the world in the early nineties. “Digital Genome” picks up the thread where Soundcells left with “bitBUMPER deluxe” with it´s funky, housy and spacy lo-fi character! Warm, gritty, sleezy, dangerous and nostalgic are the keywords. This ReFill can be used as a full workstation since everything the old Amiga had to offer is in there: basses, keys, lead synths, warm pads and enough drums and percussion to eat your heart out. And do not forget the wonderful FX section. The 170+ Genome combinators are conveniently built up with the right button functionality. Version 2 adds 25 new combinator patches, some minor additions/changes in detail as well as great new backdrops…
CYLON Voice iPhone App – it transforms your voice like a robot
The CYLON VOICE is voice transformer on your iPhone. When you talk to this App, it repeats your words soon in robot voice.
If you tap their face, it turns gold color and change their voice.
Download from this link:
http://bit.ly/lGFmvI
Experimental best of compilations from Mute
Mute are about to release the first 2 installments in the “An Introduction To…” compilation series. The series will launch with “This Is The Balanescu Quartet” and “Konnecting… I Start Counting, Fortran 5, Komputer” (showcasing the pure pop side of the duo Simon Leonard and David Baker through their three incarnations). The series aims at providing an introduction into the world of some of Mute’s artists ‘whose broad body of work would benefit from an easy entry point’ as the label says.
Forthcoming releases in 2012 include Crime And The City Solution, Anita Lane, Fad Gadget, Cabaret Voltaire and Add N To (X) with more to follow.
Here’s the tracklisting for “This Is The Balanescu Quartet”:
- Aria (Maria T)
- Autobahn (Possessed)
- Coppice (Angels and Insects)
- East (Luminitza)
- Wine’s So Good (Maria T)
- Model (Possessed)
- Revolution (Luminitza)
- Waltz (Angels and Insects)
- The Young Conscript And The Moon (Maria T)
- Still with me (Luminitza)
- Love Scene (Angels and Insects)
- Pocket Calculator (Possessed)
Here’s the tracklisting for “Konnecting… I Start Counting, Fortran 5, Komputer”:
- Letters To A Friend (I Start Counting)
- Million Headed Monster (I Start Counting)
- Heart On The Line (Fortran 5)
- Time To Dream (Fortran 5)
- Valentina (Komputer)
- Looking Down On London (Komputer)
- Love Baby (Fortran 5)
- Lose Him (I Start Counting)
- Headphones And Ringtones (Komputer)
- Still Smiling (I Start Counting)
- Like A Bird (Komputer)
- Empty Room (I Start Counting)
- Look To The Future (Fortran 5)
- Persian Blues (Fortran 5)
- Layla (Derek Sings Derek) (Fortran 5 with vocals by Derek Nimmo)
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