AirVox – Gesture Controlled Music App for iOS
Here are the details:
Introducing a REVOLUTION: use gestures to perform music on your iOS device with amazing precision! Simply use your right hand to control the pitch and your left hand to control a selected sound parameter. It may look magical, but AirVox is actually our product of cutting-edge computer vision technology crafted for mobile devices.
Now available in the iTunes store for devices with a front-facing camera: iPhone 4, iPad 2, and iPod Touch 4th Gen.
Features:
- Move right hand up and down to control musical note / pitch
- Move left hand back & forth to control any one of 9 tonal parameters like volume or vibrato (you can turn this feature on or off: it is turned off by us on the first-launch preset to make starting out easier)
- Use other hand motions or gestures for even finer control
- AirVox has 50 musical scales, each with settable root note and octave range.
- AirVox has a complete sound engine, made of dual oscillators, many waveforms, musical filters and audio FX, including vibrato, delay, and tremolo.
- AirVox has 48 built-in presets. Tweak knobs and save any number of your own.
- Record and share your music via email, wifi or SoundCloud (also Twitter & Facebook via SoundCloud)
AirVox is available in the App Store for $2.
And here it is – Björk´s new official video “Crystalline”
http://youtu.be/wZhkfwrxNOc
Posted today on the Björk’s YouTube channel is the Michel Gondry directed video for “Crystalline” – The release is part of Björk’s new album “Biophilia” which is her 7th so far.
Vintage sequencer exploration – Triadex Muse
The Triadex Muse is a sequencer based synthesizer. It was produced in 1972. It was a deterministic event generator that used early digital integrated circuits to generate an audio output that could sound very musical. It was designed by Edward Fredkin and Marvin Minsky at MIT. It is an algorithmic music generator: it uses logic circuits to produce a sequence of notes based on the settings of various parameters. It has four small sliders that control Volume, Tempo, Pitch, and Fine Pitch. It is not known how many were made, but they are considered very collectable.
It was known to be used by the first wave of electronic musicians in the Philadelphia area in the late 70s. Users included: Charles Cohen, Lenny Seidman, Jeff Caine, George Keutemeyer, Rex X Ray and Stephan Spera, Paul Wozniki and the groups: Heavenside Layer, Ghostwriters, Watersports and The Orchestra of Philadelphia Electronic Musicians. Muse was also used during the WXPN radio show Stars End by host Gino Wong in the fall of 1977.
For years, the Muse was a featured exhibit at the Museum of Science, Boston. The signage explained the device’s algorithmic (and deterministic) approach to the creation of its seemingly-random music. Far from being random, its preset “song” played continuously — and was even given a name, “Museum Musings,” by the staff.
The front panel sliders, which control the melodies that are generated, allow for the possibility of 14 trillion musical note combinations. The four small sliders in the lower-left control Volume, Tempo, Pitch, and Fine Pitch. The switches to either side of the sliders are used to start and stop the sequence, or to step through it note-by-note. Of the eight larger sliders on the right, four control the musical intervals used (labeled A, B, C, and D), and four control the theme (labeled W, X, Y, and Z). There is also a “Rest” toggle switch at the lower right which acts as a “lowest note”.
GrainBender – sculpt your new sound directly in realtime
GrainBender is a new iPad synthesizer that makes designing new sounds easier than ever before. Just tap the bend button and sculpt your new sound directly in realtime. GrainBender is capable of making a wide range of sounds, from traditional analog favorites to exotic digital effects.
Key features:
– unique, intuitive sound design interface
– versatile oscillators with analog & digital waveforms
– audio clip recording and export to other apps via AudioCopy
– extensive but easy-to-use modulation
– effects ranging from chorus and delay to digital grunge
Capable of making a wide range of sounds – here are the features:
- intuitive sound design interface
- versatile oscillators with analog & digital waveforms
- audio clip recording and export to other apps via AudioCopy
- extensive but easy-to-use modulation
- effects ranging from chorus and delay to digital grunge
It’s available for $4.99 in the App Store.
Audio demos:
GrainBender sound demos by kuniklo
Review of the Addictive Synth for iPad
Addictive Synth is an Additive Synth for the iPad, by VirSyn. The depth of this synthesizer is both taunting and inviting. With so many morph and modulation options there is a lot of fun to be had.
For more information on Additive Synthesis, this guy gives a great tutorial: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YsZKvLnf7wU&hd=1
Features:
Dynamic wavetable synthesizer
- Six dynamic wavetable oscillators per voice, up to 48 total.
- Continous morphing between two oscillator sets.
- Realtime editing of up to 128 partials (overtones).
- Realtime editing of filter structure to create arbitrary body resonances.
- Extensive modulation possibilities using up to 4 LFOs and 4 Envelopes.
- Control matrix allows real time control of five parameters using the X/Y touch pad, the modulation wheel and the tilt sensors of the iPad.
- Monophonic or polyphonic with 8 voices.
- 128 factory presets, unlimited user presets can be shared.
- Up to three effects concurrently usable selected from: equalizer, phaser, flanger, chorus and stereo/cross delay.
Live
- Play melodies live with the onscreen keyboard. Drag fingers for slides and vibrato.
- Optionally use CoreMIDI* compatible hardware keyboard.
Full featured programmable Arpeggiator
- Uses programmable sequences with up to 32 steps.
- Can trigger single notes and chords.
- Unique randomizer generates Arpeggios with 100% usability.
- 32 Arpeggios included, unlimited useer arpeggios possible.
- For each step you can program tie, accent, transposition and note order
An overflow of hard dance drums coming your way
Bluezone Corporation has released Overflow: Hard Dance Drums, a sample library featuring a selection of drum one-shots including massive kick drums, synthesized percussion sounds and synthetic noises in WAV format.
This wonderful sample pack contains 92 WAV Hard Dance drum samples ready to be uploaded in your favourite DAW as Cubase, Logic, Ableton or FL Studio and more.
With professionally made fat, punchy and powerful bass drums, ‘Overflow: Hard Dance Drums’ also include a selection of fresh electronic percussion sounds to deliver to you usable modern tools of the best quality to make your future Hard Dance music production intense.
Created by the Bluezone Corporation sound engineers, this original and futuristic drum hits collection is 100 % Royalty-Free. You can use this pack in your commercial releases without having to pay any extra.
Overflow: Hard Dance Drums is available to purchase for €6.95 EUR.
Tribute to Spectralis 2
The Spectralis 2 hybrid synth, fueled by the latest DSP- and true analog technology, delivers maximum tonal capabilities and leads you into a radical new world of sounds full of life and animation. The Spectralis 2’ oscillator section takes sound design to new extremes. The 4 oscillators offer continuously variable waveshapes plus time linearity modulation, FM, PM, oscillator synchronisation, bit reduction and independent pitch and volume envelopes. The self resonating filters, a 4 pole lowpass and a 2 pole multimode filter with LP, HP, BP and notch outputs, use two highly improved true analog circuit designs to overcome the restrictions of modelling based synths. The way players can interact with the destinc-tive user interface makes the Spectralis 2 hybrid synthesizer a killer live instrument with unbeatable richness and stunning flexibility. The synthesis engine takes advantage of a sophisticated step sequencing system – 32 independent parameter control lines with up to 192 steps let you explore an universe of previously unheard rhythmic effects and atmospheric textures. Punchy high resolution envelopes, are the cutting edge of todays synthesizer technology. They are the perfect weapon for the creation of floor pounding kicks, state of the art sequencer staccatos and numerous percussion effects.
In this video:
This was a test-run for midi-clock syncing, done with a Spectralis 2, Cubase 4, a Midex Steinberg and an old Apple G5, my main problem with the new compstuff is that it forgets that a lot of musicians like to work with midi and external gear, not only with plug-syns….my one cent
New inspiring free Ableton Rack based on Melodica samples
Here is this week’s free Ableton rack: Ableton Live Rack I created with samples of my Melodica. It’s a great little instrument that I have just begun using in my live performances and made a lot of use of on my Forest Far Album years ago( http://afrodjmac.com/music/ ).
Download it here: http://bit.ly/freesynth18
For many years, my melodica has served me well. It’s easy to play and has, in my opinion, a warm friendly charm. I made a lot of use of it on my Forest Far album, and recently I began using it in my live performances, running it through my Vocal Effect Rack and mangling it to my hearts desire. This week I share it with you in the form of a free Ableton Live Rack / Sample Pack. I’ve racked it up with some useful effects, Morphing Filter with LFO, Vibrato, Grain Delay, Bit Crusher, and Vocoder. It does everything from the traditional Melodica sound to the bizarre and unexpected. Enjoy and Spread the word
Corona – new 32 and 64-bit, virtual analog and wave synthesizer
discoDSP has released Corona, a new software synthesizer for Mac & Windows.
Here’s what the developer has to say about Corona:
32 and 64-bit, virtual analog and wave synthesizer for Audio Units, VST hosts featuring 3 VA + WAVE oscillators, up to 14 combine modes between oscillators resulting in extensive timbres, 8 destination matrix modulations, 3 LFOs, 3 ADSR envelopes, unison, chorus, delay and limiter effects with high-quality sound and analog modeled filters using a straightforward and easy to use interface.
Corona is available now for EUR 149.00. A demo version is available.
Features:
- Full 64 bit compatibility:
- 64-bit Audio Units and VST for Mac.
- 64-bit VST for Windows.
- 32-bit also available.
- Unique oscillator modes – oscillators can be combined using operators. There are 10 for Phase mode or 14 for Detune mode (DT):
- Add.
- Sub.
- Mul.
- And.
- Or.
- Xor.
- Abs And.
- Abs Or.
- Abd Xor.
- Pythag.
- Sync.
- Ringmod.
- Pm/Broken Pm.
- Hundreds of waveforms – From classic VA saw, triangle, square, sine, parabola and noise to the included waveforms in two extra DWB banks with 300+ timbres from:
- Aeterphon.
- ARP 2600.
- Buchla Modular.
- Crumar Performer Elka Synthex.
- Eminent 310.
- EMS VCS-3.
- Fairlight CMI.
- Farfisa organ.
- Fender Rhodes.
- Hohner.
- Jen Bass Pedal.
- Korg Lambda.
- Korg MS-20.
- Korg Polysix.
- Mellotron.
- Memorymoog.
- Micromoog.
- Minikorg.
- Minimoog.
- Modulus Monowave.
- Moog MG-1.
- Moog Prodigy.
- Moog Rogue.
- Moog Taurus.
- Oberheim Matrix.
- Oberheim OB8.
- Oberheim Xpander.
- Odissey.
- Paia Fatman.
- Polymoog.
- Prophet 5.
- Prophet 600.
- Rhodes Chroma.
- Rhodes Polaris.
- Roland Alpha Juno.
- Roland Juno 60.
- Roland Juno 106.
- Roland Jupiter 4.
- Roland JX.
- Roland SH-101.
- Roland System 100.
- Theremin.
- Vox Jaguar.
- Waldorf Pulse.
- Yamaha CS80.
- Filters – 7 different filter types, 2-pole and 4-pole each with selectable tahn, poly, asym1, asym2, hardlimit, polywrap and asymwrap shapes. Includes filter posotive and negative drive, keytracking and selectable pre-post volume envelope stage.
- Fat, easy, mix-standing unison – Dedicated Unison unit to make sounds spread across the stereo mix with selectable octave spread, voices, detune knob and panning spread controls.
- Flexible ADR curves – Up to 5 different envelope curves for extended shaping.
- Easy to use modulation matrix – Select the most relevant synth destinations to be modulated by:
- MIDI Note.
- MIDI Velocity.
- Pitch Wheel.
- MIDI CC#1 Modulation Wheel.
- MIDI Aftertouch.
- MIDI CC#4 Foot Controller.
- MIDI CC#11 Expression.
- MIDI CC#2 Breathe.
- Several random values.
- Modulation LFO.
- Modulation Envelope.
- Filter LFO.
- Filter Envelope.
- Vibrato LFO.
- Vibrato Envelope.
Using Korg SyncKontrol (iOS) as a modular clock
Here’s how to use the free iOS app SyncKontrol from Korg with your modular synth.
At the very least you will need to amplify the output and ideally use something like a Maths to control the pulsewidth of the clock, though it will work without one if amplified.
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