Real Time VOCODER with FRUITY LOOPS
Use the FRUITY LOOPS’ VOCODER in Real Time from your Microphone connected to your PC.
Here: How To
Review: BeatMaker 2 for iOS
BeatMaker 2 is an elaborate studio with loads of effects and hundreds of samples. I ignore both of those facts completely as I go on a wild tear to put it through its paces. Included are tips on Hokusai and all kinds of sample chopping fun.
“Build your own virtual home-studio, create multiple instruments and connect them to a full-range of audio effects. Compose, record, arrange and transform your ideas into complete songs, ready to be shared with others. Import your own sounds or use the sound library provided: more than 170 high-quality instrument and drum presets from synthesizers to realistic orchestral sounds. You can even import songs from your iPod library! Connect your MIDI accessories for an external control of BeatMaker’s instruments, effects and mixer, ideal for home-studio productions and live performances. BeatMaker 2 is an universal application, with specifically designed interfaces for the iPad and iPhone platforms. Works on all iPhone, iPod and iPad models starting with third generation devices (iPhone3GS, iPod3G 32GB, iPad 1 & 2).”
Erasure: Interview with Vince and Andy
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Want to sound like someone else?
MorphVOX® Junior is free voice changer software that will modify your voice to match your personality. You can sound like a man, woman, or little folk. Built-in voices and sound effects make this voice changer so convenient to use.
MorphVOX Junior is optimized for online games, but is also great for prank calling friends via instant messaging and VoIP. This voice changer can even send out car screeches and drum rolls with a push of a key, mouse or joystick button.
· High-quality voice changing technology
· Learns from your voice
· Integrates easily with online games and chat programs
· Low bandwidth and CPU usage
· Built-in Voices
· Built-in sound effects
· Full key, mouse and joystick support for gamers
MorphVOX Junior is fun and absolutely free.
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Dangerous Liaison
Dangerous Music is now shipping the Dangerous Liaison which they say increases studio flexibility by providing unprecedented access to your outboard equipment by allowing you to connect up to six of your favourite units to the Liaison (more if you daisy chain, leverage a patchbay or add a Dangerous Master).
You can change the order, dial in some parallel processing and then store these customized signal paths as presets to use again, on demand, anytime. True hard-wire bypass relays remove the gear entirely from the signal path, including outboard that lacks an integrated bypass or true hard-wire bypass. Dangerous Music tell us that mastering grade components switch instantly and silently, providing true A/B comparisons without coloration or latency and that pre- and post-processing monitor outputs make it simple to audition between the original source and the treated product.
The A and B busses can be utilized as completely discrete paths or they may be linked together in a series. For example, if your favourite BAX EQ is connected to loop#1 and a limiter is connected to loop#5, selecting 5 from Buss A and 1 from Buss B places the limiter before the EQ.
Parallel Processing allows the original and effected signals to be blended independently. For example, says Dangerous Music, you can crush the drums with heavy compression for tight, explosive impact, while mixing in the original to retain transients and dynamics.
Features
- 6 Stereo Insert Loops, Assignable to 2 Stereo Busses
- Flexible and Potent Parallel Processing Loop
- Route, Switch, Matrix, Flip & Audition Instantly
- Recall any Tracking, Mixing or Mastering Configuration
- Seamlessly Integrates with Dangerous Master
Application Examples
- Tracking: craft recallable patches for your vocal, guitar, kick drum and other instrument recording chains. Your favourite mic pre – compressor – EQ paths available at the touch of a button.
- Mixing: store and recall your custom mix buss processing chain on Buss A, and your killer parallel compression drum path on Buss B.
- Mastering: Instantly audition the possibilities -EQ before compression? Or compression before EQ? Which limiter sounds best at the end of the chain? What EQ do I want to use in my M/S loop? Store different routings for different musical styles and save time setting up a session.
Pricing and Availability:
Dangerous Music began shipping the new Dangerous Liaison in August 2011. Retail prices are £1725/1950€.
More information:
Fruity Loops coming to Mac
Image Line has been working with CodeWeavers for the past year or so in developing a special version of FL Studio that runs in a customized Crossover wrapper (a Windows emulator/wrapper). This means that you DON’T need anything else (like a Windows installation, Boot Camp or CrossOver) to run FL Studio on Mac OSX. Just install FL Studio using the supplied .dmg and away you go!
Beta Testing will start sometime late September or early October. Only special invited long time customers will be included in the beta.
One reason less to start bootcamp on my Mac!
Vintage demo: Roland Alpha Juno 2 Analog Synthesizer (1986)
Roland Alpha Juno 2 Analog Synthesizer from the year 1986. The direct successor of the Juno-106 but with more possibilites.
The first demo shows the different sound possibilities.
“This is an upgraded version of the Alpha Juno 1. It adds an extended 61 note keyboard with velocity and aftertouch and an external memory cartridge slot. Other than that it has the same great sound and features as the Juno 1. Sliders and buttons were replaced by membrane buttons and the Alpha Dial which is used to edit and browse through the extensive selection of parameters: DCO digitally controlled oscillators, LFO, bend, ENV, pulse, waveforms, noise, PW/PWM, high pass filter, VCF filter with freq/env/res/lfo/kybd, VCA envelope, chorus, and more.
Adequate in the studio or on the stage, the Juno 2 has 64 presets and 64 user memory patches, a nice LCD display, an LFO capable of a very slow rate for some cool sweeping effects, and a great bass sound (especially nice for acid basslines) and noise effects! It also has chord memory which is perfect for rave & techno, portamento and keyboard transposing. The PG-300 Synthesizer Programmer gives you traditional slider control of each parameter for much easier and faster editing. “
Showing off the Tempest drum machine
A new demo of the much talked about Tempest
Summary of Features
- Each of the 6 analog voices has 2 analog oscillators plus 2 digital oscillators (with a large bank of included samples), Dave’s classic analog low-pass filter with audio-rate modulation, an additional high-pass filter, analog VCA with feedback, 5 envelopes, 2 LFOs, an extraordinary variety of analog modulation routings, and stunning sonic quality, warmth and punch. Although optimized for drum sounds, it excels at tuned sounds as well, and even doubles as a 6-voice analog synth. In addition to the 6 direct voice outputs, there are stereo mix outputs and phones outputs, plus 2 inputs for foot switches or expression pedals, MIDI in/out and USB.
- The performance-oriented operating system, 90 panel controls, and bright 256 x 64 OLED display work together to provide a tightly integrated, non-stop workflow: record a drumbeat in real-time, switch to another drumbeat and use the lit pads to record it using step programming, switch to another drumbeat and record tuned keyboard parts, use the 2 touch controllers to to record real-time note or beat-wide parameter animations, use the generous sound controls to edit any of the drum sounds, tweak the analog effects or drum mix, arrange beats in real time and record the live arrangement into a song, enter/exit Song mode and much more, all without ever stopping play.
- 16 pressure- and velocity-sensitive lit pads are arranged in a 2×8 configuration, providing intuitive access to all your fingers and providing the ideal compromise between the popular 4×4 pad arrangement (popular for real time programming ) and 1×16 arrangement (popular for step programming) because Tempest does both. The pads can be used to play 32 drum sounds (2 banks), mute/unmute the 32 sounds on playback, play and arrange 16 beats in real time, play one sound at 16 tunings (in a variety of scales) or 16 velocities, or as 16 time steps for step programming. The ROLL button permits creating drum rolls or repeated groove patterns by varying pad pressure as the beat records, and doubles as a momemtary “stutter” effect when the pads are assigned to play beats. Use the Sustain button on tuned parts like a keyboard’s Sustain pedal, or to choke drum sounds or drumbeats when the pad is released.
- Two pressure- and position-sensitive Note FX slide controllers permit real-time recording of note or beat-wide sound parameter changes into the drumbeat as you play. For example, record simultaneous filter frequency, tuning, envelope decay and pan changes for each note, or control similar parameters affecting the entire beat.
- A variety of unique effects are provided while maintaining a pure analog signal path: 1) Stereo analog compressor and distortion circuits affect the stereo output mix, 2) beat-synced delay is achieved by generating additional delayed note events within the sequencer, and 3) a beat-synced “stutter” effect is created entirely within the sequencer by looping short portions of the drumbeat on demand.
- The degree of swing timing can be adjusted in real time during playback. Roger used his entire bag of tricks to make the swing sound very human and natural.
Logic Pro X moves to the the App Store
So far no apparent plans to turn Logic into Garage Band, as many have feared
Apple is reportedly finishing an update to Logic Pro 9, its professional digital audio and music sequencing program, taking care not to rile existing users with significant changes.
The new update is reportedly called Logic Pro X to maintain the same branding as Apple’s recent Final Cut X. However, according to a report by Japanese blog Macotakara, Apple’s Logic team is making great efforts to stress that it will not shift toward a GarageBand interface, heading off fears that Logic Pro might lose its professional edge.
Like Aperture and Final Cut Pro X, the new Logic Pro X package will be released via the App Store. In the move, the Logic Pro accessory app MainStage (used to manage virtual instruments during live performances) will reportedly spin off into a separate app, while WaveBurner (a standalone app used to master audio CDs) will have its functionality incorporated into Logic Pro X itself.
SoundTrack Pro 3, formerly included in both Final Cut Studio and Logic Studio as a tool for synching background audio to video, is reported to have a replacement but the report has not filled in any details regarding that program. The new app will likely be added to the Mac App Store alongside Final Cut Pro X, Logic Pro X, MainStage and the existing Aperture.
Via Apple Insider
Moog: Two Opto Freq’s 69
Background info:
Moog Freqbox 1 VCO out to Freqbox 2 in
Freqbox 2 VCO out to Freqbox 1 in
FB out’s to 2x Analogue Systems RS 100
to Make Noise Optomix
Freqbox CV in from Renè via Toppobrillo Quantimator
Freqbox env in ,fm in and wave in from Moog MP 201 ( Midi sync)
clocked by Logic via 4ms RCD
trigger for Optomix from Renè ( XY ) and Kenton clock out
mixed by CP251to
ADSR from Sherman filterbank 2
Drum Logic Ultrabeat
3 tracks
DATAMASKIN
