Tempest – Beat Exercise
Richard Devine explores the Tempest
“Just playing a rhythmic beat exercise on the new Tempest Drum machine by Dave Smith and Roger Linn. Interesting drum synthesis and parameter control allows for some really cool beat manipulation. The sounds featured are from 4 different analogue synthesis kits I created and programmed.”
rogerlinndesign.com/products/tempest/index.html
Yamaha CS-80 Sound Sampler
Here’s some nice sound samples by Gavin Curtis featuring the CS-80. “My CS-80 restoration project about 1/3 completed and the instrument’s health bar is finally in the green. Most of the systems are working. Enough to present to you what a properly functioning CS-80 should sound like. Definitely resides in the category “most complex production electronic musical instrument”. Over 200 lbs of printed circuit board and wiring. Less than 800 CS-80s were made due to high cost and complexity. Serial numbers started at 1000 and ended before 1800. My CS-80 is serial number 1306, the 306th unit off the assembly line.”
Signal path is the CS-80 —- Lexicon 224XL digital reverberator —- direct line audio feed into Sony HDR-XR520V HD camera.
About the CS-80:
A very old and very huge (over 200 lbs.) classic synthesizer. Considered Japans first great synthesizer. It had some pretty amazing features for its time such as eight voice polyphony, patch memory storage and polyphonic aftertouch. It can generate great analog strings, brass, drones and pads with that instantly recognizable classic polysynth sound. No synth sounds greater. Some examples of its extremely fat sound can be heard in “Blade Runner” and “Mutiny on the Bounty” by Vangelis as well as “Dune” by Toto. The thing that really made this synth sound so powerful was its “natural” detuning….thus its brass and string sounds were unparalleled not only for authenticity, but for pure width! Unfortunately for the CS-80, it was released the same year as the more programmable and cheaper Prophet 5.
With two analog oscillators per voice, the CS-80 has the potential for some really fat sounds! A great VCF filter with independent hi pass and low pass resonant filters, a powerful ring modulator and plenty of modulation controls further enhance the CS-80’s sonic potential. There are 22 preset sounds (6 user) selected from bright and ugly colored buttons above the keyboard. The keyboard is weighted and has a full 61 keys with performance controllers for vibrato, pitch, brightness and volume. Surprisingly there’s also a long ribbon controller for the pitch-bending, located above the keyboard. There is no MIDI or cv/gate control. The only way to MIDI it is via a rather complex retrofit receive-only kit from Kenton.
Tutorial – Zooms and Navigation in Pro Tools
This is the first video in a series on how to use your keyboard more when editing inside ProTools
This video is part two of my editing bootcamp series, diving into shortcuts for making selections without a mouse – mainly using the tab key and modifiers
Provided by Brent Heber of DigiDesign
Filling up the GorillaBox with Eurorack modules
Here is the new GorillaBox 12U briefcase for musicians who plan to travel. This eurorack case is 104hp wide with 4 rows, yet is compact enough to be a carry on when flying commercial airlines!
The music track is “Printed Heart” by John Tejada and Josh Humphrey, courtesy of Palette Recordings.
Ping Pong for NI’s Kontakt
Truman Sleeps, from The Truman Show soundtrack
Performed by Carlo Castellano
AudioThing’s Pong Glockenspiel is a Kontakt Instrument made by recording a toy glockenspiel played with ping pong balls.
Features
- 6 Kontakt Instruments (.nki)
- 3 Round Robin
- 2 Velocity Layer (cross faded)
- Sample resolution: 44.1Khz / 24Bit
- Size: 82 MB installed
- Custom performance view
- Native Instruments Kontakt 3.5+ full retail versions is required
Pricing and Availability:
$5
More information:
Alchemy Mobile – new iPad synth from Camel Audio
Mobile includes everything from evolving soundscapes and fat bases to lush pads and pulsing arpeggios, and is available for free from the iTunes App store. This is the iOS version of Camel Audio’s award-winning Mac/PC Alchemy synth – the leading sample manipulation synthesizer which can be heard on thousands of records and films by world-class artists. With the Pro Upgrade, you can remotely control Alchemy or the free Alchemy Player on your desktop computer. This is the first iPhone App to offer a dedicated touch remote feature for a desktop synth! Easy one touch access to the remix pad and preset selection means you’ll spend more time getting inspired and less time reaching for your mouse.
Alchemy Mobile Free features
- Remix pad to morph between sound variations and create your own sound.
- 16 performance controls so you can easily tweak sounds to fit your music.
- Most powerful iOS synthesis engine with VA, sampler, granular and additive resynthesis.
- External MIDI keyboard support.
- Loop player with 25 drum loops included.
- Copy and paste support for easy integration with sequencers.
- iPad native version included.
- Built in keyboard with scalable keys.
- One touch major and minor chords.
- 25 sounds with 25 more free when you register.
- Add on sound libraries available as in-app purchases.
Alchemy Mobile Pro features
- Remote control of Alchemy or free Alchemy Player on your desktop computer.
- Free download of Mobile version (if available) of desktop sound libraries you own.
- 125 sounds.
- 50 loops.
Alchemy Mobile Free is now available for iPhone/iPad. The Alchemy Mobile Pro Upgrade is available for iPhone/iPad for $19.99 USD / 15.99 EUR / £13.99 GBP. The Pro Upgrade is available as in-app purchase from the free version.
Anatomy Of A Plastic Girl – electro pop video by Billie Ray Martin
“Anatomy of a plastic girl” is the newest video for Billie Ray Martin. The track is taken from The Opiates debut album “Hollywood under the knife” which will be out on Disco Activisto Records on 21st October 2011. Anatomy Of A Plastic Girl by The Opiates tells the a tale of a young wannabe actress in L.A. who reflects on her facial surgery that has left her scarred and punctured with holes inside and out. Video directed by Jörn Hartmann. The Opiates is the latest project from the “queen of electronic soul” Billie Ray Martin, together with Norwegian musician Robert Solheim.
Digital download via amazon, juno, beatport and iTunes
http://itunes.apple.com/preorder/hollywood-under-knife-video/id467373017
The cd album with booklet and artwork by wolfgang tillmanns (and graphic design by philip marshall) will be available in ALL good record and media stores and is available to preorder NOW at
http://www.billieraymartin.com
Billie Ray Martin is of course also featured on the Stereoklang Radio Station:
Billie Ray Martin – ANATOMY of a Plastic Girl (Chris & Cosey Remix) by Stereoklang Produktion
Video: “Dracula” from Henric de la Cour
Premiered yesterday, is the brand new video from Henric de la Cour, who are back with his own solo project.
The album will be released through Progress Productions on October 19th in Scandinavia. Rest of the world will get the release on October 28th.
Henric de la Cour, the voice behind Yvonne and Strip Music now goes solo.
The sound is more electronic than before, but just as dark and epic. In the spring “Dogs” was released, a brilliant goth pop song about a complicated relationship, as a teaser on Youtube. Now comes the album, chock full of pumping electro beats, huge choruses and vampiric romance.
Minimoog model D and Minimoog Voyager
“Ghosts inside your house” from Astronauta Pinguim’s third album “Zeitgeist/propaganda”
Astronauta Pinguim (playing the Minimoog model D) and Carlos Romero (playing the Minimoog Voyager)!
Peter Gabriel and Guy Garvey In Conversation
The full length conversation between Peter Gabriel and the lead singer of Elbow, Guy Garvey.
From flying on a bus to freezing beautifully, iChat brings the two together to talk about Peter’s forthcoming album New Blood.
Pre-order New Blood here – http://womadshop.com/detail/625
The album is released on 10th October 2011 and will be available as a standard single-disc album, double-disc Special Edition with bonus material, digital download and 180g double vinyl LP with bonus 7” picture disc. If you pre-order any New Blood item from WOMADShop, you will receive an exclusive bonus digital track ‘Father/Son’.
New Blood Live in London on DVD is released on 24th October 2011, available as DVD, 2D Blu-ray and 3D Blu-ray, and as multi format Deluxe Edition which includes the New Blood studio album.
Peter Brian Gabriel (born 13 February 1950) is a British singer, musician, and songwriter who rose to fame as the lead vocalist and flautist of the progressive rock group Genesis. After leaving Genesis, Gabriel went on to a successful solo career. More recently he has focused on producing and promoting world music and pioneering digital distribution methods for music. He has also been involved in various humanitarian efforts. In 2007 Gabriel was honoured as a BMI Icon at the 57th annual BMI London Awards for his “influence on generations of music makers.” Gabriel was also awarded the Polar Music Prize in 2009 and inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame as a member of Genesis in 2010.
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