Free cool ambient iPhone music app – Fuji Leaves
Fuji Leaves is an interactive music application where you use leaves and falling stones to create music. When a stone hits a leaf, the leaf produces a sound. Different sounds play depending on how the stone hits the leaf. You can move, rotate and scale leaves in a near infinite amount of combinations, each combination resulting in a unique sound everytime.
The goal with the game is for you to relax and play it in the way you enjoy the most. Try it out!
Features
- Create songs using leaves and falling stones
- Add and remove leaves and stone creators as you please
- Move, rotate and pinch leaves and stone creators in a near infinite amount of combinations
- Undo & redo your actions
- Save & load the songs you make
- Share them with your friends through facebook connect
- Easily download your friends’ songs
Addictive microSynth
Combines the synthesis power of Addictive Synth with an easy to use 4 track loop recorder.
It was never so easy to create beautiful sounds and driving loops.
The unique dynamic wavetable synthesis allows you to explore an unprecedented
wide range of sonic territory. From acid loops, crystal clear percussions, realistic
human choirs to complex musical soundscapes nothing seems impossible
with only a handful parameters to tweak.
Via virsyn
Double Trouble (Rhythm Studio on iPad)
Background information:
Another little number made with Rhythm Studio. I’m still figuring out how to make a good video of the iPad (it can be hard), but I’m getting better. Enjoy!
Artist Interview: DJ Lucky Date
When Jordan Atkins-Loria (DJ Lucky Date) was introduced to Reason, he instantly recognized the potential of it’s synths and set about to master them. Originally following tutorials he found online, Lucky Date began making his own tutorials which showcased his penchant for modern electro dance synths in Reason. As his tutorials grew in popularity, so did his career as a DJ and Producer.
In just a couple short years, DJ Lucky Date has gone from making his first video tutorial to completing 4 dirty electro dance ReFill sound libraries, charting on Beatport, and massive club and festival gigs as a headlininer.
We met up with Jordan one night in LA where he had a few thousand Angelinos jumping and screaming at Avalon in Hollywood, CA. Before the show he walked us through some of the secrets to his massive sounds and even gave us the patches so we can share them with you all.
More about Propellerhead and Reason:
http://www.propellerheads.se
http://www.propellerheads.se/reason/
Download the patches from this video:
http://www.propellerheads.se/stuff/luckydate.zip
DJ Lucky Date’s Electro ReFills:
http://store.payloadz.com/results/results.asp?m=96514
SYNTH STATION – Hip Hop / Electro / Dubstep Mash-up
Second demo of the Akai Synth Station focusing on Hip Hop / Electro / Dubstep Mash-up
“More MPC features for your iPhone or iPad! I will walk you through making a beat that combines features of Hip Hop, Electro and DubStep.”
SynthStation transforms iPad, iPhone or iPod touch into a portable music production studio for mobile music creation. SynthStation gives you three powerful synthesizers for creating and modifying sonic textures used for melodies, chords, and bass lines. Built around Akai Professional’s history in synthesis and drawing on the newest MINIAK synth, SynthStation sounds great and offers wide-ranging sonic flexibility with its virtual analog synthesis.
From the moment you start SynthStation, you’ll know your way around. It is jam-packed with tools to help you create music with the convenience of your touch screen and each section works the way you work. With SynthStation, you can create and save sequences and complete songs. The app contains three different three-oscillator synths and a range of drum kits you can sequence and mix right in the SynthStation. For creating melodic and accompaniment parts, the SynthStation contains an arpeggiator with preset patterns, built-in effects and filters, and an XY touch control interface for expressive control of key parameters.
- Three virtual-analog synthesizers, each with three oscillators
- Over 50 drum kits
- Create melodic and accompaniment parts using the sequencer and arpeggiator
- Effects engine with Chorus, Delay, Flanger and Delay
- Assignable XY MOD with touch XY pad control to set motion
- Compatible with SynthStation25 hardware
- Unlimited creativity with effects and real-time controls
Animoog versus the real thing
Here’s a good bass check up from one who I believe knows what he’s talking about when it comes to comparing real Moogs to softies:
Animoog Taurus bass impression, compared with “Taurus” presets from the Moog Little Phatty, and Arturia Minimoog V. $1 vs. $1300 vs. $200.
First thing I worked on with the Moog Animoog iPad app, was programming a passable Taurus-type bass sound(two saws, octave apart, detuned slightly). There is mojo coming from both the Little Phatty and Arturia Minimoog that I couldn’t capture, but I feel like this’ll do a pretty good job in a pinch.
To program the sound, this is what I found:
1. Build off of a static saw Timbre. “StaticFatSaw1” is good. Putting a “Sine” wave, or “OctaveSaw” in the Timbre slot next to it gives some good variation moving around on the X/Y pad.
2. The key for me to getting the vibe in the right ballpark was forcing the synth into mono operation, and using the “Detune” control to separate the saw into two separate octaves. This can be accomplished in two ways I’ve found:
-(preferable) “Unison” set to “4”, “Detune” set to approximately “8”, and ONLY use the Left audio output from the iPad(I used the “tip” side only of a stereo 1/8″ TRS to dual mono 1/4″ TS cable, coming out of the headphone jack)
– “Unison” set to “2”, and “Detune” very slightly under “10”. This’ll sound alright coming out of the iPad speaker, but is less flexible, and would be difficult to perform with.
3. all Orbit, Path, Delay settings to “0”
4. approx. fiter settings: Drive “10”, Env. “0”, Freq “5.3”, Res. “1” – maxing out the filter “Drive” seemed to be a key to getting the right amount of “spit” in the sound with the filter wide open.
5. approx. Thick settings: Crush “0”, Drive “2.5”
6. I zeroed out all Mods, except for one, that makes the poly-pressure open up the filter freq:
– Source off, amount “0”
– Control poly-pressure, amount “+33”
– Destination: filter-freq
7. Setting the KB scale to “Chromatic” with “Mono” and “Legato” makes the on screen keyboard act as I would expect. “Cor” at “10”, “Glide” around 45%.
All three Synths recorded straight into Steinberg MR816csx. Levels adjusted slightly, no additional post processing.
Smart TNRi iPad glitch experiment
This is a nice experiment by VJFranzK, I believe I know what is going on here, but can you figure it out?
“Can you figure it out? This strange track uses a nonstandard technique to produce sonic glitches at several points through the song. Hint: It’s not changing the tempo ( which I only do at the very end. ) I think I am the first to discover, or film this trick on YouTube? It’s called a Valse because it ( at least begins ) in 12 beat timing.
Sorry my hands are blocking the view in some parts, but I can’t exactly make them transparent 😉 This requires multiple fingers to do it well, and can’t easily be done on the Hardware Tenori due to the difference in menu systems.”
Derek Buddemeyer demo Phrase Sampler in JamUp
Derek, (Hangnail Guitars), shows a demonstration of JamUp PRO by PositiveGrid with a few amp models/effects and overdub capabilities of the phrase sampler.
Available in the iTunes App-Store!
http://www.positivegrid.com/jamup/
JamUp is a guitar/bass multi-effect app, gives you a load of authentic guitar tones, sound-on-sound looping and 30+ modules right on your iPad and iPhone!
Powered by the newly developed multi-stage MESH Modeling engine, JamUp includes 6 historic amp models and 6 matched convolution speaker models, comes with classic and fuzzy stomp, spring and digital reverb, tangy modulations, tape and digital delays, filter, compressor, noise gate and other essentials.
JamUp is born with great “play alone” capabilities. The phrase sampler can capture loops and riffs and create instant sound-on-sound overdubs, it’s the easiest way to create a one-person-band sound in minutes. With the Jam Player, you can play along with any tracks from your iTunes library, plus, you can easily create a loop and control the tempo and pitch with built-in high fidelity time stretching engine.
Eventide Stompboxes Controlled From Modular Synth
This video demonstrates using a simple custom cable to enable one to control Eventide stompboxes (or pretty much any digital stompbox) with a modular synth via the expression pedal port.
The cable consists of a mono 1/4″ jack, wired to two jacks of whatever flavor your modular synth is. Just connect the tips only (not the sleeves) of all three jacks. Plug the 1/4″ jack in to the Eventide pedal’s Expression Pedal port, and the two other jacks in to the in and out of a VCA in your modular synth. Then you can send CV to the CV-In of the VCA, and this will control the pedal as if it were an expression pedal.
For more discussion on this, visit:
http://www.analogindustries.com/blog/entry.php?blogid=1319321991586
Nice Omega Code 8 Polyphonic demo – Arp 2600 and CS80 filters
Here’s some background information:
When I touch the big knob under the screen I’m changing the filter type or tweaking filter parameters for the CS80 filter. I picked up a fully loaded 4 month old Code 8 this week, with 8 Arp 2600 and 8 CS80 filters! I was up late last night playing it for hours….Sounds a bit like an Oberheim OBX. When you turn on all the waveforms it will saturate a bit, so it’s not super clean like everyone says.
Filter demo here
http://soundcloud.com/coolcolj/studio-electronics-code-8
And CS80 filter demo
http://soundcloud.com/coolcolj/code8-cs80-filter
Arp2600 filter demo
http://soundcloud.com/coolcolj/studio-electronics-code-8-1
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