FL Studio Alpha Testing | Performance Mode APC40 & Launchpad Duet
More info:
Discuss here – http://forum.image-line.com/viewtopic.php?f=100&t=83958
Thanks to nucleon for the performance.
Free Reason Refill based on the Nord Modular G2X synthesizer
You may have seen that we have had a new banner from SoundCells up for a while now >>>>>>>>>
Here are some more details on this really nice free Refill 
Nordic Red is based on samples from the ever popular Nord Modular G2X synthesizer.
Besides unlimited possibilties of creating a wide range of individual sounds – from 80’s retro sounds to modern club patches, emulations of acoustic instruments to a world of sounds that never have delivered before – the main feature of this version of Nordic Red are the G2’s “self-playing” patches, called ‘Noodles’.
Contains:
– 20 combinator patches.
– 35 NNXT patches containing the basic patches which were used to build the combinators.
– 24 recordings (up to 1.30 minutes per sample) from the Nord Modular G2X, 305 MB uncompressed.
– Great for all styles of music where deep atmosphere is desired.
– All samples are included into this download in Wave format – ready to use in any other DAW.
New synth pop tune from Auto Auto – “The Wish”
Auto-auto – the wish 2011-2012 by johan-7
auto-auto
Erik Frankel
vocals, synthesizers, bass, guitar, noise
Elliott Berlin
synthesizers, backing vocals, bass, noise
Johan Hellqvist
synthesizers, backing vocals, noise
Upcoming new stuff – the Sprockit mini-synth
Matt Heins of Hack Me Electronics has announced a new synth for 2012, the Sprockit mini-synth.
Sprockit is a pint-sized version of Hack Me’s Rockit synth.
Sprockit features include:
- Two oscillators – Just like Rockit, except there’s only one knob. There are currently 32 oscillator settings, which choose both oscillator 1 and 2 and the oscillator mix at the same time. Oscillator 2 still has a detune knob.
- 4-pole Analog Low Pass Filter – Instead of Rockit’s three-mode filter, Sprockit has a 4-pole Low Pass only filter. Filter envelope control is accessible externally. There is no external audio input like Rockit.
- 1 LFO with 3 waveshapes and 3 destinations, with more shapes and destinations accessible externally.
- ADSR envelope with Attack and Decay control on board and everything else externally accessible
- MIDI Input – No MIDI output.
Here’s what Heins has to say about the Sprockit synthesizer:
My goal with Sprockit it to take a lot of Rockit goodness and compress it down to something smaller and a bit cheaper. I’m achieving both goals by having a very dense design and by reducing some of the features.
Sprockit is 4?x4? versus Rockit’s 5.1?x8.6?, so it’s substantially smaller, like pocket sized (I would’ve called it Pockit Rockit, but there are some products out there already). There are obviously fewer knobs, LEDs, and switches. All of the control parameters are still there though and will be accessible via an external MIDI controller.
The microcontroller is downsized from an ATMEGA644 to an ATMEGA328. I’m also incorporating a lot of the things that I’ve learned from doing Rockit and rolling those improvements into Sprockit. This image is my first prototype and I’m well into prototype two, which will be much improved.
Heins is planning to have Sprockit ready for a workshop with Dorkbot Chicago at the end of February.
Ableton Tutorial – Producing Dummy Clips
In this Ableton Live Tutorial, we take a look at using Dummy Clips .
Dummy clips are essentially silent audio clips that contain automation for modulating the parameters of devices or the mixer inside Ableton Live. There are many ways to use Dummy Clips but in this tutorial we look at creating DJ style volume cuts and jamming in some ideas ready to record into the arrange page.
This Ableton Live tutorial is suitable for both production and performance.
Awesome – Dex Fontaine and the Drum Machine Shirt
Wearable DJ Quality Drum Machine Thumps out Sweet Digital Rhythms
This fully-playable t-shirt based drum machine lets you make complex beats with ease while strolling down the boulevards of funky-town. Not only do you get 9 different drum kits at your disposal, you can create your own drum loops just like a professional drum machine. Simply tap the drum pads on the front of the shirt to create a rhythm. Once your loop is created, layer additional beats on top to build up a complex rhythm. You can make loops up to 3 minutes long and you’ve got unlimited tracks to play with.
The ThinkGeek GeekLab™ boffins have done their best to cram as much amazing musical functionality into one shirt than ever before. With a little practice you can make amazing dynamic beats that evolve as you add layers of sound. Watch the video below to see exactly what we mean.
Product Features
- Real Working Wearable Drum Machine & Looper
- 9 Different Drum Kits with 7 professional grade drum sounds each
- ROCK DRUMS
- RETRO 808
- DISCOTEK
- TECHNO PUNK
- CLASSIC JAZZ
- BASS INVADERZ
- CHIPTUNE
- ZAPF DINGBEATS
- SCRATCHY
- Records and Loops Your Rhythms
- Record loops up to 3 minutes in length
- Create a loop, then build and layer beats on top with unlimited tracks
- Amazing 7-voices (you can actually hit all 7 drum pads at once)
- Mix and match sounds from the different built-in drum kits in one loop
- Working mini amp clips on your belt and goes to 11
- Built-in analog audio output jack
- Exclusive product invented and designed by ThinkGeek (Patent Pending)
- Fully washable. Electronics and drum pads easily remove from shirt.
- Requires 4 x AA Batteries (not included)
What a Polyphonic Arp 2600/Macbeth M5/Minimoog would sound like
Nice experiment
Hooked up my mono synths with my Encore Expressionist and recorded a little video to show of the sound. I had the Acidlab Miami triggering the ARP Sequencer which was sequencing the filter cutoff (making that rhythmic sound in the background). The glidey/squelchy bass is the minimoog model D and the 4 voice poly is made up of the 2 ARP 2600’s and 2 voices from the Macbeth M5 – osc 1 and 3 through filter 1 and oscillator 2 through filter 2. It makes for a rather unsurprisingly fat sound and the expressionist makes it really easy to set everything up (I just need some more long 1/4 cables)! The Acidlab Miami was the drum accompaniment. Anyways, hopefully I can record more soon.
Testing Buchla drum presets + a bonus Buchla
“Drum Bloop – Testing the Buchla drum presets. You can find them on page 247 of the user manual…”
Via It’s full of stars
“Vegas Buchla and OP-1 Sunset – Chillin at Encore waiting for Deadmau5 making lots of noise”
Some odd synth tunes featuring Vince Clarke
Paul Quinn and Vince Clarke – One Day
Theme music to 1983 police series “The Chinese Detective” performed by Yazoo. Written and performed by Vince Clarke who had founded Depeche Mode and later The Assembly and Erasure. Mixed and edited by electrobronze in 2007
Amazing mix from synth wizard Vince Clarke (Erasure, Depeche Mode, Yazoo) for The Presets new single: If I Know You. Image compose: www.mandalamandala.net
Robert Marlow: Rare TV appearance.
This song is produced by Vince Clarke (aka ex-Depeche Mode, Yazoo and Erasure).
Robert Marlow was his old friend.
Billie Ray Martin- Sweet suburban disco (vince clarke remix)
Oatmeal – Free VST synth
Oatmeal – http://www.vstplanet.com/News/2012/oatmeal_v38-1
Developer: bicycle-for-slugs.org
Audio demo: http://www.alexanderblu.com
Features
Two oscillators:
- Waveform: sine, sawtooth, pulse (square), triangle, user, and “user PWM”.
- Amp: Amplitude of the oscillator.
- Tpitch (aftertouch > pitch): The effect of note velocity and later pressure changes on the oscillator’s pitch.
- Pulsewidth, PWM rate, PWM depth. These are ignored unless the waveform is “pulse” or “user PWM”, in which case they set the base pulsewidth and the modulation rate and depth.
- Trans (transpose): Transposition of the second oscillator relative to the first (i.e. the voice’s pitch).
- Detune: Constant frequency shift of the second oscillator.
- Touch (aftertouch > osc amp): The effect of note velocity and pressure changes on both oscillators’ amplitude.
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