Innovative Instruments – Ribbon Tube Synth demo @ MusikMesse
Nice demo of a new electronic instrument featured at this year’s fair in Frankfurt
Hand built, with a DSP based synth inside, it’s most unsual.
Benge’s Buchla in action
John Foxx companion Benge has a new Buchla video out, enjoy
For more info go see http://myblogitsfullofstars.blogspot.co.uk/
Cycler Looper – new powerful set of looping tools
A pre-release version of Cycler Looper has been announced. Its makers tell us that the software has been created to support all aspects of sound performances (playback, looping, remixing) and gives musicians a simple yet extremely powerful set of looping tools. Here’s their press release wih all the details:
Cycler Looper software gives musicians a simple yet extremely powerful set of looping tools. Created to support all aspects of sound performances (playback, looping, remixing), it can be learned in one hour, and does not require expertise in digital audio. Nicolas Lacoumette, a musician who designed award-winning audio software like the GURU rhythm system and the Krishna synthesizer, is behind this bold new product. Cycler Looper excels by providing musicians with an extraordinary sense of freedom, far surpassing other computer-based solutions. Users create their own personalized loop station (like a turbocharged RC-50), with clear, engaging on-screen visual feedback. Refined and field tested at numerous live shows, Cycler Looper speeds and facilitates the set-up and sound check. It eliminates trouble-prone connections between the sound board and the stage and automatically sets levels for all recorded loops. A built-in playlist system automatically manages loading, sequencing and fades while eliminating the risk of computer-related operational errors. It comes with a full range of standard looping functions. In addition, users can explore the musical potential of a particularly comprehensive suite of new functions: double, half, infinite undo/redo, resample, as well as full control over loop time. Cycler Looper’s effects are specifically designed to solve problems that occur in live performance situations. Its practical library of stock effects, executable in real time with a single command, can be augmented with modular user-defined effects. A brilliant innovation, Cycler Looper’s “temporal effects” modify a loop’s timebase, yielding effects like slowdown, repeat, scratch, reverse and time stretch. In brief, Cycler Looper is an instinctive creative tool that enhances the pleasure of performing live, while freeing the user from technological constraints.
Summary of Cycler Looper’s main features
- Easy installation
- Quick learning curve
- Reliable and stable (Cycler Looper is a closed system, like Reason)
- Synchronized multi-user support
- Lightning fast project loading
- Efficient user interface
- Clear, elegant on-screen feedback
- Very rapid set-up for live shows
- Reduces overall equipment requirements (cables, preamps, mixers…)
Technical Features
- 8 loopers et 8 players per user
- Auto Level correction on Record
- Internal Playlist system with various crossfade modes
- MIDI Board adaptive to any controller brand
- Advanced looping functions
- Peak detection on first loop (Perfect Match)
- Free looping time, or adaptive to music (from 16th to 16 bars)
- Easy and accurate Global latency detection
- 16 ins (stéréo/mono), 16 outs (stéréo/mono) manager
- Odd signatures
- Basic and graphical side chain compression effect system
- Base Effects : Delay, Resonnant Filter (hpf/bpf/lpf), Overdrive, Flanger/Chorus,Phaser, Reverb, Volume/pan/mute, Ring/Amp Modulator, Bit/Samplerate reduction, compressor, Sample/Loop Player
- Base Time Effects :Incarn, Reverse, Smooth, speed up, speed down, time stretch.
- Modular and programmable effects
- Send/Return
Minimum system requirement :
Mac or PC, Audio sound card. MIDI controller is welcome, but Cycler Looper also supports keyboard assignation.
Pricing and Availability:
Free download.
More information:
In The Studio With Korg – microARRANGER
Join Rich Formidoni in the studio for an in-depth look at how you can quickly use the microARRANGER to transform basic chord progressions into a complete arrangement – with the backing band of your choice. For more information, please visit www.korg.com/microarranger.
Features & Highlights:
- Compact composing/performing keyboard that acts as your musical arranger
- 61-key Natural Touch mini keyboard; Velocity sensing
- Built-in stereo speaker system
- 4 Stereo Effect Processors with 89 effect programs.
- 304 Styles; each is a complete and interactive musical environment for capturing your inspirations
- Each Style includes Intros, Endings, Fills, and four Variations, all are completely editable
- Styles follow your chords, voice leading, and tempo settings – you are always in control!
- 660 Preset Sound Programs and 128 User Programs provide excellent Korg sounds
- 32 Drumkits; 64 User Drumkits;
- SD/SDHC card slot for data storage, importing Styles, sharing data with a computer DAW, etc.
Click here to hear audio demos of the microARRANGER
Cosmos (Electribe + Koass Pad)
“DJ Galactic new Electronic Music (Chill / Groovy) live with Korg Electribe and Kaoss Pad. Enjoying beat making of this new pattern, with my groovebox Korg EMX (Electribe. As always electronic music, with some sound tweaking. Have fun! Comments and ratings more than welcome! Peace”
MusikMesse 2012 – Samson Graphite 49 & Carbon 49 demonstration
“Samson’s Graphite 49 USB MIDI Controller gives you all the performance and production control you need to get the most out of your music software. Combining an intuitive 49-key semi-weighted keyboard with a feature set that is both useful and accessible, the Graphite 49 is a sleek, powerful tool that allows you to express your most dynamic musical ideas.
The Graphite 49’s semi-weighted keyboard provides musicians with a responsive and expressive platform that is designed to feel more like an instrument than a controller. It comes equipped with velocity-sensitive keys that accurately capture the dynamics of a performance. Aftertouch offers customizable control over a variety of effects and parameters, for example the addition of growl to a saxophone or vibrato to strings. With 49 keys, the Graphite 49’s pitch range is perfect for performing, while remaining highly portable.
How does the idea of a USB MIDI controller that works flawlessly with the iPad sound? This is exactly what Samson’s Carbon 49 USB MIDI Controller is all about.
The new device offers players a semi-weighted keyboard, 49 velocity-sensitive keys, and dedicated Transpose and Octave buttons.
The unit is designed from the ground-up with iPad in mind and features an iPad stand, and is easily coupled with your favorite MIDI apps via Apple’s Camera Connection Kit. The Carbon 49 can even be directly powered by your iPad, for a fairly mobile solution.”
SIVA SIX – Valley Of The Shadows (OFFICIAL VIDEO)
SIVA SIX
ALBUM : THE TWIN MOONS
TRACK : VALLEY OF THE SHADOWS
ALFA MATRIX /DEATHWATCH ASIA RECORDS
EDITING / POST : CHRISTOS MAVRIDIS
ASSISTANT DIRECTOR / CAMERA : NIKOS KEMALIS
2ND ASSISTANT DIRECTOR : MARSIA TZIVARA
DIRECTED & PRODUCED BY SIVA SIX
SHOOTED @ SAME PLACE DUNGEON
http://www.facebook.com/sivasix
http://www.myspace.com/sivasix
http://www.sivasix.com
MINITAUR – FEEL THE BASS
Minitaur is capable of generating subsonic sound waves which move air in a manner that can not only be seen, but felt. Here, one of our brave “scientists” runs Minitaur through a sub woofer to demonstrate this phenomenon.
Learn more about Minitaur at: www.moogmusic.com/minitaur
“…any sound, soft or loud, sweet or nasty, creates a multidimensional
envelope that does more than intrude – it takes over not only your acoustic space,
but your mind space as well. There is no escaping sound.
It meets your body and forcibly enters your mind, not
just through your ears but also via your bones…”
-Ron Pellegrino
Free stuff from synth act And One – “Shice Guy EP”
AndOne has decided to give away some free stuff – their new single “Shice guy EP”
Tracklist:
1) Shice Guy
2) Perfect Life
3) Für Zwei
4) Pleasure & Pain (Demo)
5) Wasted (Demo)
6) S.R.Y.
You van download it right here >>
In search for free vocals?
Then perhaps this something for you:
Sample producers Vocal Sample have released a free vocal sample library, Vocal 60′s:
VOCAL 60´s features 551 Royalty-Free Male and Female Vocal Samples in 24-bit Wav Format. Includes spoken words, lines, shouts, adlibs, funny vocals, slang, scats and more!
352 Mb of 24 bit resolution .wav format files, covering a tempo range of 090 to 170 bpm. All these features makes Vocal 60 `s Pack a powerful composing tool that gives you more life and dynamism to your music.
This is a Vocal Pack suitable for both DJs and Producers from different musical genres.
Whenever you need a great vocal track for an electro, ambient, trance, chillout, lounge, Electronica, minimal or soul releases, no doubt about it, this is your pack!!!
It’s a free download from the VocalSample site.
DATAMASKIN
