Checking out the Circular Controller used for Kubrick’s The Shining
Wendy Carlos showing her Circular Controller that was used in the construction of proposed tracks for the soundtrack for Stanley Kubrick’s The Shining.
Circuit Bent Coleco Talking Teacher
Background info:
Here’s my take on bending the Coleco Talking Teacher toy. Four bends have been added: short glitch loop, long glitch loop, unsteady long glitch loop, and pitch adjustment. A side cart was added to make room for the controls.
This is one of the most stable talking toys I have bent. The long and short loops are repeatable, so the glitches can be played like you would a drum machine. The sound is also very clear.
See more (including schematics for the bends) at:
http://seaweedfactory.blogspot.com/2012/06/circuit-bent-coleco-talking-teache…
Get a More Analogue Sound From Your Synth
Here’s a nice tutorial on how to get going in your DAW creating that true analog sound:
http://ohdratdigital.com This week’s video tip is all about how to add some imperfection to your synths to make them sound more analogue and organic. Come to visit us for way more tips and tricks as well as reviews, assignments, free sounds and software and more!
New features explained – Symphonix Evolution 1.90
This video explains some of the new features in our Symphonix Evolution iPad app. Symphonix Evolution makes it easy to enter music notation, edit MIDI files and work with external MIDI devices through a suitable interface. With wavetable synthesis and audio quality that rivals dedicated synth keyboards, Symphonix Evolution is perfect for taking your music on the road!
New features covered are the advanced MIDI settings, piano/instrument finger positions and the arpeggiator.
Check out http://www.vinclaro.com.au/ios/symphonix/symphonix.htm for more information or our blog at http://vinclaro.blogspot.com
Geo Synth and the Talking Machine
First experiments with the Electro-Harmonix Talking Machine.
Dance and visuals
Amazing performance project by French Adrien M / Claire B including dance and projections.
DAW-control – Predator template for Lemur on iOS
A glimpse of the Hands On feature in the dawcontrol – Predator template for Lemur on iOS.
More info: http://dawcontrol.com/product/predator/
Predator is our most advanced Lemur template to date. It is created with the same care and understanding of user needs as all our templates but it just “feels” like there is more to it. We believe that it has something to do with the sound, Predator just sounds awesome!
The template also has beautiful pop-up menus with waveforms, sync modes and more. Instead of dragging a fader in search of the correct value you simply press a button and up comes a menu and you click a button with the option you want.
Hands on is great when you want to control several things at one once. It gives you 4 knobs and an X/Y-pad. All knobs can target a different controller, select it by clicking on the name under the knob. The X/Y-pad has two selectable controllers, one for the X-axis and one for the Y-axis, both selectable directly under the pad itself.
Visualisation of Telefon Tel Aviv
A collaboration between Abstract Birds and Quayola
Partitura is a custom software built in vvvv to generate realtime graphics aimed at visualising sound. . The term “Partitura” (score) implies a connection with music, and this metaphor is the main focus of the project. Partitura aims to create a new system for translating sound into visual forms. Inspired by the studies of artists such as Kandinsky, Paul Klee, Oscar Fischinger and Norman McLaren, the images generated by Partitura are based on a precise and coherent system of relationships between various types of geometries. The main characteristic of this system is its horizontal linear structure, like that of a musical score. It is along this linear environment that the different classes of abstract elements are created and evolve over time according to the sound. Partitura creates endless ever-evolving abstract landscapes that can respond to musical structures, audio analysis and manual gestural inputs. It is an instrument that visualises sound with both the freedom of spontaneous personal interpretation/improvisation and at the same time maintaining the automations and triggers of mathematical precision.
Partitura defines a coherent language of its own for the creation of new contemporary abstractions. It is within this system that Partitura creates worlds that expand from a single dot to multiple galaxies, from minimalism to complexity, from rigid to elastic, from solid to liquid, from angular to smoothness, from tentative to boldness, from calm to agitation, from slow to fast, from desaturated to saturation, from dark to lightness, from predictable to unpredictability. Literally ‘everything’ and its opposite… just like a musical flow.
LOGAN STRING MELODY String Machine 1974
The Logan String Melody is one of the earliest string keyboards (string machine). It was produced in in Italy. In Germany, some units were produced under the “Hohner International” label – like the one in the video. The String Melody was inspired by the ARP / Solina String-Ensemble. It has strings in 3 footages (CELLO, VIOLA, VIOLIN), which are mixable via volume faders. ATTACK and SUSTAIN of the strings is tweakable. Each half of the keyboard has these features. Two monophonic bass presets can be added to the left half of the keyboard.
“The String Melody is fully polyphonic and has a decent analog string tone. 3 footages can achieve bombastic string pads. I would wish it had some kind of vibrato…
The one you see in the video is a String Melody I. Some years later, the String Melody II was produced, which has some preset sounds in addition. I’m told that the mark II sounds different.”
Checking out Drum Machine Legends iPhone App
To download Drum Machine Legends from iTunes go to:
http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/drum-machine-legends/id526646477?ls=1&mt=8
or visit:
http://www.onegloveapps.com
Directed By: Bryan O’Connell
Music produced by Oligee using DML
Drum Machine Legends brings you six kits from the most legendary drum machines of all time. The Lin Drum, SP1200, TR 808, Obrhm DX, MPC 60 and the TR 707.
DML is easy to use for full production with sounds that One Glove Apps has handpicked and processed to get the most out of their original machines. Quantize your beats, mix, choose tempo and layer sounds from different kits. One Glove has also added some new original sounds for the sampler kits (MPC and SP1200). Save your beats, share, and email as wav files. It’s simple to set your loop length, tempo and quantize your beats. Just open up Drum Machine Legends and begin producing now
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