NanoStudio – “Synthetik Drums”
SYNTHETIK DRUMS for NanoStudio by Blip Interactive
32 drum kits for TRG-16, over 400 single drum sounds!
Traveling Through Grain Space
Trying to use the soundplane for something experimental which is basically a surface for traveling through a single long sample, selecting cool points and then being able to play those grains pitch-wise but with the ability to travel as well using the continuous surface.
At points if it gets disorienting, it’s like trying to hone in on a radio signal using coarse and fine tuning to discover something.
Soundplane is also responding to pressure as well a x position and relative to where you first touched a pitch. I don’t have y connected but I could. Pressure controls volume envelope.
arc|tangent is a new monome arc app I am working on for high resolution control of anything in a generic sense with a lot of options for routing on the fly. Resolutions are variable from highly quantized to pretty much unlimited resolution if you are willing to spin the dial enough times. Visual feedback on the arc helps you understand what is happening. This allows for very high resolution control of scrubbing through a large sample in coarse or fine increments and control of many other parameters at high or low resolution.
The sound source is Monolake – Granulator. I am just controlling it in an unusual way and with finer control than you can do with the M4L patch controls alone.
The sample is a Stretta sample of a bunch of raw takes from a modular session of his. It is totally raw unedited material.
This was a very first rough test. There are so many tweaks you can make to make the control more musical. This is very exciting and fun. Different material yields totally different results and you can approach it in many ways.
Native Instruments Traktor Kontrol F1 – The Remix Deck™ In Detail
This video goes into detail about the design, structure, workflow, and capabilities of Traktors’s Remix Deck™.
Remix Set™ taken from DEMI – No1Else
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Russian Polivoks Synth For Ableton
Design the Media has released a new Ableton Live Pack designed by Tristan Héau, with a collection of more than 300 samples from the Russian Polivoks synth. They say that the sounds were carefully recorded, using an accurate tuner and Apogee preamps in order to catch that raw, nasty, analog sound from this eastern beast.
Tristan also created specific drum kits, Simpler presets (made from simpler and sampler live instruments) and custom instruments Racks (with esoteric macro knobs to be mapped to your favorite midi controller).
A spokesperson told us, “In the project folder under you will find all the samples organized by category. For example, you will find any possible combination of perfectly tuned oscillators of the polivoks – sine alone, sine with square, sine with triangle etc. All recorded waveforms were made with a tuner so that this material can be used more easily for sampling. You’ll be very surprised to hear how those analog waveforms sound. Then, they are some more classic waveforms – bass and lead sounds, all kind of noise sources, great feedback tones, and more exotic recording made while pushing this analog monster into his limit – hi rez, filter sweeps, unstable patches and more.”
Pricing and Availability:
Free download.
More information:
Quicksilver 303 MIDI RESYNC tutorial
This video demonstrates the MIDI RESYNC capability of the Quicksilver 303 CPU. MIDI RESYNC allows the Quicksilver 303 to switch back and forth between an external MIDI clock and the internal clock without stopping the sequencer.
For more information: http://www.socialentropy.com/quicksilver
Super Tape Drums Ableton Live Pack
This video details the features of the Super Tape Drums Ableton Live Pack created by AfroDJMac.
Features:
-450+ drum sounds recorded to a Tascam 8 Track Reel to Reel Machine
-30+ Ableton Live Racks of Drums and Effects Organized for efficiency and usability
-5 Ableton Live Sets
-Inspiring Instrument and effects, and super warm drum samples
It’s Available Wednesday June 27th @: http://afrodjmac.com
Visit my site for more stuff like this, including Live Instrument downloads and music! http://www.afrodjmac.com
Ambika – a new DIY polyphonic synthesizer
Mutable Instruments has announced the Ambika – a new DIY polyphonic synthesizer.
Translucent, polyphonic, DIY and even a bit sexy – the Ambika will allow for six voices. It can be configured so that all of the voices have the same synth design or with unique synth designs on a per-channel basis.
“It’s huge,” they note, “And it draws a lot of power!”
Mutable Instruments Ambika Features:
- Up to 6 voices, each with an individual output — in addition to a global mix output.
- MIDI channels/patches/voices are distinct entities, allowing many different flexible configurations, from 6 independent monophonic parts each on a different MIDI channel, to 1 polysynth, with everything in-between (unison, keyboard split, layering, voice doubling).
- Connectors for up to 6 voicecards. In true Mutable Instruments spirit, you can mix and match voicecards with different filters, and in the future with different synthesis engines.
- Easy to use sound programming interface with a large 2×40 LCD display, 8 knobs, 8 switches and 15 bicolor LEDs. Each module of the synthesis engine has a page, each page has a direct access button.
- Massive patch memory, easy backup/data exchange, fast firmware upgrades with the integrated SD card reader. And there might be other things you’ll load from the SD card in the future…
- Patch versioning and undo/compare/redo of editing operations.
- Sequencer, arpeggiator and rhythmic chord generator available for each part. 2 step-sequences per part. Each part can be clocked at a different multiple of the MIDI clock.
- And of course: DIY friendly, through-hole assembly.
Roland Jupiter 80 Sound Demo
Some scapes made with the Jupiter 80. It’s the first synthesizer designed completely around SuperNATURAL® sound modeling technology, delivering expressive instrumental realism far beyond anything previously possible.
Since the launch of the JUPITER-80, many professional keyboard players and producers have praised its expressive SuperNATURAL sounds and live-performance capability. With the Version 2 software update, the JUPITER-80 offers new features that enhance its synthesis power, and provides more flexibility and creativity for musicians designing their own sounds.
“In my opinion a very warm and good sounding instrument with plenty of usable sounds and a good synth engine. I tried to put almost everything to this demo, but it`s hard and this demo should have one hour :)”
New experimental instrument – Six String Smomid
New instrument built in June 2012. Features 9 sensors that act as string modelers, 2 joysticks, 2 force sensitive resistors, many knobs, many buttons and some really bright blue and red LEDs. Designed and built by Nick Demopoulos, but credit goes to Ranjit Bhatnagar for programming the 2 arduinos that are inside of it, Malcolm Pepin for fabricating the wood body and Josh Dotson for consulting in many design issues. More info at www.nickdemopoulos.com
Time machine: Korg DW-8000 from 1985
Time again for another trip with the time machine, this time back to 1985 tocheck out the KORG DW-8000:
A voyage into the heart of the Korg DW-8000 from the year 1985.
Exploration by Marko Ettlich
DWGS (Digital Waveform Generator System) Synthesizer with 16 digital waveforms
analog filter and amp
arpeggiator
digital delay
It has been used by Depeche Mode, Dream Theater, Joe Zawinul, Keith Emerson and many more.
Take Korg’s first digitally controlled analog synth hybrid (DW-6000) two steps higher and you get the more popular DW-8000. Sound is digitally generated from the DWGS (Digital Waveform Generator System) and has been doubled from 8 sampled digital waveforms to 16 simple analog to complex digital waveforms. The DW-8000 has 8 voice polyphony in two modes, or one monophonic mode with all eight voices stacked. The analog VCF resonant filter and VCA both have independent ADBSSR envelopes. Parameters can be altered in real time via a single programmable slider. There are 64 presets that can be reprogrammed by the user.
When the DW-8000 succeeded the DW-6000, it expanded it to 8 notes polyphony, 16 sampled waveforms, a velocity sensitive keyboard with programmable aftertouch, auto-bend, a simple arpeggiator and a digital delay unit. The Digital Delay was an astonishing goody for the time, offering up to 512ms delay, phasing, flanging, chorusing and other time effects. Both the Arpeggiator, Auto-Bend and Digital Delay make this synth an inspiring and great sounding machine to use for great 303 basslines, techno and house bass and synth sounds and more! The EX-8000 (pictured above) is a rackmount version of the DW-8000. Several 3rd-party developers offered expansion boards for the DW-8000 providing up to 1024 presets, layered sounds, keyboard splits and Sample+Hold for the LFO.
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