Teaser: Muza – new musical instrument and MIDI controller for iPad
Muza is an upcoming musical instrument and MIDI controller for iPad, iPhone and iPod Touch. Will be available August 1st.
All the sounds came from Nord Rack and MFB Nanozwerg.
iPad is connected via camera connection kit to USB MIDI interface.
Four MIDI channels used:
1) Nord Pad (harmony instrument)
2) Nord Drone
3) Nord “Wind”
4) MFB Nanozwerg lead.
Subscribe to channel for Muza news and tutorials.
http://muzamusic.com/
LDB-1 Analog Drum Machine – Roland TR recreation
The Delptronics LDB-1 “Little Drummer Boy” is a modern recreation of the classic analog drum machines of the 80’s, like the Roland TR-606 and TR-808. Our goal was to recreate the warm sounds of the classics, using all analog circuitry — not samples. The brain of the LDB-1 is a powerful digital microcontroller that triggers the analog drum sounds and provides the sequencer, programmability and connectivity features. Eight instruments: Bass, Low tom, high tom, snare drum, woodblock, hand clap, closed hi-hat, and open hi-hat. Easily interfaces with other instruments, synthesizers, DAWs, etc. through analog connections, MIDI, and DINsync. The LDB-1 has all of the features of a classic analog drum machine in a small, affordable package.
Purchase and read more about it at http://www.delptronics.com/ldb1.php
DJ – ExtraSlice released quick intro
http://youtu.be/-qkQDJZGF7I
ExtraSlice is the future of the DJ experience!
Juggle beats, chop, screw, shuffle, dice and slice with the latest iteration of our critically acclaimed Slice series.
http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/extraslice/id539190221?mt=8
Mike Tompkins DUBSTEP A Capella Remix
Mike Tompkins has ‘a little fun with a projector and Ableton Live, performing an a capella Skrillex Cinema & Santigold Disparate Youth remix.
DOWNLOAD THIS SONG FOR FREE! – http://miketompkins.bandcamp.com
Making a dubstep track with just a dialup modem sound
Background details:
I decided to give myself a little challenge
for a long time i have heard that dubstep sounds like a dialup modem, so i decided to test if the modem could sound like dubstep
every sound is from the opening handshake, ill post the making of video in a few hours, there is no synth and no samples used, even the drums are all based on parts of the modem sound, the bass is pretty clearly shown in the intro from modem buzz to brostep wobble
about 4 total hours, with my hd280 pro, all live built in stuff, no 3rd party
http://k005.kiwi6.com/hotlink/8i03t12nbk/01_just_a_modem.mp3
iTunes: http://bit.ly/fB0L9V
Olympics and London – live projection mapping multimedia mashup
26 Video Live Projection Mapping Mashup
Using some of our favourite London musicians, films and TV shows.
“Today we released our new London themed projection mapping mashup,” says Evans-Roberts. “We used Ableton Live with Max for Live, and Akai APC40, Resolume Arena, MadMapper, two projectors and three laptops for the performance.”
You can download the mashup via Ithaca Audio on Facebook.
Check it out and let us know what you think of it!
Media Sources:
- Eurythmics – Winston’s diary (1984)
- Night and the City
- Mary Poppins – Stay awake
- Queen – A kind of magic
- Amy Winehouse – You know I’m no good
- The Who – Baba O’Riley
- Blur – Song 2
- Amy Winehouse – Stronger than me
- Jamiroquai – Deeper underground
- Dizzee Rascal – Fix up, look sharp
- Quincy Jones – It’s caper time (self preservations society)
- Adele – Rumor has it
- John Murphy – 28 days later
- Led Zepplin – Whole lotta love
- Faithless – Insomnia
- Florence & the Machine – You got the love
- The Clash – London calling
- Eastenders
- Queen – We are the champions
- Dizzee Rascal – Bonkers
- Klint – Diamond (Snatch)
- The Kinks – You really got me
- Are you being served
- Only fools and horses
- Queen – Another one bites the dust
- The Rolling Stones – Gimme Shelter
Dazibao : the Arpeggio Sequencer
Create your sounds with colors
Dazibao is a powerful music synthesizer, able to create the most complex tone evolutions but with a fast and easy to use new kind of users interface. This tutorial explains how to use the Arpeggio Sequencer.
Dazibao is sold on the website of Herve Noury for a very friendly price :
www.hervenoury.com
Vintage style improvisation featuring the EMW-200
http://youtu.be/BhkTveCkatI
An improvisation featuring the EMW-200 from Electronic Music Works. No external effects or processing was used. The main patch contains three sub-patches. The first is the S/H module controlling VCO2 and then fed to the delay module. The second has the triangle wave on the master oscillator and VCO 1 ring modulating in the wave shaper section. And finally the noise output is being low pass filtered and then being ring modulated by the dedicated LFO (which is also modulating the pitch of VCO 1). Each sub-patch is routed to the left and right channels of the six channel mixer.
“I am struck by the warm and organic tones that can be generated by this instrument, as well as the sometimes unexpected sounds that can result from very small changes in the controls. In an upcoming video I will be pairing the EMW-200 with some external effects.”
The EML-200 was designed primarily for electronic music courses at Universities. It had no keyboard and leaned in a more abstract direction from the start. The EMW-200 also has no keyboard and will not do 1 volt per octave. The only controls are knobs and one button that can trigger a simple envelope. Where the new version differs from the original is in size. The original was quite large, close to the size of an Arp 2600. The EMW-200 is 16 inches wide, a little over 8 inches tall and 6 inches deep. Nice and compact. The other two places where it differs is a delay unit where the original had a spring reverb, and an a dedicated LFO where once there was a microphone amp. It uses 3.5mm patch cables so if you own Euro Rack gear this will assimilate easily. With the right adaptors it was more than happy to take some modulation from various DotCom modules. This is an analog synth. It is sturdy, steel cased and the knobs do not wobble at all. Nice.
Muza App: Forest Teaser
Muza is an upcoming musical instrument and MIDI controller for iPad, iPhone and iPod Touch.
Subscribe to a channel for Muza news and tutorials.
http://muzamusic.com/
- “Harmony” instrument that was made specially to generate sweet harmonies.
- Easy to use side keyboard “Stripe” that allows you to play up to 4 notes in a selected scale.
- 2 extra pads for one-shot or looped samples and a pitch wheel. Great for making sketches on the fly.
Connect your Muza to Ableton, Cubase, FL Studio, Reaper or any other digital audio workstation (DAW) via MIDI!
You can also connect to hardware synthesizers using third party midi interface.
SJS-ONE – new 8-bit mono synthesizer
Here’s a new treat for 8bit synth fans, check out the SJS-ONE.
SJS-ONE is a software defined 8-bit mono synthesizer with a dual (series) MAX261, switch-cap filter, which we are, as far as we know, the only ones to use at this point in a DIY-synthesizer.
The synthesizer has some interesting history that has certainly colored its development and ultimately it’s sound. The initial version was developed as an instructional workshop for a synth-event called SyltJam in 2011. The workshop idea was to show people how quickly you can design the basic hardware and software required to produce a platform for versatile audio and music generation.
As it turned out, people liked it’s sound so much that we decided to refine the design – which more or less involved adding peripheral components to increase configurability and improve on stability and ESD, ground-mismatch and noise sensitivity while keeping the actual design minimal and simplistic.
It’s beginnings are as humble as it’s production – less than 50 of these have been made available and all parts are hand assembled and hand soldered, while the manual is hand drawn and cases hand painted.
Perhaps the most unique aspect of this synth is the choice of digital platform – the Arduino. We did not want to build something static and opted to keep the Arduino instead of adding an on-board microcontroller. Because this will make it so much easier to modify the functionality of the synth firmware provided by us, or to write your own software with a completely unique sound using the vast community support that is available for the Arduino platform.
All aspects of the synth can be fully controlled by designing your own custom firmware and we sincerely hope that people will share their firmware in the spirit of the open source and hardware that inspired us to drive this project from idea to final product.
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