Introducing the Seaboard keyboard
The piano keyboard meets the future in a revolutionary new approach to music
The Seaboard is a radically new musical instrument based on the design of a piano keyboard. Its patent-pending approach brings together a traditional approach to making music with cutting edge digital technology in a way that is so intuitively tactile that you can play it with your eyes closed.
This approach enables performers, composers and producers to exert unprecedented real-time control of all the major characteristics of sound: volume, pitch and timbre. If you can play the piano you already know how to play the Seaboard, and it literally puts a new world of expressive possibilities right at your fingertips.
The core team brings together a wide range of skills – product, industrial and interaction design, software engineering, business management, and of course music production, administration, management, teaching, networking and strategy and a passion for creating more intuitive ways of making music.
In early 2011, Seaboard successfully entered the Incubator.
More information on the Seeboard website”
“Evolved from the piano keyboard, the Seaboard is a new musical instrument which bridges the gap between acoustic and digital music by putting the control of pitch, volume and timbre right at your fingertips.
A limited edition of 88 GRANDs will be available for pre-order worldwide starting in April 2013. In recognition of its provenance, each will be named after a particular note on the piano keyboard, from A0 to C8.
Our cutting-edge SoundDial software gives you complete control of the Seaboard’s sound and unprecedented integration between software and hardware.
Experimental inferno from MacBeth featuring a new flagship synth
Here’s an experiment with a new flagship product prototype!………..inferno? 6 oscillators, interchangable filters, interchangable touch keyboard with real keys, 2 ring modulators, dual tape delay simulators and more! As said- it’s a prototype- but fun to start with- a true stereo synthesizer!
Casio: XW-G1 Step Sequencer fun
A quick demo using the XW-G1’s step sequencer while showing solo synth manipulation.
The XW-G1 groove synthesizer is designed for the DJ and club performer providing an interactive step sequencer and a sample looper for digitally capturing performance patterns and external instruments.
Step Sequencer
Providing everything from pulsing dance grooves to animated synth textures and arpeggios, the Step Sequencer is the first of its kind. With nine tracks for drums, basses, synths and chordal parts, four controller tracks for adding panning, filter changes and other animation to existing parts and eight patterns make up each sequence; the user can build and mix their performance on the fly. Sequences can even transpose live from the keyboard, providing a completely interactive experience.
Solo Synth
Utilizing Casio’s exclusive (HPSS) Hybrid Processing Sound Source, a six oscillator monophonic solo synth is just one of the amazing sound engine in the XW-G1. The solo synth has the power to deliver classic analog sounds and sounds with an aggressive edge unlike anything else. Two virtual analog style oscillators, two PCM based oscillators, a noise oscillator and an external oscillator via mic and line inputs can be combined to make up a single solo synth tone. Each oscillator has an independent filter, envelopes, independent key tracking, portamento, two LFO’s and access to master resonant filter. With impressive modulation and control capabilities at your fingertips, the solo synth is capable of a wide range of sounds and expression.
Arpeggiator and Phrase Sequencer
The XW-G1 has powerful arpeggiators. In addition to typical arpeggio patterns, this arpeggiator can create polyphonic synth gated patterns, acoustic instrument emulations and is even fully programmable allowing you to create your own unique sounds. An additional phrase sequencer allows you to quickly capture any riff that you play on the keyboard and have it available on a front panel switch or triggered and transposed live from a range of notes on the keyboard. The combination of the Step Sequencer, Arpeggiator and Phrase Sequencer provides an endless array of sound possibilities.
Control
The XW-G1 has 4 realtime controller knobs, pitch bend and modulation wheels, along with 9 sliders to provide control over internal sounds and external devices. Through standard MIDI ports and with a class-compliant USB port the keyboard can be used as a controller for other instruments, including computer software and iPad® based software applications. It also includes an audio input allowing you to monitor an MP3 player, computer or other device without the need for a mixer.
Convolution Reverb in Ableton Live 9 Suite
Developed with experts from the University of Huddersfield, Ableton Live 9’s Convolution Reverb gives your sound new space. Use one of over 200 included impulse responses from professional acousticians, or create your own with the IR Measurement Device.
Convolution Reverb, Convolution Reverb Pro and IR Measurement Device are available as part of Ableton Live 9 Suite: https://www.ableton.com/en/live/
Moog Sub Phatty Filter Sequencing
This video shows the result of using the Koushion step sequencer app and the Moog Multi-Pedal (in MIDI-to-CV conversion mode) to create a tempo-synced filter step sequence on the Moog Sub Phatty synthesizer. The analog CV out of the Multi-Pedal is connected to the filter CV input on the Sub Phatty.
Learn more at www.experimentalsynth.com
All the great electro music releases you can look forward to in 2013 – Comprehensive listing
Our electro friends at RMM have compiled a list with some – not all – of the releases coming up that you might be interested in. All focused on electronic and synth based music:
March
The Juggernauts: ”Phoenix” (EP, March 1)
Spetsnaz: “For Generations to Come” (March 1)
The Klinik: “Eat Your Heart out” (March 1)
Autechre: “Exai” (March 4)
Front 242: ”Transmission SE91” (live, March 4)
Blush Response: “Tension Strategies” (March 8)
Melotron: ”Stuck in the Mirror” (single, March 8)
Hurts: “Exile” (March 11)
Ghost & Writer: “Red Flags” (March 12)
Pankow: “And Shun the Cure They Most Desire” (March 12)
The Mary Onettes: “Hit the Wave” (March 12)
Karl Bartos: “Off the Record” (March 15)
Mesh: “Automation Baby” (March 15)
IAMX: “The Unified Field” (March 21)
Leaether Strip: “Serenade for the Dead II” (March 22)
Welle:Erdball: ”Computerklang Vollversion” (EP, March 22)
How to Destroy Angels: “Welcome to Oblivion” (March 25)
Informatik: “Playing with Fire” (March 26)
Depeche Mode: “Delta Machine” (March 26)
Autodafeh: “Blackout Scenario” (March 28)
Syntax: “EP2″ (EP, tbc)
April
The Knife: “Shaking the Habitual” (April 5)
OMD: “English Electric” (April 8)
Torul: “Tonight We Dream Fiercly” (April 9)
Wumpscut: “Madman Szpital” (April 9)
Snog: “Babes in Consumerland” (April 23)
Juno Reactor: “The Golden Sun of the Great East” (April 23)
Die Krupps: “The Machinists of Joy” (tbc)
May
Alison Moyet: “The Minutes” (May 6)
Suicide Commando: “When Evil Speaks” (May 14)
Thyx: “Below the City” (May 14)
Skinny Puppy: “Weapon” (May 28)
Martin Sköld: “The Fire Is on Me” (date in May tbc)
Kite: “V” (EP, date in May tbc)
Daft Punk (date in May tbc)
June
Henric de la Cour: “Mandrills” (tbc)
September
Covenant: “Leaving Babylon” (date in September tbc)
Code 64: “Power up” (tbc)
Dates and/or titles tba
Iron Fist of the Sun: ”Who Will Wash My Right Hand?”
League of Nations/David Sinfield: ”Music for the New Depression/Oblique Strategy”
Sleep Musuem: ”White Like Summer Sutures”
Welle:Erdball: ”Tanzmusik für Roboter”
Haujobb: “Blendwerk”
The Prodigy: “How to Steal a Jet Fighter” (working title)
Nine Inch Nails
Ohm
Front Line Assembly
Kiethevez
Seabound
Pride & Fall
Iris
Conjure One
Cat Rapes Dog
The Machinist
Cryo (tbc during autumn)
Uncertain
VNV Nation
Röyksopp
Erasure
Sunrizer gets even better
BeepStreet has released an update to Sunrizer, its advanced software synth for the iPad.
Sunrizer is already one of the most advanced synths on iOS, with flexible synthesis options, a flexible arpeggiator and MIDI and AudioBus support. The latest update takes Sunrizer even further, adding new effects, new filter types, DropBox support, new presets and more.
Here’s what’s new in Sunrizer 2.5:
- New effects: rotary speaker, equalizer as a separate module
- Dual band effects processing
- New filter types: Analog LP12, Waveshaper, Resonator, Resampler, LPF + Resampler, Frequency shifter. Filter key tracking for filter B.
- Stereo filters in parallel mode
- Phrase sequencer
- Keyboard velocity simulation
- ARP: random mode added
- Recordings export via DropBox
- Support for AudioBus v.1.0.1
- 2 banks added: New Horizon and app-sound.com ( 135 new presets )
- Adjustable polyphony
- Bug fixes and performance improvements
Sunrizer is available now in the App Store for $6.99.
Daft Punk SNL ad [03-03-13] completed live version
Live recording from a studio somewhere in France
Analog & Digital Synthesizer albums!
Electronic Music by RetroSound
two new albums now available for download
1. A Voyage Into The Hearth Of Analog Synthesizers (16 tracks)
available here: http://directpaylink.com/?id=1002LYKPV
used synthesizers:
Oberheim OB-X
Oberheim OB-Xa
Roland Juno-60
Roland Juno-106
Roland SH-101
Roland Jupiter-4
Roland VP-330
Roland SH-101
Korg Polysix
Korg Mono/Poly
Crumar Performer
Arp Odyssey
Moog Minimoog
Moog Taurus 1
Moog Source
SCI Pro-One
Logan SM2
TR-808
TR-606
2. A Voyage Into The Hearth Of Digital Synthesizers (16 tracks)
available here: http://directpaylink.com/?id=1003XMKNO
used synthesizers:
PPG Wave 2.2
PPG Waveterm A
SCI Prophet VS
Yamaha DX7 II
Roland JD-800
Roland D-50
Roland D-550
Korg Wavestation
Korg DW-8000
Korg Z1
Yamaha AN1x
Roland TR-707
SCI Drumtraks
more info about RetroSound:
http://www.retrosound.de and
http://www.facebook.com/pages/RetroSo…
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