1st Pattern on the Analog Rytm
John Durbin: “About 1 hour after unboxing my new drum machine.
I love this thing!”
Stanford Laptop Orchestra | Twilight (2013)
Twilight (2013) for laptop orchestra
by Ge Wang
performed by Stanford Laptop Orchestra (SLOrk)
Bing Concert Hall @ Stanford University, May 2013.
Inspired by the classic science-fiction short story “Twilight” by John W. Campbell (published in 1934, under the pseudonym “Don A. Stuart”), this piece ruminates not of the dawn, ascension, nor triumph of the human race, but of one possible demise set seven million years in the future. This end is not one of annihilation through war, nor decimation from famine or disease, but a golden decrescendo of defeat brought on by the gradual, peaceful, but unstoppable usurping of technology and machines — and the loss of man’s curiosity and sense of wonder. From the original text:
“Twilight – the sun has set. The desert out beyond, in its mystic, changing colors. The great, metal city rising straight-walled to the human city above, broken by spires and towers and great trees with scented blossoms. The silvery-rose glow in the paradise of gardens above.”
i. The Dead City
“And all the great city-structure throbbing and humming to the steady gentle beat of perfect, deathless machines built more than three million years before – and never touched since that time by human hands. And they go on. The dead city. The men that have lived, and hoped, and built – and died to leave behind them those little men who can only wonder and look and long for a forgotten kind of companionship. They wander through the vast cities their ancestors built, knowing less of them than the machines themselves.”
ii. A Song of Longing
“And the songs. Those tell the story best, I think. Little, hopeless, wondering men amid vast unknowing, blind machines that started three million years before – and just never knew how to stop. They are dead – and can’t die and be still.”
This is the first installment in the Twilight series for various and mixed media. The cycle explores the psychology, longing, beauty and sadness of a twilight of humanity ending not in a bang, but an irreversible powerdown, basked in the golden, lingering, dying glow of man’s dusk.
Experimental: 雨音の由来
Googlish:
It is a video that was broadcast on “in the classroom of Techne image” of NHK.
This is a video you want to test the hypothesis that sound rain that, or not than is made in the integrated sound of water droplets hit the thing.
http://tha.jp/4561
8 Minutes with an Akai AX-80
All video and music by c.2014 G-Storm Electro
http://gstormelectronica.blogspot.com/
There are quite a few good demos of the AX-80 out there already. I wanted to program a few basic sounds and some unique aspects of the AX-80. Some parts I use the Beatstep sequencer, chord memory, and the Big Sky reverb.
Rollz-5 Performance
Here’s a performance demo of the Meng Qi Rollz-5! It’s almost impossible to explain without touching it or going to into metaphors about mushroom planets, so I’ve done the next best thing.
Telex and Lacksman
From the 1981 album “Sex” and with lyrics co-written by Ron Mael
Taken from the album Electric Dreams (2013). Buy the album from iTunes.
ELECTRIC DREAMS – – New Album by Dan Lacksman
– – (Album Release 17th of May 2013)
Mac or PC – Live Performance @ Botanique – – (Les Nuits 2013)
Musicians: Dan Lacksman / Alice Lacksman / Ad Cominotto
Live Sound Engineer : Hassan Chaïdi (Beatracks Production)
Video made by Floris Erbuer
Camera : Clement Nourry – John Erbuer – Floris Erbuer
Maschine Workflow Videos
Native Instruments has released a series of videos that look at Maschine workflows.
In this first workflow-video, learn how to quickly create an inspiring drum beat with MASCHINE.
The features explored in this video are available on all MASCHINE STUDIO, MASCHINE and MASCHINE MIKRO hardware controllers.
64bit Waldorf Largo released
The long awaited 64-Bit version of Waldorf Largo is now available. You’ll find the Largo download page here, and the general overview page here which has some new demos.
Largo offers three fat oscillators, two of them with sub oscillators. These oscillators include models of classic analog waveforms as well as a selection of waves from the PPG and Waldorf Wave stored in two Wavetables. All these run through two Waldorf multimode filters with steep cutoff, resonance up to self-oscillation and a drive stage to add even more punch and grainyness to the sound. Ultra-fast envelope generators and flexible LFOs as well as an easy to understand, yet extremely versatile modulation matrix make for a sound designer’s dream.
The filters have always been a core part of any Waldorf instrument. With outstanding expertise in both analog and digital synthesis, our developers took utmost care in developing the filters. And you can hear a significant difference when working with a Waldorf filter – they just sound right! Use the comb filters for plucked, stringed or blown sounds. Band pass, high pass, low pass and notch filters are all available with 12 dB and 24 dB slope. All of them sound extremely accurate and add pure sonic quality to the sound of your music.
Largo contains a flexible arpeggiator with 16 freely programmable steps as known from the exclusive Q synthesizer line plus an array of high quality effects such as Chorus, Flanger, Phaser, Overdrive, Delay and Reverb.
Modular synth -main work-
This is a modular system in a wooden case with black vinyl liner, cover and aluminum front plate:
3 identical VCO 4 waveforms, PWM, sync and CV in
VCF low pass filter 24dB
SV variable filter 12dB simultaneous outs lp, bp y hp
3 ADSR
2 VCLFO 5 waveforms, PWM y CV in (frequency control)
VCEcho time, feedback y volumen controlados por voltaje
VCS&H sync and CV in (frequency control)
2 log VCA
2 lineal VCA
2 mixer 5 channels
Noise source 4 simultaneous outs
4 CV buffer
Gate buffer
Power supply AC 100-260V
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Sistema modular con 22 modulos MFOS, case de madera con forro de vinil, tapa protectora y panel frontal de aluminio:
3 VCO con 4 formas de onda, PWM, entrada sync y entradas CV
VCF low pass filter 24dB
SV variable filter 12dB salida simultánea lp, bp y hp
3 ADSR
2 VCLFO con 5 formas de onda, PWM y entradas CV (control de frecuencia)
VCEcho time, feedback y volumen controlados por voltaje
VCS&H entrada sync y entrada CV (control de frecuencia)
2 log VCA
2 lineal VCA
2 mixer cada uno con 5 canales
Noise source 4 salidas simultaneas
4 CV buffer
Gate buffer
Power supply AC 100-260V
KORG SDD-3000 Pedal – new delay based on the classic 80′s SDD-3000
Korg has introduced the SDD-3000 Pedal, a new delay pedal, based on the classic 80′s SDD-3000.
The SDD-3000 PEDAL packs all of the SDD-3000?s functionality into a convenient pedal unit. Featuring a pre-amp with ample headroom, a filter circuit that modifies the feedback sound, and modulation waveforms that allow a diverse array of delay effects, it covers all of the SDD-3000′s important elements.
In addition to specifications that will satisfy SDD-3000 users, it provides many new functions such as eight delay types, long delay times up to 4,000 milliseconds, selectable modulation waveforms, stereo input/output, and MIDI compatibility. The user interface has also been updated for dramatically improved ease of use.
Features:
- All features of the SDD-3000 digital delay, packed into a pedal unit.
- Eight distinct delay types including SDD-3000, Analog, Tape, Modern, Kosmic, Reverse, Pitch and Panning.
- The preamp that defined the sound of the SDD-3000 is faithfully reproduced.
- Selectable filters that alter the sound of the delay repeats.
- Choose from five types of modulation waveforms that modulate the delay time. You can also create waveforms that interpolate between two types, and make fine adjustments to the waveform.
- Use flanging, chorus, vibrato, doubling, and Doppler effects.
- A wide range of delay times is available, from 1 millisecond to long delays with a maximum of 4,000 milliseconds.
- Sync mode lets you specify the delay time in terms of 11 different note values ranging from whole notes to 32nd notes.
- A total of 80 programs (40 banks x 2 channels) can be saved.
- LCR function lets you create multi-tap delay effects.
- MIDI connectors are provided, allowing you to trigger program changes from an external device, or to transmit program data as a bulk dump to and from other units.
- Seamless bypass and program changes allow you to retain the reverberant sound when switching sounds.
- Reliable true bypass design.
- An optional expression pedal can be used to control multiple effect parameters simultaneously.
The SDD-3000 Pedal is available now, with a street price of around US $400. See the Korg site for more info.
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