Aflecht – Korg Volca Bass
Korg Volca Bass
by Aflecht in July 2015
All sounds come from Korg Volca Bass, except the drums. Ableton Live was used for sequencing, editing and mixing. Native Instruments Battery was used for drums.
Only delay and EQ was used on any of the sounds.
Roland JD-XA Synthesizer Prototype Demo Overview Video
A look at the new Roland JD-XA synthesizer and how it plays its part in The Circuit symphony Live 2015 shows. After spending a few days with it, integrating to the Live Set-up – this is what we have done so far.
This is a prototype model so specification may be subject to change.
Daft Punk – Derezzed – Live Cover – FL Studio MS20 Monotribe
+ music: https://soundcloud.com/fedemanfredi
Daft Punk – Derezzed (Tron) Live Cover played with:
FL Studio (Performance mode)
Touchscreen Monitor
Korg MS20 mini
Korg Monotribe
Ipad Mini (IL Remote)
Line 6 Pod XT
New interview with synth pioneer Roger Linn
At GearFest ’15, synthesizer pioneer Roger Linn sat down with Mitch Gallagher to talk music and electronic instruments. Technical Grammy award-winner Roger Linn invented the LM-1 Drum Computer (the first sample-based drum machine) in 1979. He later designed the Akai MPC60, which combined a sampling drum machine with a real-time MIDI sequencer. His guitar effects unit, AdrenaLinn, has been used on hit recordings by John Mayer and Red Hot Chili Peppers. In 2014 he released the LinnStrument, an expressive MIDI performance controller.
Solomon Mics LoFReQ – new Sub Mic Microphone at Summer NAMM 2015
Promising “chest-rumbling, sub-freq goodness”, the LoFreq houses a 6.5-inch dynamic driver, delivering a frequency response of 25Hz to 3kHz. Mounting to any standard mic stand, the LoFreq is smaller and lighter than conventional commercially available sub-bass kick drum mics, making it potentially easier to position over a more precise area of the kick’s front head. Meanwhile, a custom in-line pad helps to deliver a gain and impedance profile similar to the widely used Shure Beta 52A kick drum mic, so there are none of the issues encountered when trying to connect the overly hot output from a repurposed monitor speaker to your regular mixer and recording setup. Attractively finished in either white or black Tolex with a matching aluminium grille, the LoFreq is available now from the Solomon website, very reasonably priced at $179.99.
Close up on Eventide Crushstation – Summer NAMM 2015
Effect algorithm
In their entire 40 year history, Eventide have never produced a processor dedicated entirely to distortion. All that ends this coming Monday with the release of Crushstation, a distortion algorithm that can be purchased for the popular H9 series of multi-effects pedals.
Crushstation will be available on Monday as an in-app purchase for H9 Control through the Apple App Store for $19.99.
Eventide are also releasing a new update to the H9 software that means that you can now use one of the two ins and outs (initially intended for stereo operation) to route audio to external effects. This effects loop can be positioned anywhere in your internal (virtual) FX chain, making it very flexible.
Steve Reich’s Clapping Music – free iOS game that’s designed to improve your rhythm
Touchpress Limited has released Steve Reich’s Clapping Music – a free iOS game that’s designed to improve your rhythm.
It does this by challenging you to play Steve Reich’s ground-breaking work, Clapping Music, a piece of music performed entirely by clapping.
Steve Reich’s Clapping Music app is part of a research project, designed to explore if gaming experiences can help people learn musical skills.
Reich’s piece Clapping Music (1972) explores the idea of a phase canon. Two performers start by playing a simple rhythm together. One performer speeds up slightly, so that the two performers get out of sync, creating a series of new syncopated rhythms. The piece continues until, after cycling through 12 different 8th-note relationships, the two performers return to being in sync.
Emulator II OMI Universe of Sounds: Vol 1- new instrument library for Native Instruments Kontakt
Rhythmic Robot has announced the release of Emulator II OMI Universe of Sounds: Vol 1, an instrument library for Native Instruments Kontakt featuring classic sampled sounds that defined a generation.
Back in the 80s, the sampler that took the studio world by storm was the Emulator II. Far more affordable than a Synclavier or a Fairlight, its crunchy 8-bit samples and clever companding output convertors made for an awesomely in-your-face sound that punched its way through countless hit mixes. Artists like Pink Floyd, Peter Gabriel, Tears for Fears, Thomas Dolby, Philip Glass, Eurythmics, Pet Shop Boys, Vangelis and dozens more put the EII’s signature sound to work on their tracks. It’s not overstating it to say it helped define the sound of a generation of music.
‘I’m a fan of this Rhythmic Robot outfit. Using their instruments is like discovering a lost tribe in the digital jungle… pure, but slightly uncivilized.’ – Stephen Hague, producer (Peter Gabriel, Erasure, Pet Shop Boys, Robbie Williams, Melanie C, New Order, etc.)
Key to the EII’s success was a phenomenal aftermarket library of professionally-recorded samples. The factory library itself was excellent, but the soundset that really expanded the possibilities of the instrument was OMI’s Universe of Sounds – a mammoth swathe of patches covering keys, basses, strings, orchestral, synths, ethnic, drums, percussion, brass… everything you needed to bring your track to life. When we first approached the idea of sampling an EII, it was this library we wanted to sample.
Now, in collaboration with and with the blessing of Doug Morton – the guy who actually recorded those OMI samples back in the 80s, and who remains their copyright owner – we bring you the OMI Universe of Sounds, in all its glory. We’ve sampled every note of every patch (over 31,700 samples in all!) out of a reconditioned Emulator II, to preserve the exact sound of the EII’s D-to-A convertors and sample interpolation process. We’ve meticulously preserved original looping behaviour, velocity layers and sample switching. In short, what you hear when you play this instrument is the sound of an EII in its heyday.
Emulator II OMI Universe of Sounds: Vol 1 features
- 31,700 individual samples.
- 33Gb original 24-bit.
- 21Gb uncompressed 16-bit.
- 11.33Gb compressed .ncw format.
- 541 individual instruments, including 14 Bass, 18 Bells & Chimes, 52 Brass, 51 Drums, 59 Ethnic & Folk, 8 FX, 36 Guitar, 38 Piano & Keys, 77 Orchestral, 41 Percussion, 61 Strings, 76 Synth, 12 Vocal.
- Additional Kontakt Multis taking the EII’s sounds in exciting new directions.
The sample library is available for purchase for the introductory price of £85 GBP + VAT through July 31st, 2015 (regular £99 GBP).
New video from Array Access – Variation 2 [Ressort Imprint]
Variations | Eomac Remix |
http://novafuture-blog.com/2015/05/13… |
http://www.ressortimprint.com/ |
https://soundcloud.com/ressortimprint |
video by the29nov films
Yamaha Reface DX – Summer NAMM 2015
Digital Synthesizer Keyboard. A quick demo of Yamaha’s new Reface DX, based on iconic FM synths such as the ubiquitous DX7. This is one of three Yamaha keyboards in the Reface range.
Watch the Yamaha Reface keyboards in action. All 4 brand new keyboards in a Doctor Mix exclusive video, showing the actual prototypes being played live by our team.
More on the Reface keyboards: http://bit.ly/refaceUKsite
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