Get the grips of Polivoks
Great intro to the Polivoks
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YouTube via lesingemonotone
“Trying out a Formanta Polivoks that has been modified with external CV/gate. A x0xb0x is the sequencer used in the clip.”
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Arash uses the new looping SW Cycler
Devine Machine has announced Cycler, a new looping software.
After four years of intensive development and extensive real-world gig beta testing, Devine Machine is proud to announce his revolutionary looper: Cycler.
Cycler is a totally new approach to looping on computers, designed to simplify creating music, with or without your screen!
Cycler is a radical departure from hardware emulation software and contains powerful and truly unique functions, such as multiple loop length capabilities, a comprehensive battery of effects and infinite undos for each of the 16 loopers, among many other truly unique features.
It aims to ease and simplify the relationship between musician and computer.
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Arash Khalatbari and Wise Washington performing using CYCLER, the new upcoming looping and remix system from Devine Machine. Flutes, jaw harp and percussion are recorded and mixed live.
Release date is set for early 2010, price is not yet fixed. Versions for all platforms will be included with purchase. An extensive feature list will be communicated by October 2009.
Article on how to buy a microphone
In this guide, you’ll learn the things you need to know before shopping for a microphone. It’s important to keep in mind a few small things — but after that, the microphone world is yours for the taking!
Before you begin…
Budget
You don’t have to spend the best to get “the best” sound. A lot of microphones are considered “homages” — microphones that replicate a certain characteristic of a historic microphone. These are generally sold by small manufacturers, and carry a much lower price than the original.
Also, don’t be tempted to overspend; a great instrument or voice will sound great on a modest-priced microphone.
Dynamic or Condenser: What are you recording?
If you can only afford one microphone, consider a high-quality condenser. You can find many within the $100-300 price range.
If you can afford it, a great “utility” condenser along with a great dynamic microphone will cover almost all of your recording bases. If you can only afford one, a good condenser microphone will do.
Does your mixer or interface offer phantom power?
Many companies manufacture 48volt phantom power supplies; these will cost you between $100 (for plug-in models), to $250-300 (for elaborate battery-powered solutions).
It simply depends on your resources; if you don’t have built-in phantom, and can’t afford to add the capability to your system, chances are a dynamic microphone is best for you.
One or two microphones?
If your ultimate goal is recording live concerts, rehearsals, or recitals, you might want a stereo pair of condenser microphones. These can be had for a variety of price ranges, from the $100-200 range to many thousands of dollars. Some of the best — companies like Earthworks, Neumann, and DPA — offer models to suit all price ranges.
Don’t forget to budget money for mounting systems (t-bars, as they’re called) and extra cabling to make your two-track recording work.
Skinny Puppy gets ready to rock
According to a news posting on the official Skinny Puppy MySpace website, the band is planning a new studio album and tour for 2009. Rumour has it that the newest puppy would see the light of day somewhere in October. The current line-up of the band consists of Cevin Key, Ogre and Mark Walk with additional help from Otto von Schirach and Aaron from Venetian Snares.
Skinny Puppy is a Canadian band, formed in Vancouver, British Columbia in 1982. Initially envisioned as an experimental side project by cEvin Key (born Kevin Crompton) while he was in the new wave band Images In Vogue, Nivek Ogre (born Kevin Ogilvie) soon joined as vocalist and Skinny Puppy evolved into a full-time project. Over the course of a dozen studio albums and many live tours, Key and Ogre have been the only constant members. Other members have included the late Dwayne Goettel (1986–1995), Dave “Rave” Ogilvie, Mark Walk (2003–present), and a number of guests, including Bill Leeb (1985–1986, under the pseudonym Wilhelm Schroeder), Al Jourgensen (1989), and many others. The group is widely considered the founders of the electro-industrial sub genre.
Salad Bar continues to grow
Salad Bar’s patches will cover all kinds of music styles showing you the very best Soundcells has to offer. It’s a great refill to get to know Soundcells’ work, introducing you to their signature dimension in designing sound.
• Over 140 combinator patches (currently 23 ‘Salad Bar Only’ ones).
• 8 different folders: Atmospheres & Textures, Bass, Keys, Leads, Miscellaneous, Pads, Rhythmic, SaladBar_exclusive.
• The modules folder contains the basic synth and NNXT patches which were used for the combinator sounds.
• 160 well balanced patches for Thor, Malstroem, Subtractor, NNXT and ReDrum.
• 40 new rex loops.
• 8 tracks in RNS format – inspiring with highl ‘tutorialesque’ value.
Native Instruments
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In this official Native Instruments video, Carl Craig and Kelvin Sholar talk about their collaboration and how Maschine influenced their workflow.
MESH – 'New album darker and harder than before'
… ‘a dark inspirational love album’.
Mesh have produced a video message for their fans and made it available on their fansite www.mesh-fanclub.com. There you can also hear parts of the new single “Only Better”, to be released on September 4th. In the video, Rich Silverthorn describes the style of the album as harder and dirtier and calls “A Perfect Solution” a “dark inspirational love album”.
POLYPHONIC PATTERN BASED ARPEGGIATOR
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Usage
- Catanya is good for beginners. It allows them to combine preset patterns and quickly receive song basement.
- Catanya is ideal and recommended for the live musicians. It allows to design and create original riffs for them (but not only for them)
- Create compositionally rich traces to your songs.
- Create professional traces for the instruments which you are not familiar with.
- Compose songs at style which is not “yours” – for brass band fan it is not problem to make techno song when necessary.
- You don’t need to manufacture a trace. You need just your chord procedure (you have it mostly), then hang-up our plugin, join a syntesizer/sampler and the track is finished.
Features
- next generation pattern arpeggiator
- easy to use
- fully editable patterns
- multiple instances
- 9×32 note matrix
- 1100 presets (music phrazes)
- supports recording final output into DAW for additional editations
- presets browser with ability to choose genre, style, rhythm, instrument, tempo
- applicable with any VSTi plugin or external HW synthesizer (via DAW’s midi out)
- unique AI Random functions for making unique velocity Groove
- realtime velocity spread
- support Cubase, Ableton Live, Reaper, FL Studio, Mackie Tracktion, NI Kore 2, EnergyXT
The new Waldorf Largo
Waldorf recently emerged from a brief hiatus with a new line of hardware synths that draws heavily upon its older instruments. This would be news enough for synthesizer aficionados, but the recent launch of a virtual variant carrying the Waldorf name adds even more excitement.
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.
The clearly arranged user interface helps you to create your own powerful synthesizer sounds in a breeze. Oscillators and filters are always in direct access while the submodules are only a mouse click away. It has the same exclusive voice architecture as the Q and Blofeld synthesizer line, fully integrated into the total recall system of your Digital Audio Workstation.
Videos:
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Interestingly though, you can’t buy Largo from the Waldorf web site and instead have to purchase from a music store. I’ve provided links for the the free demo and to online music stores at the bottom of this post.
Links:
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