New release: Korg LFO Module for littleBits
Vote for the Korg LFO Module in the littleBits bitLab today!
The LFO module is currently under consideration for manufacture at the littleBits BitLab. At the BitLab, visitors can view proposed new modules and vote for the ones that they’d like to see manufactured.
The LFO is an oscillator module that allows you to make slow sweeping changes to sound parameters in the synth kit or with other littleBits modules. You can control the following parameters directly on the module:
- Rate/Frequency knob (speed of oscillation)
- Waveshape control knob (change the duty cycle of a pulse wave or morph a sawtooth to triangle to ramp waveform)
- Waveform selection switch (select triangle/saw or pulse waveform)
The input of the module controls the amplitude of the LFO. An onboard LED shows the rate of oscillation.
For your electro playlist: Daybed – Lack of Light
Daybed – Lack of Light. EP now available at: http://geneticmusic.de/index2.htm
Listen to the new electro track from Mannerfelt / Haydo | Stepping In [Avian 2015]
Mannerfelt / Haydo | Radio Mohave
Label: Avian – AVN019
Format: Vinyl, 12″
Country: UK
Released: 31 Mar 2015
Genre: Electronic
Style: Techno
http://www.discogs.com/Mannerfelt-Hay…
Diode-108 – a new drum machine app for iPad
Vibrant Digital Engineering has introduced Diode-108 – a new drum machine app for iPad.
Diode-108 comes with a variety of built-in vintage, classic, and acoustic kits, but you can also mix and match the samples provided or import wav files to create your own kits.
Features:
- Drag and drop effects let you put effects on individual beats!
- Drum kits licensed from respected partners. Dubsounds, Samples From Mars, Orange Tree Samples, and 99Sounds.
- 16 drum voices with unlimited patterns that you can arrange into your own songs
- Each pattern can have its own swing and tempo multiplier
- Every voice has PER BEAT control of pan, volume, tone, pitch, decay, compression, and distortion, delay, and reverb.
- Turn NOTE MODE on for any voice and control the musical note (up or down an octave from the original pitch). Great for basslines or pitched percussion
- Wav sample import
- Mix and Match kits (easily substitute any sample in any kit). Want an 808 kick in a 909 kit? No problem.
Diode-108 lets you export your songs as wav files to SoundCloud, DropBox, or iTunes, or send them through Audiobus to other apps on your iPad.
Diode-108 is available now for US $5.99 in the App Store.
Take two of Propellerhead’s vocal app “Take” – In 30 Seconds
Learn more and download Take for free: https://www.propellerheads.se/take
Take Creative Vocal Recorder is the fastest app for capturing your ideas on iOS so we figured we’d show you Take in action with the fastest video walk through. Record your voice, load backing beats, sing along with yourself, add effects, and even tune your voice from subtle pitch fixes to “that” hip hop sound. When you’re ready, share your song ideas to Discover on Propellerhead to share your music with friends or to invite a world of other music makers to collaborate with your music.
Here’s what’s new in Take 2.0:
- Tune your voice – stay in tune or go full-on robot voice with Take’s Voice Tune effect.
- Clean up, distort or color your recordings with effects on each channel
- Give your tracks a “final mix” sound with mastering presets
- Sing in a key that works for you with transposable backing tracks
- Trim your songs to the desired length
- Numerous performance and usability improvements
Take is a free download from the App Store.
KOMA Elektronik Komplex Sequencer: Teaser
Some close up features of the upcoming KOMA Elektronik Komplex Quad Sequencer right before Musikmesse! Now, the sequencer length is displayed by the LEDs beneath each step as it is changed momentarily. The Komplex Sequencer is driving the pitch and filter cutoff of the Korg MS10 while the Volca Beats provides a rhythm. The KOMA Elektronik RH301 provides the master clock.
For more info and preorders visit: http://www.koma-elektronik.com
New video from Hot Chip – Need You Now
Pre-order the new album “Why Make Sense?” and get an instant download of “Huarache Lights” and “Need You Now”:
iTunes – http://po.st/WhyMakeSense
Dom Mart – http://po.st/WhyMakeSenseDM
Hot Chip will release their sixth album and second for Domino, Why Make Sense?, on 18th May 2015. Recorded in Oxfordshire and London and produced by Hot Chip with Mark Ralph, Why Make Sense? is the band’s follow up to 2012’s critically acclaimed In Our Heads.
Hot Chip will be touring the US, UK & Europe in support of Why Make Sense? this May and June including an intimate club show at Oval Space in London on 14th May 2015. More information: http://live.hotchip.co.uk/
Director: Shynola
Production company: Black Dog Films
Producer: Jacob Swan Hyam
Head of Black Dog: Katie Dolan
Production Assistant: Stephanie Werrell Smyth
DoP: Benoit Soler
1st AD: Chris Kelly
Art director: Ezra Piers-Mantell
Costume designer: Kate Tabor
Gaffer: Mark Holownia
Focus Puller: Anthony Hugill
Girlfriend character played by Sophie Francesca
Video within video DoP: Beau Scott
Editor: Leila Sarraf at Trim
Colourist: Paul Harrisson at Finish
VFX and online: Ross McDowell
With thanks to Pod Equipment Hire.
ROLAND PRE-MESSE TEASER II – SYSTEM 1 RACK
This image looks like there will be a System 1 Rack revealed at the upcoming MusikMesse
Looper – Mondo ’77 (Official Video 2015 / Mute Records)
‘Mondo ‘ 77’ is taken from the new 5 CD box set ‘These Things’ released April 13th (14th USA). 58 tracks plus a 20 page booklet with sleeves notes by The Charlatans’ Tim Burgess. Includes a digital copy of the new album – Offgrid:Offline. Pre-Order limited edition: Looper Store – musicglue.com/looper/
Pre-Order box set: Mute Store (USA) – store.mute.com/these-things-5xcd.html
Amazon: smarturl.it/looperTTBox
Rough Trade- roughtrade.com/albums/90487
Looper emerged from Belle & Sebastian in 1997, when Stuart David (co-founder and bass player of B&S) and his wife Karn (an artist who directed the early B&S videos) collaborated for a show at Glasgow School of Art.
A limited edition of 200 signed box sets is available from the official Looper store with the following extras:
Live cassette of the 1999 Troubadour show in America, Lyric book ‘Looper, Mute Songs’, Looper badge & download of new album – Offgrid:Offline.
LOOPER ONLINE:
looperama.co.uk/
facebook.com/looperama
twitter.com/looperama
Traktor Kontrol D2 – the next-generation pro deck controller from NI
Native Instruments has announced Traktor Kontrol D2, the next-generation pro deck controller for Traktor Pro 2.
Designed for creative DJ performance that takes the DJ’s focus away from the laptop, TRAKTOR KONTROL D2 offers groundbreaking touch-and-see workflow in a compact format optimized for easy set-up with club equipment. TRAKTOR KONTROL D2 will join TRAKTOR KONTROL S8 as one of the first DJ hardware controllers to support Stems* – an upcoming, open audio format that allows multi-channel mixing with individual musical parts. Robust, lightweight, and compact, the D2 is the ideal performance deck for the touring DJ.
TRAKTOR KONTROL D2 creates a multisensory DJ experience thanks to its touch-and-see technology. Tracks appear on a full-color display as vector waveforms while several key views and pop-up panels are revealed when a corresponding control is touched. The Browse Knob for example, triggers the Browse View for track selection directly from the controller. Performance Panels appear over track waveforms to view and modify BPM, key, filter, or effect values when activated by touch-sensitve knobs. And an LED-guided touch strip provides motion-sensitive pitch bending, track seeking, vinyl scratch emulation, and keeps track of phase in dark environments.
TRAKTOR KONTROL D2 naturally delivers enhanced TRAKTOR deck functions that empower pro DJs to develop their own trademark sound. Samples and loops are easily accessible for mixing with the four dedicated Deck faders when using a Remix Deck. Eight color-coded pads can trigger sounds, juggle cue points while in Hotcue Mode, or rearrange a playing track on the fly in Freeze Mode. Similar to Remix Deck usage, the D2’s touch-sensitive performance knobs and faders will instantly correspond to a loaded Stem file’s different ‘stem’ parts.
Designed to minimize bulk and setup time, TRAKTOR KONTROL D2 is highly transportable for DJs on the go. The lightweight, yet robust build features four foldable rubber-padded feet that extend to raise the unit to industry-standard height, or incline it for contoured comfort. Though one D2 alone can navigate through two TRAKTOR decks, two USB ports found on the rear panel allow a second D2 to be daisy-chained to one computer USB port for a two-unit setup. Connections are further simplified with an included power supply splitter cable that allows two units to be powered using one power supply unit.
Fueling the technology behind TRAKTOR KONTROL D2 is the included TRAKTOR PRO 2 software. An innovation in and of itself, TRAKTOR PRO is the award winning DJ software used by countless professionals. Four software decks, over 30 studio-grade effects, and powerful advanced features for creative looping and cueing have provided DJs all over the world with inspiring and customizable DJ possibilities.
TRAKTOR KONTROL D2 will be fully compatible with Stems on public release of the format in summer 2015.
Traktor Kontrol D2 will be available for $499 USD/499 EUR/£429 GBP on May 4th, 2015. Preorder is also available.
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