The singing comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenk
The Rosetta mission has detected a mysterious signal coming from Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko.
The mission has five instruments in the Rosetta Plasma Consortium (RPC) that measure the plasma environment surrounding the comet.
Plasma is a charged gas and the RPC is tasked with understanding variations in the comet’s activity, how 67P’s jets of vapour and dust interacts with the solar wind and the dynamic structure of the comet’s nucleus and coma.
But when recording signals in the 40-50 millihertz frequency range, the RPC scientists stumbled on a surprise — the comet was singing, they report.
Through some kind of interaction in the comet’s environment, 67P’s weak magnetic field seems to be oscillating at low frequencies. In an effort to better understand this unique ‘song’, mission scientists have increased the frequency 10,000 times to make it audible to the human ear.
First detected in August as Rosetta approached the comet from 100 kilometres, this magnetic oscillation has continued.
Rosetta scientists speculate that the oscillations may be driven by the ionisation of neutral particles from the comet’s jets.
As they are released into space, they collide with high-energy particles from interplanetary space and become ionised. Because it is electrically charged, the plasma then interacts with the cometary magnetic field, causing oscillations. But to draw any conclusions about this, further work is needed.
“This is exciting because it is completely new to us,” says Karl-Heinz Glaßmeier, head of Space Physics and Space Sensorics at the Technische Universität Braunschweig, Germany.
“We did not expect this and we are still working to understand the physics of what is happening.”
Rosetta is currently lining up to deploy its robotic Philae lander to the comet at 20.00 AEDT.
During landing manoeuvers, the RPC is expected to help tracking Philae’s descent to the comet’s surface. The time between separation and landing is expected to take around seven hours.
It takes 28 minutes and 20 seconds for signals to travel at the speed of light from Rosetta to mission control in Germany.
New video from Vanguard – A Brighter Day [single edit]
A Brighter day – Single edit
Full single can be downloaded now at our bandcamp page:
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Available on spotify, Itunes etc within 3 weeks.
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Rob Papen – RAW synth sneak preview
RAW Sneak preview about ModWheel controlling the Reverb FX
Sneak Preview on the new RAW synthesizer! VST/AU/AAX 32/64bit
Note this new synthesizer will also be part of eXplorer-III as well. So check out our complete bundle:
http://www.robpapen.com/explorer-3.html
Check out the new Korg KRONOS
Korg today introduced the new Kronos – the most powerful version of their flagship keyboard music workstation to date;
“The new Kronos features the unrivaled 9-engine structure from previous versions, with numerous improvements to both sound capability and overall functionality,” said Korg Brand Manager James Sajeva. “Truly, this is the most powerful synthesizer on the planet.”
Sajeva explains what’s been updated in the new Kronos: “Our SGX piano engine, already revered for its German and Japanese grands, now also includes a 9GB Berlin grand with dedicated una corda (soft pedal) samples, plus sympathetic string resonance that works on all the SGX pianos” he continued. “It’s truly an amazing piano experience. There are new banks of sounds based on famous song titles for our cover players and those looking for ‘that’ sound for their recordings, plus a ‘best of’ bank from KaPro, who has created numerous libraries for the Kronos line.”
Other new features include system-wide Touch/Drag via the Kronos’ color TouchView screen; allowing the user to edit onscreen parameters faster than ever.
An evolved Set List mode provides the capability to resize their custom text per set list entry, and enter text via either an onscreen QWERTY or external USB ASCII keyboard. Entries can also be color-coded for better organization and visibility, and users can even decide how many set list entries appear on the screen at time, allowing for more (and larger) onscreen text to remind you of lyrics, changes, or other notes.
An improved search function helps users to find the perfect sound faster than ever.
Other improvements include onscreen metering in Combination and Sequencer modes, along with the ability to edit Programs within a Combination to hear the edits in context with other parts.
The improvements don’t end with the software, either; the new Kronos also boasts natural wood side panels, easier-to-read silkscreened text and gold-plated audio I/O jacks.
Korg Kronos synth engines:
- SGX-2 Premium Piano
- EP-1 MDS Electric Piano
- CX-3 Tonewheel Organ
- HD-1 High Definition PCM Synthesize
- MS-20EX & PolySixEX Legacy Analog Modeling
- AL-1 High-Fidelity Analog Modeling
- MOD-7 Waveshaping VPM Synthesizer
- STR-1 Plucked Strings Physical Modeling
Other features include one-cable USB DAW integration for MIDI and Audio, powerful effects processing with up to 16 effects at a time, a 16 MIDI/16 Audio track sequencer, 16-part Combinations, a tremendous assortment of real time controllers, KARMA phrase generating technology, vector control and more.
This is Part 1 of our video manual for the Korg Kronos Music Workstation, focusing on basic navigation.
Max Richter – Infra 8
Fan video, video description below:
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Max Richter- Infra (2010)
Tony Richardson – The Loneliness Of The Long Distance Runner (1962)
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Using Raspberry Pi GPIO in SunVox
Demonstration of the new SunVox module – GPIO. With this module you can send or receive the signals to/from GPIO pins of the Raspberry Pi.
SunVox v1.8 BETA2: http://www.warmplace.ru/forum/viewtop…
Check it out the new FL Studio 12 BETA | Getting Started
Get it here – http://support.image-line.com/redirec…
Read about FL Studio 12 here – http://www.image-line.com/flstudio/fl…
FL Studio 12 totally reworks the user interface and adds exciting new features you have been asking for.
If you already own FL Studio the good news is you will get free access to the FL Studio 12 Beta and to FL Studio 12 release. So buy FL Studio now, and be the first in line to work with the FL Studio 12 Beta.
New in FL Studio 12 (beta)
- Fully reworked scalable interface – Any screen size or resolution you use, FL Studio will always fit.
- Multi-touch – Multi-touch capability extends to the Mixer.
- Browser – New category tabs and the ability to delete content on right-click.
- Channel Menu – The Channel Options Menu have moved from the Toolbar Menus to the Channel rack.
- Channel settings – Have been integrated into the Plugin Wrapper (no more Channel settings pop-up).
- Pattern Menu – The Pattern Menu has moved from the Channel rack to the Toolbar Menu and Pattern Selector.
- Piano roll – Piano roll Auto-zoom can now be deselected from Settings > General > Auto zoom in piano roll.
- Playlist – Multiple drag and drop for audio files onto Playlist (from a Windows file browser).
- Stepsequencer – Step sequences are now interchangeable with Piano rolls.
- VST Plugins – VST plugin installation & discovery improved and simplified.
- Fruity Formula Controller – Updated, new UI.
- Fruity Envelope Controller – Updated, 8 Articulators, Mod X/Y env, Smart Knobs, New UI.
- Fruity Keyboard Controller – Attack smoothing, new UI.
FL Studio is available for purchase starting at $99 USD. New Image-Line customers can get 10% discount on their first order. The beta is now available to download for registered Image-Line forum users (registration is free).
New track from David Bowie – Listen here
David Bowie is releasing Nothing has changed., a new compilation of some of his greatest hits alongside some harder-to-find material and a new single, ‘Sue (Or In A Season Of Crime)’ (head to Bowie’s website to hear the song being given its first play on Guy Garvey’s 6 Music show).
Both the album and single are out next week, but today he’s preceded them by digitally releasing ”Tis A Pity She Was A Whore’, the B-side to ‘Sue (Or In A Season Of Crime)’. It nods both to John Ford’s 17th-century play ‘Tis Pity She’s A Whore and the First World War, with Bowie saying of it: “If Vorticists wrote rock music it might have sounded like this”
Tokyo melody: un film sur Ryuichi Sakamoto
Documentary directed by French photographer Elizabeth Lennard featuring the eclectic Japanese composer Ryuichi Sakamoto during the recording sessions of his 1984 album “Illustrated Musical Encyclopedia”.
Modular Wild Visits Knobcon 2014 Performances-Atomic Shadow
A short compilation of clips from Atomic Shadow’s Knobcon 2014 performance.Sound and Video by Raul Pena.
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