FRACT Teaser 2 – The musical exploration game
FRACT is a musical exploration game. Players arrive in a forgotten place and explore the vast and unfamiliar landscape to discover the secrets of an abandoned world that was once built on sound. As they start to make sense of this strange new environment, they work to rebuild its machinery and bring the world back to life by exploring sound and creating music within the game. FRACT is being developed by Phosfiend Systems, a small indie game studio based in Montreal, Canada.
More info at http://www.FRACTGAME.com
The music for the teaser trailer was composed entirely in the game during a quick ‘studio session’.
Donkey Kong Country – Theme (SNES Music) – Korg MS-20 mini – Polyphonic Processing
Korg MS-20 mini polyphony using Notelogic from Xhip.net
NO Fx has been used on this piece!
Audulus for iPad coming April 22nd
An introduction to the user interface of Audulus for iPad.
Taylor Holliday has announced that Audulus for iPhone will be available Tues, April 22nd. Audulus is a graphical modular audio environment, currently available for Mac OS X and iPad. The iPhone version will be fully patch compatible with the existing versions. Audulus for iPhone will be free to all current users of Audulus for iPad, and will be available at a ‘special introductory price’ for everyone else.
The built-in modules in Audulus:
Virtual Analog Oscillator (4 classic waveforms)
ADSR Envelope
Noise Generator
Sample Player (coming soon to iPad)
Mathematical Modules: Add, Subtract, Multiply, Sine, Modulo
Random Number Generator
MIDI controlled Keyboard
MIDI assignable trigger
16-Step Sequencer
Delay
Distortion
Low Pass Filter
High Pass Filter
Pitch Shifter
Constant Value
Gain
Mapper Curve
Piecewise-linear Spline Curve
Sample and Hold
Crossfade
4-Channel Mixer
Level Meter
Value Meter
Scrolling Waveform Meter
Input/Output
Polyphonic to Monophonic signal mixer
Global Time
Sub-Patch
Timer
Zero-crossing Counter
Audio Unit Plug-in (Mac Only)
Math Expression Node (In-App Purchase Upgrade)
Oberheim OB-X “I Robot”
Vintage synthesizer demo track by RetroSound
all sounds: Oberheim OB-X Analog Synthesizer (1979)
drums: LinnDrum
recording: multi-track without midi
fx: delay and reverb
Tutorial: the process of remixing Jean Michel Jarre’s famouse “Oxygene” track
John ’00’ Fleming sits in for a Computer Music Producer Masterclass session. This entire series discusses the process of remixing Jean Michel Jarre’s famouse “Oxygene” track. Part one, John discusses how he worked with his partner sharing files due to long distance, how he prefers to design his own pad sounds versus flipping through pre-sets and the benefits there-of.
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Die Form is on the move
The new Die Form single “Schaulust” will be released in alimited edition of 696 on May 2nd – you can order it right here. The limited MCD contains the title track, an extended mix and two more new songs in exclusive remixes. The single is an appetizer for the upcoming album “Rayon X”, which will be released soon.
Tracklist:
- SCHAULUST (Scopic Pulsion)
- SCHAULUST Extended Remix
- FROM DREAMS TO MACHINES Remix
- ZOANTHROPIA Remix
Studio Science: Morton Subotnick On His Buchla Synthesizer
Morton Subotnick runs through his live set-up, a unique amalgamation anchored by the Buchla Synthesizer. Filmed at the 2014 Red Bull Music Academy Bass Camp San Francisco
Play House – LEGO goes modular
Play House is an automata that generates slow hypnotic acid house through mechanisms built from LEGO Technic. This piece was made for AudioGraft 2014 with a commission from Oxford Contemporary Music. A modular synth project created by Alex Allmont, that generates acid house music.
Behind the scenes: Today the plan was to hook this sequencer up to the TB303 but here was a lot more fiddly stuff than expected, so this video just demonstrates the note matrix which will eventually send CV note values over to the synth. Each note is triggered on a quarter note (I’m limiting the sequencer to 2 beats per bar rather than 4) and each relates to a single column in the note matrix. How far up or down that column makes contact with the row determines the note pitch value.
Korg MS 20 mini x iMS 20 for iPad: adjustments to sound closer
Marcus Padrini compares the Korg MS-20 mini and iMS-20 for iPad – and demonstrates that you can’t rely on your eyes to get patches to match, but if you use your ears, you can get a very close match, details below:
The Korg MS-20 mini is an analog synth, the reincarnation of the classic MS-20. The iMS-20 is the iPad version of the same machine.
If you just try to use the same settings on both, the first thought will be “The iMS-20 simply can’t sound like the real thing”. But in fact, they have different behavior for the same settings on the filter and envelope modules. Don’t expect to make the same sounds using the same settings on both!
With some work and listening carefully you can make the iPad app to sound much closer than before.
PANIC LIFT – Awake
click here to see the video with stereo sound
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nGBw8…
Produced, shot, & edited by Daniel Huppert
Pre-Order ‘Awake’ now on Bandcamp :
https://metropolisrecords.bandcamp.co…
listen to clips from every song here :
http://www.metropolis-mailorder.com/d…
HI-Def version available here :
https://vimeo.com/88454328
Panic Lift on tour supporting Aesthetic Perfection NEXT MONTH!
05/07/14 Scottsdale, AZ Pub Rock
05/08/14 Albuquerque, NM Launchpad
05/09/14 El Paso, TX Lowbrow Palace
05/10/14 Austin, TX Elysium
05/11/14 Dallas, TX The Church
05/15/14 New Orleans, LA Wolf’s Den
05/17/14 Jacksonville, FL Eclipse Nightclub
05/18/14 Miami, FL The Vagabond
05/20/14 Springfield, VA Empire
05/22/14 Boston, MA TT The Bears
05/23/14 New York, DROM
05/24/14 Buffalo, NY Broadway Joe’s
05/25/14 Toronto, ON – TBA
05/26/14 Pittsburgh, PA The Rex Theater
05/27/14 Ann Arbor, MI Necto
05/28/14 Columbus, OH Skully’s
05/29/14 Chicago, IL Reggie’s
05/30/14 Milwaukee, WI Venue TBA
05/31/14 Minneapolis, MN Ground Zero
06/01/14 Omaha, NE Venue TBA
06/03/14 Denver, CO Casselman’s
06/04/14 Salt Lake City, UT Area 51
06/05/14 Boise, ID The Bouquet
06/06/14 Seattle, WA The Highline
06/10/14 San Francisco, CA DNA Lounge
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