MusixCube – making electronic music with Rubik’s cube
A tool for producing electronic music, based on the interaction of the Rubik’s Cube, B.A. Thesis project at Muthesius Academy Of Fine Arts And Design by Hauke Scholz
Video shot and edited by Stefan Horak
Syncing a SCI Pro One to a Linn LM-2 LinnDrum
“A fellow VSE’r was needing helping syncing his Pro One to his LinnDrum, so I thought I make a quick tutorial video. Remember to enter the LAST note of your sequence into the ProOne’s sequencer FIRST (thanks Howard Jones for that tip).”
Electrix Tweaker – new controller for Ableton Live and Traktor users
The Electrix Tweaker is a new performance controller for Ableton Live users and Traktor users.
The Tweaker includes a 32-button grid, velocity sensitive pads, push encoders with LED rings, in a 2 channel DJ mixer style interface, with bright multi color LED feedback.
Features:
- 2 Channel DJ mixer style interface
- 32 Button grid with multicolor LED feedback
- 8 Backlit velocity sensitive pads with aftertouch
- 6 Push encoders with LED rings
- Intuitive navigation controls with 5-way selector and large push encoder
- USB bus powered
- MIDI In and Out ports
- Removable height extension legs
- Plug and play on Mac and PC
- Dimensions: 11″ x 10.5″ x 1.75″ (279mm x 267mm x 44.5mm)
The Tweaker is USB Class Compliant in both Mac OS and Windows, and does not require any MIDI drivers for either platform. An additional set MIDI I/O ports are provided to connect other devices.
The Tweaker is available via the Electrix site for $399.99.
How to Create Classic House Sounds w/ Logic Pro
More info: http://bit.ly/TVTYhp
In this episode of Secret Knowledge video tutorial series, Dubspot instructor and Logic Pro course designer Matt Shadetek shows you how to create two classic house sounds; the organ bass sound found in most ‘organ house’ tracks like Robin S.’s “Show Me Love” and the second is “the classic looping, filtered vocal.”
Reason ReCap – Icing on the Cakewalk
Background description:
*Disclaimer* ReCap is not a product of or endorsed by Propellerhead Software AB
A lot happened this week in the Reason world. You could almost say that this weeks releases were the icing on the cake…walk.
Reason ReCap is a weekly YouTube show about what’s new in the world of Reason!
Sources/Links:
Propellerhead: http://www.propellerheads.se/
RE-2A: http://shop.propellerheads.se/product/re2a-leveling-amplifier/
ReVolt: http://shop.propellerheads.se/product/revolt-cv-processor/
Yoko: http://shop.propellerheads.se/product/yoko-band-splitter/
Predator-RE: http://shop.propellerheads.se/product/predatorre-instrument/
CVTuner: http://shop.propellerheads.se/product/cv-tuner/
Uhbik-S: http://shop.propellerheads.se/product/uhbik-s/
Volt SH-1: http://shop.propellerheads.se/product/volt-sh-1/
——-Music———
Artist-Totigerus
Song Title-“I Do Not Know Who I Am”
http://soundcloud.com/totigerus
Submit a song for a chance to be featured in an episode of ReCap.* Send an mp3 to support@brandonsreason.com with the email subject line “Recap Song.” Please include your artist name, the song name, and a cover photo (.jpg or .png please). You will be let known ahead of time when your song will be used.
*Official Song Submission Rules:
By submitting a song you agree that you own the rights to the song and MrBrandonPeoples obtains the right to use the submission in a single commercially published ReCap video.
Checking out the Audioid app for Android
Just testing out the Audioid app for Android – includes a TB-303 and TR-808 emulation and effects.
AUDIOID is an advanced mobile electronic music rhythm composer for Android, combining the mythical TR-808 drum machine and the TB-303 bassline/groovebox with real-time filters, effects, randomness and a live approach.
FUTURE FEATURES
– Tap pad
– Bpm detector
– More effects (reverb, delay, chorus, etc…)
– More drum kits (909, 606, etc…)
– File save/load/export/import
– Equalizer presets
– A second TB-303 bassline/groovebox
– Better UI and better performance
FEATURES
– Sound quality 16-bit PCM at 44KHz or 22Khz
– Minimal latency supported by the device
– Linear and logarithmic knobs and bars
– Visual pitches synced with the tempo
– TR-808 drum machine style and sounds
– TB-303 bassline / groovebox
– Independent mixer levels for the drum machine, the bassline and fxs
– Independent levels, mutes, solos and fxs for each drums
– Memory of 4 banks of 8 patterns with 16 instruments containing 16 steps maximum each
– Memory of 4 banks of 8 patterns with 39 notes containing 16 steps maximum each
– Pattern edition (Copy, Clear, Cut, Paste, Randomize)
– Real-time effects (Flanger, Phaser, Distortion and Bitcrusher) with various parameters
– Audio FFT visualizer (waveform and frequency bands)
– Multitouch equalizer from -10dB to +10dB for each supported frequency band
– Low pass frequency filters from 1 Hz to 22kHz
– Fine and terribly efficient bass boost
– Presets can be saved and restored at any time
– Anti-clipping
Modular Percussion Reason ReFill from Audiovapor
Modular Percussion is a Reason Refill of unique sampled percussive sounds from a modular EuroRack synthesizer. Modular Percussion contains 581mb of content sampled at 24bit 96khz, 50 combinators, and 3 full Kong kits.
The percussive samples were created with the MakeNoise Optomix triggered by an MFB Uzewerg Pro. The sound sources were the WMD Phase Displacement Oscillator, Modcan Dual Wave, Moog Freqbox and Doepfer A-118. The Optomix is an analog, vactrol based voltage controlled Low Pass Gate. Low Pass Gates are commonly used for creating classic modular percussive timbres. The vactrol creates a natural, musical decay, perfect for percussive hits. The MFB Urzwerg Prong” the Optomix with 5 different CV damping amounts, multisampled and layered within Kong. The result is a dynamic, unique percussion soundset simply unavailable anywhere else.
The 50 LPG combinators heavily feature the Echobode and Pulsar Reason Rack Extensions. You must own the Echobode and Pulsar Rack Extensions to use these combinators properly. The combinators feature arppegiators, sequences, effects and filters that create inspirational percussive loops. The 3 Kong kits are all of the multisamples mapped across the pads.
Features:
-581mb of content sampled at 24bit, 96hz. ReFill download size is 284mb.
-50 multisampled percussive hits with 5 layers of Optomix damping (246 samples total).
-50 combinators, 3 kong kits.
-The root note of all the percussive sounds was sampled at “C” at the source. This enables the end user to tune the Kong kits to their preference, perhaps to match the key of their song. The percussion sequences are also all in the key of “C” for easier tweaking.
-For use in Reason 6.5.1 and above.
Echophon Karplus – Strong test
Modulating the Echophon’s pitch shifter and delay times to simulate Karplus-styled string modelling.
Signal path: DPO Final out–> Wogglebug ring mod in –> Wogglebug center out –> LPG –> Echophon –> LPF
A contact mic under the Moog Prodigy to the right is fed into a Maths channel– tapping on the Moog (or anything on the desk, really) triggers an envelope which opens a VCA, letting quick burst of signal into the Echophon.
The first row of the Pressure Points is controlling the pitch shift amount.
WOPR – new polyphonic virtual analog synthesizer with unique evolving modulation
WOPR is a polyphonic, stereo virtual analog synthesizer with totally unique evolving modulation driven by vintage 1970s cellular automata. It’s made for iPad 2 or later only. WOPR is a performance instrument, a stand-alone instrument in the same spirit as the Korg Monotron.
It’s brilliantly playable: the full-width Wribbon keyboard lets you play pitch-perfect notes every time, then bend them like a guitar god to convey your inner pain to the screaming masses.
It’s performance-friendly: you can create customized control panels for comfortable access to parameters. That’s much better than contorting your fingers to fit some tiny panel layout.
WOPR is a seriously powerful analog, but what sets it apart is its modulation grid: you paint a pattern of cells into a grid, set the tempo, hit ‘run’ and let the cellular automata evolve your pattern. You link areas of the grid to any of the synth’s parameters and your patches come to life, rhythmically pulsating as the patterns shift with each beat. Constrain parameters to ranges for tight control over rhythmic modulation, or set them free to dynamically breed new patches.
Being a virtual analogue synthesizer, we’d be remiss if we didn’t include some allusion to the past. Here it is: the modulation grid is a bona fide 1970s invention called Conway’s Game of Life. Look it up, marvel at the infinite variety of patterns, geek out on the math, then put them to work twisting knobs in WOPR.
The core synth engine justifies its powerful modulation. WOPR has:
– 2 pannable oscillators with sine, saw, square and triangle waves. Each oscillator has an incredible range: 32′ to 1′, with +/- 500 cent detune (a perfect fourth either way). There’s also a white noise generator.
– 3 ADSR envelopes, 2 assignable between osc 1 & 2 and the third dedicated to the noise source.
– 2 fruity, resonant 24Db/octave low pass filters, assignable to osc 1 & 2 or to the left and right stereo channels.
– 2 delays, a free-running delay with fine control over low intervals, and a tempo-synced delay running from 32nds to two whole beats. Delays are independent, or can be assigned to feed eachother in any sequence. Howls, rings and reverbs are easy to create; so are good, old-fashioned solid, rhythmic delays.
– 2 octave, full-width Wribbon keyboard: play piano like a guitar, bending individual notes or entire chords. All without losing fixed-key pitch accuracy when you don’t want to bend. Best of all the whole width of your iPad 2 is there for performance.
– 6 voice polyphony. If that’s not enough (maybe you have tiny fingers), it comes with the best note stealing algorithm on the iPad.
– Modulation matrix: use this to link controls to the Game of Life, or simply use it to define a custom control panel for easy performance.
WOPR is version 1.0.0. It doesn’t yet have these features, but they’re being worked on:
– Audio copy/paste (it’s coming soon.)
– A giant preset library. (More are available for free download within the app.)
WOPR’s architecture might change a bit too. It’s young and has a lot of growing up to do. Right now Omnivore is experimenting with stereo BPF & LPF filters that you can insert into various places in the signal pipeline. We’re looking at ways to drive a wavetable library from the grid, too. Feedback is welcome, so please send your requests to feedback@omnivoresoft.com.
Finally, what does WOPR stand for? Anything you like. Wave Oscillator Piano Replacement? Wickedly Optimized for Phat Response? Who knows. All we can say is that it’s the synth David Lightman would choose…
The Elektron Tapes – Aphex Twins inspired music
Elektron tapes (#9). Beat making and noise design inspired by Aphex Twin, Autechre, Pan Sonic & Venetian Snares productions — using Elektron Octatrack, Moog Slim Phatty and Glamour Box.
Performed by sound artist & noise designer Zviij © 2012.
* Booking : zviij AT zviij.com
• Discography:
– Zviij “Quadrifolium” (Album/Digital) http://zviij.bandcamp.com/album/quadrifolium (Bandcamp)
– Zviij “Sub-system design” (Album/CD) http://www.odiolorgnette.com/discography.html
– Zviij “Naked flowers” (Album/Digital) http://zviij.bandcamp.com/album/naked-flowers (Bandcamp)
Zviij — (born Franck Smith) is a French sound artist, noise designer and electronic musician, active as a soloist, living and working in Brussels.
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