Elektron teases new product
Swedish hardware developer Elektron – most recently known for its Octatrack performance sampler – is teasing a new product on a specially created website.
There’s nothing in the way of spec: just a cryptic photo and the words ‘Tradition & Future’. You can guess as well as we can what this means, but it’s logical to assume that the new hardware will take inspiration from the past while also delivering some next-gen features.
More news as we get it: the website suggests that the new instrument(?) will be released in 2012, so you shouldn’t have to wait too long.
Experimental: Forest and Trees – sound installation
“Forest and Trees” is an installation of moving images and sounds employing 12 digital photo frames.
The animation and its sound effects playing through the internal speakers of each frame gradually
come together to form music.
This work will be exhibited at Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo.
“Search for New Synesthesia”
mot-art-museum.jp/eng/schedule.html
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Sometimes Is Not Enough (original instrumental on Eigenharp Alpha)
This is an original composition, played live on the Eigenharp Alpha and looped for some parts.
This song can be downloaded from SoundCloud: http://soundcloud.com/gbevin/sometimes-is-not-enough
“It uses a single sound on my Moog Slim Phatty for all the sections of the song. This one of the challenges that I’ve been setting for myself. I want to create only a few very expressive and versatile sounds that I perfectly learn to play on the Eigenharp in all their nuances, as opposed an arsenal of thousands of sounds that are totally unconnected from myself.
Here I’m driving the Slim Phatty over Control Voltage, giving me an incredibly detailed connection to the expression of the sound. This is possible thanks to the Expert Sleepers ES-3 module which converts the data from the Eigenharp over digital ADAT audio to Direct Current.
Pressure on the keys is tied to volume, left-right movement to filter cutoff and up-down movement to pitch. I’m additionally controlling distortion through the breath pipe of the Alpha and delay feedback through its strip controller, both are AudioUnit effects from Rob Papen. The looping is done through Mobius and is controlled through a Rig Kontrol USB MIDI footpedal.”
Funkbox for iPad – new version
The quite nice iPad drum machine, Funbox has after a long time got a well needed update. Funkbox contains all your favorite vintage drum machine sounds in one funky quirky little app! FunkBox has been used by Gorillaz on their album “The Fall”, Joan Osborne (“What If God Was One Of Us”) and Glenn Tilbrook (Squeeze) live in concert, Africa Hi-Tech (Warp Records), and by many other musicians both live and in the studio. It was also featured in Computer Music Magazine’s “Amazing Music Apps” special issue and Electronic Musician magazine’s “Attack of the Killer Apps” best music tools for the iPad.
“We designed the FunkBox drum machine to look, feel, and sound like a classic beatbox from the 70s and 80s. It uses audio samples recorded by us directly from our own personal collection of vintage drum machines. It also features advanced MIDI and audio features that allow you to use it in a music studio alongside your “real” gear. Or just keep it in your pocket to sketch out some dope beats in your spare time.”
Here’s what’s new:
- iOS 6 compatible
- Retina graphics support for iPad and iPhone 5
- Five new classic vintage drum machines: DX, Drumulator, TOM, KR55, and RX11
- New pattern presets, including a bonus bank inspired by classic drum machine presets
- Support for 3/4 time signature
- New box and pattern storage menus
- New improved custom drum box and sample management menu
- Improved Audio/MIDI settings menu
- Easily share your custom patterns and boxes through email
- Edit pattern names
- Closed hat chokes open hat
- MIDI bass line sequencer
- MIDI CC control of volume, pan, mute
- MIDI start/stop control
- OMAC fast switch support, to quickly switch between apps
- PDF manual included with app for offline reading
- Misc improvements and bug fixes
Really good to see Funk Box get update after what seems like a long time. If you don’t know the app then do take a look as it’ll make a worthy addition to your collection of drum and percussion apps.
DJ/Producer Dom Kane gives us a studio tour
DJ, Producer, engineer and Sample creator Dom Kane takes us on a tour of his studio.
MOOG SOUND LAB (Moogfest Edition): Mutemath – Allies
Mutemath came into the Moog factory to record a Moog Sound Lab Session and reinvent “Allies” from their 2011 LP “Odd Soul” before their Asheville show last March.
Darren opens the song with the Trap-Kat triggering 3 Minimoog Voyager Rack Mounts through an MF-104Z Analog Delay while masterfully manipulating the Time and Feedback knobs throughout the song with one hand, and drumming with his right hand the whole time.
Roy plays his own Minimoog Voyager Select Series through a fuzz box and carries the song with solid bass lines, opening and closing the Filter Cutoff during each chorus.
Paul is singing through an MF-104Z Analog Delay for some vocal slapback and uses a Minimoog Voyager XL to control Animoog for polyphonic pads and lead lines.
Those lead lines are mirrored by Todd, who plays the Little Phatty Stage II through an MF-104Z Analog Delay, playing soft arpeggiated tones to round out the song.
See more of the Moog Sound Lab series at: http://www.moogmusic.com/sight-and-sound/sound_lab/
KORG microKORG XL+ MicroKORG BK demonstration
DEMO by Katsunori UJIIE.
Drawn to the Light – Magellan iPad Synth Solo
This is a patch made on the Magellan synthesizer for iPad.
Download the patch here: https://docs.google.com/open?id=0B7bHi7ZXec4GM1JEVDUwZXF2c0k
“No external effects were used – it was a single patch recorded inside Magellan and then just exported from iTunes. So far I’m really impressed with what this synth is capable of!!
Saint Etienne remix
Stockholm-based pop artist El Perro Del Mar’s forthcoming album Pale Fire is due on November 12 via Memphis Industries. Ahead of that, Saint Etienne have remixed album cut ‘Walk On By’
DS-10 Dominator – Formulas
Background description:
As DS-10 Dominator I always experiment with the crossover of different EDM genres. In Formulas you can find influences from acid, drum ‘n’ bass, gabber, footwork, dubstep. Music (played live on Nintendo DS) & video editing by DS-10 Dominator (Rutger Muller). Camera images by Youssef Kaputnik (Akemiö Grey) ! TV-oscilloscope property of Rubin van Kooyk :).
“We’re not going to arrive at a brand new sound or note or anything. It has to be a combination of two elements that together creates a third. The only way to arrive at something a little different is by combining things now.” — Bill Laswell (taken from EDM documentary Modulations)
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