Random Looping Sequencer
Here’s a demo of the Random Looping Sequencer DIY module. This patch features the RLS’ seq out multed to uscale in and envelator gate in. envelator out to borg 1… borg out to mixer and into camera. The sound source is the uncle & anti osc tripple wave folded and filtered with the z2040 and ems synthi filter clone.
The Random Sequencer is a circuit that produces random control voltages. These can be completely random, or they can be locked into loops that repeat every 8, 16 or 32 steps. It was inspired by the long history of shift register pseudorandom synth circuits, including the Triadex Muse, Buchla 266 Source of Uncertainly, Ken Stone’s gated comparator and Grant Richter’s Noisering. This circuit includes a transistor noise generator, so should create true random binary sequences. However, the structure of the sequencer and the nature of the digital-to-analog converter used seem to give a particular character – tones that rise and fall in a particular way.
-Tom Whitwell
Here’s more info on this open source diy synth project:
musicthing.co.uk/modular/?page_id=21
Kick Drums | Moog Little Phatty: Subtractive Synthesis
In this video Arjen Schat demonstrates how to create kick drums with the Moog Little Phatty. He start from the calibration patch (CA CALIBRATION) and create a filter kick drum and an oscillator kick drum.
Demo of Scape – the new iPad app by Brian Eno and Peter Chilvers
Scape
Available now for iPad
http://www.generativemusic.com
Scape makes music that thinks for itself. From Brian Eno and Peter Chilvers, creators of Bloom, Scape is a new form of album which offers users deep access to its musical elements. These can be endlessly recombined to behave intelligently: reacting to each other, changing mood together, making new sonic spaces.
Can machines create original music? Scape is our answer to that question: it employs some of the sounds, processes and compositional rules that we have been using for many years and applies them in fresh combinations, to create new music. Scape makes music that thinks for itself.
– Brian Eno, Peter Chilvers
Includes 15 original scapes
Scapes can be saved into a gallery and added to a playlist
Plays in background of other apps (excluding iPad 1)
Generates random scapes
Scapes can be shared by email
Supports AirPlay and Retina display
Headphones or external speakers recommended
Brian Eno
Synthesiser, found sound, bells, bass guitar, strategies, images, art direction
Peter Chilvers
Synthesiser, chapman stick, structures, probability networks, additional images, software design
FL Studio Mobile 2 | Recording Percussion
http://youtu.be/gE2cBQH3l3c
More info here – http://www.image-line.com/documents/flstudiomobile.html (to be honest there isn´t much more additional info on this link, hehe, so stay tuned for more updates on FL Studio Mobile 2 right here at SBC)
FL Studio Mobile will allow you to create complete multi-track projects on your iPod, iPhone or iPad and, if you want, load mobile projects into FL Studio and take them to the next level. If it’s a beat on the step sequencer, a melody on the piano roll or a full song on the playlist, FL Studio Mobile has you covered.
Cory Henry checks out Korg Kronos X
KORG has been busy during the knight here are some fresh stuff from their labs, enjoy
Solo artist and Snarky Puppy keyboardist, Cory Henry, joined us at Korg USA for a test drive of the Korg Kronos X, along with the optional EXs Expansion Sample Series libraries available at http://www.korg.com/kronossoundlibraries
As an established gospel and jazz fusion keyboardist, Cory knows the importance of having an inspiring instrument at your fingertips: “The Kronos does a great job of making you feel as if the instrument that you’re playing is right in the same room as you. Every time I browse another sound, it kind of gets me into a different place that makes me just want to play, as if I am a violin player, or if I have an actual electric piano in my house. It does a great job of making you feel that you’re playing the actual instrument.”
Demo versions of the EXs libraries are included with the Kronos X, and original Kronos users can download the demo versions from http://www.korg.com/kronos
More stuff from KORG:
Zakk Wylde & KORG pitchclip — In Tune With The World
The former guitarist of Ozzy Osbourne Band, Zack Wilde said hot clip-on tuner pitchclip of KORG!
http://www.korg.co.jp/Product/Tuner/pitchclip/: pitchclip Products
Teaser from IK Multimedia: More mixing on iPad
IK Multimedia has released these two new videos featuring apps that according to themselves soon will be released on the Appstore, stay tuned for more info
The freeware pros TAL has updated their JUNO 60 clone (not free unfortunately)
Togu Audio Line has announced the release of TAL-U-NO-LX V2, an updated version of the virtual synthesizer instrument modeled after the Roland Juno 60.
We released version 2.0 of TAL-U-NO-LX. This version includes an improved filter that is more accurate and warmer, especially at extreme values with a lot resonance. Old presets are compatible with this version. We released it as a new version that can run parallel to the old plugin.
The chorus was callibrated too. This version includes some more non-linear components and needs a bit more CPU, but we think the improved sound is worth it. This update is free for all TAL-U-NO-LX users!
Changes in U-NO-LUX v2.0
- Improved filter sound.
- Improved and new calibrated chorus.
- Portability mode. Also reads presets that are saved in the plugin sub folder: “/TAL-U-NO-LX/presets/”.
The U-NO-LX plug-in for Windows and Mac (VST/AU) is now available for the reduced price of $40 USD for an unlimited time.
Mantle Sound Core featuring Anastasia Gera – About Me
This work started with the simple idea of using a type written poem and then composing music to it. Over a couple of days more images and sounds were added, each inspiring the other until the piece felt complete. Surrealistic visions, poetic interludes, analog synthesizers and video, boomboxes and scrambled mind effects are all at the heart of this piece. The song is 100% analog, with all the synths and drums recorded using TR808, TR606, live sequencing the four SH101s. Visual colors and processed effects were done with an LZX visionary.
Don’t follow. Not afraid. Future experiment.
To wake you. To remember. You are alive.
Experience.
iPad JAM: GarageBand, Geo Synthesizer, iRig MIDI e Yamaha P95
Marcus Padrini is out with a new video featuring some nice interaction between Ipad synths, the iRig and a Yamaha P95, details below:
Here is a JAM playing with just one iPad running GarageBand and Geo Synthesizer, with the support of Yamaha’s P95 Digital Piano and iRig MIDI. Everything was made live. A little drum loop on SmartDrums, a GB Pad called moonrise and my Lead, released with Geo Synth (Padrini Lead), with some modifications (delay, cutoff and gain).
The custom lead can be downloaded here: https://dl.dropbox.com/u/13574893/Padrini%20Lead%20LP%20MA%20delay%202.geosynth
Experimental: uFade demo
Not an entirely new video, but still there are some cool stuff to show you:
Quick demo of the Intellijel uFade 4hp VC cross fader module.
The xfade can be used for smoothly fading between two audio or CV sources. It is a nice way to create complex waveforms out of simpler sources. It can also be used as a linear VCA or as an alternative to filtering (crossafade between a sinewave and a harmonically rich source of the same pitch).
- DC coupled linear crossfader
- External cv to control fade position
- Special circuitry limits the range of incoming cv so that the xfade boundaries are not exceeded (when summing external plus offset position)
- Switch to change direction of xfade
For more info: intellijel.com/eurorack-modules/ufade/
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