Making a turntable control a modular synth
Pretty nice 
The world’s 10 best paid DJs as ranked by Forbes
Forbes has published a list on the world’s highest paid DJs, and Tiësto was on top, followed by Skrillex & Swedish House Mafia. Though these Electronic Cash Kings hail from all over the globe, they’ve got at least one thing in common: they all make the bulk of their money by touring. Often toting nothing more than a USB stick and a pair of Pioneer CDJs, their production costs are often negligible, unlike rockers and pop stars who typically take home just one-third of gross ticket sales.
The 10 Highest-Paid DJs In 2012
- Tiësto – $22m (£14m)
- Skrillex – $15m (£9.7m)
- Swedish House Mafia – $14m (£9m)
- David Guetta – $13.5m (£8.7m)
- Steve Aoki – $12m (£7.7m)
- Deadmau5 – $11.5m (£7.4m)
- DJ Pauly D – $11m (£7.1m)
- Kaskade – $10m (£6.5m)
- Afrojack – $9m (£5.8m)
- Avicii – $7m (£4.5m)
Solo of Korg MS-20 controlled by Plogue Bidule
Background information:
Hello ! My name is Frederic Gerchambeau. I have made this movie and this music. The music has been made in one take using a Korg MS-20, Plogue Bidule and Audacity. Enjoy !
http://www.myspace.com/fredericgerchambeau
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I am a (proud !) member of the french association PWM (Patch Work Music) :
http://patch-work-music.blogspot.com/
KORG DS-10 PLUS: ‘Transcendence’ by Anthony Seeha
Anthony Seeha has released this song using the KORG DS-10 :-), his details below:
An original song I wrote myself.
This is the flagship song of my latest album ‘Transcend’.
Please enjoy!! 😀
If you would like to support my musical aspirations, purchase my album for $5
or more –
http://anthonyseeha.bandcamp.com
Follow me on Soundcloud for exclusive updates –
http://soundcloud.com/anthonyseeha
Frente Cumbiero on Native’s Maschine
Mario Galeano Toro — one half of Colombia’s hottest musical export Ondatrópica and musical mastermind behind the Colombian band Frente Cumbiero takes us on on a trip through the rich heritage of Colómbian music and performs a seriously cool track on Maschine.
Video produced, filmed and edited by Luis Antonio Delgado.
Time machine: Crumar Performer “1979”
Crumar Performer Analog Stringmachine/Synth from the year 1979
recording: multi-track without midi
fx: a little bit delay and reverb
The Performer is a polyphonic analog Strings and Brass machine produced at the end of the 1970’s by the Italian synth company. It is slightly compact with just 49 keys. But it is fully polyphonic – you can play all 49 notes simultaneously! Programming is simple and clearly laid-out with just 15 sliders and a few buttons. A solid black chassis and wood end-cheeks round out this classic and often overlooked string machine.
The Performer is best remembered for its Strings. A simple 3-band equalizer with high, mid and low sliders can be used to give the strings shimmering sparkle or moody dark timbres. The Strings section uses two oscillators per voice with 8′ and 16′ settings. Simple Attack and Sustain sliders give you some control of your string’s envelope settings.
The Brass section is less exciting. It uses a single oscillator with just a square wave to generate a weak Brass sound. It has a low-pass VCF filter with resonance, but it too is pretty weak. Simple Attack and Decay sliders control its limited envelope settings too.
The LFO is pretty nice, with delay length, rate and depth control. It can modulate both Brass and String sections and can be routed either to the VCF or pitch. There are three outputs on the back: main output, brass output and signal output (for external processing) as well as CV and Gate connections.
WerkBench Ambient Experiment **First look at 1.1.0!**
WerkBench is available in the app store: http://bit.ly/L6jhd9
http://www.facebook.com/werkbench
Here is some ambient music generated from a single sample in real-time. The combination of pitch shifting and feedback makes for giant percolating pads. Enjoy! All of the sounds are being sampled with the internal mic and speaker. I live in a noisy place so there is a lot of texture added with each level of feedback. This video features WerkBench 1.1.0 which should be out in the first few weeks of August. I am making use of panning, high-pass filters, and decay settings for each step. These will be available soon!
OP-1 as a control Surface for Abelton – Basic Setup
OP-1 (Teenage Engineering) – Abelton Live – Basic setup
I’m using a Dell PC (running Windows XP) in this example.
Initially the OP-1 wasn’t recognised. It took a connection through a powered USB hub
before I saw it in the system.
Check that Abelton can see it:
In Windows XP it is recognised as a “USB Audio Device”
Options/Properties/….Under midi ports click Track, Sync,remote.
In this demo I sample the OP-1 directly into an Abelton Audio channel.
It’s triggered from the midi send channel…. playing Calvin Harris featuring Ne-Yo – “Let’s Go”.
Thanks to Matt from RhythmActive for the OP-1
http://www.rhythmactive.com.au/
HEXTEP Analog Style Live MIDI Step Sequencer – Introduction
Short teaser of a new step sequencer called Hexter, below are the details.
Sequencer Specs/Features:
16 Steps each with Pitch & Velocity, On / Off switches
Active Step LEDs (Dim)
Clock LED (Bright)
TEST step with Scrubbing (While Stopped)
Scrubbing/Nudging while playing and ‘Test’ button triggers step overriding step switch
Internal Clock
External MIDI Clock Sync – With Variable Resolution
MIDI Notes output
MIDI Channel Selection
NOTE Features: (Midi only not not on-board oscillator)
Transpose – UP / DOWN & ‘+1’
Chord – Type Selection, momentary or latching
TIME Features:
Adjustable Sequence Length, momentary or latching
Reverse Sequence Order
Variable Swing
Variable ‘Active Step’ Pattern Shuffler and play toggle
Playhead Step Jitter – 1 to 5 playheads and variable time between them (‘Root note only’)
EFFECTS:
Variable Delay – independent delayed note repeat at half velocity (Root note only, No chord)
Variable Beat Repeat
Tempo, RUN, STOP LEDs
Internal 9v battery or USB Power
Internal Oscillator and speaker
Not to forget the…….
EUCLIDEAN RHYTHM MODE
Jean Michel Jarre – Rendez-Vous IV (performed live by Kebu)
Kebu on stage performing a classic Jarre song, here’s what he has to say about it:
This tune by Jarre is one of the most joyful tunes in the world and always makes me smile. Therefore, I picked this one as of the very few covers I performed at my mini-tour in May 2012. This video was recorded live at my show in Doo-Bop Club, Vaasa, 12th of May 2012.
The song was performed using only analog synthesizers, either played live or sequenced. The performance was recorded line in to one of the cameras. The ambience in the club was recorded using the built-in microphones on two of the remaining cameras and mixed together with the line signal.
Equipment used in this song: Arp Odyssey Mk II; Korg Polysix, Poly 61, Mono/Poly, Micro-preset M500; Roland TR-808, Juno 60, Alpha Juno 1&2; Moog Source, Touched-by-sound DRM1, Oberheim Matrix 6R, Yamaha RM1x (only for MIDI sequencing), Behringer DDX3216, Lexicon MPX500, as well as a midi patchbay and additional preamps for my mixer. Cameras: Canon HF100 (x2), HF200 and HF406.
DATAMASKIN
