Orphion MIDI Tutorial
This tutorial shows how to use Orphion with Sunrizer, Animoog and Ableton Live via MIDI-over-WIFI.
Orphion is a musical instrument with a unique sound between string instrument and percussion. Everyone can play expressive, wonderful sounds and easy or virtuosic melodies on it just by moving fingers on virtual pads.
- Different articulations from soft to plucked to hardly slapped
- Natural interaction
- Extend your ways of expression as a percussionist, guitarist, pianist or other musician
- 12 transposable pad-layouts with different tonalities from easy to complex
- 8 individual voices for 8 fingers
(4 on iPad 1)
Get Orphion here:
orphion.de
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Free Ableton Live Pack – Vinyl Crackler
Ableton Live Pack featuring vinyl crackle effect. This effect rack is designed to make your audio sound as if it were sampled from a vinyl record. It’s a modification of the vinyl distortion plug in, but will only introduce the crackles and pops when the audio is playing. Perfect for making drum samples sound like they were sampled from a record player.
Free Download: http://bit.ly/freesynth56
Ableton Live comes with a cool little plug in called vinyl distortion. It adds a layer of record player crackles and pops over any track it is inserted on. This can be a great effect for adding a retro quality to your tracks.
Recently, I was playing around with some live drum samples I set up in an instrument rack and I wanted to create the illusion that those samples came from an old record. I placed the vinyl distortion plug in on the track, but it wasn’t the effect I was looking for. The plug in constantly emits a vinyl crackle. It doesn’t matter whether the song is playing or not, the vinyl distortion plug in is always outputting vinyl crackles. If my samples were taken off of a vinyl record, you would only hear the crackling while the sample is playing. To solve this problem I create this week’s free Ableton Live Rack: Vinyl Crackler.
How to Make Music With iPad Apps – iMaschine / Korg MS-20 / Animoog / GarageBand / BeatShuffler
In this Ableton tutorial Danny J Lewis experiments with creating a drum and bass track idea entirely with iOS Apps recorded into Ableton Live. It is part of our series of Making Music With Apps tuorials.
Go to: http://www.pointblankonline.net/courses/ableton-live-courses.php to find out how you can learn more about using Ableton Live as a recording tool. Please get in touch with our course advisors at advice@pointblankonline.net if you want to find out more.
Daft Punk Vocoder (Ableton Live Tutorial)
And here are the details:
Hello. My name is Mars. Today we’ll talk about vocal processing through a vocoder. Daft Punk have used this technique in many of their tracks.
I have searched for a long time to find a convenient and easy vocoder, and tried many different devices. When we started work on the PLAYMA track “Cuz We Are PLAYMA”, the vocals weren’t catchy enough, and at the time I had not had the opportunity to ask some of my friends to record vocals for me. I decided to try recording them myself, even though I don’t like my voice.
For the record, I used a standard iPod headset. That sounded funny and my voice was so wrong. Here I was not even in tune, but it’s ok for this example.
To begin, compress the vocal track a little bit to cut some peaks in the sample, then use the vocoder effect. In order to implement this effect, I first need to make a synth, which fills out my voice. For this I used a standard preset of “NI Massive” synth.
To create a melody for the synth, I copied the midi clip, which I used to lay down the guitar track. The Vocoder effect is very simple to use. To make it work you just need to select the source channel as the Massive synth. After this you should tweak up the effect a little for a more pleasant sound.
Next, add a slight delay between the left and right channels to spread the stereo, and cut low frequency a little bit.
Thank you for watching. My name is Alexander Mars and this was my tutorial on “Daft Punk vocoder”. If you are interested in professional, affordable music courses, head over to xssracademy.com. There you will also find more free video lessons and articles, so be sure to check it out. Click “Like” below if you enjoyed this video, see you soon!
MINITAUR + ABLETON LIVE PART 2: Minitaur as External Filter
In part two of this three part series, Moog Product Development Specialist, Amos Gaynes shows you how to integrate the Minitaur Analog Bass Synthesizer into Ableton Live. Learn how to use your Minitaur as an external filter, manipulate sounds in real time, and create a sequenced gate effect.
Learn more about the Minitaur at:
www.moogmusic.com/products/taurus/minitaur
Register your Minitaur at:
www.moogmusic.com/register
Ableton Tutorial – Robot Drums Rack Emulating ‘Figure’
Propellerhead’s Figure app has been a big success and inspired many to similar type stuff:
In this tutorial Danny J Lewis shows you how to create a rack that emulates the mechanics behind the way the drum patterns switch in the recently released ‘Figure’ app.
Mouse on Mars – Live set up with Ableton
For the tour supporting their latest album Parastrophics, Mouse on Mars’ three live members designed an interactive performance system around three laptops running Ableton Live. Learn more about their set-up in a new video feature.
Closer look at the iMoov – Motion controlled effects in Traktor
New video featuring the iMoov wireless MIDI controller:
After 2 years of research into sensor technology, we are proud to present the iMoov by TangibleFX. To celebrate this release, the app is free for the first 5000 users.
The iMoov is a fully customisable wireless MIDI controller that can be used to control multiple effect parameters within leading softwares like Logic Pro 9, Traktor, Ableton Live, etc, using your movement. The iMoov is also compatible with the Line6 MIDI Mobilizer II.
It’s useful for DJs, live musicians and producers alike. Hold it in your hand, or strap it to your guitar – the possibilities are limited only by your imagination.
We have also developed the TangibleFX School of Moovology to help you get the most out of your iMoov:
http://tangiblefx.com/moovology/
We hope you enjoy this app as much as we do! We’re very excited.
Available now on the App Store – FREE FOR A VERY LIMITED TIME!
Song used:
Royalston – Carnivore (Med School)
www.tangiblefx.com
Ableton Korg Monotron Delay Emulation
Ableton Live Instrument rack Emulation of the Korg Monotron Delay. Create with samples from the Korg Monotron, this Ableton Synthesizer has effects built in to model the Monotron Delay. Fun and diverse synth with great sound design potential. The Monotron Delay Rack has 8 macro controls that allow you to greatly alter its sound. It features controls for the synth’s filter and an LFO that is modulating the filter frequency. There, of course, is plenty of control over the delay. You can alter the amount of delay, the time between each delay, and a band-pass filter to change the character of the delay. I have set the delay itself to repitch mode, which emulates analog tape delays.
Free Download @ http://bit.ly/freesynth54
Juno 106 Ableton Live Pack
Ableton Live Pack of 22 instruments created with the Roland Juno 106 Polyphonic Analog Synthesizer. Each instrument was sampled from a custom patch on the Juno 106 and contains 8 macro knobs with its own unique effects to further twist and manipulate this diverse collection of sounds.
Available at http://afrodjmac.spinshop.com
The JUNO-106 is a very common and widely used analog polysynth. It continues to be one of the most popular analog synths due to its great sound and easy programmability. It was the next major incarnation of the JUNO-series, following the JUNO-60. While it has virtually the same synth engine as the JUNO-60, the 106 added extensive MIDI control making it one of Roland’s first MIDI-equipped synthesizers. There was also increased patch memory storage, up to 128 patches instead of the 56 patches available in the JUNO-60. However, the JUNO-60 is often said to have a slight sonic edge over the more advanced 106. The 60 had the ability to modulate oscillator pulse from its envelope and has a “punchier” sound quality.
The JUNO-106 is a six-voice polyphonic and programable analog synth with one digitally controlled oscillator (DCO) per voice. While classic monophonic synths used two or three oscillators to create a fatter sound, the JUNO-106 uses built-in Chorus to fatten up its sound to dramatic effect. The nature of its DCO meant it was stable and always in perfect tune but still warm and analog. There is an excellent 24dB/oct analog lowpass filter with plenty of resonance and self-oscillating possibilities and a non-resonant highpass filter. The programable pitch/mod bender can be assigned to control the DCO pitch, VCF cutoff, and LFO amount all at once or individually.
The JUNO-106 was the first MIDI equipped JUNO and its implementation is quite good. There are 16 MIDI channels available and MIDI SysEx data can be transmitted/received from all the sliders and buttons for total remote control and sequencing capability. A switch on the back of the keyboard, next to the MIDI ports allows the user to switch between three types of MIDI modes: Keyboard and Hold data only; Keyboard, Hold, Bender, Patch selection data; or All data (including SysEx). Most users simply set it to MIDI Function mode 3 and forget it.
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