StepPolyArp for iPad controlling an Oberheim FVS
Just a quick demo to show this awesome iPad application. The StepPolyArp iPad application hooks up wirelessly to a Windows or OSX computer. I currently have the StepPolyArp app talking with Logic Pro that then drives a Doepfer MCV24 to go from midi to CV and Gate. The Oberheim is being triggered in Unison for all 4 Voices on every step. Each voice is being panned right/left to create a nice stereo effect with a total of 8 oscillators.
The perfect companion for any analogue synth.
Audio signal path is:
Oberheim FVS==>Eventide 2016==>Prism Orpheus AD
Website:
laurentcolson.com/steppolyarp.html
New midi step polyphonic arpeggiator
Laurent Colson’s StepPolyArp (App Store link) is a midi step polyphonic arpeggiator. The arpeggiator does not play any sound itself, it transmits midi notes to a Mac or a PC to be used in combination with any sequencer, virtual instrument (VSTi, Audio Unit) or midi synthesizer.
The arpeggiator can transform chords into sequences of notes played one after the other in several ways. A matrix polyphonic step modulate arpeggiated notes in time and pitch. The main controllers (velocity, modulation, panning, volume, aftertouch, and pitch bend) are also programmable through a step editor. The integrated keyboard automatically adapts to the selected musical scale.
StepPolyArp is available now for $11.99. See details below.
If you’ve used StepPolyArp, leave a comment!
Features:
- 32 steps programmable matrix
- 11 configurable transposition lines
- Features copy and paste
- 8 octaves virtual keyboard
- Velocity, modulation, pan, volume, aftertouch and pitch bend step controller
- The apeggiator and keyboard fit the selected scale
- 6 arpeggiator modes
- 1 chord mode
- Unlimited number of saves
- Random patterns creation
- Presets manager
- Presets shared between computer and iPad using iTunes 9.1 or later
- 128 Undo/Redo levels
- Lockable keyboard (latch mode)
Supported midi connections:
- DSMidiWifi (free)
Requirements:
- A computer running Mac OS X, Windows Vista or Windows 7
- DSMidiWifi server (free) installed on the computer for wireless midi connection
- A sequencer installed on the computer (Logic, GarageBand, Cubase, Ableton Live, Digital Performer, Reaper, ProTools, Sonar, Studio One, …)
- An iPad with iOS v3.2 or later
How to get that trance sound going
This tutorial shows you how to create a trance arpeggio by hand using ableton live, massive, and a sound set from Adam Szabo.
Video tutorial on creating rolling basslines using Ableton Live and Native Instruments Massive.
Bass patch is from 7Skies Massive Soundset available at http://www.standalone-music.com
Kick sample from Sounds of Revolution Club Revolution Vol. 1. available at http://www.sounds-of-revolution.com
This is a follow up ableton live tutorial on creating trance rolling basslines.
Short video that walks through the steps listed in my blog tutorial on creating a trance pluck sound like the one heard in Cosmic Gate’s “Barra”.
How to make a good trance arpeggio
Get the real trance going, nice tutorial
This tutorial shows you how to create a trance arpeggio by hand using ableton live, massive, and a sound set from Adam Szabo. You can order that soundset here: http://www.adamszabo.com/
Ambient soundbank for Roland GAIA SH-01
The patches include warm space pads, Berlin School arpeggios and organic sound effects suitable for ambient, cinematic and filmscore productions.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MjzjafGXG-M&feature=player_embedded
Audio demo of Luftrum 6 – Soundbank for Roland GAIA SH-01 containing 64 ambient patches ranging from warm space pads over Berlin School arpeggios and organic sound effects – suitable for ambient, cinematic and filmscore productions. 32 of the 64 patches are spine-tingling ambient pads, lifting the GAIA up to the next level of sound!
Luftrum 6 is drawn out of inspirations from Brian Eno, Tangerine Dream, Biosphere and Steve Roach and is a follow up to soundbank successors released for Propellerheads Reason and lately the standalone Luftrum:Ambient for Camel Audio’s Alchemy – which cemented Luftrum’s signature as an ambient tone painter.
Luftrum 6 is available as download-only from luftrum.com
Introducing the Nebulophone
The Nebulophone is an Arduino based synth with a stylus keyboard. It has adjustable waveforms, a light controlled analog filter, LFO, and arpeggiator that can be clocked over IR.
This is a beginner kit and does not require an Arduino programmer board.
Pure analog
Here’s an analog synth jam inspired by late 70’s & early 80’s electro dance music.
via synthjunk:
Midi clock & sequencing from MPC. Doepfer providing cv/gate step sequencing.
TR707 trigger out controlling Mono/Poly arpeggiator.
All synth sounds are 100% analog. Recorded with Ableton Live.
New VST arpeggiator
One can always wonder why anyone would need another arpeggiator, I believe I have a dozen or so VSTs on my MAC by now, but still we see new ones entering the market every month. I haven´t tested this one myself but if anyone feels like putting up a review – please feel free to do so…
Sanford Sound Design has announced the release of the new Sanford Arpeggiator, a versatile and powerful arpeggiator plug-in. It can create everything from simple to complex patterns. It’s a MIDI VSTi plugin meant to drive other VSTi plugins. Connect the Sanford Arpeggiator to your favorite synth and a new set of possibilities open up.
Key Features:
- A wide selection of patterns.
- Intuitive note parameters for determining note length with triplet and dotted note variations.
- Versatile transpose section for controlling how patterns are repeated and transposed.
- Up to two lines of parallel harmony.
- Adjustable shuffle for adding swing.
- Synchronizes to host or runs in free-running mode.
- MIDI Learn for every parameter.
- All parameters can be automated.
The Largo synth soon to be revealed
In May, what many of us have been waiting for, is soon to be revealed the Largo Synthesizer. Largo is the first pure software synthesizer with Waldorf DNA
Largos sound engine was injected with all the notorious wavetables of the Microwave, the legendary Wave and also the Q series. The LFO is already rehearsing very complex steps and the filter drive screams as loud as only our little baby can. So be prepared!
Largo offers three fat oscillators, two of them with sub oscillators. These oscillators include models of classic analog waveforms as well as a selection of waves from the PPG and Waldorf Wave stored in two Wavetables. All these run through two Waldorf multimode filters with steep cutoff, resonance up to self-oscillation and a drive stage to add even more punch and grainyness to the sound. Ultra-fast envelope generators and flexible LFOs as well as an easy to understand, yet extremely versatile modulation matrix make for a sound designer’s dream.
The filters have always been a core part of any Waldorf instrument. With outstanding expertise in both analog and digital synthesis, our developers took utmost care in developing the filters. And you can hear a significant difference when working with a Waldorf filter – they just sound right! Use the comb filters for plucked, stringed or blown sounds. Band pass, high pass, low pass and notch filters are all available with 12 dB and 24 dB slope. All of them sound extremely accurate and add pure sonic quality to the sound of your music.
Largo contains a flexible arpeggiator with 16 freely programmable steps as known from the exclusive Q synthesizer line plus an array of high quality effects such as Chorus, Flanger, Phaser, Overdrive, Delay and Reverb.
Launch of Waldorf Largo
Waldorf have released Largo, their first ever software instrument. It’s a synthesizer that the developers say features the same kinds of sounds as the Blofeld and Q hardware synths, giving the user a diverse sonic palette, from complex pads to screaming leads.
Many producers and synthesizer enthusiasts asked for a full-blown Waldorf Synthesizer for their virtual rack. So have I, and now Largo. Largo is the first pure software synthesizer with Waldorf DNA. And again – it is the cutting edge sound that makes the big difference.
Largo has three oscillators with a variety of waveforms that include shapes from the PPG and Wave hardware synths. Two multi-mode filters can be used in parallel or series, and each has a drive section and can self-oscillate. There are three LFOs, one of which has a step sequencer-style waveshape arpeggiator generator, and there’s a selection of effects, including chorus, flanger, phaser, overdrive and delay. Largo runs as a plug-in inside VST and Audio Units hosts.
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