Using Koushion with WaveGenerator, Animoog, Alchemy, and more
A quick overview using the Koushion MIDI step sequencer iPad app to control a variety of synthesizer apps including WaveGenerator, Alchemy, Animoog, and more. Koushion is on sale for the holiday season until Dec 31. Buy it now for $4.99 in the App Store!
**Link to the App Store**
http://itunes.apple.com/app/koushion/id424454249
Koushion is a MIDI step sequencer that allows you to easily program drum patterns and melodies using your existing drum machine, hardware synthesizers, or soft synths and samples in your DAW.
Features:
* 16 steps per scene (up to 128 steps in chain mode)
* 8 scenes with independent midi channel per scene
* 4 playback modes: single, simultaneous, chain, rebound
* Key switching between any major, minor, or pentatonic scale
* Adjustable quantization (1, 1/2, 1/4, 1/8, 1/16 and 1/32)
* Quantized scene switching
* MIDI clock send/receive
* Tap to set tempo (great for syncing with a live band)
* Velocity control
* Monophonic drawing mode (only allows one note per step; great for programming leads)
* Wireless connectivity via CoreMIDI Network Sessions
* Automatic integration with other apps via CoreMIDI virtual ports. Open up a synth in the background and Koushion will trigger the notes!
Basso Live: Phantom and the Flying Saucer UFO Controller, Ultrasonic MIDI Instrument
Googlish from Finnish:
Bass Live Phantom 16.11. 2012. The band played songs Kisses morning a bass.
Video: Jussi Sirviö & Annika Ranin
UFO stands for Ultrasonic Frequency cOntroller.
- Five ultrasonic sensors – that is, distance sensors based on ultrasonic echo location (a typical range-finding sensor)
- Send MIDI notes, using gestures to send notes with controller data. (This is a bit like the Theremin arrangement – and like any touch-less arrangement lacks tangible feedback – but with more axes of data. And unlike the Theremin, it’s tuned to scaled octaves so you send fixed notes, as on a piano.)
- Send controller data.
- LEDs for feedback on modes.
- MIDI out. USB class compliance (for USB MIDI).
- Built around Arduino Mega 2560
Planned for the future:
Presets that you can store and recall
Sustain pedal support
MIDI IN for arpeggio clock sync
Arpeggiator patterns
LFO CC curves
Quick switching of presets by sending MIDI commands to the device
Jordan Rudess Plays QuNexus
Keith McMillen met up with Jordan Rudess in his New York studio.
“I really enjoyed spending time with the Qunexus and am excited about it’s development and being unleashed on the world!! I think it’s great that you guys are making products that push the boundaries,” says Jordan Rudess.
www.keithmcmillen.com/qunexus
Windows 8 based OSC controller
Win8ChucKBasicFrettingAndLegato Wi Fi, details below:
I got basic fretting (loose fretting… it won’t completely prevent quartertones, etc if you play them exactly), and legato rules. I am back to the ChucK engine while I get better acquainted with SuperCollider coding. This is just a Windows 8 based OSC controller. It works running into ChucK or SuperCollider
MIDI Designer and Maschine
This video shows how to control Maschine with MIDI Designer, both with Maschine as a standalone application and as a VST plugin inside Ableton Live. Parameters are controlled via track routing and via host automation.
Thanks for watching and for checking out MIDI Designer!
MIDI Designer (http://midiDesigner.com) is a professional MIDI controller for iPad, iPhone and iPod touch. Design your perfect MIDI control surface right on your device. MIDI Designer is used by professional musicians, DJs, sound engineers, lighting engineers, and robotics experts.
New open source controller
This it’s a simple demonstration of the open source FREE mudit project for more info go to muditmusic.wix.com/mudit
Muditit’s a new open source design, developed by Agustin Augustinoy & Urias Montanaro, for a hand-held music controller that lets you create and control audio using gestures.
It’s part of an explosion in experimental alternative music controllers, that’s being fed by sharing via the Internet.
Experimental: The UFO Controller
http://www.theufocontroller.com
The UFO is an ultrasonic MIDI controller designed to let you control your music software and external synthesizers with hand gestures.
The UFO controller uses five ultrasonic sensors and captures gestures, based on distance detection. The vertical movement of your hand above any of the sensors is converted to standard MIDI data.
Improvising with the UFO Controller and Ableton Live 8. UFO is a performance MIDI controller designed to change your electronic music livesets for good. Wave your hands in the air and create complex musical patterns. UFO is currently an Arduino based prototyping project.
UFO = Ultrasonic Frequency Controller
The video was shot in Friedrichshain, Berlin on December 4th, 2012.
Akai MAX49 Midi/Mackie CV/GATE Controller Review
A quick look at Akai’s new Controller keyboard with touch faders, Mackie Control/HUI and MIDI CV/GATE.
Lemur 4 – The learning curve is about to drop
Details on Lemur:
Control anything
Lemur is a professional iOS controller app that doesn’t cut any corners. It lets you control anything, any way you want. Total flexibility means it can go as deep as you need it to. Lemur can control DJ software, live electronic music performance software, studio production software (DAWs), VJ software, visual synthesis software, stage lighting and more.
Rock solid standard
Major stadium-touring acts use Lemur on stage. The original hardware version was introduced to the public in 2004 and Lemur software now benefits from nearly 10 years of development. These are just two of the reasons Lemur is the name cited when talking about multitouch control.
A controller unequalled
Lemur has often been imitated but never equalled. The physics engine, which can make faders and balls bounce, is entirely unique: allowing anything from a slight organic feel to absolutely chaotic modulations. Lemur goes deep: it comes with more than twice as many unique objects as comparable apps. Options for adjusting the look and feel of objects are vast, and connection to your gear is simple.
User Library
Access templates from top artists and the Lemur community. Some of these are actual templates used on stage, others are pure studio or creative tools. Share your own or simply browse the library and download whatever suits your needs.
Maschine and MIDI Designer Duet
Dan Rosenstark, founder of MIDI Designer, plays a duet with Native Instruments Maschine and MIDI Designer. This video highlights MIDI Designer 1.4.2′s new position-sensitive drumpads and absurdly-low latency.
“Thanks for watching and for checking out MIDI Designer!”
MIDI Designer (http://midiDesigner.com) is a professional MIDI controller for iPad, iPhone and iPod touch. Design your perfect MIDI control surface right on your device. MIDI Designer is used by professional musicians, DJs, sound engineers, lighting engineers, and robotics experts.
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