Renoise 2.7 feature-tour
New features of Renoise 2.7 in a nutshell.
Not all of them pointed out, but the most visual and obvious are demonstrated. And still i forgot a few. But i suggest you to go to the Renoise site and find the complete update-list.
Renoise’s internal instruments have been re-engineered. The focal point is a new keyzone editor that supports overlapping, velocity, and key release mappings. The Sample Keyzones editor brings with it user interface refinements, improved drumkit generation, better tuning options, new sample properties, and loop modes. Live instrumentalists can also tap into new realtime rendering modes and MIDI input routing, making Renoise on a laptop a formidable replacement for your old sampler.
Some new Instrument & Sampler features at a glance:
- Sample Keyzones GUI editor per instrument
- Map different samples to different velocity ranges
- Map samples to key release as well as key press
- Stack samples and create overlapping sections
- Toggle envelope on/off per keyzone
- New Release sample loop option for exiting the loop on key release
- MIDI Input can now be routed to individual instruments and tracks
- Extended drumkit and keyboard layout generation options
- Sample envelopes now have Points mode in addition to Linear and Curve
- Autofade setting per sample for quickly fading beginning and end of samples
- Select multiple samples and batch edit properties
- Overhauled instrument properties GUI, now in lower tab
micronaut – experiment four
Cranada11 provides another nice video featuring among other things the Boss reverb:
The very definition of getting carried away. I bought a Boss RRV-10 reverb last night, and just wanted to test it out to make sure it was all working, and 5 hours later, here we are.
This piece is done with no sequencing at all. A Max patch does the dirty work, and everything you hear except the snare drum is coming from the hardware synths, six of ’em. I’m arranging things by turning specific metro objects on and off in Max via the Korg nanoControl; they’re all quantized to the Global Clock.
Arturia Moog Modular V Sound Demo
Kid Nepro Arturia Moog Modular V Collection. A cool mix of 100 new virtual analog patches that will spice up your Arturia Moog Modular V.
More info at: www.kidnepro.com
The bluebox synthesizer, a short introduction
The basic thought of the bluebox is simple. If you want to play different sounds you just hit the triggers like on a drum set. If you want to play different notes then it’s just to press the keys like on a piano. And if you want to edit a sound it’s just like an old analog synthesizer, you just press the key to listen and turn the knob.
Buchla 223e Merge
scrolling through a few newly created patches and occasionally interacting via the 222e-223e. this is the third, and for now, final piece in a set of three explorations.
for a higher resolution audio, go to:
soundcloud.com/user7621213/buchla-223e-merge
Marsynth Nomad Beta Demo
This is the first demo of the new Marsynth Nomad: a high quality tremolo paired with a unique and complex feedback system.
In this video, I am simply running a guitar through the Nomad with not other effects. You can hear a bit of a hum in parts of the demo which is a result of me using a single coil pickup guitar (not an artifact of the Nomad!). The Nomad equally handles other inputs like vocals, synthesizers, and other sound sources, some of which I will include in another demo. Of course, the Nomad is just as fun with no input at all, wandering off into self-oscillating bliss.
Beta units are being tested now, and production units will be available within a few months.
Keep up to date on Nomad updates as well as other Marsynth news here: http://marsynth.com/
The Haken Continuum – fingerboard improvisation
This is what I call a “SHOW & TELL” video. It’s the kind of video people make when they get a new musical instrument they haven’t the slightest idea how to play and they’re dying to show it off to the world even though it’s only been out of the box for five minutes!
This instrument is called the HAKEN CONTINUUM FINGERBOARD and it’s wonderful. In this video I am playing only one sound (a very “breathy” timbre that is somewhere between a clarinet and a Persian flute), and I am using only one voice (although it is a polyphonic instrument).
What distinguishes this instrument from other interfaces is that it is played in three dimensions: from left to right, forward & backward, and up & down. The hand of the player slides and dances on a smooth neoprene cushion constantly changing and “sculpting” the sound as it goes. Parameters can be altered to suit the musician, but in this video pitch is controlled by moving to the left and to the right like a standard keyboard, volume is controlled by pressure up and down on the neoprene surface, and timbre is controlled by movement of the hand forward and backward. A single hand can perform any or all of these movements at any given moment. This frees the other hand to play another keyboard (which is what I do in this video), or control some other device.
The continuum is limited only by your own musical imagination. What you see me do in this video is just one sound and one voice. It is infinitely more versatile than anything that could be shown in just a couple of minutes. Although the continuum is essentially a MIDI/CV controller interface, it has a large menu of its own sounds built into it. These sounds were prototyped by continuum virtuoso Edmund Eagan in Kyma, Symbolic Sound and the prototypes were then hand coded by Lippold Haken (the inventor of the instrument) for the fingerboard’s digital signal processor.
Yeah, I know, it all sounds terribly complicated, but it’s not. The instrument is very “friendly”, easy to understand and a lot of fun!
Stay tuned for “The Haken Continuum MIDI Fingerboard Meets the Moog MIDI Etherwave Theremin” – two of the most exotic and unusual electronic music interfaces ever conceived.
Pythagoras teaser video
Rob Fielding shared this update of his upcoming microtonal iPad synthesizer, Pythagoras. Put in octave switch and octave rounding, which automates octave switching to make scale and arpeggio runs easy. I still haven’t added pitch snapping to Pythagoras, which slows me down a little when doing this kind of thing. With pitch snapping, I should be able to do this as fast as on Xstrument.
Intua Beatmaker 2 Review
Take a look at the Beatmaker 2 iOS app. Drums, synth, samples and sequencer
FL Studio Guru – Introducing Chainer
More information here – http://forum.image-line.com/viewtopic.php?p=514291#514291
Chainer will load as an Instrument or Effect and will allow you to create chains of plugins of unlimited complexity. Useful for saving your favourite instrument/effect chains for use in future projects.
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