edison – tempest test
Checking out the DSI Tempest:
“ust a quick mellow track i put together this morning…
got my new tempest from the nice folks at DSI
giving some sounds a try…
this machine is really inspiring and fun….
sounds great!
the tempest is master tempo…
ableton is providing backup percussion and melodies…
hope you dig”
Elektron Machinedrum + Octatrack = OT FX
Quick demo showing how octatrack effects can greatly alter a simple drum beat.
The drum beat comes from the machinedrum and is unchanged the whole time. The machinedrum is fed into the octatrack and goes through a “thru” machine and “neighbor” machine to achieve 4 effects: Lo-Fi, Plate Reverb, Filter, Compressor.
No other effects applied.
Hardware:
Elektron Octatrack
Elektron Machinedrum MK 2 UW+
Recreating Marvin Gaye’s 1982 electronic Soul ballad Sexual Healing using Logic
Central to the groove is the Roland TR-808 drum machine – in fact, rumour has it that this was one of the first commercial hits to utilise the 808. Though the beat and groove sound simple, there’s a lot of syncopation so it’s essential to study the original beat. Try importing the track and slowing down the drum-only intro using Logic’s varispeed feature.
mikrosonic RD3 HD – Groovebox for Android
Finally we start to see more quality apps coming also for Android tablets – check out this new Groovebox. Create your own grooves and drum loops with RD3 HD – Groovebox!
Use your Android phone or tablet as a musical instrument and make your own electronic music tracks!
Recreate the sound of early electronic dance music with the RD3 HD — Groovebox that recalls two 303-style analog synthesizers, a drum machine plus distortion, phaser and delay audio effects!
Developed in Berlin, RD3 HD – Groovebox is a pioneering audio app that lets you program your own grooves. This multi-touch enabled app makes it simple to invent unique loops and manipulate them with resonant filters and effects on the go.
Appropriate both for experienced musicians and novices.
Use it for live performances in landscape mode on phones and 7-inch tablets or use the additional special rack view on 10-inch tablets in portrait mode.
RD3 HD is optimized for Android 2.3 (Gingerbread), 3.X (Honeycomb) and Android 4 (Ice Cream Sandwich).
Loops you’ve created and exported with the Groovebox can also be automatically integrated into mikrosonic’s audio mixer app SPC – Music Sketchpad.
Musical Features:
– Two virtual analog synthesizers
– 4 types of waveforms per synth
– Reminiscent of the legendary 303 synthesizer
– High-quality or regular filter modes
– Drum machine with 10 drum kits: 808, 909, 606, CR-78, Linn, KR55, RZ1, DMX, RX11, DPM-48
– Real-time step sequencer for the synths and the drum machine
– 3 effects: distortion, phaser and delay
– 4 bars with 16 steps per instrument
– 3 play modes: Solo, loop or random
Technical Features:
– Special portrait mode for 10-inch tablets
– Multi-touch control
– Live session recording
– Audio loop export as WAV files
– Session save capability
– Cut/copy/paste pattern
– OpenSL support
– App2SD
System Requirements:
– Android 2.3 or higher
– Screen resolution 800×480 (WVGA) or higher
– 800 MHz CPU or faster supporting ARMv7
More details at: www.mikrosonic.com/rd3hd
Trommemaskine – Mystery Circuits Drum Machine
Trommemaskine built by Mike Walters, 2012. 8 x 4 matrix drum machine uses modified Paia Drum-Tone circuit for sounds. More info at mysterycircuits.com
This is the Trommemaskine, commissioned for Olivia Hjermitslev. “Trommemaskine” means “Drum Machine” in Danish. Rhythms are mapped out on the 8×4 matrix panel, which includes a Hi-hat, Kick, Snare, and a Disco drum. Those four sounds, as well as four additional percussion sounds, can also be triggered by the blue momentary switches. A toggle switch sets whether the drum triggers once, or at the rate of the sequencer.
The large orange button starts and stops the rhythm. The drum sounds come from a modified Paia Drum Tone circuit that I built ten years before the Trommemaskine. I never used the circuit, and it sat in a box for all those years. The sounds are all analog, using ringing oscillators and a white noise generator. The Paia board didn’t have a hi-hat sound, so I made a made one by simply passing white noise through an opto-coupler, and gating it the way I did with the other sounds. The case comes from an old pH Meter given to me by my friend Tim Ristau. I used my CNC to mill the panel out of 22 gauge steel. The green LEDs on the sequencer are diffused through clear adhesive rubber feet.
The sounds from the Paia are triggered by +5v pulses. A 555 timer with variable frequency clocks a 4017 decade counter configured for eight steps. There is a bank of 4081 AND gates wired to the 32 buttons on the matrix panel. The outputs of the 4017 are wired in parallel with rows of four switches (hihat, kick, disco, snare) onto their own AND gate. As the sequencer runs, and if the one of the latching switches from the matrix panel is on, it will trigger that drum sound. The sequence runs eight steps, and repeats.
The sequencer is started when the orange button sends a pulse to a 4027 flip-flop. This changes states, and sends a logic high to another bank of AND gates – one bank for the sequencer LED’s, and another to a bank of buffering gates that trigger the sounds. Pressing the orange button again changes the state of the flip-flop, turning off the logic high to the enabling gates. Even when the sequence is off, all the sounds can be manually triggered with the blue buttons. A two way switch is wired to +5v on one side, and to the output of the 555 (buffered). This allows either a continuous quantized trigger at the rate of the sequencer’s clock, or a realtime momentary pulse for the duration of the button press. The tempo LED flashes when the sequencer is on step 1 and step 5.
Live DSI Tempest Improvization – Sound Design and BeatFlipping
Nice new demo of the Tempest in action:
My name is James Jaret Kojac / Syndicate Synthetique. I’m a Sound Designer and one of my latest projects has been working with DSI on the Tempest Drum Machine.
This video is primarily a showcase of what my friends and I have been calling “beat flipping” on the DSI “Tempest”. Beat Flipping is essentially an exercise in live improvisation to see how far one can take the same 4bar pattern on one device.
All Patches/Sounds and patterns are all designed from zero’d out custom patch initializations and designed by myself for DSI and/or Myself.
This video is 100% Live Tempest. It was recorded into an MBox2 into Reaper at 48/24 .wav with no pre- or post-processing except normalization.
In this video I demonstrate use of polyphonic synthesis, reverse, beat roll, pad pressure modulation routing and obviously a bunch more. As time goes on and I add them, the timed comments should go over a few things as I do them.
Enjoy! More to come…
– SynSynth
btw… the rest of the session can be found here: http://soundcloud.com/syndicate-synthetique/ss-tmpst-dubwelt-live-gearwelt
Audio demo of Hollow Sun’s new ‘DrumBox’ for Kontakt 4.2.4
55 classic, rare, obscure and toy drum machines with a unique GUI that allows you to mix and match and layer and balance and pan and tune them, add saturation and lo-fi, route them to individual outs or send them to internal effects.
http://www.hollowsun.com/HS2/products/drumbox
Electroretrobreak by Hollow Sun
Groove Drums – New drum machine and looper from IMEA
IMEA STUDIO – GROOVE DRUMS door ImeaDan
GROOVE DRUMS
VSTi plugin compatible MAC and WINDOWS, its architecture combines a sampler and an innovative and powerful tool allows you to create easily and intuitively grooves and drums loops.
• Sequencer / sampler designed to generate percussion.
• Innovative tool for randomization.
• Ability to create loops that can be used by loops sequencer softwares.
• Drag & Drop patterns.
• 8 channels. Comes with 2 VST, one with 8 independent outputs.
• 16 patterns of 64 steps per channel.
• Equalizer, insertions and effects sends.
• Comes with Chorus, Compressor, Delay, Filter, Flanger, Limiter, Reverb and Overdrive.
DM1 The Drum Machine V2.0 – Music app for iPad
Here’s some good news – the popular DM1 drum machine for the iPad has been updated to version 2.0:
Fingerlab is very happy to announce its biggest update for DM1 with version 2.0. DM1 now comes with 2 new super cool tools “The Randomizer” and “The Automation” for instant and fun beat making. Patterns are now also expandable to 32 Steps for extra creativity. We have added 24 new drum kits. As well as AudioCopy, WIST synchronisation between two iPads, MIDI In and more cool features. Yes, it is a big update!
Check the full list below of the new features:
✔ “The Randomizer” – a new exciting tool to unleash the creative potential of the Mixer step by step. Just press ‘Go” and have fun!
✔ “The Automation Panel” for a precise and intuitive control of any Mixer parameter over time. Powerful and easy.
✔ 16 or 32 Steps per patterns. Even more complex beats.
✔ 24 New Drum Kits for a total of 64 Drum Kits.
✔ WIST synchronisation technology by Korg for syncing 2 iPads together.
✔ Reversed sounds. Long-Tap the Play button on any track of the Mixer to reverse the sound.
✔ AudioCopy on exporting
✔ Colored Song Patterns
✔ New help screens with tips & tricks
Please check our videos to find out about these new exciting features.
http://www.fingerlab.net/website/Fingerlab/DM1.html
Forgotten Keys recreate the Korg Rhythm 55B for Kontakt
Forgotten Keys has released FK11: Korg Rhythm 55B, a recreation of the Korg Rhythm 55B for Kontakt 4.2 or later.
The Korg Rhythm 55B (AKA KR-55B) was the 1982 follow-up to the Rhythm 55 released in 1979. The sound generation was identical but there was a doubling of preset rhythms, Intros and Fill-Ins as well as a major overhaul of the existing rhythm patterns.
Key Features
- 12 sounds
- 98 high-quality 24-bit samples
- 96 rhythms (combinable)
- 32 Intros
- 32 Fill-ins
Pricing and Availability:
£5.50
More information:
The KR55 was, for its time (1979), an advanced preset rhythm drum machine with up to 96 preset rhythm patterns! These patterns cover the whole gamut of presets (Waltz, Samba, Rhumba, Bossa Nova, Tango, Slow Rock, Swing, Rock, etc.). The KR55 also featured a “swing beat” control to add a variation to the groove. Each drum sound’s level can be individually adjusted for each pattern. It can also be externally controlled via footswitch jack for the Start/Stop and Intro/Fill switches. The KR55B was a black-chassis version released a few years later in 1982 with twice as many rhythm patterns.
Enjoy
DATAMASKIN
