Teaser: Roger Linn Previews New LinnStrument
Unless you’re a musician AND a tech head, the name Roger Linn won’t ring a bell. But you have heard of prolific artist Prince and J Dilla. Well Linn is the man behind the machines (LinnDrum,& Akai MPC) that made these legends popular and changed the way music is created.
Mr. Linn has a new toy — the LinnStrument. It looks like an iPad with a grid of pressure sensitive note buttons to capture expression, pitch and timbre of each note individually and all at once. The product is not yet ready for mass consumption but take a sneak peek at the LinnStument prototype in action.
iTablaPro
iTablaPro is by far the best background accompaniment available for iPad. It’s perfectly suited for Mugician. It doesn’t prevent Mugician from sounding right even with all features turned on at once.
Piky – Free synthesizer instrument plugin for Windows
The Colorspace has released Piky, a free synthesizer instrument plugin for Windows.
2 OSCs synthesizer, it’s a simple instrument based on the creation of pikes and plucks with extreme easiness.
Many times I need just a really simple pluck or pike, without the need of too much options so I decided to create an instrument only for that!
Piky for Windows (VST) is available as freeware.
Visit: The Colorspace
New novel instrument concept for Native Instruments Kontakt 4
Cinematque Instruments has announced Gecko, a novel instrument concept for Native Instruments Kontakt 4, which gives you the ability to quickly compose countless variations of certain instrument categories.
The principle of Gecko is based on the simultaneous use of up to 6 sounds – each of them can be loaded into sound-slots with an excess of 20 well-prepared sound-sources which come from the entire Cinematique Instruments library enriched by several new sound creations.
Gecko features
- SSM Core. (Simultaneous sound matrix: 6 slots x each 20 sounds = over several thousand options mathematically speaking).
- No loading time.
- Easy and intuitive use.
- Timbre switches (EQs, speaker simulation).
- Master edit knobs (Attack/ Release, Highpass/ Lowpass and Reverb).
- Separate pan and volume control.
- Volume automation via midi-controller and sequencer recording.
- Outstanding „Randomize !“ function – Leave to chance!
- Seven instrument categories.
- Scenes (pre installed sound programs).
Gecko Complex Environs (featuring a limited amount of functions) is now available as a free download. The first Gecko instrument — Odd Mallets, will be available shortly.
More information: Cinematique Instruments Gecko
Turn your voice into music
Soft Dodo has announced the release of Voice To Instrument (VTI), a SoundFont utility plug-in by Oded Streigold.
VTI is a VST plugin designed to control Sound Font samples using incoming audio. The audio source could be voice, flute, whistling or any other monophonic instrument.
Voice To Instrument features
- Low latency, could be used for live performances.
- Precise pitch detection including slides.
Voice To Instrument for Windows (VST) is available to download as donationware. The free download is fully functional and non-expiring, but it will display a nag-screen.
Visit: Voice To Instrument
Amos 1.2 Demo
Amos is a reactive MIDI instrument. It sends MIDI notes to desktop software and outboard gear. Think MIDI wind-chimes crossed with a pinball machine.
This video shows some of the new features added to Amos 1.2. Independent MIDI channels per disc and a re-designed settings panel are the highlights.
Beep-it!
Very simple chip tune musical instrument, built by Unatronix, featuring a very limited set of control, but still carries couple of intriguing features; lightning senors and echos. the sound it generates is actually quite awesome
Enjoy
Get the grips with “noteplex”
noteplex offers a new and unique way to create and experience music. In noteplex, you see the music happen before your eyes.
noteplex presents composers with a hexagonal board of cells on which can be placed nodes. A noteplex song begins when the first node fires a pulse. These pulses hit other nodes, which play their sounds and fire more pulses. Those new pulses hit other nodes, and so on. You’re hearing a noteplex song!
Snyderphonics is up to something
Snyderphonics – the company behind the Manta controller – is working on a new multi-purpose device, the MantaMate.
Here’s what Snyderphonics has to say about the MantaMate:
I am working hard on the MantaMate, a device that will allow Manta users to perform without a computer, and to directly control analog synthesizers.
It will also be a powerful general-purpose converter between USB devices, MIDI devices, OSC over ethernet, and control voltage (supporting several voltage standards from Eurorack to Buchla to Moog to Serge to Korg).
It even has a built-in digital synthesizer, so that it’s possible to perform with only the Manta and a MantaMate.
There’s no set release date, but it sounds exciting, stay tuned
The Manta:
The first Snyderphonics product is the Manta, a touch-sensitive interface for controlling music or video. Each sensor in the hexagonal array knows exactly how much surface area your finger is covering, and this data can be routed to any audio or video parameter you choose.
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For instance, you could assign each sensor to a note in a musical scale, and route the surface-area data from each sensor to control the volume of that particular note. Play a chord, and you can control the volume of the different notes of the chord independently with your fingers. Alternatively, you could set each sensor to correspond to a video file, and fade between videos dynamically with your fingers.
The Manta also outputs centroid data to turn the Manta into a large X-Y multitouch surface, for applications that don’t require discrimination between discrete sensors. For instance, you could have the Y axis be pitch, the X axis be timbre, and the size of the point of contact (determined by whether you have your finger or your whole hand on the surface) be the volume of the note, and have a very hands-on performance synthesizer.
din drones demo
din is a free software musical instrument that runs on the GNU/Linux OS. Make music with just your mouse and keyboard. It also supports JACK, OSC & MIDI.
din uses Bezier curves for almost all aspects of sound production –> waveforms, FM & AM, envelopes, drones and FX.
In this demo we create 143 drones — initially only on the key note, 4th and 5th notes but soon on all the microtones in-between. You can edit drones in bunches, change their levels, timbre and pitch all in realtime.
Scale: C Eb E F G Bb C (Raga Jog)
Key note: C
Download din at dinisnoise.org/
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