Association of Experimental Electronics (KOELSE) – Junk music
The movie tells a story of four young men, who form a group called Association of Experimental Electronics (KOELSE). They gather electronic devices that others throw away and build musical instruments and art installations from this “waste”. Their opinion of music, fun and the culture of consuming differs from the masses. What others see as a worthless piece of junk is valuable technology for them. Their whole idea is based on the idea of reusing this garbage. KOELSE is not really a band, it´s also not really an art community. It´s more like a way of life that relies on working together and using the old technology again.
KOELSE also organizes workshops in which they teach electronics and promote ‘self-build’ and above all, that the value of a thing is not defined by the amount of advertising it gets or how it´s priced in the shop, but that there is also value in the joy of making things yourself.
Making A Beat Using Native Instruments Maschine and Vinyl Records
Here is a video breaking down the creative process of a sampled based beat using Native Instruments Maschine and Vinyl records. We included a few screen shots of the Maschine software as I made changes on the control surface. We start off by grabbing a few records, pulling some drums, Choosing some samples and then we put the whole thing together and sequence it using the Maschine’s software.
Want to hear more? Check out B.A.D Company – Bars and Drums (Produced by Asterix) on Itunes http://itun.es/iLY3LT.
Gothic Assassins – new movie with all music made on iPads and iPhones
4Pockets Audio, creator of Aurora Sound Studio & Meteor Multi-Track Recorder, reports that a new movie, Gothic Assassins, features a soundtrack created using iPads and iPhones:
The new Milos Twilight movie Gothic Assassins due for release shortly has a soundtrack entirely composed on Apple iPad’s and iPhones. Whilst many might have branded Milos as mad when they first heard his concept for creating his soundtrack check out some of these tracks to see just what he has accomplished.
Milos used a range of apps including Meteor Multitrack Recorder, Aurora Sound Studio HD and StompBox.
Making a cover of Duran Duran’s “Save a Prayer”
Synth spotting featuring a Duran Duran classic:
This is but a small part of the “process” in making my next Cover. It is a bit long, made a mistake so had to start again. A few more tracks (guitar) to record, then in a few weeks I’ll upload.
Octatrack tutorial – The audio editor and loop slicing
The audio editor is a powerful sample editing tool. This video introduces some of the available operations and also demonstrates how to slice a loop.
Get a More Analogue Sound From Your Synth
Here’s a nice tutorial on how to get going in your DAW creating that true analog sound:
http://ohdratdigital.com This week’s video tip is all about how to add some imperfection to your synths to make them sound more analogue and organic. Come to visit us for way more tips and tricks as well as reviews, assignments, free sounds and software and more!
How to Make Music With iPad Apps – iMaschine / Korg MS-20 / Animoog / GarageBand / BeatShuffler
In this Ableton tutorial Danny J Lewis experiments with creating a drum and bass track idea entirely with iOS Apps recorded into Ableton Live. It is part of our series of Making Music With Apps tuorials.
Go to: http://www.pointblankonline.net/courses/ableton-live-courses.php to find out how you can learn more about using Ableton Live as a recording tool. Please get in touch with our course advisors at advice@pointblankonline.net if you want to find out more.
Project: INIT – #01 Vocal Formant Lead with Tone 2 Electrax
http://youtu.be/F-QoAbemLkQ
This video shows how to program a lead patch with vocal formant characteristics with lots of movement.
Here’s what Mark has to say about it:
Project: INIT is a new video series I’m kicking off today. In the videos I will offer real-time behind-the-patch footage taking you on sound design missions from INIT using a variety of sonic weapons. By simply coming along for the ride you’ll learn more about synthesis and how to make unique sounds for your productions.
Exploration and Discovery
A variety of synthesizers will be used focusing mainly on synths that offer interactive visual feedback making it easier for you to connect with the concepts. Don’t worry if you don’t own the exact synth – watch anyway – as concepts & techniques are most likely transferable to most synths and if nothing else I hope to spark some ideas for you.
So, for up-and-coming synthesists and producers the videos will help you grok the world of synthesis in less time. For seasoned synthesists and producers these videos will serve as inspiration for new ideas and help you learn your way around the featured synths more quickly.
Inspiration
I’ve been programming synths for over 20 years (did I just say that out loud?). I’ve been dabbling with behind-the-scenes videos to share my knowledge for quite a while but have always wanted to do a bigger series like this. Inspired by my good friend AfroDJMac (who I collaborated with on Live Packs #38 and #40 ) I’m going to attempt a video per week – zoiks! I’ll be publishing the videos to this playlist on YouTube.
Donations
While the videos are free, donations are most welcome and will encourage me to push on. You should know that early studies indicate that people who find these videos helpful and want more do donate to the cause to encourage work. Also, my wife would appreciate the boost to offset my synth addiction budget :^). I do like books and music so if you want to donate by giving me a copy of your art, contact me – although I do like money – quite a bit really. Did I mention my synth budget? You can also buy my albums.
Record music P2P with Google+ Hangouts and Ableton Live
http://youtu.be/vFARY-BN72c
Here’s a quick demo of a how to record peer to peer using albeton as our software. We then use google+ and other google products to communicate, organize and essentially recreate the studio environment but from anywhere in the world. Welcome to the future friends, this is just the beginning
Reason tutorial – How to Easily Make Complex Sounds with Combinators
Propellerhead’s product specialist James Bernard shows you how to use the Combinator to control multiple parameters on a Reason synth to give you quick access to complex sound manipulation. Assign a few knobs and buttons and you’ll be able to quickly morph your sounds on the fly in your music!
Download linke of James’ Combinators:
http://www.propellerheads.se/stuff/RSD6.zip
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