What other people hear…
A video showing how loud the pads are acoustically relative to other sounds. Or what would other people hear if they where in the same room and you were wearing headphones. Also how the stick bounces or rebounds when hitting the pad.
New release of POD Farm – 2.5
Line 6 has released version 2.5 of POD Farm and POD Farm Platinum, its premium tone plug-ins that add world-renowned POD® tone to any DAW.
They are packed with extensive model counts for guitarists, bassists and vocalists, and deliver lightning-fast workflows.
Each plug-in boasts an arsenal of historic amps and effects, the kinds gear fantasies are made of. They feature plenty of vintage and modern amps, cabs, studio-standard effects, classic stompboxes and colorful preamps.
Changes in POD Farm v2.5
- Hardware Independence – Use POD Farm 2.5 with any USB audio interface. We recommend POD Studio™ interfaces. They have the lowest latency and best signal-to-noise ratio for guitarists.
- Try POD Farm for free! – Download POD Farm 2.5 for free and try it with a limited model set. Upgrade to the full version at any time. Download POD Farm 2.5 now
- Standalone Version – Just grab your guitar, fire up POD Farm 2.5 and rock. No need to launch your DAW or instantiate a plug-in (unless you want to).
- 64-bit Support – POD Farm 2.5 now supports the latest 64-bit operating systems.
POD Farm 2.5 for Windows and Mac (VST/AU/RTAS) is available to purchase for the introductory price of $49 USD. The Platinum version is now $249 USD.
IPAD2: Simple Sound Sources
Quick video showing some simple sound sources available on the iPad2. Apps used include Snowdrift, Polychord, Pulsate, NodeBeat HD, Thicket, Slewpi, and SoundPrism.
Virtual Piano Library Comparison – what to buy
This is the first in a series of demos of Grand Piano/Upright Piano/Elec Piano/Organ Libraries. I have assembled here a collection of Yamaha pianos, all demoed with the same MIDI file, “Grand Illusion” by Jordan Rudess. This song always impressed me with its incredible dynamic range, and I thought it a great clip to display the power of a Grand Piano. I selected this clip because of how it demonstrates the full range of dynamics across nearly the entire keyboard.
Sampletekk The Big One (Convolution IR added)
Sampletekk Seven Seas Grand (Convolution IR added)
Reason Pianos Yamaha C7 Close Mics (Convolution IR added)
Reason Pianos Yamaha C7 Jazz Mics
Native Instruments Alicia’s Keys (Dry w/ Convolution IR added)
Post Musical Instruments Yamaha C7 (Convolution IR added)
Modular beatmaking demo
Sorry about the commercial in the beginning:
Turning the modular into a drum machine, all sounds and rhythms created using just the modular, no processing, fx or midi. Sequenced using dividers and logic, no noise source used.
Ear Machine has announced the release of EARs
Ear Machine has announced the release of EARs , an app that turns an iPhone or iPod touch into a powerful, easy-to-use hearing aid. With EARs, users can quickly manipulate the tone of the sounds around them by dragging a single dot around the screen.
Ear Machine has announced the release of EARs, an app that turns an iPhone or iPod touch into a powerful, easy-to-use hearing aid.
With EARs, users can quickly manipulate the tone of the sounds around them by dragging a single dot around the screen.
“Every listening situation is different, so it’s important to be able to customize the tone as you move from one environment to another,” said Andrew Sabin, Ear Machine owner and psychoacoustics researcher. “EARs provides a simple interface where users can quickly get the sound quality they are looking for, and then get back to listening.”
EARs picks up sounds in real time using the iPhone’s built-in microphone or an external microphone. The sounds are processed according to where the user has placed the dot, and then sent out via earphones. EARs can also help if the user has different hearing in their two ears by providing separate controls for the right and left ears.
In the United States, only about one-third of the people who could benefit from a hearing aid actually use one, and self-contained hearing aids can cost as much as $3,000. “We hope that EARs will provide a convenient and affordable way for people with hearing loss to improve their hearing,” said Joshua Cooper, co-creator of EARs. “Even if you have normal hearing, EARs can enhance your ability to listen in difficult environments such as noisy restaurants or bars.”
EARs is for available to purhcase from the iTunes App Store for $3.99 USD.
More information: Ear Machine / EARs
Music Production and the Tablet PC
After all talks about the iPad this might inspire the rest of you 
This is a new 11″ Tablet PC by the manufacturer Pegatron. This will be available in May 2011. I had the luck of being asked to be the guinea pig and showing how this may work in the Musician’s world. Enjoy!!
Black Eyed Peas – secrets on stage
Black Eyed Peas Musical Director Printz Board takes us on a secret tour of his keyboard lair onstage during BEP’s 2010 E.N.D. Tour. He discusses keyboard setup (including a Novation, Moog, Roland Juno-G, and Yamaha Motif), mixer, stereo monitors, bass amp, trumpet, and all of the extra bells and whistles. He’s got a talk-back mic to communicate to Eric Harris during the show, the monitor engineers, or the whole crew in their in-ears. He also has a little TV screen that shows him any angle of the stage, and he can alert whomever necessary about potential problems, so that each cue happens at the right time and the show goes smoothly from song to song.
Kinect Drawable Synthesizer and the Impromptu Sound Board
Cool take on the Kinect
You draw buttons, and they become key you can play. See the impromptu sound board video for a demonstration of drawing buttons.
Using the Kinect, I can create buttons by just drawing enclosed shapes on a piece of paper! The kinect identifies those regions as buttons that can be activated when I press them with my finger. This program uses ROS, the openni kinect drivers, and software I wrote here at MIT. You can find the code in the mit-ros-pkg repository.
CIRCULATOR
Making “CIRCULATOR” / An installation by Jim Blashfield / 4Culture
In this short documentary, filmmaker/media artist Jim Blashfield talks about his 7 screen sound and video installation created for the Brightwater Environmental Education Center. Commissioned by 4 Culture.
DATAMASKIN
