606 and bliptronic – nice
Little improvised thing with the 606 and the bliptronic. You can run the trigger outputs on the 606 to the “link” input port on the 5000 to trigger it.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LJDZ31F2SF8&feature=player_embedded
Bliptronic Philosophy… in Regards to Music
In the world of the Bliptronic, creating a song revolves around an ever evolving 4-beat pattern. Each row of vertical buttons represents the notes in one octave. Push a button to turn on a note, push the button again to turn off a note. Push multiple buttons in one vertical row to make a chord. The Bliptronic plays whatever you have selected in sequence horizontally across the display. When it reaches the end of the pattern, it repeats. The genius comes as you modify the pattern by turning notes on and off while the pattern is still looping to create evolving electronic melodies.
First glimpse of the iHolophone
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vbb_UQykYk4&feature=player_embedded
This is a sneak preview of Amidio’s iHoloPhone – an unreleased new performance music instrument for iPhone, iPod Touch & iPad.
About Amidio:
Amidio Inc is a group of mobile music enthusiasts, founded by Toyo Bunko and Vlad Conan. We hire other people on a per-project basis, and always looking for other talented people that might join in at some point.
We’re into developing of music programs since 2005. First, we were making custom VST synths, also experimenting with different gadgets and robots. We started developing for the iPhone in early spring of 2008, when one of us got an iPhone (jailbroken) and thought: “Hell, this could become a nice little synth!”
We are a very open company. At the bottom of the index page there’s a full list of ways how you can reach us, no matter what issue/question/wish/dream you have. Or you can use the contact form, if you like.
New version of Synthmaker
Outsim has updated synthmaker to v1.1.6. This release adds automatic update checking so you can always be sure to have the very latest version of the software. There are also many other important fixes to improve stability and performance. There are fixes to the mouse over, corrections to the behaviour of exported exes and improvements to stability with hosts like Nuendo. Several crash situations have been resolved and there are more improvements to comply with data standards for Vista and Windows 7.
Additions and Fixes:
- New update check feature automatically checks for updates to help keep you up to date.
- Corrected a bug introduced in 1.1.5 where some modules can become locked when you move inside them or if you position elements in the extreme top left corner.
- The Maximised state is now reinstated correctly on load.
- Corrected a small graphical glitch in the Search Bar on Windows 7.
- Fixed a bug in the relink caused when selector changes as this was causing crashes in some hosts.
- When exporting you now have the option to save/load wavetables to/from disk or generate each time for the Triangle and Sawtooth oscillators.
- Fixed a Mouse Over issue which was causing overlapping windows in hosts to pass mouse messages to the SM window below.
- The Mouse Over component wasn’t updating correctly when another window overlaps and the mouse moves from the active area to that window.
- Fixed a problem with the mouse pointer getting hidden if another window appears during a drag operation.
- Fixed a bug in the Wave File component that was causing crashes when copying.
- The target folder for exported exe’s or VST plug-ins was not being recognized if it had a backslash at the end.
- Exported exes were not sizing correctly at startup and under certain conditions were leaving blank space below the front panel.
- Corrected a problem with storing of transparent images in the schematic file which was resulting in very gradual degradation of the image.
- The Poly to Graph component was giving an incorrect final entry in the array.
- The Recovery file folder has been moved to the user data area.
- Added a button in Application settings to take you to the recovery folder should you need access.
- Fixed a problem with exported effects crashing on open in Nuendo.
- Module labels were not being drawn correctly at high zoom levels.
- Moving between fit to screen and windowed modes in exported exes was leaving the window at the wrong zoom level.
- Fixed a problem in exported exes where after using the context menu in full screen mode the next mouse click gets ignored.
- Fixed a problem with exported exes where, after returning from full screen, changing the zoom level would not update the window correctly.
- Corrected an issue with mouse areas not responding to right-double-click events in exported exes.
- Moved the default exe target folder to the user app data folder.
- Fixed a bug in the disassembler that was outputting an incorrect translation for the cmpps instruction.
- Plugin delay compensation was not being sent to the host in response to changes in the schematic.
- Null terminators were not being added to VST program names when truncating to the VST spec max length of 24 characters.
SynthMaker is a graphical programming environment for creating DSP applications. With synthmaker you can design your own Digital Filters without writing any code, you can display their impulse/frequency response, perform FFTs and general Digital Signal Processing (DSP).
You can export your creations as VST effect and VST instrument plug-ins.
Joe Barresi’s Evil Drums SDX® Expansion Pack for Superior Drummer® 2.0
Joe Barresi’s Evil Drums SDX® Expansion Pack for Superior Drummer® 2.0
Platinum Samples is proud to announce the release of Joe Barresi’s Evil Drums SDXTM Expansion Pack for Toontrack Music’s Superior Drummer® 2.0 software – after all, it only seems fitting to release Evil Drums for the flagship product from the company that gave us Drumkit From Hell. Joe Barresi is one of the busiest producer/engineers working today with an impressive list of credits including albums by Tool, Wolfmother, Queens Of The Stone Age, Weezer, Clutch, Pennywise, Turbonegro, Bad Religion, and many more.
Featuring 6 full drum kits, 6 kick drums and 6 snares the Evil Drums Expansion Pack is unlike any other expansion pack available. Recorded to analog tape at two legendary rock studios using compression and EQ, Joe Barresi has captured a diverse ensemble of drum sounds with unprecedented detail and full bleed to create a unique and exquisitely evil expansion pack. Evil Drums also includes MIDI grooves performed by Pat Wilson (Weezer, The Special Goodness).
Platinum Samples is the first third party company to release Expansion Packs for Toontrack Music’s best selling Superior Drummer® 2.0 software. The expansion pack requires that Superior Drummer® 2.0 be installed and is both Mac OS X and Windows compatible. Superior Drummer® 2.0 supports Digidesign’s RTAS format, as well as VSTi and Audio Units technologies.
Please visit the www.platinumsamples.com web site for additional information.
New Reason Refill from Peff
Peff has released Monologue Refill, a free monophonic analogue synthesizer library for the Reason 4.0 NN-XT sampler.
The sets include the standard sawtooth, square, triangle waves. Also included are a fixed rate pulse width modulation set, and hard sync sawtooth set. Other sources include, detuned pulses, frequency modulated oscillators, tuned oscillator layers, white noise, and sine wave samples from a self-oscillating resonant filter.
Each category of oscillator waveform is multisampled and looped (some more carefully than others). The NN-XT patches are expanded in dozens of combinator patches (Record and/or Reason 4.0 only) which cover classic bass tones, mono leads, sound effects, arpeggiated and sequenced patches, and a set of analog drum sounds. Also, a pseudo voice set was created using a hard sync sawtooth modulating the filter frequency. This was particularly challenging as each sample zone required careful tweaking.
Monologue Refill is available as a free download (Record & Reason 4.0 required to fully use all combinator patches).
More information: Monologue Refill
Xmas gift from Ohm Force
That’s the Ohm Force 2009 Christmas gift for the music production scene: the Performer Edition of their Symptohm:Melohman powersynth is now freeware, you can download freely download it from here. What are you waiting? Don’t be the last to grab it…
This ‘Performer Edition’ is a simplified version of our Symptohm:Melohman powersynth, especially made for live use – but being also handy at the studio. The core of the synth, its oscillators and all the filters are there: it’s the same audio engine of the ‘normal’ version. The only difference is that they’re all already programmed/fixed for each one of the (up to 1200!) patches from Symptohm’s sound library, the result being a simple and straight forward interface.
Only for pros – MixMeister tutorial
MixMeister Fusion Live software gives you a radically different approach to DJing, so you can focus on rocking the party – not the nuts and bolts of DJ technique. You don’t need to concern yourself with counting and matching beats, setting cue points, or syncing keys. MixMeister does all the technical work for you, freeing you to be in total creative control to interact with your music – and your audience!
MixMeister Control is the only controller designed and optimized to work like a true hardware extension of the MixMeister interface. If you already use MixMeister, you will be performing in seconds. MixMeister Control even comes with a full version of MixMeister Fusion software – the perfect way to get started.
Individual hands-on controls are included for looping by track, EQ, FX and more with complete control for up to four tracks at once. A massive amount of control is available from its 40 knobs, 53 buttons and a Jog Wheel for fast location management. Finally, automation effects, VST plug-ins and other functions can be manipulated with minimal computer interaction.
Included MixMeister Fusion software frees the DJ from monotonous tasks like beat matching, setting cue points, and counting beats in their head. It gives them the power to unleash their creativity and shape music with live looping and remixing, VST effects, harmonic mixing and more. DJs can manipulate tempo, volume, and EQ in real time, on-the-fly. Fusion even records all DJ actions (not just the resulting audio), so users can go back, listen to their mix, and make precise adjustments with studio-style editing capabilities.
Whether you use MixMeister to perform live or to mix in the studio, MixMeister Control is a “must-have” addition for MixMeister.
Technical specifications
* Hardware control surface for MixMeister software
* USB 1.1 interface – No driver required
* Includes MixMeister Fusion software
* Compatible with other MIDI applications
* Works with Windows or Mac OS X
* 94 hardware controllers for ultimately expressive software control
Easy to use modular synthesis – BLOK
Introducing BLOK
[BLOK] has been designed as an easy to use modular synthesis environment. The makers say that the available processing blocks are simple and concise and there are no restrictions on how you hook things up.
[BLOK] was designed as a platform for teaching audio synthesis to students, so even beginners can get started building their own synthesizers and effects right away.
Features
- Classic synthesizer modules such as Oscillators, Filters, Envelopes and Effects
- Easy to use interface. Blok was originally created as an educational program to teach audiodesign principles. This means that each module is simple to understand.
- Connect everything. There are no limits on connecting blocks together.. if a block generates a signal, connect it up!
- Versatile DSP engine. Additive, Subtractive and FM synthesis are all possible. Let Blok be your synthesis swiss army-knife.
- Full undo/redo. Dont like what you have done? Go back to a time when you did!
- Low in cpu. Blok was made to run well even on low-end computers. On today’s machines, it tears up the track! This will let you make more complicated setups and get more bang for your synthesis buck.
Pricing and Availability:
Free download at the moment but only the buzz version is officially supported at this point. Standalone and VST versions can be downloaded for free at present but are still under construction.
More information:
10 years of Ableton
Ableton is pleased to announce Able10 – a season of 2 months (November en December) with special offers, events, Give Aways and new products to celebrate the 10 YEARS of ABLETON.
Because of this first Decennium the company is taking the opportunity to look back on an exciting and succesful ten years. The Ableton user community has always played a key role; the company founders and staff would like to say Thank You to all the musicians, producers, performers, DJs, artists, broadcasters, choreographers, engineers and visionaries who have joined the journey so far. Ableton looks forward to sharing the next ten years with this unusually talented, innovative, inspiring and evergrowing Ableton Live community.
As special thanks, Ableton has put together a package of special offers, FREE Live Packs, an Able10 Party, FREE ‘get On Tracks coursus for new users, 2 totally new products and birthday handouts.
FREE Live Packs
For Live 8 and Live 8 SUITE users: Ableton is giving away 10 FREE Live Packs from Ableton artists-songs and sounds from 10 truly innovative artists including Múm, Apparat, Thavius Beck, Swayzak and Junie Morrison (formerly of the Ohio Players).
Only in November and December special promotion price on a new Ableton Live 8 and Live 8 SUITE package with a 20% extra Able10 DISCOUNT!
Special PROMOTIONS on UPGRADES
For other Live users: anyone using an older version of Live or Live Suite can upgrade to Suite 8 or Live 8 with up to 20% Able10 discount.
Able10 PARTY – Amsterdam
To celebrate 10 YEARS of Ableton we have organized a special Able10 Party for the Ableton usergroup SATURDAY NOVEMBER 21 at the SUGAR FACTORY Club AMSTERDAM – it will be a free event but with a maximum capacity of 150 guests with a nice program with live music and Live performances of our Ableton star-endorsers and other Ableton musicians and DJ/Producers.
Introducing: Ableton Live INTRO
Ableton Live INTRO is out now. The newest member of the Ableton family provides the essential features of Ableton Live at an unbeatable price of EUR 99.– Live INTRO is the perfect starting place for new producers, DJs and songwriters and a smart way for experienced musicians to inject (REWIRE) Ableton Live’s innovative features into their current audio software setup.
FREE UPGRADE to Intro for Live 6 LE en Live 7 LE users. Ableton is offering Live LE users a special Able10 bonus: a completely FREE UPGRADE to Live INTRO.
Focusrite launches Scarlett
If it is the ultimate as they claim remains to be seen, but it sure looks promising 
Focusrite is pleased to introduce Scarlett, a professional software suite that provides the definitive collection of compression, gating, EQ, and reverb plug-ins for tracking and mixing.
From one of the most prestigious names in pro audio, made famous by the original Red range and the classic ISA console modules, Scarlett provides a beautiful upgrade for any Digital Audio Workstation. Not only does it sound great, the Scarlett user interface features a stunning Red anodized aluminum look featuring intricately modeled, life-like VU meters, setting the standard for drop-dead gorgeous plug-ins.
Each powerful Focusrite plug-in has a host of fast and easy-to-use presets, providing a great starting point for processing everything from vocals and guitars to synth bass and percussion. In addition, every plug-in parameter can be finely tuned to achieve the desired sound. So for preset users and perfectionists alike, Scarlett is destined to become the new ‘go-to’ plug-in.
Scarlett works under VST, AU and RTAS (Pro Tools) hosts, and runs on Macs and PCs, making it the perfect bundle for any music software user.
Features:
– Unmatched Sonic Quality
From the team behind the Forté Suite and the famous Focusrite hardware line. Focusrite has provided that final polish and shine to thousands of hit records over the last two decades.
– Faithful Recreation Of Classic Compressors & Gates
Modeled on original ear-tuned hardware optical compressors, exclusive to Focusrite, Scarlett’s dynamics modules deliver that authentic 1960s Opto sound.
– Multi-modes Enable Creative Gating Techniques
The Gate can operate in stereo mode and, in different dual mono configurations, one signal can be used to trigger the gate of another. Ideal for tightening up a bass line, for example.
– Classic Focusrite EQ Curves & Controls
Scarlett uses the same Focusrite six-band EQ approach as the Red 2 and ISA EQs, with filters, parametric mids and shelving, all modeled to offer an authentic response across the entire audible frequency spectrum.
– Professional Reverb With Concise Controls
Based on classic algorithmic studio reverb designs, this reverb delivers a remarkable level of sonic quality for your recording projects. Easy to use controls get you to the ideal reverb sound in seconds.
– Stunning GUI With Life-like Port-hole VU Meters
Scarlett features a red anodized aluminum look, extremely detailed metering and other visual elements from Focusrite’s illustrious recording history, making Scarlett look as good as it sounds.
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