Turn your iPad into a Roland TR-606
Mobile Rhythm has announced a new iPad drum machine, inspired by old-school drum machines like the Roland TR-606, the mobileRhythm Computer Controlled mR-606 (App Store link):
Inspired by classic drum synths of yesteryear, the mobileRhythm mR-606 is a pocket sized classic in its own right.
A fully featured, yet easy to use interface allows editing of all controls and patterns, and 2 banks of 16 patterns gives you plenty of space to store your creations.
The mR-606 iPad drum machine is $6.99 in the App Store. If you’ve used the Mobile Rhythm mR-606, leave a comment with your thoughts!
Features:
- set tempo & beatmatch with your favourite music
- individual level controls for each drum sound
- easily switch between patterns to create whole rhythm tracks
- edit scale and last step for fine detail and crazy effects
All controls on the interface work just like the original drum machines of the 80’s.
Halloween organ treat
Organ Fairy has created this synth treat in true honor of Halloween, enjoy
I thought about what to do this year for a Halloween video. I found a pile of electric candles (!) that I bought a while ago but never used.
Then I remembered a melody I made in 2003. The idea was to use a rhythm on my then favourit drum machine – the Roland CR-1000 – that I had never used before: Charleston. And a weird preset on the Roland JX-8P that I had never used either. I modified it a bit to make it more “alien-like” and added the accordeon preset to the arrangement and a piano arpeggio from the Yamaha organ.
I played the melody on the Kawai MS-20 and Yamaha VSS-30. Added some organ chords from the Viscount organ. And that was it.
Some serious analog tweaking
For all you arthouse experimentalists! The no drum machine synth jam. Bioni Samp joined us for some analogue tweaking, “Tha Dance of the Pumpkins”. Playing are Korg MS-20 & SQ 10, Yamaha CS50, Roland TB 303 & SH 101. Enjoy!
All you can eat synths :-)
Don´t really know what the Mercedez mark has to do with anything, but there sure is plenty of synths around
dr.squ 1995:
– Atari 1040STE
– C-Lab/Emagic Notator SL
– C-Lab Unitor 2
– Emagic Export
– Boss BX-16
– Yamaha FX900
– E-mu Esi32
– Korg Wavestation SR
– Roland Juno-106
– Yamaha TG500
– Casio VL-Tone
– Yamaha PSS-110
New analogue emulation accelerator package
Presenting the new UAD-2 Powered Plug-Ins platform trailer. This video overview features the included Analog Classics plug-in bundle, as well as testimonials from UA artists and partners.
Universal Audio today announced the release of the new UAD-2 QUAD Omni (v5.7) DSP Accelerator Package. Specifically, the UAD-2 QUAD Omni (v5.7) gives producers and engineers 50 award-winning UAD Powered Plug-Ins on Mac or PC — saving thousands of dollars versus buying the plug-ins individually. The PCIe card features four Analog Devices SHARC chips to “power” the world’s finest analog emulation plug-ins, including classics from Manley, Neve, Roland, BOSS, dbx, Empirical Labs, EMT, Fairchild, Harrison, Helios, Little Labs, Pultec, SPL, Teletronix and more.
Classic 1980’s roland latin percussion drum machine
The Roland TR-727 is the “Latin cousin” of the Roland TR-707, featuring sampled bongos, congas, etc.
It has the same basic hardware as the 707, including individual outs, MIDI, DIN, etc. Sound control is limited to volume on each channel.
by Clocklife
808 Drum programming
The Roland TR-808 Rhythm Composer was one of the first programmable drum machines (“TR” serving as an initialism for Transistor Rhythm). Introduced by the Roland Corporation in early 1980.
Ambient soundbank for Roland GAIA SH-01
The patches include warm space pads, Berlin School arpeggios and organic sound effects suitable for ambient, cinematic and filmscore productions.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MjzjafGXG-M&feature=player_embedded
Audio demo of Luftrum 6 – Soundbank for Roland GAIA SH-01 containing 64 ambient patches ranging from warm space pads over Berlin School arpeggios and organic sound effects – suitable for ambient, cinematic and filmscore productions. 32 of the 64 patches are spine-tingling ambient pads, lifting the GAIA up to the next level of sound!
Luftrum 6 is drawn out of inspirations from Brian Eno, Tangerine Dream, Biosphere and Steve Roach and is a follow up to soundbank successors released for Propellerheads Reason and lately the standalone Luftrum:Ambient for Camel Audio’s Alchemy – which cemented Luftrum’s signature as an ambient tone painter.
Luftrum 6 is available as download-only from luftrum.com
GAIA Synthesizer Sound Designer Software for SH-01 Overview
More talk on the GAIA synth and its software pack
Take Full Control of the GAIA SH-01 GAIA Synthesizer Sound Designer is a specially designed PC/Mac software application for Roland’s award-winning GAIA SH-01 synthesizer. It inspires creativity by allowing GAIA users to conveniently explore every tone parameter on their large computer monitors.
More from Roland – FP-7F Digital Piano
Roland sure has been extremely productive in bringing new gear to the market this past 12 months or so, here’s another one.
Roland U.S. has introduced the FP-7F Digital Piano, the latest addition to its FP series piano lineup.
The new FP-7F adds four new features:
- Roland’s SuperNATURAL Piano sound engine;
- an all-new PHA III Ivory Feel-S Keyboard with Escapement;
- a vocal mic input with companion Harmony effects; and
- an onboard looper.
The FP-7F is expected to ship in November with an MSRP of $2,199.00 for the black finish, and $2,299.00 for the white finish. The Roland FP-7F Digital Piano
Previously available only in their top-line digital pianos, the new FP-7F now includes Roland’s SuperNATURAL Piano engine.
The FP-7F also features Roland’s newly developed PHA III Ivory Feel-S Keyboard with Escapement. Additionally, every key is constructed of a special material that provides excellent moisture absorbency, with the white keys replicating the unique appearance and comfortable feel of real ivory keys.
For sing-along fun, the FP-7F provides a built-in microphone input, and the onboard Harmony engine lets users add duet, trio, and quartet harmonies to their own voice with effects derived from the BOSS VE-20 Vocal Processor. To create the harmony voices, the Harmony engine automatically detects the chords the user plays on the keyboard in real time.
Also onboard the FP-7F is a looper that lets a player record and play back their performance as a continuous audio loop. This is great for creating play-along backing, and unlimited overdubs can be added as well. Users can record the sounds of the FP-7F itself (including rhythm patterns from its large built-in library) and from a connected vocal microphone. In addition, loops can be saved as WAV files to USB flash media and used with the FP-7F’s USB Audio Key playback feature.
The FP-7F is available in black (FP-7F-BK) or white (FP-7F-WH) finishes, and comes standard with a DP-10 Damper Pedal. Options include the matching KSC-44 stand and the RPU-3 Triple Pedal Unit. The RPU-3 offers a true grand piano playing experience with three foot pedals, as well as advanced control of the FP-7F’s Harmony and Looper features.
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