SPD-SX sampling pad demo featuring Craig Blundell
http://youtu.be/1ZXwi_wOOPk
Craig Blundell demonstrates the new features of the SPD-SX Sampling Pad. The SPD-SX puts powerful sample creation and playback under your sticks with innovative audio-capturing features, expressive playability, three multi-effects engines, and much more.
The perfect addition to any acoustic or electronic drum kit, percussion setup, DJ booth, or keyboard rig, the SPD-SX is equally at home on the live stage, in the recording studio, pre-production suite, or dance club. The SPD-SX takes many of the proven concepts from its predecessor and raises them to a new level. Whether you’re firing off one-shot samples, looped phrases, or complete audio playback tracks, the SPD-SX is loaded with the latest technology and tools to get the job done with speed, precision, and convenience. Enjoy the most advanced triggering and sampling technology in a sleek, easy-to-use percussion instrument.
Derek Buddemeyer demo Phrase Sampler in JamUp
Derek, (Hangnail Guitars), shows a demonstration of JamUp PRO by PositiveGrid with a few amp models/effects and overdub capabilities of the phrase sampler.
Available in the iTunes App-Store!
http://www.positivegrid.com/jamup/
JamUp is a guitar/bass multi-effect app, gives you a load of authentic guitar tones, sound-on-sound looping and 30+ modules right on your iPad and iPhone!
Powered by the newly developed multi-stage MESH Modeling engine, JamUp includes 6 historic amp models and 6 matched convolution speaker models, comes with classic and fuzzy stomp, spring and digital reverb, tangy modulations, tape and digital delays, filter, compressor, noise gate and other essentials.
JamUp is born with great “play alone” capabilities. The phrase sampler can capture loops and riffs and create instant sound-on-sound overdubs, it’s the easiest way to create a one-person-band sound in minutes. With the Jam Player, you can play along with any tracks from your iTunes library, plus, you can easily create a loop and control the tempo and pitch with built-in high fidelity time stretching engine.
Image Line Groove Machine Available Now
More info – http://www.image-line.com/documents/groovemachine.html
Groove Machine is a virtual groove box designed with live performance or composition in mind, or use it as a synthesizer/drum-machine combination.
Groove Machine is virtual ‘Groove Box’ within your sequencer, perfect for live performance or use it as a hybrid synthesizer, drum sampler or to create loops.
Get the groove happening
Groove Machine’s power lies in its ability to automate every parameter of the sampler, synth and effects channels on a PER-step basis.
Get a groove happening quickly and trigger samples, loops and bars/patterns on the fly from your MIDI controller or DAW software.
Focused to live performance.
Image Line recommend a MIDI controller if you want to control Groove Machine live. However, it’s still possible to use Groove Machine with a computer mouse and keyboard, just less efficient.
Groove Machine features:
- 5 hybrid (Subtractive/FM) synthesizer channels
- 8 flexible sampler channels, each with 4 sample layers
- 10 DJ-style effects + EQ and Stutter PER channel.
- Stepsequencer with per-step automation allowing PER step note sculpting of all interface parameters.
- Step / Drum sequencer / Piano roll views
- Optimized for live performance
- Internal link system for maximum compatibility with all MIDI controllers
- Multiple independent outputs for the 5 synth & 8 sampler channels
- Ideal for dub-step, trance, house & hip-hop producers
- Available in VSTi, AU & Standalone
You can check out the manual and Groove Machine YouTube video play-list to get up to speed on what Groove Machine can do for you.
Download and try the Groove Machine (Windows or Mac) demo here
Manual Sampling with Octatrack
In this film the track recorders, which take care of sampling, are explained.
The Octatrack DPS-1 is an 8 track dynamic performance sampler. The Octatrack is ideal for radical audio processing and performance oriented sampling. Every track features real-time pitch scaling & time stretch and the next generation Elektron step sequencer has been designed with maximum usability and efficiency in mind.
Read more about the Octatrack here:
http://www.elektron.se/products/octatrack
RealBeat has now been released
Jörg Piringer has released RealBeat, a sampler app for iOS that enables you to record sounds and create rhythms out of them.
Record your voice, your fridge, your neighbour’s dog or let your iPhone or iPad speak and make rhythms out of the sounds immediately.
RealBeat concentrates on simplicity and fast results. No steep learning curve or cluttered screens! Get creative in an instant!
RealBeat features
- Sampler (record sounds easily).
- Text to Speech (let your device speak for you).
- Modify the sound (pitch, reverse, distortion, reverb, …)
- Sequencer (make rhythms).
- Patterns (modify the rhythm easily).
- Live effects (manipulate in realtime).
- Mixer.
- Export sounds to other apps via Audio Copy.
- Export sounds to your computer via iTunes.
- Works with internal microphone.
RealBeat for iOS 4.0 or higher is available to purchase for $1.99 USD.
Electra EP-501 Sampler Delay demo
In this video:
Demo featuring the Electra EP-501 Sampler Delay. In Logic I’m using a preset beat from Ultrabeat. The EP-501 is being controlled by a MIDI-to-CV converter. Ultrabeat is being fed into the EP-501 which is sampling the beat. The pitch and gate of the EP-501 is coming from a MIDI track in Logic. The EP-501 takes a sample each time it receives a gate signal and loops it until the next gate signal.
Free multitimbral sampler for Windows, TX16Wx
Developer Calle Wilund has released a free multitimbral sampler for Windows, TX16Wx:
After several years of on/off development, I finally got my act together (somewhat) during July of 2011 and fixed the few remaining features I wanted to add before publishing the plugin. The result is the first public beta release of the TX16Wx VSTi Software Sampler.
It is a 100% free VSTi Sampler with professional features and an easy to use graphical interface – and – one of the few sampler instruments, free or commercial, with a fully documented file format.
Not a preset-player or disk-streaming library engine, this is a plugin for you to make your own sounds, tweak and experiment. Bring back the fun of the old hardware samplers – in software.
Details below. You can download the free software sampler at Wilund’s site.
Note: The software is being released as a beta.
Features:
- Unlimited multi-timbral operation
- 128 voice polyphony
- 16 modulation slots per voice
- 24dB resonant filter
- Two LFO + Two modulation envelopes per voice
- Polyphonic glide
- Built-in sample editor
- Actually samples! Record waves straight into the sampler.
- Graphical keyboard mapping editor
- 4 Stereo + 8 Mono outputs
- 16 mappable controllers for automation
- Multiple loop definitions per wave
- Individual outs for keyboard groups (drums)
- Multiple keyboard scales
- Multiple trigger modes
- Mono/Poly/Legato operation
- Preview loaded programs and samples in your song before loading
- WAV/AIFF/AIFC/SoundFont 2 support
- Reads Typhoon compressed AIF files
- 100% documented XML-based sound file format. Anyone can write conversion tools.
- Low CPU usage
- Fully native, optimized for SSE2.
- 64-bit support
- Nice sound!
Downloads for Windows x86 and x64 are available.
Reaktor: Quick demo of “Xylo” sample instrument
Background information:
Quick demo of “Xylo” which is a sampler instrument I’ve built in Reaktor over the last two evenings. It was inspired by watching a video by Clark Nova (http://vimeo.com/3059674) and the bug in Kontakt that meant I couldn’t reproduce it.
Xylo has 8 voices where each voice plays a loop, back and forth, across a shared sample. Each loop starts at the same point but has a different length, playback speed, and granular settings.
It’s designed to have a very long release time so that the loops carry on playing and bouncing off each other in a (hopefully) satisfying way.
In beta: Groove Machine – new groove box instrument plug-in by Maxx Claster
Image-Line has released a beta version of Groove Machine, a groove box instrument plug-in by Maxx Claster.
Groove Machine is a performance-oriented multichannel (drum)sampler, multitimbral hybrid synthesizer, sequencer and last but not least a ‘Groove Box’ inspired by hardware Groove Boxes. Special attention is paid to live performance via MIDI controllers.
Groove Machine features
- Step sequencer with integrated Note Editor driving 8 sampler tracks, 5 synth tracks and 10 performance oriented effects for every track.
- Synthesizer features a hybrid additive, FM & RM design.
- Per step automation with automation graphs.
- Pre-mapped to general MIDI keys.
- Stutter, beat repeat effects module.
- 2 envelopes, 2 LFO’s.
- Multi-mode filter.
Groove Machine beta is currently available to download as a VST plug-in for Windows for registered Image-Line users.
More information: Image-Line
How To Work Beat Thang Intro
Beat Kangz Electronics’ AJA gives you an introduction to the Beat Thang hardware.
The world’s first fully portable music production studio, The Beat Thang comes loaded with everything you need to make your own original Hip Hop, Dance, Pop, Dubstep and Electronica tracks in just minutes.
Fully portable, loaded with over 3,000 original and professionally mastered sounds, a built in mixer, effects rack, sampler, and performance keyboard – the Beat Thang gives you the tools you need to make music…just the way the Pros do.
After nearly 5 years of development, the Beat Thang levels the playing field – simplifying professional music production down to its core – redesigning the production experience in a way that lets any music enthusiast – beginner or pro – create music the way its meant to be made…in the moment. Forget about confusing menus, manuals and frustration – everything about the Beat Thang interface has been simplified to keep your time spent making more music, saving you valuable time while never compromising on features or functionality.
Create original songs in a matter of seconds, and finish radio ready songs in mere minutes – with access to the sounds that the world’s top producers have been using and keeping secret for years. Then share your music with your friends and fans…with full computer and studio integration and quick SD card and USB export.
Never before has the aspiring producer been given so many tools in one portable machine. Whether you’re an aspiring singer, dancer, rapper, DJ, songwriter, guitar player or producer…the Beat Thang has the versatility and uncompromising quality you demand…with unprecedented ease of use and portability. The playing field is officially leveled.
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