TouchOSC and iPod Touch control AudioCubes through Max/MSP
AudioCubes in action:
We created an FM synthesizer for the AudioCubes (http://www.percussa.com) in max/msp. This application allows you to make sounds with the AudioCubes without needing any additional applications or hardware. The software consists of several oscillators which can be connected to each other to create an FM synthesizer.
To change the parameters of these oscillators, we’ve made a template in TouchOSC. In this video, I’m running TouchOSC on my iPod Touch to easily changes these parameters. Through this TouchOSC template I can also change the colors of each of these 4 AudioCubes.
More info about our Touch OSC template and setup here: http://www.percussa.com/2012/06/08/touchosc-and-ipod-touch-control-audiocubes…
Also, if you’d like to see a demo of our FM synthesizer application for AudioCubes, go to this video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m1sazw00pNA
PROJECT PRESET – Sugar Bytes Cyclop
Sugar Bytes Cyclop @ http://bit.ly/MeuoQr
All the sounds you hear here were featured in the “Cyclop Bebop” demo on that page, also used in CYCLOP DANCE! http://bit.ly/KnsvCj
Until Sugar Bytes updates Cyclop with a fixed version of the Torley bank, download it here: http://bit.ly/KeTrOZ
Official description: “Touching down in the future of music with the most seriously fun bass synth in the universe. Breaking the mould and far beyond the mainstream, Cyclop delivers some of the hardest bass your subwoofer has ever played. Fathomless wave generation and modulation possibilities giving you an arsenal of infinitely twistable sounds that will cut through any mix. Pushing the envelope and sporting the latest super hi-fidelity Sugar Bytes DSP algorithms already championed by top producers across the globe. Creating complex sounds can be arduous, not any more. Cyclop brings a host of complex functions to your fingertips, making some of the most intricate routing and modulation as easy as 1, 2, 3. Ladies and gentlemen, the bass has landed and the air has left the building… Get Cyclop and prepare to smash the establishment.”
Matrix-12 (Xpander) Tutorial 1: Intro, Programmer, Primary Pages
http://gstormelectronica.blogspot.com/
This is the first tutorial in a series dedicated to editing sounds on the Oberheim Matrix-12 and Xpander synthesizers. In this video I will cover the basics of creating and saving a SINGLE-mode patch. If you already know how to get around in the programming interface you might want to skip this video. Having a basic knowledge of editing synthesizers, oscillators, filters, LFOs, and envelopes will help get the most out of programing this beast.
0:12 Introduction
0:58 The Programmer
1:47 Primary Pages
1:55 VCO1 Page
2:47 VCO2 Page
3:17 FM/LAG Page – LAG
4:06 FM/Lag Page – FM
5:30 Tracking Generator
6:27 VCF/VCA Page – Filter
7:44 VCF/VCA Page – The Amplifiers
8:21 Envelopes Page
8:39 LFO Page
8:58 RAMP Page
9:48 Name Page
EMS Polysynthi – “Sounds from the Outer Space”
This is one of the few and working EMS Polysynthi, produced between the ’78 and 79 in ONLY 29 exemplars. As far I know the last Peter Zinovieff work.
Space look… totally amazing, its sound is magic!
It’s fully polyphonic with built in analog delay and chorus (both CV/keyboard touch controllable) Two cv-lfo’s with many combinations, modulable also from keyboard aftertouch, filter is very very nice selectable from 2 to 4 poles, envelope follower for external signals and many other features.
For me is one of the best polyphonic synthesizers ever made with unique sound and an incredible look.
This is a small space sounds demo with both the enevelopes auto triggered from one cvlfo.
The EMS POLYSYNTHI
Made in 1979 by the legendary EMS, alledgedly no more then 29 were ever produced. Size-wise, it’s bloody massive, and it really looks the business, despite its multicoloured, toytown style exterior. It houses the first ever (only?) velocity sensitive, aftertouch responsive 100% POLYPHONIC keyboard – if you’ve enough fingers and toes, you can play every single one of its 49 notes at the same time. The keyboard has a totally unique velocity sensitivity and aftertouch implementation – the entire keyboard itself moves as one mechanical piece. And, it has to be said, the Polysynthi also has one of the most difficult to fathom control surfaces ever to appear on any synthesizer!
It uses a switchable bus matrix system to determine, amongst other things, the signal and modulation sources, which can also be variably assigned to velocity and/or aftertouch. This switchable bus system on the Polysynthi is quite frankly bonkers. Furthermore, it has a somewhat standard set of synthesizing functions, but it does have some additional useful abilities too. The two ADSRs onboard are also routable and patchable through the bus system, though take some getting used to, and there’s an external audio input, routable through the filter section and modulation matrix, as well as a fantastic analogue delay line. This delay was the original design for what became the ElectroHarmonix Memory Man, and produces very peculiar and interesting effects indeed, especially with higher feedback settings – you seriously have to watch out for your bass bins when using it.
Cyclop Tutorial Nr. 1 “The Wobble Knob”
Sugar Bytes has started to release some nice tutorilas featuring their newly released Cyclop synth:
Here is the first of a series of Cyclop Tutorials
made by bigbrainaudio.com guru Brian Smith!
Touching down in the future of music with the most seriously fun bass synth in the universe. Breaking the mould and far beyond the mainstream, Cyclop delivers some of the hardest bass your subwoofer has ever played. Fathomless wave generation and modulation possibilities giving you an arsenal of infinitely twistable sounds that will cut through any mix. Pushing the envelope and sporting the latest super hi-fidelity Sugar Bytes DSP algorithms already championed by top producers across the globe. Creating complex sounds can be arduous, not any more. Cyclop brings a host of complex functions to your fingertips, making some of the most intricate routing and modulation as easy as 1, 2, 3. Ladies and gentlemen, the bass has landed and the air has left the building… Get Cyclop and prepare to smash the establishment.
The Cyclop Synth can be purchased from
www.Sugar-Bytes.de
New interesting iOS app – theresAHoleInThePan
Worth checking out I think 
theresAHoleInThePan: Polyphonic sinusoidal synthesizer glitchy sonic glissandi instrument. Soothing sonic frequencies make space and time. Submerge your ears in the hole. Touching casts 0’s into musical space, dragging glisses bliss time. Visualize the sonic space you make. Warning: there is a hole in the pan.
ios universal app.+@ s373.net/x/theresAHoleInThePan/
thank you paul harrington for playing this first part of video! i hope to get the droid version up and running soon.
ゼノンさん
Wednesday, 2012/05/16 at Wednesday, 09:52
どのように片手で拍手の音を生成するでしょうか？ （動詞=アクション=時間と空間）が垂直に向かって過去の貫通孔。astronaut-at-s373.net
Saturday, 2012/05/19 at Saturday, 10:07astronaut report, spacedate #uunnii-time: 7446.8896
#theresAHoleInThePan
a couple of very nice 5 star reviews in the app store:
itunes.apple.com/us/app/theresaholeinthepan/id524291999?ls=1&mt=8Customer Reviews
Strange, wonderful, weird.by McMugwump
Truly bizarre. Like some freakazoid thing found at an alien crash site. You keep it under your bed. Away from others. It whispers to you to touch it after you turn the lights off.White Love Monkee
by vurnt22
Couldn’t agree with the first reviewer more. Like a Strange Agency App, yet stranger still. What does this have to do with either primatology or The Last Train To Clarksville? Absolutely Nothing.
Indeed.
Five videos featuring the AVR Synth – Elby Designs
Here are five videos featuring the new AVR Synth, below are some background info. The AVR SYNTH is a monophonic “virtual analog” synth based designed by Jarek Ziembicki. The synthesis architecture is simple:- two DCO’s, a DCF, and a DCA. There is also an LFO and an AR/ASR envelope generator.
The remaining videos can be found here >>
just tweaking this new synth
…the AVRSYN from Elby designs…. trying to find its sweet spots.“The AVRSYN is a monophonic “virtual analog” synth based
on the Atmel AT90S8535 microcontroller. It was originally designed by Jarek Ziembicki.
His aim was to check to see if a simple micro-processing chip could be used for sound synthesis.
Paul Maddox later adapted this design design using a
ATMEGA16 instead as the AT90S8535 is no longer in production.I think they succeeded.
The AVR consists of
two DCO’s, a DCF, and a DCA. There is also an LFO and an AR/ASR envelope generator.All sounds are from the AVR.
Thanks to Blake C for the tweaking.Thanks to Matt from RhythmActive for the AVRSYNTH
http://www.rhythmactive.com.au/
Pterosaur – free synthesizer plug-in for Windows
Contralogic has released an updated version of Pterosaur, a free synthesizer plug-in for Windows.
Pterosaur is a 16 oscillator synth. It’s loosely inspired by the classic Supersaw sound of the Roland JP-8000 in that the output of each oscillator can be independently detuned and panned, creating a very rich sound.
The basic waveform produced by the oscillators is a sawtooth wave which can be morphed into a sort of saw/pulse hybrid with the mod control.
Changes in Pterosaur
- Polyphonic mode added.
- More LFO shapes.
- 3 additional oscillator waveforms (sine, triangle and square), all of which can be morphed in the same way as the sawtooth wave in the original version.
Pterosaur for Windows (VST) is available to download at no cost.
Geo Synth and the Talking Machine
First experiments with the Electro-Harmonix Talking Machine.
CASIO XW-P1 Performance Synthesizer
“Showing off CASIO’s latest synthesizer XW-P1. This video was made right after delivery. Read my review in OKEY-magazine #107. www.robert-karasek.com”
The XW-P1 is a 61 key performance synthesizer with Casio’s exclusive (HPSS) Hybrid Processing Sound Source. Providing screaming virtual analog monophonic leads and basses, drawbar organs, complex layers, stereo pianos, drums and more, the XW-P1 has the sounds and real-time control the performing musician needs.
- 6 Oscillator Monophonic Solo Synthesizer
- HexLayer
- Drawbar Organ Mode
Full spec:
- 6 Oscillator Monophonic Solo Synthesizer
- HexLayer – A single sound made up of 6 components for gig ready splits and layers
- Drawbar Organ Mode with 9 sliders, adjustable rotary speaker, key click, vibrato and percussion
- 400 fully editable PCM based sounds like stereo pianos, vintage electric pianos, strings, guitars, drums and more
- Step Sequencer with 9 instrument tracks and 4 controller tracks
- 16 step programmable Arpeggiator
- Phrase sequencer to record and playback your riffs
- Performance mode providing 4 internal or external instrument zones with instant recall of effects, Step Sequences, Arpeggiators and Phrases
- 4 real-time controller knobs
- Pitch and Modulation Wheels
- 1/4” Mic and Line puts to process your voice or other instruments
- Stereo 1/8” line input to connect an MP3 player, laptop or tablet
- USB and MIDI ports
- 1/4” Line Outputs
- Included Power Supply
- Can operate on 6 D batteries
DATAMASKIN
