Dj Tips: HowTo Create Amazing Build Ups
Today we kick off a two part series on creating amazing build-ups with effects. In the video above I cover four different ways to use the beat roll function – a common effect in most DJ software, for various creative results. Next week we’ll move over to the common echo and explore several ways to introduce it for big build-ups and drama. As with all effects, this one can be seriously overused, but when tastefully applied, well timed beat rolls can add a lot of spice to your live sets.
May Music Making Month – Propellerhead
Propellerheads Software is making May Music Making Month with planned events and activities online. The first one being live on UStream on May 2, 2011 with guest Josh Mobley who is going to show you some very simple but very effective patterns you can play from your controller keyboard. Follow along live as he walks you through the process of teaching your hands how to get funky! Check out the event schedule and visit Propellerheads at http://www.propellerheads.se…
Synplode – full convergence
Synplode: To experience the convergence of time and space, sometimes through sound and light.
This video illustrates the Synplode Project produced on a small scale. Synplode may be produced on a human scale, as big as a tennis court.
An abbreviated version can be found here:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XKsum3ZOWHU
Please visit prettyextreme.com for more details.
Special thanks to Stephen Bruckert for his help in capturing this video.
Mister Beep
Newest album containing 10 multichannel 1-bit chiptunes , all recorded from REAL HARDWARE.
MISTER BEEP – “A thousand furious bees” 1-bit multichannel chiptunes made on ZX Spectrum 48K (beeper).
via COUCOU NETLABEL: FREE DOWNLOAD – COUCOU13 / Mister Beep.
O-Generator – Clocks – Coldplay
O-Generator Music Maker is an App that can be used as a musical sketchpad to compose, learn, create and develop ideas in different styles whatever your musical level.
O-Generator’s simple interface achieves sophisticated results. You can create and combine chords, choose individual notes and develop unique rhythmic patterns for your music compositions using an array of real instruments from drumkits to guitars. The beauty about O-Generator is that YOU compose the music.
Teasers pics for two upcoming SW synths
HG Fortune have released a an image of the Ultra Swamp GUI preview. According to their post, “still does require some finetuning.”
Jarek J has released an image and sound clip demo of the upcoming iPad app: Horizon Synth. Check out the latest on this upcoming VA for iOS below.
Horizon Synth details:
2 oscillators (each features true supersaw based on Roland JP 8000)
5 filter types: LPF, HPF, PEQ, COMB, FORMANT 12,24db
2 ADSRs
LFO
Effects unit
Morph groups controlled by mod wheel (similar to NordLead 3)
Programmable arpeggiator
Full MIDI in implementation, audio recorder + audio copy
Horizon Synth for iPad – alpha demo by Jarek J
Software Klee Step Sequencer updated
Defective Records has updated Software Klee Step Sequencer to version 2.1.0.
Changes:
- Load button modified – now does a Load of the bit pattern on the next quarter note clock, not on any next clock signal.
- Baseline Note is now stored in Presets.
- Bus Devices and Channels now stored in Presets.
- On Windows, clicking anywhere in application activates window, not just title bar.
- Built with Max/MSP version 5.18.
Previously only available as a hardware, control voltage sequencer, the Software Klee Step Sequencer allows MIDI devices to be controlled by this innovative step sequencer.
Price: USD 40.00
Visit: Defective Records
Rynth – realtime audio-visual performance
A realtime audio-visual performance:
Rynth uses parameters from real-time sound analysis to generate transformations and deformations of geometric primitives. Its dynamic surface texture is generated by incoming audio frequencies resulting in a synaesthetic surface modulation. The result morphing geometric construction pays homage to gyroscopic devices and anti-gravity mechanics.
Dome performance at Planetarium Artis, Amsterdam for Sonic Acts XIII – The Poetics of Space, Amsterdam 2010. Info can be found here: paulprudence.com/?p=63 and a review can be found here: paulprudence.com/?p=83
Screen versions performed at:
ISEA, Dortmund, 2010
NODE10, Frankfurt 2010
MFRU Festival, Ljubljana 2010
Flickr Stills can be found here:
flickr.com/photos/transphormetic/sets/72157623374700673/
SAS-4AS : virtual Analog Synhesizer for iphone/ipod touch
4voice Polyphonic Simulated Analog Synthesizer for iPod touch & iPhone The layout on the panel of the SAS-4 images the Oberheim OB-Xa. However, the output tone is the one that is original SAS-4 different from the OB-Xa.
- Polyphonic ( 4 voice )
- Totally Programmable with Storage for 32 Programs
- Two Oscillator per Voice
- Two ADSR Envelope Generator per Voice
- 24dB/octave Low Pass Filter
- Noise Generator / Sample and Hold
- Auto Arpeggio new
- Digital Delay new
Jamming with MultiMultiTouchTouch
Live improvisational jamming with the MultiMultiTouchTouch controller. The “buttons” on the lower left of the frame let me change the sounds, scale, and key. The middle “slider” lets me change the note quantization. The depth is converted into aftertouch, which has different effects in different patches.
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