VlnVlaCelBass – Haken Continuum Rival String Instruments for Expression
This video is a demonstration of the VlnVlaCelBass sound on the Continuum Fingerboard, performed by Edmund Eagan. This EaganMatrix string sound has been programmed to take advantage of the Continuum’s fast and accurate pressure sensing. Playing this sound with low velocity finger movement will create a smooth gentle start to each note. After the note starts volume and timbre changes can be applied by changing the pressure on the surface.
When played with a harder finger velocity, the sound gets more aggressive in it’s attack. This is due to the inclusion of timbre data that represents a real string attack.
The name of the sound includes the four names of the orchestral string family, violin, viola, cello, and double bass, reflecting the combined pitch range of these instruments. The sound is equally convincing and expressive at all pitches, even at the extremes.
Pressing the first foot pedal activates a mono mode which makes it easier to play fast monophonic intervals, such as whole tone or minor third trills.
The overall tonal character of the instrument can be changed by moving the Size barrel. Lower values of Size will create a larger sounding instrument, higher values a smaller one.
The VlnVlaCelBass uses the GrainSilo in the EaganMatrix, with a timbre element called Vla Sustained. The original source for this timbre element came from the first 100 milliseconds of a single note preformed by Rudolf Haken on a Pellegrina 5 string viola. This 100 milliseconds contains essential attack and sustain spectra. Through the power of the EaganMatrix formula structures, control of the timbre elements reference point, fundamental, spectral rolloff, spectral shift, and amplitude is mapped to the playing surface. The three dimensional performance of each finger can translate into exquisite control of this finite piece of data.
Moog Werkstatt
At Moogfest 2014, Moog Music introduced the Werkstatt as a special DIY project that attendees could build in a two-day course at the Moog Factory.
In this video, Moog Music’s Steve Dunnington and Trent Thompson give a behind-the-scenes look at the Werkstatt and what it can do.
DEATHSTARS – All The Devils Toys
Video for ‘All The Devils Toys’ fomr the new DEATHSTARS album ‘The Perfect Cult’.
Order here: http://smarturl.it/DEATHSTARS-Cult
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‘The Perfect Cult’ will be out on June 13th (EU), June 16th (UK) and June 24th in US.
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The Swedish industrial rock band DEATHSTARS returns with a blast when they release their long anticipated fourth studio album »The Perfect Cult«.
While their predecessor, 2009’s »Night Electric Night« was spawned with the band fairly off the hook of their »Termination Bliss« touring cycle, only to see the band hitting the road yet again. For the upcoming new output, DEATHSTARS finally managed to give themselves the needed time span to work in a “calm and methodic manner, fully exploring the music writing process which resulted in the most dramatic Deathstars album to date.”
Besides their many headlining tours around the world over the years, the band also joined RAMMSTEIN’s sold out arena streak for their “Made In Germany 1995-2011” European Tour 2011/2012. At the same time they released »The Greatest Hits On Earth«, a compilation presenting a decade of their tracks, released via Nuclear Blast.
»The Perfect Cult« has been captured in several studios: drums, guitars and bass were recorded in Bohus Sound Recording, Kungälv Sweden, vocals in Gig Studios in Stockholm, Sweden and keyboards, orchestration and editing was done in Black Syndicate, Stockholm. While the mix as usual was handled by legendary Stefan Glaumann (RAMMSTEIN, WITHIN TEMPTATION), guitarist/keyboardist Nightmare took
Röyksopp & Robyn – Do It Again
“We’re just about to shoot a full video for “Do It Again”. Awaiting it’s completion, the most impatient souls out there can spend the meantime losing themselves in this mesmerizing black&white hypno-bonanza – and even sing along should they so desire… B+B”
Röyksopp and Robyn announce the release of their single ‘Do It Again’ on the 28th April.
‘Do It Again’ is taken from the ‘Do It Again’ mini album, which will be released on 26th May 2014. This mini album is a precursor to bigger things from Röyksopp. The inevitable end of the campaign will bring their new album…
Pre-order the album and download ‘Do It Again’ now, on iTunes here:http://smarturl.it/ryxpdiamp3
The album will also be available on CD & Vinyl:
CD http://smarturl.it/rxypdiacd
Vinyl http://smarturl.it/rxypdiavinyl
Listen to ‘Monument’ from the same album here: http://youtu.be/Nek-IvGpe0w
Subscribe for more…
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Robyn: http://bit.ly/1fIMXbL
Art Direction by Sandberg&Timonen
Photography by Kacper Kasprzyk
Video directed by Graham Smith
Produced by James Baxter / J6 Films
B-Step Sequencer for iPad has been released
Monoplugs has announced the release of B-Step Sequencer for iPad, a melodic, chord based step sequencer inspired by a bass guitar.
The sequencer comes with native support for one or two Novation Launchpads. B-Step supports CoreMIDI, Virtual MIDI ports, Network MIDI and a lot of MIDI hardware devices. It also supports MIDI Learn, so you can control B-Step’s user interface with any MIDI controller you like.
B-Step can work as MIDI clock master or you can sync it to another clock master.
B-Step Sequencer for iPad features
- Native Novation Launchpad support.
- Advanced MIDI learn.
- Drag’N’drop.
- 3 color profiles.
- Clean and simple user interface.
- Run in background.
B-Step Sequencer for iPad is available for purchase at the introductory price of $16.99 USD until May 15th, 2014.
B-Step on iPad controlled with a Novation Launchpad MINI and the black Micro Kork produces the sound. This is a blues chord progression and I’m just edit one bar that i copy every loop to the others and playing around with some octave shifts. You can get B-Step Sequencer for Linux, Windows, Mac and iPad as VST plugin or standalone.
Moogfest 2014 Circuit Bending Challenge
Moogfest 2014 Circuit Bending Challenge went off in full blast at the Moog Store
read the article here http://wp.me/p2DmTM-1Vm
Here’s my Circuit Bent Hing Hon EK-001 squarewave keyboard, built into an upright style synth, which runs on four AA batteries (6V). Three months of semi-constant work for the Moog circuit bending challenge of 2014. I hope you enjoy. In this demo I try to run over some of the more pertinent mod combinations while keeping the demo time to a minimum. All sounds in this video are raw.
NOTE: At 19:20 Youtube may have removed the audio (a song by Squarepusher) – to see the [external audio input to video output] you can go here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=du6Ve… for another demonstration which youtube hasn’t forced me to remove…
Highlights:
0:35 – Distortion modulation on rhythm
2:00 – Engage drum glitch switches
2:57 – First use of pitch LFO
4:30 – All LFOs in use with keys
6:00 – Rhythm skip & key sustain
6:20 – Short demo of hex keyboard (and optic theremin)
8:30 – Rhythm skip/LED based optic theremin mod, then LFOs added
12:41 – Optic theremin for dist. modulation controlled by hand movements
13:30 – Vibrato touch contact
14:05 – Crude CV input (TR-626 playing rhythm, x0xb0x as CV source)
17:13 – Black and white visualization output demo (keyboard sounds)
18:20 – Audio input distorted (x0xb0x as audio source)
19:18 – B&W visualization output (from external audio input)
20:25 – Video input distortion
22:23 – Triforce get! (hex keyboard)Detailed photo album of progress, build instructions, and schematics located here: http://imgur.com/a/qOT5Y
A full Bill of Materials spreadsheet is available here for download:http://www.bit.ly/1bXsns8
If you have any feedback or questions that aren’t answered by the schematics and other info in the photo album, just comment or send me a message here on youtube, or email me at george.gleixner@gmail.com – always happy to help!
EBM pioneers Click Click returns after 17 years
British EBM pioneers Click Click are going to release “Those Nervous Surgeons“, their first album with new studio material in 17 years. (Note that a song with that title was already released on “Experiments” via Rotorbabe Recordings in 2012.) In addition to that, Adrian Smith had the time to finish his debut novel “The Eradication Of Hate”, which will come with the limited edition(300 copies). The novel ‘mirrors the dystopian themes of the new record and addresses rampant censorship in an emerging English surveillance state’, so Dependent informs us.
“Those Nervous Surgeons” used to be the name of the brothers’ very first band project (which formed in 1976 with bassist Tim Wilson) before they opted for the monicker Click Click. “We Have Come Full Circle”, explains Derek Smith. The album is expected to sound ‘absolutely retro’. The release date is June 6th in Europe and four days later in the US.
Depeche Mode – To Have And To Hold ( VOCAL version cover), Arturia Microbrute + Korg Volca Boxes
This is the same Depeche Mode cover you can find on ‘PanzerLyu’ channel, but now with the vocal line.
The singer is the one of the band Blue Orphans
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCBKa…
Set up
Synths:
Arturia Microbrute
Korg Volca Bass
Korg Volca Beats
Korg Kaossilator2
Mixer:
Behringer Xenyx Q802USB
Behringer MicroMIX MX400
Audio interface:
Behringer U-CONTROL UCA222
Voice overdubbed with Audacity Software
Moog Werkstatt controlled with a Roland TB-303
Background video description:
I’m only a day back from this years Moogfest in Asheville and already have my new Moog Werkstatt synth talking to my TB-303 with CV and Gate.
This is just after i got it working for the first time…
www.leecoombs.net
Acid baby! I made this in 5 minutes
So excited about the possibilities this little Werkstatt synth has…
Statique – free glitch & cuts rhythm generator for Kontakt
Audiomodern has announced the release of Statique, a free glitch & cuts rhythm generator for Native Instruments Kontakt.
Statique is a sequencer based pattern generator which is best suited to give your music production a contemporary percussive fundament.
You can easily create groovy electronic patterns or add-on loops built out of bits, cuts, glitches and blips!
Statique is a free download at Audiomodern (email registration required).
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