November, 2008 archive

Run is a short track, by sound designer Hans-Jörg Scheffler, that shows off his work with the new Spectrasonics Omnisphere synthesizer.

The video shows cursor and bar control for 8 daisy-chained Stribe1s, brightness control and full display animation.
About The Stribe kit:

A modular version of the original stribe project.
Each Stribe1 has 1 softpot touchstrip and 2 columns of 64 LEDs.
Right now, you need to already have an Arduino or some other microcontroller interface to use a Stribe1. [...]

This is a short interview with Little Boots before her performance on Later.
It’s not a great interview – but she touches her YouTube hit Meddle and using the Tenori On.

The technicians from the Museum of Techno get inspired to write a love song with monster beats. 
Best line: “An enormous techno sausage”.

 
A while back, we featured a video of Beardyman doing Monkey Jazz, noting that “he uses live looping technology to make synthesizers, drum machines and other musicians obsolete.”
This is a chance to see all the camera angles, unedited, from the original Monkey Jazz video sessions.

Here’ something to be thankful for – laser harps!
Nortec Collective is building a laser harp, from a design made by Stephen Hobley:
Luis Vargas our technician guru is in charge of making this instrument work, the plan is to use it on our live presentations for controlling our synthesizer, Here is a preview, coming soon in our [...]

Roland Juno-106 Analog Synthesizer was uploaded by: retrosound72
Duration: 380
Rating:

Biomechanical Speech Synthesis was uploaded by: GerbilGod7
Duration: 8
Rating:

A demo video for the Frontier Design Group AlphaTrack.
AlphaTrack Specifications:

Requirements: Windows XP (Service Pack 2 recommended) or Mac OS X (10.3.9+) operating system
Computer Interface: powered full-speed USB 2.0 or USB 1.1 port (unpowered hub connection not recommended)
User Interface:

One 100mm touch-sensitive, motorized fader
One 32-character backlit display
Three touch-sensitive encoders, with push-button function
Buttons: REW, FFWD, STOP, PLAY, RECORD, SHIFT, [...]

Cakewalk has been testing SONAR from early Windows 7 Betas right through to the latest Release Candidates, and they are officially recommending Windows 7 as a platform for SONAR 8.5.
Additionally, SONAR 8.5 was evaluated at an independent Microsoft application compatibility lab and officially passed the rigorous Win7 compatibility testing.
See their site for full Windows 7 [...]