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Genesis On iPhone PianoStudio
This is a demo of The Lamb Lies Down On Broadway by Genesis and played on PianoStudio (App Store link) on an iPhone.
Features:
- Three high-quality piano instruments (Grand 1, Grand 2, Upright)
- 9 built-in demo songs
- Built-in Recorder with overdubbing, variable tempo, metronome, and undo/redo
- Tilt-controlled volume and sustain pedal
- Awesome phrase editor lets you create repeating patterns or passages that would otherwise be impossible to play
- Built-in chord library with over 10,000 chords
- Lots of visual customizations to help you organize and play your tunes
- 5 banks of buttons per song
- 9 available button layout styles with between 8 and 40 buttons, plus keyboard-and-buttons style
PianoStudio retails for $6.99.
Are You Ready For This? Now The Music Industry Wants To Get Paid Every Time Your Cell Phone Rings!
The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) urged a federal court Wednesday to “reject bogus copyright claims” from the music industry that could meant that you could get charged a performance fee every time your cell phone rings in public. Read more…
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Filed under: Software Effects & Audio Processors, Software Sequencers, iPods & Portable Media Players
This video demonstrates how The 88 used Sonoma Wire Works FourTrack (App Store link) to record their latest single on an iPhone.
FourTrack is $9.99, which is amazing, considering it transforms your iPhone into a functional recording studio.
Impressive? Leave a comment with your thoughts!
Ensoniq ESQ-M
The Ensoniq ESQ-M is a vintage synthesizer, the rackmount version of the ESQ-1, that offers eight voice polyphony. It can do basic splits and layers which can be saved as part of a patch.
Each voice features three digital oscillators, an analogue filter (a Curtis chip) three LFO’s, four envelopes, and four Digitally Controlled Amplifiers and a very serious modulation routing ability.
Ensoniq ESQ-M Resources:
- Ensoniq ESQ-1 page at VintageSynthExplorer
- Ensoniq ESQ-1 samples
- SoundQuest Ensoniq ESQ M Editor/Librarian and Virtualizer
for Windows and Macintosh OS X - Ensoniq ESQ-1, ESQ-m, SQ-80 patches at Patchman Music
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Propellerhead Software’s Ernst Nathorst-Böös has published a statement clarifying the company’s roadmap for its products, and for the future of Reason, itself:
Record and the future of Reason
By request, it seems we need to clarify our product road map and how Record and Reason relate.
Hopefully by now it is clear that Record is a stand-alone program. We simply call it Music Recording Software, because that’s what it is. Record is the perfect choice for anyone who wants to make music recordings, whether you’re a band, a songwriter, a guitarist, vocalist or all of that on different days of the week.
Record is also, thanks to its incredible built in mixer and effects, a great choice for mixing and finalizing any music production.
Reason also is – and remains – a stand-alone program. Reason we call a Music Production Instrument. It contains the ultimate software instrument set, combined with tons of great effects. Reason is the perfect choice for anyone who plays keyboards, in the bedroom, studio or on stage. It’s also great for all of us who love making music with drum machines, synths, samplers and effects.
Thanks to its powerful yet simple sequencer, Reason is also a great production tool. But in a slightly different way from Record, and that’s precisely the point.
For Record – think guitars, vocals, recording, music production and mixing.
For Reason – think keyboards, synths, samplers drum machines, effects - and music production.
What the two programs have in common is their purpose: To help you make more and better music, to sound fabulous and having a great time while doing it.
Some people will want to use Record only. Some people will want to use Reason only. It just depends on what kind of musician you are.
Those who are really smart will use both programs together; it’s the ultimate combination. The integration is 100%, making you far more productive than any recording application and plug-in combination available out there. Yeah, yeah, we’ve said that before, but we’re so excited about it, sorry.
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Ethan Hein put together this Michael Jackson sample map, which shows how Jackson’s songs have been sampled and reused by other artists.
Hyperion Algorithmic Sequencer
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Filed under: Software Effects & Audio Processors, Software Sequencers
This is a visual tour and demo of Xoxos Hyperion, an algorithmic sequencing VST.
Hyperion MIDI VST has a semi-modular structure suitable for a wide variety of tuned algorithmic applications. LFOs and counters are used to easily create dynamic MIDI sequences and change them on the fly, or to modulate other components of the architecture.
Hyperion produces glissandos or subtly varying sequences for up to three parts on three separate MIDI channels using a simple chord function. It can also be used as a phrase arpeggiator to make sure that you never play out of key or out of sequence.
Hyperion is available for $25. The demo is limited to bpm settings.
Annoying Synth Neighbor
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Filed under: Keyboard Synthesizers, Music Videos, Synthesizers
In this, the second episode of Annoying Synth Neighbor, synthesizer sounds come between a man and his chance at love.
In this video, a Cyndustries Photon module is used to control a modular synthesizer with light:
The Photon Interface module comes with a black metal Littlelite brand high-intensity gooseneck lamp, a rheostat dimmer, heavy duty right-angle 4-pin panel connectors, and an independent 12 Volt DC power transformer for system lighting right where you need it.
The lower half of the module features a sensitive photocell with its own dedicated voltage processor which can be used as a performance controller when your hand passes between photocell and lamp.
The voltage processor has an adjustable attenuator and comparator and offers both positive and inverted outputs. Rushing the photocell suddenly with your hand will also generate a Gate Output for triggering different things, and you can switch between an external signal input or an adjustable internal voltage supply simply with the pull of a knob.
