This is a video demo of IK Multimedia’s GrooveMaker Electro – a beatmaking app for the iPhone.

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Hear the sounds of the new GrooveMaker Electro: mechanical and aggressive uptempo beats, weird and chemically altered sounds. A huge collection of phreaked out bass lines and alien noises. Includes 4 songs, plus 1 FREE song by registering, and a total of 315 loops in 85-98-100-120-135 BPM ranges for 215 MB of samples.

The Beat Kangz have announced that Beat Thang Virtual – a virtual music production system for Windows and Mac, is now available.

Features:

• One octave pad layout with 8 banks so you can bang out beats or play the keys.
• 16 tracks so you can create patterns that can be performed and remixed on the fly.
• 16 layers of velocity sensitivity for emotive performance.
• High Quality Sampler & waveform editing. Sample your own sounds using your computer’s built in mic or line input.
• Edit sample start and end times. Process samples using features like normalize, reverse and resample.
• Easy to use Realtime Sequencer. Create patterns in real time using quantize, swing, individual bar lengths, tap tempo then string them together in SONG mode.
• Mixer with built in FX Change track, pad and pan levels.
• Add 24bit reverb, delay, flange, phaser, pitch shift, old record and many more.
• Add BANG with onboard mastering.
• Export your songs as .wav files or save them to your Beat Kangz Playa Thang equipped iPhone or iPod Touch.
• Connects seamless with Beat Thang Hardware.

Beat Thang Virtual retails for $149 USD.

Beat Thang Virtual: In the studio, with pint-sized beatmakers IcyCold & MX Dub.

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13 year-old IcyCold & his 11 year-old brother MX Dub are veteran beat makers. This is their first time playing Beat Thang Virtual.

This video tutorial looks at getting started with Renoise, a music production environment for Windows, Mac and Linux.

Features include automatic plug-in delay compensation, support for VST and AU plugins, multi-core load balancing, MIDI I/O, audio recording, 4096 PPQ resolution and parameter automation.

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Renoise tutorial for beginners. Thanks to Ron from Indamixx.com for the samples. Count the amount of times I say “alright” and win a prize.

iPhone music software: This is a sneak preview of Drum Sequencer, a drum machine/groovebox for the Apple iPhone.

It’s expected to be released Sept 24th, 2009.

Description:

Drum Sequencer is a drum beat composing application. It’s designed for example DJ’s, live performances, practicing, interactive composing or just for fun.

Amaze yourself with this app. Discover the basics of drum beats, doodle around and use your imagination to find new exotic rhythms. You don’t have to be a DJ or live artist to sound like them.

App features:

• easy & fast use user interface for situations where you just want to evolve the beat quickly
• multiple drum sets (with high quality 44kHz sounds)
• realtime effects for each instrument (for example really nasty sounding distortion)
• bank & pattern for storing your best bits
• easy switching between patterns for example live performance
• tap tempo
• easy syncing to existing beat, song or any kind of fixed rythm

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Sunday Synth Jam:  In this video, German gangsta beatmaker NoKiEone is “kicking a Gangster HipHop Beat on Reason 4.0.”

German gangsta style, boyz!

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This live jam features the Radikal Spectralis II taking it’s clock signal from a Red Voyager Beat extractor that is “listening” to the mix coming from a laptop/Ableton Live set-up.

Details below.

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This is the Spectralis II (brand new model) taking it’s clock signal from Red Voyager Beat extractor that is literally listening to the mix coming from the laptop/Ableton set-up. Once you understand what exactly is going on in this video the top of your skull will pop off and your mind will do a 360 in mid-air, returning to its original position, but altered in a permanent state of “you’re kidding”. This is the bare-boned digital system (without the Kaoss pad, Kaossilator, or Percussa audio cubes, and, obviously, without the video gear), using only the Logitech joystick to cherry-pick through the on-screen clips & activate the effects for each channel, the Novation X Station to fade the 8 channels on screen up and down and its joystick to control Ableton’s effects’ parameters, and, of course, the amazing Spectralis II from Radikal technologies. The silkscreening is still a little tacky it’s so new (just kidding-it is beautiful). This is just me finally getting the hang of this thing (sort of) at 1:30 in the morning. The music is a mixture of the Spectralis’ other-worldly sounds, our own MIDI mixes (original compositions), other artists’ music, and a lot of beats, grooves, and loops at all times. I even demonstrate the ability to “jam” along on the X Station’s built-in 300-voice digital synthesizer. Enjoy!

This is a fun demo of iDrum Beatboxing Edition (App Store link), a $4.99 sampling drum machine.

If you’ve used iDrum Beatboxing Edition, leave a comment with your thoughts!

Description:

Beatboxing Edition includes a huge selection of drum, percussion and effects samples made only with the human voice. Start with a selection of amazing kits and patters, then customize them to make them your own.

Want to add your own sounds to a beat? Use the iPhones built-in mic to record your own voice, then mix them into the rhythm!

Includes hundreds of beatboxing and vocal percussion samples, and 20 pre-made kits. Record your voice and other sounds and make them part of your beat! Add awesome effects like Robot, Reverse, Cave, Metallic and Clones to your voice and any sound you create

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Luca De Rosso’s OTTO is an electronic musical instrument for realtime manual beat slicing of audio samples.

OTTO provides a tangible user interface designed with the aim of giving the user the feel of having the sample in his hands. The musician can manipulate an audio sample in real time through the use of a restricted number of simple physical buttons and switches.

In computer music audio samples are generally represented as the waveform itself or as little colored blocks. Since the sample inside OTTO as to be controlled really fast, the performer needs to quickly understand where and how to play a specific part. The sample visualization has been designed to provide just the information needed and nothing more.

There are several more demo videos at Luca De Rosso’s YouTube channel.

via Peter Kirn’s Create Digital Music – Peter puts up something incredible every day, so make sure CDM is on your shortlist of sites to visit!

FunkyBeat gets busy with the NeKo LX5 and takes you on a ride to make a funky beat.

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MrShoNuff71’s guide to Reason Beat Making is a couple of years old, looking at Reason 3.0, but if you put your glasses on, learn how to read and pay close attention, you might be on your way to making hot tracks.

If not, at least it’s entertaining. Don’t miss the atonal synth jam!

Best quote: “That’s the wrong motherfuckin’ sound!” vs “Books, books, books!”

This video tutorial looks at using Cakewalk Beatscape. Part 2 below.

Click here to view the embedded video.

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This one will show you how to use Cakewalk’s Beatscape with Sonar 8 Producer Edition built in step sequencer.. www.olivier-recordings.com

Dave Smith Instruments Poly Evolver

The Poly Evolver Keyboard is the king of the Evolver line of performance synthesizers.

It is a four-voice synthesizer with a 5-octave keyboard, pitch and mod wheels, and a ton of knobs and switches in a clean, clear layout.

According to Keyboard Magazine’s review of the Polyphonic Evolvoer:

“Skeptics who insist that it’s too expensive just need to get an earful. It’s like a mint Prophet-5 plus a PPG Wave in a single reliable box that easily tucks under your arm and lights up like a night out on Coruscant.

The PEK is a player’s axe whose layout programmers will flip for. Whichever you are, this is nothing less than a future classic and a major event in synth design.”

Features

• Each voice is a complete Evolver with four oscillators per voice, two analog and two digital.
• True stereo signal path with separate Curtis analog low-pass filters in each channel for each voice. Each voice has its own independent effects (feedback, delay, distortion, high-pass filter, etc.).
• Highly accessible sound control for easy, intuitive operation: 78 knobs and 59 switches.
• Clocked, pulsing blue LEDs and hardwood end-panels.
• Each voice has an independent 16 x 4 step sequencer. Everything (sequencer, LFOs, and delay) syncs perfectly to MIDI.
• In Program mode, all four voices play the same sound. In Combo mode, voices can be allocated however desired: stack all 4 for a huge unison sound, split or layer the keyboard in any configuration, and/or play one or all sequences at the same time. Each voice can respond to a different MIDI channel.
• Multiple Poly Evolvers can be daisy-chained for increased polyphony. “Poly Chain” mode (with dedicated MIDI output) handles voice assignment overflow for effortless expansion.
• Each voice has its own stereo output in addition to the mix and headphones outputs.
• Stereo audio input that can be routed to any or all of the voices, enabling parallel audio processing of external stereo or mono signals. The output of one voice can be routed to the input of another for interesting double-processing effects.

Resources:

• Polyphonic Evolver page at Dave Smith Instruments
• Keyboard Magazine review
• Retrosound’s Prophet 600 page

This is an excerpt from DJ Shortee’s DJ 101 series of videos, focusing on beat matching.

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Samplitude 9 / Sequoia 9: ROBOTA Stepsequencer

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Robota is an eight-voice drum computer VST instrument based on virtual-analog synthesis.