blinky lights

Check out this video that features the monome using a sonome-style keyboard layout, but even more important, some great blinky light action.

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During the process of adapting the sonome layout onto my monome, I wrote some software to help me locate common patterns. This video explains and demonstrates the layout and software. If this doesn’t make much sense, just relaxen und watchen der blinkenlichten…

We haven’t featured any cute babies busting tech house jams here before, so here you go!

dkimcg shows how to use thousands of dollars of modular synth gear to make cool oscilloscope graphics.

Here’s the details:

Based on the math behind a Lissajous curve using a Cwejman stereo ringmod.

You can patch a similar thing with the sine waves of a quadrature oscillator (offset 90 degrees), and 4 additional oscillators (self-oscillating resonant filters included), but they don’t have to be sine waves.

The broken lined “flowers” are saws and squares. The audio is filtered through a PlanB Model 12 filter that’s being modulated by one of the subo-scillators (the oscillator that’s synced to the master oscillator that only modulates the filter and syncs one of the “audio” oscillators).

Lots of sync in the patch…

Not sure if this has much of a practical purpose – but it ranks pretty high for the blinky lights factor alone.

2009 NAMM Show: Akai Professional announced the APC40 Control Surface – a sexy new hardware controller designed specifically for Ableton Live. Akai Professional partnered with Ableton to make the APC40 an optimal Ableton Live control surface.

Because Akai Professional and Ableton designed the APC40 specifically for using with Live, you won’t need to map or configure its controls. If you want, though, the APC40 will let you remap every one of its controls.

The APC40 communicates bi-directionally with Live, so the controller can display information from Live on its clip matrix of 40 triggers and on LED rings surrounding each knob. The clip matrix provides you with an instant view of clip status: what is loaded, what is playing and what is being recorded.

The APC40 has two sets of eight knobs: one for Track parameters such as pans and bus sends, and the other for instrument and effect parameters. The second bank of eight knobs is dynamically re-assigned to the track selected by the user. This unique capability enables performers to control at least eight track parameters per track – a total of 72 – using the same eight knobs and the nine track-selection buttons. Channel faders, bus faders and a crossfader enable smooth control of key values.

Akai has not officially announced pricing and availability yet.

Check out the details below, and then let us know what you think! Read more…

This video, via Dan from Schaack Audio, demos a single Percussa AudioCube controlling Slicex in FL Studio.