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!

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Features:

• Designed in partnership with Ableton
• Unique clip matrix with multicolor lighting displays current clip status
• No mapping required for use with Ableton Live
• Exclusive bidirectional communication between the APC40 and Ableton Live
• Professional feel with rugged, metal chassis and premium controls
• Comes with Ableton Live Akai Professional APC Edition, free upgrade patch for full versions of Live
• USB plug-and-play connection for Mac and PC
• Premium controller with rugged, metal chassis

Includes

• APC40 Ableton Live controller
• USB Cable
• Power Supply
• Software CD
• User Manual

Akai APC40 Resources

• APC40 Manual (pdf)
• APC40 info at the Akai site

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

This is a quick demo of a prototype of the Quad Multi-Mode Gates.

Only the Doepfer monster case was used, everything is just blinking alluringly, attempting to distract you (worked on me!).

• Doepfer A-155 randomly sequencing a Livewire AFG sine,
• Doepfer A-147 square wave clocking Doepfer A-149-1/2,
• Doepfer A-149-2 random gates triggering QMMG CV triggers and CV resonance in no particular order,
• QMMG master out lightly treated with Doepfer A-199 spring rev & Doepfer A-188-1Y (256) (CV2 modded with A-149-1) 

This is a prototype QMMG, and the patch uses 2 of the 4 modes.

Here’s the details on the QMMG:Quad Multi-Mode Gates (QMMG)

A huge riff on the original Buchla 292 Quad Lo Pass Gate, including a Mix Out and containing no fewer than 8 vactrols.

The QMMG offers the additional features of High Pass Gate mode, Voltage Controlled Feedback, Direct Coupling (for processing of Control Voltages) and Normalizations so that multiple channels may easily be used together to create Bandpass Gates, steeper HP or LP Gates or even something like a traditional Synthesizer Voice Architecture. 

The voltage controlled feedback is routed differently in each mode. 

In VCA mode it is routed to provide slightly non-linear GAIN. Daisy chain multiple channels for voltage controlled clipping. In BOTH Mode the feedback is routed to provide DAMPING of the ringing vactrols. The effect of adding  feedback in BOTH mode is not unlike placing your hand upon the head of a drum, while striking, thus allowing the user to control how much the Vactrols ring. In the LP and HP modes, the feedback is routed to provide a very wicked, highly unstable, non-linear resonance. At higher settings, the positive and negative portions of the signal will develop different resonant peak frequencies, and further, they will clip asymmetrically. The filter can be slippery and smooth at low resonance settings, but it cuts like a choir of daggers at high resonance settings.

The benefit of Direct Coupling is that a channel of the QMMG could be used to attenuate or amplify an incoming CV before applying to another channel. The mixing section is set-up so that inserting a plug at the output socket of any given channel removes that channel from the mix, therefore you could use one half of the QMMG for voltage controlled mixing of CVs to apply to the other half being utilized for signal processing. 

This module is 24HP  and consumes 60mA worth of current. The price is TBD. 

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Tenori-On Dreaming  - Composed & Performed by Gianni Proietti using only the Yamaha TENORI-ON.

A mellow acid track featuring the SE BassLine x0xb0x as 303. Sequenced on the genoQs Octopus, with 909 for drums and a little Machinedrum and virus TI.

Not sure if this is awesome or if I was just hypnotized by all the blinky lights…..