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Filed under: Drum Machines & Groove Boxes, Electronic Instruments
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!
Kanjun Qiu demonstrates the soundie, her awesome musical touch-sensitive light-up hoodie, aka the hoodie synthesizer.
Qiu created the hoodie synthesizer using the LilyPad Arduino, designed by MIT High-Low Tech guru Leah Buechley.
According to Qiu, “The hoodie was designed with purely artistic intentions and with absolutely no practical applications in mind.”
Take one look at the words hoodie and synthesizer put together, though, and you know you want one of these things!
Who needs practical applications when you’ve got a hoodie synthesizer?
If you feel the need for more hoodie synth, Qiu has put together a tutorial on making one.
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Filed under: Software Synthesizers & Samplers, User Reviews, iPods & Portable Media Players
This is a fun four-part sneak preview of megaSynth – an iPhone synthesizer.
Here are the features:
- 5-voice polyphony (max # of fingertips allowed on the iPhone = 5)
- 3 Oscillators, 7 waveforms
- Triad arp and chordmaker (”Chordmatic”) with 23 scales
- 24-bucket step sequencer
- Dual keyboards
- Accelerometer-controlled pitch, cutoff, resonance
- Very many LFOs (4 to be exact: filter, pitch, volume…4th is optional audible LFO)
- Recording, wi-fi file export/import
- Saves infinite user presets; comes with 209 factory presets
- FX module with reverb and modulation
- Monophonic keyboard option also included
This should be in the iPhone store soon. More info at Yonac.com.
If you’ve used MegaSynth, leave a comment with your thoughts! Read more…
