Bedtime Stories is am improvisation on custom made Monome 40h running Press Cafe sending MIDI to Logic Pro 8.

via rishabhrajan

mOne is a new German open source hardware step sequencer project.

Here are the specifications:

• Hardware Step Sequencer
• 8 Spuren a 8 Patterns mit jeweils 16 Steps
• Jede Spur kann eigenen MIDI-Kanal (Eingabe, Ausgabe) haben
• Interne Auflösung von 24 Pulses pro 1/4 Note (PPQN)
• Aufnahme durch externe MIDI-Geräte
• Externe und interne Synchronisation (Play, Stop, Resume, Clock)
• Modifizieren der Sequenz während der Wiedergabe
• Softwarekonzept Open-Source
• Programmierung durch Arduino IDE
• Basiert auf Atmel ATmega1280
• USB-Schnittstelle zur Kommunikation mit dem PC/MAC
• MIDI-Schnittstellen (MIDI-Eingang, MIDI-Ausgang)
• 28 Silikon-Buttons, 2 Rotary-Encoder mit Bestätigung und ein LC-Display

Leave a comment if you know more about this project!

via Sequencer.de

The miniAudicle is a light-weight integrated development environment for the ChucK digital audio programming language. It’s free and is available for Linux, Windows & Mac

It can be used as a standalone ChucK development + runtime + on-the-fly programming environment, or in conjunction with traditional command-line modes of ‘chuck’ operation and with other chuck tools.

The miniAudicle is a great way to learn, use, and experiment with ChucK for audio synthesis and music generation, with or without using the command line / terminal.

Some features:

• embedded ChucK runtime engine
• on-the-fly programming support
• syntax highlighting + coloring
• GUI building API in ChucK (MAUI elements)

In this video, Trackmate, a do-it-yourself tangible tracking system, is used to control a LusidOSC spatial application that sequences sounds to create and mix music.

Here’s a video that shows five ways can get started with Trackmate:

Click here to view the embedded video.

Both the software and the instructions to build the hardware are free and open source. You can get more info on Trackmate here.

This is a demo video of an Arduinome 128 (80h), a DIY monome clone.

If you’ve built an Arduinome, or if you have info on it, leave a comment!

Arduinonome Resources:

• Arduinome at Brick
• Building an Arduinome
• Arduinome assembly guide
• Arduinome Parts List

via StarfireMX:

Finnaly got my button pads so here it is, it’s alive!!!

An Arduinome 128 using 2 seeeduinos, 2 unsped shields, and 2 monome 40h button kits. It works great!

Was just messing with the max patch boing, love this thing!

The Synthesia platform is a project whose purpose is to create an open analog modeling musical synthesizer – a synthesizer implemented using both analog and digital components that intends to emulate the sounds of traditional analog synthesizers, controllable through Musical Instrument Digital Interface (MIDI).

The synthesizer platform exists upon it’s own standalone hardware, and may be controlled using a variety of existing MIDI-capable instruments, including keyboards, guitars and drums.

Additionally, the unit features it’s own innovative touch-screen interface which intends to provide simple-and-intuitive control of the system, but with an unprecedented ability to customize and control synthesizer parameters and sound generation.

Special attention has been placed upon the usability of the synthesizer, particularly within the realms of it being played by musicians in a live environment.

The unit’s MIDI capabilities also mean that it is easily combined with professional studio equipment and sequencing software such as Cubase VST.

Details on the project are available here. The site is still under construction – but it looks like this could turn into a new open platform for synth development.

Aurora is an awesome open source usb powered multichannel mixer in a typical DJ form factor. Aurora is designed to easily integrate with your favorite midi compatible software.

The device features two linear channel faders, a single a/b crossfader and eight backlit buttons.T wenty four backlit knobs allow you to control effects.

Aurora, unlike most midi controllers, also looks pretty awesome, with controllable ambient lighting.

Here’s a video of the Aurora mixer in use:

Details, including source code, Gerber files, manuals and more, are available at the Aurora site.

via Hackaday

The software is popular with musicians and podcasters looking for a free, open source audio editing environment. Several features will be especially interesting for podcasters, including FTP uploading, transcription tools and batch processing.

New features

• Collapse/Expand Tracks – every track has an upward-pointing triangle at the bottom of the label area on the left side of the track. Click it once to collapse the track to a very small size, and click it again to expand it back to its previous size.
• Multiple clips per track – in Audacity 1.3, you can split a single track into multiple clips. You can move these clips around between different tracks, making it easy to construct complex compositions out of hundreds of smaller audio samples.
• Selection Bar – In Audacity 1.2, the current selection is contained in a status bar at the bottom of the window. In Audacity 1.3, this is replaced by a fully functional Selection Bar, which displays and controls the current selection (your choice of Start and End, or Start and Length), and the current audio position. The selection bar is fully editable – just click in any field and type to change the current selection precisely. In addition, many formatting options allow you to view times in different units, such as samples, CD frames, or NTSC video frames.
• Improved Label Tracks – Label Tracks are much improved, with support for overlapping labels, and support for modifying both the left and right edge of the label region just by clicking and dragging.
• QuickTime and Audio Units on Mac OS X – Audacity can now import any audio file supported by Apple’s QuickTime technology. This includes .MOV and .MP4 (AAC) files. Encrypted audio files (such as those from the iTunes Music Store) cannot be imported directly into Audacity – Apple does not allow this to be done easily because it would be too easy to circumvent the encryption this way.
• Better performance with large projects – 1.3 now uses a hierarchical directory structure that results in better performance on large projects (tens of hours worth of audio across many tracks)
• Project integrity check on open – When you open an Audacity project in version 1.3, it checks to make sure that all data files are present.
• Transcription toolbar – A new toolbar for creating transcriptions of speech in Label Tracks. Includes features that enable you to change the playback speed, create labels automatically based on onsets, and more. To enable this feature, go to the Interface tab of the Preferences.
• Upload via FTP – Audacity 1.3 has an experimental new dialog for uploading files to a server via FTP. Currently it is just a simple FTP client; in the future we will integrate this feature into Audacity more so you can publish a project directly to a site as a Podcast, for example.
• Batch / CleanSpeech – Audacity has a new feature that allows you to process a bunch of files, for example normalizing and converting to MP3. The CleanSpeech mode provides a simplified interface for some standard adjustments typically made on speech recordings. You can access these features in the Batch tab of the Preferences dialog.
• Cut lines – When this feature is enabled (in the Interface tab of the Preferences), cutting audio in the middle of a clip does not remove it permanently – at any time in the future, just click on the cut line to restore it.

The Audacity site warns that “Audacity 1.3 is an unstable, beta version of Audacity. Users who want a completely stable, finished program should be using Audacity 1.2. Audacity 1.3 has hundreds of new features, but some features may be incomplete or confusing, it is more likely to crash, and you are more likely to lose data.”

Both versions are available for download at the Audacity site.