Goldie, who was taken out of his comfort zone of drum ‘n’ bass to conduct a classical orchestra for television, is here put back into his own world by Addictive TV. This time it’s the orchestra playing d ‘n’ b.

Who else would like to see their local orchestra take this on?

via VJTV

Celemony has announced the release of Melodyne editor, the company’s first release featuring DNA (Direct Note Access) technology – technology that lets you access and edit individual notes within polyphonic material.

This means you can now:

• Correct wrong notes in a piano recording;
• change the chords in a guitar accompaniment after the recording is over;
• refashion a sample lick;
• Change a track from major to minor; or
• Change the mode of a recording.

Features:

• Single-track audio editing environment with Melodyne technology.
• Suitable for monophonic, polyphonic and rhythmic/complex audio material.
• Offers with DNA direct access to individual notes within chords.
• Works as a plug-in (VST, AU, RTAS) in compatible DAWs under Mac OS X and Windows.
• Can also be used in stand-alone mode.
• Activation on up to two computers or via iLok.
• User interface and manual in English, German, French, Spanish and Japanese.

Melodyne editor is available for PC and Mac for $349 USD / 349 EUR.

Celemony ’s updated product line:

• Melodyne assistant (equivalent to Melodyne editor but without DNA: $249 USD / 199 EUR).
• Melodyne studio bundle (contains Melodyne studio 3 as well as Melodyne editor: $699 USD / 699 EUR).
• Melodyne essential RTAS (the new version of Melodyne essential, which is only available in the Digidesign bundle).

Pulp Fiction gets remixed, Kutiman style, by knoertz:

What you see is what you hear!

Let me know what you think of knoertz’s remix!

If you’re like a lot of Synthtopia readers, you thought that Little Boots shows a lot of potential, but that she blew it with the mix for her latest single, Earthquake, embedded above.

If you think you can do better, check out her Earthquake remix contest. See the contest site for details.

via apc

It can be used to isolate voices, remove noise, restore and enhance audio, and lets you create Surround Sound mixes in 5.1 or 7.1 channels from any original audio recording.

Check out this video demo for an example.

De-mixing technology, combined with advanced audio editing tools like Melodyne’s DNA, will soon make it possible to do just about anything you want to do to audio mixes.

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Symphony of Science – We Are All Connected (ft. Sagan, Feynman, deGrasse Tyson & Bill Nye)

We Are All Connected was made from sampling Carl Sagan’s Cosmos, The History Channel’s Universe series, Richard Feynman’s 1983 interviews, Neil deGrasse Tyson’s cosmic sermon, and Bill Nye’s Eyes of Nye Series, plus added visuals from The Elegant Universe (NOVA), Stephen Hawking’s Universe, Cosmos and the Powers of 10.

MP3 available at http://www.symphonyofscience.com.

via melodysheep:

Lyrics:

[deGrasse Tyson]
We are all connected;
To each other, biologically
To the earth, chemically
To the rest of the universe atomically

[Feynman]
I think nature’s imagination
Is so much greater than man’s
She’s never going to let us relax

[Sagan]
We live in an in-between universe
Where things change all right
But according to patterns, rules,
Or as we call them, laws of nature

[Nye]
I’m this guy standing on a planet
Really I’m just a speck
Compared with a star, the planet is just another speck
To think about all of this
To think about the vast emptiness of space
There’s billions and billions of stars
Billions and billions of specks

[Sagan]
The beauty of a living thing is not the atoms that go into it
But the way those atoms are put together
The cosmos is also within us
We’re made of star stuff
We are a way for the cosmos to know itself

Across the sea of space
The stars are other suns
We have traveled this way before
And there is much to be learned

I find it elevating and exhilarating
To discover that we live in a universe
Which permits the evolution of molecular machines
As intricate and subtle as we

[deGrasse Tyson]
I know that the molecules in my body are traceable
To phenomena in the cosmos
That makes me want to grab people in the street
And say, have you heard this??

(Richard Feynman on hand drums and chanting)

[Feynman]
There’s this tremendous mess
Of waves all over in space
Which is the light bouncing around the room
And going from one thing to the other

And it’s all really there
But you gotta stop and think about it
About the complexity to really get the pleasure
And it’s all really there
The inconceivable nature of nature

You can download their remix free at moby.com.

Download the Yoko Ono Plastic Ono Band’s The Sun Is Down! Sample Pack containing the a capella tracks of Yoko’s vocal, vocal effects, and loops of bass, drums, efx and Tenori On.

Create your own remix of The Sun Is Down!, using as many or few of the samples from the pack and any original audio you wish to add.

When you have finished your mix, make an MP3 copy that’s as high quality as possible, but still under 10MB in size. Email the MP3 of your mix, along with its name and your name, address, email and phone number to remix@YOPOB.com before 12 December 2009.

The Top Ten mixes will be decided by Yoko Ono Plastic Ono Band.

The winners will receive special signed Yoko Ono Plastic Ono Band prizes and will be featured on Ono’s site over the Xmas and New Year period.

Whether or not you want to enter the YOPOB remix competition – check out the 17mb  sample pack for some free, Creative Commons-licensed Ono weirdness.

The band announced it via SoundCloud about a month ago and they received 849 tracks.

You can check and download the US entries below.

See the contest site for entries from the UK. Australia, Germany, France and more.

The winners will be announced the week of October 26th on Röyksopp’s website.

Carl Sagan – A Glorious Dawn ft Stephen Hawking (Cosmos Remixed)

This video remixes footage from Carl Sagan’s Cosmos series.

via melodysheep:

A musical tribute to two great men of science. Carl Sagan and his cosmologist companion Stephen Hawking present: A Glorious Dawn – Cosmos remixed. Almost all samples and footage taken from Carl Sagan’s Cosmos and Stephen Hawking’s Universe series.

RIP Dr. Sagan, you will be missed!!

Please, click HQ to watch in better quality.

Go here to download the track:
http://www.colorpulsemusic.com/youtub…

And my website for more original music:
http://www.colorpulsemusic.com/

Enjoy!!

-John
boswelj3@gmail.com

Lyrics:

[Sagan]
If you wish to make an apple pie from scratch
You must first invent the universe

Space is filled with a network of wormholes
You might emerge somewhere else in space
Some when-else in time

The sky calls to us
If we do not destroy ourselves
We will one day venture to the stars

A still more glorious dawn awaits
Not a sunrise, but a galaxy rise
A morning filled with 400 billion suns
The rising of the milky way

The Cosmos is full beyond measure of elegant truths
Of exquisite interrelationships
Of the awesome machinery of nature

I believe our future depends powerfully
On how well we understand this cosmos
In which we float like a mote of dust
In the morning sky

But the brain does much more than just recollect
It inter-compares, it synthesizes, it analyzes
it generates abstractions

The simplest thought like the concept of the number one
Has an elaborate logical underpinning
The brain has it’s own language
For testing the structure and consistency of the world

[Hawking]
For thousands of years
People have wondered about the universe
Did it stretch out forever
Or was there a limit

From the big bang to black holes
From dark matter to a possible big crunch
Our image of the universe today
Is full of strange sounding ideas

[Sagan}
How lucky we are to live in this time
The first moment in human history
When we are in fact visiting other worlds

The surface of the earth is the shore of the cosmic ocean
Recently we’ve waded a little way out
And the water seems inviting

In this tutorial, Adam Dorn (aka Mocean Worker) uses Propellerhead Record, along with Propellerhead Reason, to do a remix for UK soul singer Alice Russell’s song All alone.

Propellerhead Record is a new audio recording application for Mac and Windows that is designed to match the simplicity and reliability of Reason.

via PropellerheadSW

Tiësto Power Mix

via officialtiesto

This video, created by The Amazing Rolo, captures Moldover’s SyncoMasher at Maker Faire.

The SyncoMasher is Moldover’s new multiplayer music machine. It combines five music control workstations into one console.

via moldover

Here’s the second in Tara Busch’s videos documenting her work remixing Flavor, by Tori Amos.

This video takes a look at her experiments with Amos’s piano stems.

via tarabusch:

I spent a lot of time with Tori’s incredible piano files.

Rockstar Games and Timbaland have announced that Beaterator, a new DJ/remix game previously announced for the PSP and Playstation Network, will be coming to the iPhone and iPod touch this fall.

Beaterator features thousands of loops and sounds, made by both Timbaland and Rockstar, and is designed to make making professional-sounding music portable, accessible and fun.

Details are available at the Beaterator site.

Röyksopp has announced a new remix contest:

You can download their latest track, Tricky, Tricky, for free using the SoundCloud player above. You can also download the parts, remix the track and enter their remix contest, which offers copies of Ableton Live as the prize.

Details on the contest are available at the Röyksopp site. Make sure you check out the contest rules for the legal low-down; while you can download the track and its parts for free, Röyksopp retains distribution rights for Tricky, Tricky and remixes based on the track.

Timbaland On Beaterator - Beaterator for the PSP and PlayStation Network features a sound-kit which includes thousands of loops and sounds produced by Rockstar and producer and entertainer Timbaland exclusively for Beaterator.

Beaterator will be arriving on shelves on September 29th, 2009 in North America and on October 2nd, 2009 in Europe.

This is a demo of Looptastic, a performance remix tool for the iPhone and iPod touch.

Looptastic is made in a variety editions, focusing on different styles of music.

via soundtrends

Analogsuicide’s Tara Busch snagged a couple of remix jobs for Tori Amos, and she plans to document the process with a series of videos.

It’s a cool opportunity for Busch, and will be an interesting opportunity for fans of retro synths and remixing to follow along with Busch’s work.

via tarabusch:

Tori gets the Tara Busch and Analogsuicide treatment. Tori Is probably my favorite artist of all time so I don’t really have to mention what a privilege it is to be asked to remix her music.

IK Multimedia has introduced GrooveMaker for iPhone/iPod Touch, a new loop-based audio sequencer.

Everything in GrooveMaker is done in real-time. You can add, remove, and replace single or multiple loops as you listen.

If you’ve used Groovemaker, leave a comment with your thoughts!

GrooveMaker Features:

• Instantaneous control over 8 stereo loop tracks.\
• Massive loop library of drums, bass, bass-drums, lines, pads, percussion, effects included.
• Play, Mix and Randomize loops on the fly.
• Combine studio-quality loops to produce a million possible grooves.
• Manipulate loops in real time (pan, volume, mute, solo, group, tempo).
• Arrange grooves easily with drag and drop to create full-length tracks.
• Save, preview and recall your mixed tracks.
• Upload your tracks as hi-quality WAV file to your Mac/PC (Wi-Fi network required).
• Interactive Help feature allows for quick learning, simply follow the indicated steps.

There are 4 GrooveMaker applications currently available:

• GrooveMaker FREE, House and Hip-Hop styles, 125 loops included (78-125 BPM)
• GrooveMaker Club, 189 loops included (130-135-145 BPM), $4.99/€3.99
• GrooveMaker Hip-Hop, 315 loops included (80-85-90-100 BPM), $9.99/€7.99
• GrooveMaker House, 315 loops included (120-123-125-127 BPM) $9.99/€7.99

GrooveMaker apps are available at the IK Multimedia section in the Apple iTunes App Store.

More information is available at the Groovemaker site.