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!

This video, via Mark Gutierrez, is a quick demo of using Slice To MIDI for resequencing samples, in Ableton Live.

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

This is an example of how to smoothly change a loop’s tempo in Pro Tools.

via muzicali:

Follow this example and your loop will conform to any tempo changes you make in your Pro Tools session.

In this example I use Elastic Audio and the TCE Tool.

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.

via SOS

DJ Spooky introduces his new iPhone Application.

via subliminalspooky:

DJ Player has teamed up with DJ Spooky and Thirsty Ear Recordings to bring you the next-generation mixable DJ Album format for the iPhone and iPod Touch.

The App is using the same technology behind DJ Player to allow you to play a smooth mix of tracks from the album and to mix the tracks yourself using the built-in mixer.

The App includes 7 tracks of songs and remixes from The Secret Song album, and exclusive DJ Spooky sound effects.

The App is going to be available soon in iTunes App Store.

This tutorial looks at how to make music with Apple’s Garageband.

via PrimeLoops:

Garageband is a very powerful music-making package from Apple, and can be used to make, edit and remix many styles. Here we show you the Garageband interface, and how to get to grips with the basics.

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.

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.

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.

This tutorial shows how to strip vocals from MP3 files using the open source Audacity software.

via ScratchedChalkVideos:

How to remove/rip vocals from your MP3 files using Audacity.

Download Audacity here: http://audacity.sourceforge.net/

Here’s a little remix candy – Beach Boys a capellas for the Pet Sounds album.

god8of8nz, via boingboing

This video captures a monome-based remix of Radiohead’s Reckoner. Details on the remix below.

The track is available as a free download (mp3).

via suitemusic:

This is a video of a remix performance of Radiohead’s “Reckoner” from In Rainbows that I’ve been working out on the monome for a while now.

I’m using my monome 64 running mlrV to chop and sequence each track/loop. The black monome 40h I built with ultraviolet (UV) LEDs is running vu scroll (a scrolling VU meter app) which is picking up the sound in the studio from the laptop’s built-in mic.

All of the audio was recorded and mixed down in Ableton Live 8. I used my laptop’s iSight and a small Sony for the video. I used Adobe Premier Pro CS4 to edit the video (it was my first time using Premier Pro for a project).

Thanks go out to Radiohead for providing the stems of their music and especially monome.org and the monome community for its collective genius and overall awesomeness!

More info here: http://demsuite.com/2009/08/reckoner

Star6 (App Store link) is a sound remix instrument that lets you chop up beats with a flick of the wrist, pitch any sample up and down like a Theremin and more.

Description:

Use the iPhone’s accelerometer to control Star6’s granular synthesis engine to change the Pitch, Speed, Gate, Sample Order, Sample Size and Randomness of the samples. Record it with the press of a button and download recordings to your computer.

Star6 is a collaboration between musician Jason Forrest and Agile Partners, makers of GuitarToolkit.

Compatible with iPhone & iPod Touch OS 3.0.

If you’ve used Star6, leave a comment with your thoughts!

Audio & Visual mix by: Morris La Mantia [Lucid house]

Starring:
Patricia Arquette, Pierce Brosnan, Maggie Cheung, Doris Day, Faye Dunaway, Cary Grant, Richard Harris, Ethan Hawke, Charlton Heston, Bruce Lee, Tony Leung, Sophia Loren, Marilyn Monroe, Elvis Presley, Omar Sharif, Uma Thurman, Joanne Whalley,

Film Samples:
A Man Called Horse (1970)
Cinema Paradiso (1988)
El Cid (1961)
Eyes of Laura Mars (1978)
Frankie & Johnny (1966)
Gattaca (1997)
Genghis Khan (1965)
In the Mood for Love (2000)
Jumanji (1995)
Lover Come Back (1961)
Monkey Business (1952)
Power Rangers
Scandal (1989)
Stigmata (1999)
The Bride Of Frankenstein (1935)
The Green Hornet (1966)
The lawnmower Man (1992)

Music
In order of Play:
Danjel Esperanza-Der Sonne Entgegen
Sam K-Desperate Housetrack
Pete Voyager-Dripfeed (Al Calavicci Nachtmusik Dub)
The Truffle Tribe-Start Funk
Lucas Tesselhoff-Body’s Perfect
ORQUESM-Teknoot
Tom Clark & Daniel Dreier-Smells Like
Cloud-Carbondub
Marco Menichelli-Special D
Kalahari Surfers-Sustainable Development
Constructus-It Don’t Mean A Thing If You A
Krushed & Sorted-Interlude 1
Trentemoller-Nightwalker

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download this audio-visual mix for your hand held devices [iPhone, iPod, Mobile phone] or a hi-res mpeg4 you can burn as a Video DVD.
lucidhouse.com/lucidworx/lucidhouse-06-09.htm

This video offers a sneak peek into the upcoming iPhone app from Lucky Frame, Mujik, which is scheduled to be released sometime in July.

Mujik is described as “a fun and charming music remixing tool”

Why do the app?

My background is classical music and programming. I used to tutor my father’s students in computers and programming. I used to experiment with building music applications as a teenager as I was falling in love with electronic music, using a bunch of the modalities I learned in the classical area. So it’s been something I’ve been interested in for 20-plus years. I’m a Mac head, and I’ve been endorsed by Apple for years and I love the iPhone. This is a crazy freaking device. You have something that has a multi-point touch surface, accelerometers, so I though why not make something for this.

What were you hoping to accomplish?

For literally 10 years, I’ve been saying to people [that] we need to make a standardized remix file format. Artists cross genres all over the place, have their work remixed all the time — and it’s a pain in the ass. For people in the electronic music community, there’s all these crazy deliverable requirements. Why not just four tracks? Give me the beats, give me the bass, give me the vocals and give me the guitars… that’s all I need and I can do anything that needs to be done.

Why focus on the remix element for the app? Why lead with that?

Well this idea of standardizing the deliverables for a remix so that anyone can do it. Did you know one of the most popularly torrented things are ProTools sessions? I’ll admit I collect them. The record labels need to seriously wake the fuck up and see there’s an inherent value in non two-track masters of songs. This is a proof of concept that proves that. Kids want to get their hands dirty with technology now. You have a different type of consumer… it’s like a pro-sumer. He’s a little bit interested in media, graphic arts, he’s a videogamer, and he loves music and wants to do mashups. He wants to take Beyonce’s voice and put it up against a Killers’ track. That’s the audience this is targeted to support, and I’m a part of it. I made this as much for me as I did for everybody else. The big punchline is that this is a proof of concept that there’s an inherent value in the end user being able to experiment and play around with music in a meaningful way that’s fun and easy but incorporates some really heave stuff under the hood in terms of technology.

Why apply this first on a mobile phone, rather than a computer?

Because everybody has a phone. People take public transportation, or they’re at Starbucks waiting for coffee. If I’m just noodling, I don’t want to surf the Web or play Tetris — I want to do something fun that I can use later. This is a perfect platform because it’s a computer that’s sitting in someone’s pocket. The possibilities of this excite me immensely. We’re going to release other artists’ material and my back catalog in this thing, as a Sonifi media pack where you’ll have the song as a 4×4 matrix of mixes, the visual assets specific to each artist, and then stutter gestures and fills, and an artist’s links page.

So you’re going to offer more versions of the app for other artists?

Sonifi is going to be the portable remix engine where you can directly buy content from a plethora of different artists, not just me or dance music. It’s a completely different and interactive way to enjoy music. I can’t say too much about it, but it’s going to take people’s heads off. This is going somewhere really specific and very cool. We’re already in talks with several media partners who control a lot of content about using their artists’ work in this application. It’s a really special thing.

BT goes on to talk about other iPhone apps that he likes, including Brian Eno’s Bloom.

BT and Sonik Architects have released Sonifi (App Store link),  a new $4.99 iPhone app that lets you “Remix, Record, Control dynamic live FX & beautiful visualizers AND Stutter Edit….. LIVE.”

Features:

• Four channels of four tracks (Bass, Beats, Synth / FX and melody) with arrangement mapping for true and limitless remix options
• Three studio class X/Y controllable FX (Lo-Fi, High Pass Filter and Low Pass Filter)
• Stunning and interactive visualizers that respond both to music and touch
• Numerous visual behaviors and screen-sets
• Save, Edit and rework your mix
• First ever use of BT and Sonik Architects Stutter Edit technology

Requirements

• iPhone OS 3.0 Compatible with iPhone and iPod touch (first and second generation)

Here’s a video demo of Sonifi:

Click here to view the embedded video.

If you’ve used Sonik Architects’ Sonifi, leave a comment with your thoughts!

More info, and some rip-roaring press release hyperbole, below.

Description:

Sonifi is the world’s first true audio and visual remix application and protocol.

Created by BT, this application showcases futuristic new music and remixes of The Rose of Jericho from his forthcoming 2009 artist album. Sonifi is a powerful, portable, real-time remix engine.

For iPhone and iPod touch 3.0 users, a revolutionary new multi-player feature has been added.

Jam Link gives 3.0 users the ability to link with a friend (via Bluetooth) and remix live….TOGETHER. The mixmaster selects control over “Beats and Bass” or “Melody and Harmony”. Once JamLinked you and your buddy can remix, select tracks and Stutter Edit live. This is a first for any application, on any device.

In Sonifi, four channels of four unique tracks allow extreme flexibility and remix possibilities. The (4×4 matrix of) tracks can be mixed, muted or soloed and contain four completely unique elements and arrangements per-channel. There are four tracks of ripping beats to choose from, four tracks of fat bass lines, four tracks of glitchy synths and FX, and four tracks of cutting edge melodies. Everything in Sonifi happens in-time and on-beat; so making a mix is both fun and effortless.

Currently, three discrete real time effects are controllable using the X/Y axis of the iPhone or iPod touch screen: Lo-Fi, resonant high pass filter, and resonant low pass filter.

There are mesmerizing visual elements that respond elegantly to user touch as well as the frequency and amplitude information of your remix. You are not just remixing, you’re visualizing what you are creating. Finally, Sonifi contains BT’s patented Stutter Edit technology and is the first application to showcase to its abilities.

Instead of using a mouse, USB device, or other input peripheral (like you would with a computer), your phone becomes an instrument!! Simply shake the phone in one of six vectorial directions (left, right, forward, backward, up, or down) and at the next 1/8th note the Stutter Edit plugin will perform a micro-note or fill pattern repeat, some with release crashes and hits.

Basically, you shake your phone and sound like a genius. (Sorry – this is straight from the press release guys!)

Endless fun ensues!

Planned upgrades will include downloadable Sonifi media packs containing other artists songs and remixes, new visualizer elements and band & artist links.

Tara Busch has created a trippy analogue remix of Bat for Lashes‘ Daniel and has documented the process in a 9-part series of videos:

Armed with a delicious arsenal of stems from Natasha including Linn Drums, an SCI Prophet 5 & a tear-soaked lead vocal to die for, I set about with the intention to create a remix that would showcase the childlike, deeply emotional characteristics of the lead vocal whilst creating a bed of sonic swoops, ferocious fuzz and sweet blips and bleeps for the vocal to travel in.

Backing vocals and select bits of the lead vocal were lovingly run through a Moogerfooger 102 & 104Z to create an “unsettling” contrast to the sweet lead vocal, and my trusty Pro One was employed to create a snarling, demonic lead synth line. My Farfisa Compact Deluxe and Mellotron MKII strings and flutes held the fairy-like quality intact .

Finally, after much tweaking, stirring, seasoning and singing, “Tara Busch’s AnalogSuicide Mix” was born.

This is a must-watch series that puts you in the studio with Busch as she plays, sings and arranges the remix. Busch shares both her process and the thoughts behind her approach in creating evil Pro One shrieking, recording a rainstorm and processing the vocals through a Moogerfooger MF 102.

You can download the remix here (email form required).