Sunday Synth Jams: This is a TouchAble/ Ableton Live mashup, by Zak Gott, that features Lou Reed, Jay-Z, Queen, Chemical Brothers, A Tribe Called Quest, among others. Gott improvised the mashup, using TouchAble on an iPad to control Ableton Live. More videos from Gott are available on his YouTube channel.
Aurex sends word via the Submit A Story page about a couple of new free apps for the Novation Launchpad. The SampleDeck is a realtime sampling and remix device for the Novation Launchpad. It uses 2 ‘samplers’ to capture a loop while your song is playing and you have the ability to switch the audio to… Read More Aurex SampleDeck And Masher For The Novation LaunchPad
AudioMIDI contacted us to let us know that the Moog Slim Phatty can now be ordered for $795, confirming the retail pricing that we’ve previously reported. The Slim Phatty is a rack-mountable module version of the Moog Little Phatty, a two oscillator monosynth. We checked several online retailers and they now have the Moog Slim Phatty… Read More Moog SlimPhatty Pricing Update
Here’s another item via the Submit A Story page: Human Boot Project is a Japanese underground music unit, described as “a genre-breaker, fusing Jazz with Rock and Drum and Bass”. Their music video for Xan is a time-lapse video that captures the production of the track in Apple Logic Pro. You can find out more… Read More Apple Logic Time-Lapse
Binärpilot (Alexander Støver), a pro-piracy electronic musician from Norway, has released his latest album, Nordland, as both a free download and as a physical CD. “I make music because I love to, I need to,” says Støver. “I don’t want to make a lot of money, I don’t want to be famous, I just want to… Read More Electronic Musician Fights For Piracy, Against ‘PopPopolution’
S1MidiTrigger is a new app for iOS that turns your iPhone or iPad into a pad-style MIDI controller. With the app, you can control MIDI apps wirelessly or via the Line 6 MIDI Mobilizer. Features: Send midi note message with a simple and ‘cord’ No limit to assign ‘multiple note on one pad’ Send midi… Read More New App Turns iPhone, iPad Into MIDI Pad Controller
This is a preview of the Malaventura Audiovisual Sampler – a software/hardware setup that lets you trigger audio/video samples, like you would trigger audio samples with a traditional music sampler. The Audiovisual Sampler is the latest project from Fernando G. Tamajon (Malaga, 1978), a Spanish multimedia artist who works under the alias of Malaventura. Above,… Read More The Malaventura Audiovisual Sampler
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FB29zVqctm4 iPad Music Software: Yonac Software has released miniDrum PRO (App Store link), a new drum machine app for the iPad. Here’s what Yonac has to say about miniDrum PRO: miniDrum PRO’s recording capabilities are remarkable. There are two different ways to record songs: live recording and/or input to the pattern matrix. miniDrum PRO comes… Read More iPad Drum Machine – miniDrum PRO
3R Audio has introduced the first version of Space Designer Manager, an add-on designed to extend the usability oaf Logic’s Space Designer impulse reverb. Space Designer Manager consists of two parts. On the left side, you find the Generator which batch generates setting files for Space Designer compatible impulse responses. You can process single impulse response… Read More 3R Audio Intros Space Designer Manager For Logic Pro
If this isn’t geektacular, we’re not sure what is. Developer Pex “Mahoney” Tufvesson has created an app, Cubase64, that is designed to let you do real-time audio processing, with 11 effects, on a Commodore 64.
