This is pretty geektacular – an excerpt from an improvisation on a hand built modular synth, controlled by and being processed by Max/MSP. The set-up also includes a hand made photocell controller for Max.
We’ve been posting a lot lately – here’s a quick digest of the top posts from the last week, in case you missed them: More Psytrance Synth Fakery From DaliPosted on Wednesday, December 24th, 2008 in Music Videos – Comments: (6) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8YckQXa6VnY It looks like Dali’s been faking it again! Bizarre VAX77 Foldable Music Keyboard… Read More Popular Posts On Synthtopia From 22nd December – 28th December
This video, via Dan from Schaack Audio, demos a single Percussa AudioCube controlling Slicex in FL Studio.
This video captures a demo of Randy Jones’ $50 multi-touch interface prototype – an 8 x 8 touch sensitive array sampled at 1300 Hz. The project is part of Jones’ M.Sc Thesis, Intimate Control for Physical Modeling Synthesis. Abstract: Physical modeling synthesis has proven to be a successful method of synthesizing realistic sounds, but providing expressive controls… Read More An Inexpensive Multi-Touch Interface For Music
Electronic Musician has an interesting article penned by Dennis Miller that looks at 8 tools for turning photographs into audio and manipulating audio visually: Eerybody knows that a picture is worth a thousand words. But did you know that a picture can also buy you the frequencies of a thousand oscillators? Using any of several modern music… Read More 8 Ways To Turn Photographs Into Audio
The Musical Genome Project is a new sampleset series by Nucleus SoundLab for Wusikstation, Reason 3, Soundfont and SF2/SFZ. ChordWaves I contains a variety of synth chords programmed on modular synthesizers – which are ideal as song-starters for all forms of electronica. They also make excellent atmospheric textures when run through appropriate effects. You can… Read More Free Sample Set From Nucleus SoundLab
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bowexkE4VSU This video demos using a Percussa Audiocube to create loops. The Audiocube’s 4 sensors control 4 parameters of a VST instrument, which are recorded into a looping sequencer and played over the original recording, allowing the performer to create a loop quickly and shape the sound and musical patterns using has hands and fingers,… Read More Making Audio Loops With A Single AudioCube
http://www.youtube.com/view_play_list?p=6163B423F050F0C3 Here are a set of video demos of the H-Pi Tonal Plexus microtonal keyboard. The Tonal Plexus provides 211 keys per octave, allowing the finest discrete control of tuning expression ever available on a MIDI keyboard.
Loopmasters has three XMas Giveaway audio loop libraries available as free downloads from its site: Xmas Giveaway – Pack 1 Loops Of Christmas Past Xmas Giveaway – Pack 2 Loops Of Christmas Present Xmas Giveaway – Pack 3 Loops Of Christmas Future Note: These packs are available for download to registered users only. The packs will only… Read More Free Audio Loops From Loopmasters
Ueberschall has introduced a new ambient sound library, Ambient Works, described as “an epic resource of diverse sustained textures compiled into construction kit loop format.” Each kit has the ability to: Tweak each layer’s pitch and tempo in realtime Adjust each note within a sample Import layers from different kits and adapt where desired Lock tempos… Read More Ueberschall Intros New Ambient Sound Library
