Deviant Synth has a nice review of the C-Thru Music Axis 64 Control Keyboard, a new MIDI keyboard based on the Harmonic Table: There are 192 keys on the keyboard in three identical 64-key sections laid next to one another, each section exactly one half key width lower than the one to its left. These… Read More The C-Thru Music Axis 64 Control Keyboard
i3L (pronounced “i thrill”) is a freeware music controller app, developed using Max/MSP from Cycling74 and is a support application for akaRemote by Masayuki Akamatsu. And guess what? You can use it to control Ableton Live! i3L receives pre-defined UDP messages from akaRemote.app running on the iPhone, scales the values to MIDI, and allows you… Read More Use I3L To Control Ableton Live With Your iPhone
The iPhone seems to becoming the new “because it was there” controller for Ableton Live.
Got a fever for more cowbell? Dynamite cowbell, a free Windows VST, brings you “more cowbell than even Gene Frenkle can deliver”. Features : 6 cowbells mapped to midi keys 5 velocity layers close and room mic levels damping control 5 bonus digibells 1 cow
Gnaural is a multi-platform programmable binaural-beat generator, implementing the principle of binaural beats as described in the October 1973 Scientific American article Auditory Beats in the Brain (Gerald Oster). It can be used to synthesize sounds that affect the brain. Here’s a demo. It should be listened to using headphones: [display_podcast] The central theme of… Read More Mac Developer Needed For Binaural Beat Brain Synth Port
Ueberschall has introduced Score FX, a sound library they describe as a comprehensive solution for professional, musical sound design. Description: This instrument includes 7 GIGs of brand new sonic stimulants. Featuring a progressive structure and layout made for building tracks from supplied “themes” and construction kits offering ease of injection into projects. Thanks to the… Read More Ueberschall Intros Score For Cinematic Sound Design
pfilter is a free Windows VST that creates a steppy, gated effect, but using filter cut-off instead of volume to give a wider range of possibilities. It uses a variable state filter, triggered between 2 adjustable cut-off values by a tempo-sync’d probability-based step sequencer. An LFO can modulate the filter when triggered and trigger pulse… Read More pfilter Combines Filter & Step Sequencer
The League Of Electronic Musical Urban Robots‘ Eric Singer demonstrates the Slime-o-Tron – a controller that works by moving conductive slime around copper nails. What do you think? Is this the most disgusting way to create music ever invented?
KarmaFX has released Version 2.0 of the WIndows VST KarmaFX Plugin Pack, which features reverb, delay, EQ and Filter plug-ins. KarmaFX Plugin Pack 2.0 changes: Added performance improvements. Added SSE3 code path and memory optimizations to Reverb plugin. Plugin dll’s are now compressed for faster load times. Individual version numbers for the plugins have been… Read More Free KarmaFX Plugin Pack 2.0 Released
Nanoloop on a Gameboy (whose audio is coming in on track 2) is synchronized to the drums playing in Ableton Live (track 1). Says littlescale – “This is to test out a new interface I have been working on that syncs Nanoloop to a MIDI clock.”
