Matthew Davidson (Stretta) demos the Analoque Systems French Connection. Based upon the Ondes Martenot, the French Connection is a unique controller for virtuoso performance. By placing a finger through the ring suspended below the physical keyboard the player can smoothly glide between notes by moving the playing hand from left to right, and create natural vibrato… Read More Matthew Davidson Demos The French Connection
Gearwire takes a look at the Muse Receptor, IK Multimedia Total Workshop Edition in the studio. The Muse Receptor is a hardware VST host. This edition comes preloaded with an array of software from IK Multimedia.
This video, Where Are You?, captures Stretta (Matthew Davidson) playing a French Connection controller against a looping phrase. If you listen carefully to the phrase, the pulses change slightly throughout the composition. The French Connection is controlling a small collection of modules including a Cwejman VCO-RM2, MMF1, Plan B model 11 and Doepfer VCA. The left hand… Read More Gorgeous French Connection Synth Work
From the dept of Because It Was There: This video demonstrates the Gakken SX-150 sequenced with an analog sequencer.
SM Pro Audio has announced that the V-Machine hardware VST player is now shipping in the US. The V-Machine is a compact VST/VSTi hardware playback module designed to take plug-ins on the road or into the studio and access them directly without a computer. Multiple plug-ins can be loaded into bank/preset memories of the V-Machine… Read More V-Machine Turns Your Music Software Into Hardware
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aFo1l8SJeik In this demo video, Chris Warren is controlling a soft synth developed especially for AudioCubes by Percussa, to be released in the next few months. No setup or configuration necessary to make the cubes talk to the software, since the software was designed specifically for the cubes. No drivers necessary, and runs on Mac OSX… Read More Sound Design With Percussa AudioCubes
NSFW: Circuit Ben demos his Super Ultra Mega Fun Box – a circuit bent orgasm key ring. Best line: “Don’t do it! Don’t do it! Don’t do it yet!” That’s what she said.
Sebastian Tomczak (Little Scale) has put together a fantastic tutorial on how to prep samples and create LSDJ kits. LSDJ is an app designed to turn a Game Boy/Game Boy Color into a full-fledged music workstation. To create your own sample kits for LSDJ, you’ll need several apps: Bias PEAK (5.2) Apple QuickTime Pro (7.55) LSDJ… Read More How to Prepare Samples And Create LSDJ Kits
This is a demo of Auduino, the Arduino synthesizer. Auduino is a synth DIY project, based on the Arduino board. The audio is coming direct from Arduino PWM output with only a slight external reverb. No other effects were used. Description: The Auduino is a sound synthesiser based on the Arduino platform. The prototype uses the Arduino… Read More Auduino, The Arduino Synthesizer
We haven’t ruined your day with scary videos recently, so we thought we better remedy that with this creeptacular vintage video of Roddis Franklin “Pete” Drake doing his 1962 “talking steel guitar” hit, Forever. … Read More Freakishly Weird Talking Guitar Video
