Tenori-On Dreaming
Tenori-On Dreaming – Composed & Performed by Gianni Proietti using only the Yamaha TENORI-ON.
Tenori-On Dreaming – Composed & Performed by Gianni Proietti using only the Yamaha TENORI-ON.
Jordan Rudess (Dreamtheater) demos the C-Thru Music AXiS-64 Pro MIDI Controller. Designer Peter Davies threw out preconceptions of what a music keyboard should be and designed a layout based on the Harmonic Table. According to C-Thru Music, the arrangement of notes helps you understand note relationships and create as you never have before.
This Reactable demo video sure looks pretty – but the functionality shown should be familiar to longtime Synthtopia readers. I have to ask the same thing I asked about using the iPhone as a Lemur – is this just eye candy? Reactable is a collaborative electronic musical instrument with a tangible interface based on a… Read More The Reactable – More Than Eye Candy?
Cassiel’s straker on monome and audiocubes: The monome is being driven by the straker sequencing network, which is built using shado. The sound manipulation comes courtesy of shard, an algorithmic sample slicing plugin that we’ve used on stage a few times, most recently for a Future of Sound gig at (re)Actor3 in Liverpool.
This GearWire demo video looks at the vocoder features of the Alesis Micron. The Alesis Micron is an 8-voice, 3-octave analog modeling synthesizer. The micron’s compact design delivers the power of large synthesizers like the Alesis Ion (the Micron is compatible with Ion programs).
This is a demo of the Analogue Systems rs35 External Processor eurorack synthesizer module, being used to control a modular synthesizer with an electric guitar. The rs35 is a frequency (or pitch) to voltage converter. It can turn virtually any sound source into a one volt per octave voltage allowing you to control an analog… Read More Using A Guitar To Play A Modular Synthesiser
jetdaisuke does his thing with the Korg nanoKey.
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
This Tiptop Audio video features the Z3000’s doing the Bass drum and Snare drum and the two Z5000 are saturated making the HH’s. MFB Drum sequencer clocked by LFO triggers the sounds. All the outputs are then mixed with the Plan B mixer, playing the switches to open and close the sounds.
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.