In this Big City Music demo, the Analogue Systems RS300 CV/MIDI Eurorack module is used to take a control voltage and convert it into MIDI messages: In this case we’re using the Analogue Systems RS35 External Processor module to convert the Moog Cherry Etherwave theremin audio into a pitch control voltage. That control voltage in… Read More Theremin MIDI Control
It’s 8/8/08 – so Experimentalists Anonymist has pointed out that it’s 808 day – a day to celebrate one of the two most important drum machines in electronic music, the Roland TR-808 Computer Controlled Rhythm Composer. The Roland TR-808 Rhythm Composer was one of the first programmable drum machines. Introduced by the Roland Corporation in… Read More Happy 808 Day!
Alfred Darlington, aka Daedelus, charts the evolution of his love of electronic sounds and gives us a private performance on his famous future toy, the Monome.
This video, from the latest issue of Computer Music, demos several Monome applications, including mlr, flin and Stretta‘s Press Cafe.
TASCAM has announced three recording bundles designed to offer everything you need, besides your computer, to record high-quality audio. TASCAM’s hitting several different price points, to appeal to different budgets and meet different requirements: The Track Pack T1 combines the US-122L audio interface with a dynamic microphone, headphones and Cubase LE4 recording software. Track Pack… Read More Tascam Intros Three Track Pack Recording Bundles
Hack A Day has a nice DIY project tutorial on making a simple digital synthesizer. The final result is not much of a synthesizer – but it’s cheap and it makes some noise: This simple guide will show you how to build a digital synthesizer that generates and manipulates square waves. Your synthesizer will have… Read More How To Make A Digital Synthesizer
Synthesist Bakis Sirros sends word that a couple of new Serge Modular synth modules have been announced: The Dual ADSR m-odule (includes two Extended ADSR modules, a Dual Comparator, and a Dual Transient Gen.) Price is 1600 USD The Wave Processor m-odule (includes Ring Modulator module, Triple Waveshaper module, Wavemultipliers module, Xfader module, Mixer module).… Read More Two New Serge Modular M-odules
Ranjit Bhatnagar made this video showing the results of his junk guitar workshop at Etsy labs. It makes me want to make a 2′ x 4′ guitar, too…..
Open Labs product developer Matthew Presley demonstrates how to use the new iPhone application BeatMaker in conjunction with NeKo TSE. The highlight is the way Presley integrates BeatMaker with the NeKo.
Gijs Gieskes’ image scanning sequencer scans images and plays the image as MIDI notes: It uses LDRs to measure the gray-scale of specific point of a image, and triggers midi notes from a selected threshold. When the threshold is reached the velocity will be set by the darkness at that point. the darker point the… Read More Steampunk Music Sequencer
