At Musikmesse 2010, Elektron introduced a new sampling workstation, the Elektron Octatrack: The Octatrack is an elegant sampler. Recording of sounds is a breeze thanks to the intuitive user interface, but the fun really starts once the samples are inside the machine. Loops are now completely elastic. They will always stay in sync no matter… Read More Elektron Octatrack Sampling Workstation First Look
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KAOSSILATOR PRO & KP3 Comparison – In The Studio with Korg.mp4 was uploaded by: KorgUSAVideos
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Submit! Submit! Optigan.com’s Pea Hicks has issued a Call for Submissions for an upcoming Optigan disc, Musique Concrète: In December 2010 we plan to release an experimental Optigan disc called “Musique Concrète,” which will essentially be a collage of 57 sound loops in the tradition of early electronic studio tape music. We’re completely disregarding the… Read More Musique Concrète Optigan Disc Call For Submissions
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2F8sAgcnHCA Overview The Sequential Circuits Studio 440 is a classic music production center from 1986 that combines the best features of drum machines and samplers, and has a crunchy 12-bit sound that people still respect: If you combine a high quality digital sampler featuring individual outputs with a 50,000 note SMPTE/MIDI based sequencer, all you… Read More The Sequential Circuits Studio 440
Optigan.com’s Pea Hix demonstrates how the memorable music from this recent Chrysler Town & Country, above, was created using sound from an Optigan: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VWrGUJzA3a8 The Optigan was a home keyboard that was a proto-sampler. It used a photomechanical playback mechanism to read soundwaves from film disks.
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NAMM: Mellotron’s Markus Resch introduces the Mellotron 4000-D, a digital Mellotron recreation. The Mellotron 4000-D is a 24 bit digital uncompressed audio playback unit with ca 100 Mellotron and Chamberlin sounds. Extra cartridges will be available. It has a custom built wood keyboard with ebony keytops. he front panel user inteface in the pictures and… Read More The Mellotron 4000-D, A Digital Mellotron
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At the 2010 NAMM Show, director Dianna Dilworth presented her documentary Mellodrama, which explores the history of the Mellotron. Featured in the documentary is the extremely rare Birotron, which was a variation on the tape sample idea, but using 8-track tape loops.
