Want to try controlling your music software with something new? OSCulator may be the solution. It’s a Mac program that you can use to allow alternative controllers, like the Wiimote, to control MIDI sequencers, your favorite console emulator or Kyma sound design workstation. Here’s a video demonstrating using the Wiimote in Kyma: OSCulator is a… Read More OSCulator Like Rosetta Stone Of Mac Music Software
In this TED talk, Zenph’s John Q. Walker demonstrates how recordings can be analyzed for precise keystrokes and pedal motions, then played back on computer-controlled grand pianos. Recordings from the likes of Glenn Gould and Art Tatum have been analyzed for precise keystrokes and pedal motions and then recreated with modern production quality. Controversial but… Read More Using Technology To Recreate The Music Of The Dead
A demo of controlling GForce Oddity with the iPhone using ITM Midilab. This is pretty cool – but somebody tell me again why we want to use $200 phones to do something you could do a lot better with a cheap ass MIDI controller? ITM Midilab is an interesting tool – but I’m still waiting… Read More Control Virtual Synths With Your iPhone. Because You Can. If You’ve Got An iPhone….
It looks like Akai is responding to the scorching criticism of it’s latest workstation, the Akai MPC 5000. Akai Professional has released new Operating System firmware for all its current MPCs, including the MPC5000, MPC2500, MPC1000 and MPC500. MPC5000 OS update Operating System version 1.02 for MPC5000 resolves 14 issues, most notably enabling producers to… Read More Akai Updates OS For MPC5000, MPC2500, MPC1000 and MPC500
Remix and M-Audio have announced a potentially interesting webinar on Producing Club-Ready Tracks – presumably with lots of M-Audio gear. Unfortunately, to watch this “on-demand” webinar, you have to give them permission spam you, and let all their buddies spam you. Check out the form you have to fill out to watch this webinar: What… Read More Remix And M-Audio Need To Get With That Internet Thing
The OpenStomp Coyote-1 audio effects processor, an open source effects platform in guitar stompbox format, is now available from Howler Audio. The OpenStomp Coyote-1 is an open source audio effects processor intended for guitar players. With the Coyote-1, you can develop custom audio effects in software (like distortion, echo, chorus etc.), mix multiple effects to… Read More OpenStomp Coyote-1 Open Source Effects Processor Now Available
BugBrand has intreoduced the AudioWeevil08 – both a synth-sound generator and an audio processor – with a load of chaos possibilities chucked in too. Features: Audio Input through a CMOS Overdrive/Distortion – a powerful input (1/4″ mono jack) suitable for guitar or line levels. There are two levels of drive offering clean or distorted sounds.… Read More The BugBrand AudioWeevil ’08
Fleshmap – a site that makes visual “studies of desire”, has introduced a new feature, a visual guide to what parts of the body we sing about, categorized by music type. It’s NSFW, so you’ll have to read more to see if wangdoodles make the list:
Remember German samplemeister Johannes Kreidler and his piece Product Placements – the song that supposedly smashes 70,200 samples into a 34 second work? He’s released it and you can preview it above. Special prize to the first person to name all 70,200 samples….. It’s a lot more interesting as an idea than a piece of… Read More 70,200 Samples In 34 Seconds
Klaus Schulze: Electronic Music Legend is a celebration of the magnificent, pioneering career of German electronic music legend Klaus Schulze. At the forefront of the development of music played on synthesizers, Schulze created a whole new style of music, beginning with his initial 1972 release, Irrlicht. This book hails Schulze as the most important electronic… Read More Klaus Schulze: Electronic Music Legend
