http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IdQZmQGfZOY This is pretty complicated – but it’s a demo of a virtual Optigan, being controlled by a real Optigan that’s been converted into being a MIDI controller. Here are the details from peahix on YouTube: This is an Optigan (actually the first one I ever owned) that’s been converted to a MIDI controller (aka the Midigan)… Read More MIDI Optigan & Reaktigan Emulation Software Demo
This video, The Burning Piano, captures a sound design session of sound designer and composer Diego Stocco, who wins the Synthtopia Shiva Award for Awesomely Destructive Creation. Stocco explains: I sampled sounds and noises while the piano was burning. Since I only had one take I recorded as much material as possible. Initially I was pointing the… Read More The Sound Of A Burning Piano
Azertopia’s Sample tagger is a Windows application that can be used as an audio sample cataloger or a file explorer dedicated to audio samples. The software is a database that holds the structure of your personal sample collection (wac, aiff,flac, mp3,midi file) in a explorer style view. Each item can be cataloged by 255 user-defined ‘tags’.
Avant Garde samplemeister Johannes Kriedler is using his latest work, product placements, to create a nightmare for GEMA (the German RIAA, and explore the ways that copyrights limit art in the process. Here’s the text of his announcement: If you want to register a song at GEMA (RIAA, ASCAP of Germany) you have to fill… Read More Avant Garde Samplemeister Creates Nightmare for German RIAA
Sonic State has introduced a new series, The Art Of Sampling. Episode 1 looks at the history of sampling: Before digital sampling, sound manipulation was seen as a subversive and avante garde activity. Composers were ostracized for experimenting with found sound sources and a belief that music could exist outside the strict confines of the… Read More The Art Of Samping: Free Video Tutorials
Travel blogger Matt Harding (Where the Hell is Matt) traced a sample around the world to its origin: I went to the Solomon Islands to research the origins of Rorogwela, a traditional folk song that was sampled in Sweet Lullaby by Deep Forest and reused in my dancing videos. In the years 1969/1970, the ethnomusicologist… Read More Tracing A Sample To Its Source, Halfway Around The World
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hMXU-_YNUC0 The Korg M3 Music Workstation/Sampler represents the third generation of Music Workstations from Korg. It inherits elements from the company’s flagship OASYS workstation. All second-generation KARMA functions from the OASYS are included. 256 MB of ROM incorporates the “best-of” OASYS ROM into a new soundset. 512 Programs and 384 Combinations are onboard, with space for… Read More The Korg M3 Synthesizer
This is pretty insane – a robot that moves around, collects samples and then lays down funky beats. The robot first plays on the object it finds (or is forced to find by the angry cameraman), plays a small beat, and records the beat it plays on it. Then this recorded beat is played again,… Read More Insane Sampling Drum Machine Robot
[display_podcast] Spectrasonics takes a look at psychoascoustic sampling in Omnisphere – its upcoming mega virtual instrument.
Clavia has released the Nord Wave Manager, an application that allows Nord Wave users to create Sample Instruments from any standard audio file and download these to the Nord Wave synthesizer through its USB interface. Highlights: Creates mono or stereo samples from an audio file (.wav format) Easy to map samples across a keyboard range… Read More Clavia Releases Nord Wave Manager
