nOb- TheOnly Knob You’ll Need
nOb- TheOnly Knob You’ll Need Sleek, solid, and effective: the nOb should make its way onto your messy, hardware filled desk. Look through Kickstarter and you’re bound to find a wide range of ideas, and inventions, that serve to ease the subtle restrictions with all aspects of life. The nOb is a singular, extremely precise knob control, which is made to be vastly encompassing with its capabilities. Packed into a vintage looking, wood casing, nOb provides highly capable functions, that will expand your work flow tenfold. “nOb is able to control virtually any parameter you would normally adjust with your mouse, delivering out-of-the-box compatibility with any operating system and software package. You simply have to point your mouse cursor to the parameter you want to control and use nOb’s big knob to fine-tune it to taste.” With 2400 ticks per revolution, the nOb gives you extremely smooth and precise …
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Fractal Harp- Mind Bending Midi Mutant Instrument
Fractal Harp- Mind Bending Midi Mutant Instrument As electronic music grows more a part of our music standard, we see more efforts to integrate our classic idea of instruments with the future. Check out this mind melting performance by Jay Wasco using a fractal harp. Part slide-harp, part 5-string bass, part midi controller! The Fractal Harp
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Looking Back on the Loop Festival by Ableton
Looking Back on the Loop Festival by Ableton With high prospects and grand visions, Ableton’s much anticipated Loop Summit proved itself to be an incredibly inspiring event. Artists from around the globe got together to, not only about the future of music, hardware, and software, but to talk about what it means to be a modern musician. (Young Guru- Ableton Loop Summit) Featuring artists like Young Guru and Matthew Herbert, the Loop Summit proved to be an enlightening experience for all its attendees and hosts. Take a look at Ableton’s look back, featuring some very sound advice drawn from the series of forums. Hopefully in the future Ableton’s Loop will expand its horizons to open admission around the world.
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Polyphylla – Additive Max for Live Synth
Polyphylla – Additive Max for Live Synth Ableton just released a new Max for Live plugin. Polyphylla is a new additive synthesizer which emphasizes its simple nature with its highly complex, “under the hood,” processes. Additive synths can be complicated and can scare some, who aren’t as familiar with synths, away from ever diving into them. Polyphylla is made to be accessible for novices while providing the necessary power and potential for experts. Polyphylla can be used to make a full punchy bass, along with bright leads, but separates itself with its ability to make tripped out ambient noises and textured pad sounds. “At the heart of the synth is a flexible 120-partial additive oscillator coupled to an analogue-style noise generator, each with its own multimode filter. The oscillator offers three methods by which to generate and edit a base harmonic spectrum: simple analogue waveform emulation, knob-driven stochastic microtuning, and …
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Daedalus Review: Roland TR-808 vs. TR-8
Daedalus Review: Roland TR-808 vs. TR-8 Alfred Darlington, aka Daedalus, a pioneer in the L.A. beat scene, reviews and highlights the differences between the classic Roland 808 drum sequencer and the newer TR-8. Check out the deeply insightful thoughts on two classic machines, by a soon to be classic artist.
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Titan Reality Pulse 3d – New Type of MIDI Controller
Titan Reality Pulse 3d – New Type of MIDI Controller Titan Reality just released a midi controller that follows a design concept which will become much more familiar to producers in the coming years. Plugged as the first virtual reality midi controller the Pulse is able to detect hand symbols, gestures, pressure, different percussion, (brushes, mallets, drumsticks,) and a wide range of instruments that could be played on its grid mode. The controller essentially allows you to manipulate, create, and control sounds in empty space. (Everything the theremin dreamt of being.) The project is being fully funded through Kickstarter, and you can grab your own for a little over a thousand dollars. Checkout the trial video below and the project site below that. Welcome to the future! Titan Reality Webpage
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Lyra VR- Virtual Music World
Lyra VR- Virtual Music World Ever wish you could be in a field playing with your music? Or in a music world where only you and sound exist? Lyra VA is testing out a virtual reality music software, where you are quite literally, living and surrounding by sound. Check it.
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Native Instrument’s Flesh- Music Making Machine
Native Instrument’s Flesh- Music Making Machine If you talk to some old school musicians about electronic music one of their biggest complaints, (worries, criticisms, hesitations-whatever it is,) they have about the genre is in regards to live performance. A largely held stigma against the lack of improvisational techniques leads some to question the value of electronic music itself. (In my opinion, this is not a valid conclusion.) Though some electronic musicians have taken it upon themselves to advance the improvisational capability for artists across the spectrum of electronic music. Musician and inventor, Tim Exile the creator of The Finger and The Mouth, has developed a software called Flesh, through Native Instruments, that is capable of creating multidimensional songs through a single sample. The software essentially draws from, and expands, a single rhythmic sample into a multi dimensional including bass lines, riffs, melodies, pads and more. The idea behind Flesh is …
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