Livid DIY Midi Kits
Livid DIY Midi Kits One of the most fascinating aspects of electronic music is the world of DIY projects that can follow behind. There are thousands of products designed to enhance your production, but nothing can compare to the sentiment of a homemade controller. Livid provides two starter kit for those who have no experience with creating hardware: the button box and the fader box. The controllers you create can be used for audio, video, and lighting, and are designed to be”plug and play,” controllers: meaning you can use them as soon as they’re built. The kits are loaded with everything you need: buttons, faders, sleek casing, an omni board, plus more. Each box is about 5 inches by 5 and about 2 inches thick, and is powered by a Brain Jr. motherboard, which makes for a small, compact, powerful little toy. To get yourself started into the DIY world …
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Skoove- Learn Piano the Easy Way
Skoove- Learn Piano the Easy Way If you’re trying to step into the world of music production, but don’t have formal knowledge of music theory or proper technique, you may be interested in Skoove. Skoove is an online tutorial app that teaches you piano and music theory. Developed by Dr. Stephen Shulz and Dr. Florian Plenge, the program is geared for simplicity, aiming to stray away from conventional and classical forms of training, and to teach you in a relaxed and efficient manner. Learning a Language The program jumps right to. You set your midi controller, get briefed on how the app works and from that point on you’re playing the piano. The lessons workout in a ‘show and try,’ system, as in, you watch a video showing you what to do, then you’re given a chance to try. While you play, a scroll of notes roll along, on beat, and …
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KINK Live Controllerism Routine
KINK Live Controllerism Routine Among the numerous, seemingly infinite, ways to put together a live performance in Ableton is the art of live beat making. In the video below watch KINK, the Bulgarian based, broken beat virtuoso, put together a twenty minute live set. Mind blown. Hands down. su_youtube_advanced url=”https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-WRfEKQYOJ8″ showinfo=”no” rel=”no” modestbranding=”yes”
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Dehumaniser- Realtime “Monster” Voicing (Friday the 13th)
Dehumaniser- Realtime “Monster” Voicing (Friday the 13th) Dehumaniser is a vocal processor that morphs your voice into beast like sounds in real time(!). Plug in an audio interface and hear a high quality vocal manipulation. Dehumaniser comes with various presets, like Mammoth, Rage Monster, King Kong, T-Rex and more. Tweak your voice by altering the point position of a circle graph between five chosen presets. That way you can get more T-Rex than King Kong, or visa versa. The layout is generally pretty simple and after messing around for five minutes, or so, you can work your way around the processor pretty easily. Record your voice and use it as an affective sample in any production. You can try the Dehumaniser Demo for a fixed fifteen minute use time, by downloading it from the link below. Check out the video for a sneak peak. Dehumaniser is available …
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Why is a Piano so Hard to Tune?
Why is a Piano so Hard to Tune? An interesting look into how sound is created and the complexity of the piano. Think its possible to tune a piano perfectly? Find out why not. su_youtube_advanced url=” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Hqm0dYKUx4″ showinfo=”no” rel=”no” modestbranding=”yes”
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Viktor NV1- Free HTML5 Synthesizer
Viktor NV1- Free HTML5 Synthesizer The Viktor NV-1 Synthesizer is a user friendly, online synthesizer. Whether you have a basic, or an in depth knowledge of how synthesizers work, the Viktor NV-1 is highly intuitive and simply laid out. You’re dealt a solid set of cards with 29 preset options ranging from the Accordion to an Underwater Water Bass Lead. The synth is set with the basics of three oscillators, a mixer, a polyphony component, a noise module, a primary and filter envelope, an LP filter and finally an LFO module. You can also tweak the compression, delay and reverb and master volume. (A number of presets.) The cool thing about these sort of free synths is that you can get a pretty unique sound with them. They’re clearly coming from a place of simplicity, though that simplicity is hard to replicate in some cases. Aside from that the sound quality is pretty …
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