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The Didgeridoo is one of the human race’s great triumphs in instrument design, simple but capable of producing profound sound – thanks, indigenous Australians. Kyle Evans sends us his project to extend the instrument with powerful digitally-augmented sound-making capabilities. ...
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New Yorkers: PARTY HAS MOVED! We are at Veranda, 130 7th ave at the corner of 10th st. Five minute walk. Love had no power(!)
The bar will still be open… we’ll need it.
And we’re still giving away a laptop.
Tomorrow when I’m not on my phone keyboard I can reflect ...
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Rick Harrison .
The legal wrangling over patents and who owns digital vinyl technology continues. The latest development: the court has dismissed N2IT’s claim against M-Audio, as covered by djtechtools . Before you strike this as a victory in the M-Audio column, it’s possible ...
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7up 2.0 – Introduction from makingthenoise on Vimeo .
What if the world of musical performance suddenly started moving a whole lot faster? That’s certainly the case among a handful of monome- and grid-wielding electronic artists.
In an evolutionary breakthrough, what ...
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Link love, chip love, software love, music love – Create Digital Music is celebrating five years, and it’s time to spread some of the love back to you here in New York City. Wednesday night, we’ll be celebrating five years made possible by our incredible ...
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monome creator Brian Crabtree at an early Handmade Music at Etsy Labs. Brian will perform under his name tehn, joining other artists with grids and patches and felt to talk about and play with alternative controllers at the in/out Fest. Photo ( CC ).
It’s the most wonderful time of ...
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The EMS VCS3 has inspired a virtual synth. You can try to get someone to give you a hardware EMS for $20 – or you can take advantage of this deal. Photo: Rosa Menkman .
Online retailer audioMIDI has begun a new sale I really love called the “No Brainer” series. They offer some ...
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A Thanksgiving cornucopia of sound, made cheap. Photo
( CC ) Lawrence OP . Winter is coming....
If you had to hole up with just one instrument, getting deep into programming sounds while venturing out of your abode only for essential supplies, any one of these instruments would easily fit ...
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Black Friday: $99 Each for Reaktor, Absynth, Massive, FM8
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Take my synth, please! Grab this instrument, the sample playback plug-in SFZ+, free for Windows.
“Black Friday” has become a traditional date for talking discounts, but one price you can’t beat is free.
Cakewalk is giving away some of their older effects and synth plug-ins. These aren’t ...
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Ed.: Resident hardware hacker and sound artist Michael Una chatted via phone with the creator of ThinkGeek’s $50 Bliptronic instrument. We’ve already got some early tips on how you might hack this design into custom creations, which could make the Bliptronic 5000 an ideal hardware ...
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You know the grid craze is in full steam once ThinkGeek offers a cheap-looking $50 clone. The Bliptronic 5000 is somewhere between the Tenori-On and monome. It certainly looks like the monome, with an 8-by-8 grid of light-up pads in a square form factor. But like the Tenori-On, it has ...
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Max for Live is now available, fusing the multimedia, visual programming environment of Max/MSP/Jitter with the plug-in hosting and sequencing and clip-launching and recording of Ableton Live. With two complex products interacting, there are plenty of questions to answer. I asked Michael ...
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Image ( CC ) akihiko.japan .
Max for Live is a fantastic product that treads on genuinely new ground. Its level of integration with the user interface and operation of the host reaches a new high, it comes with a rich selection of instruments, effects, and tools to use as examples, and, ...
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edison – tonka truck from edison on Vimeo .
edison has become an underground sensation, a monome-playing virtuoso with soul. And now he’s just showing off. Sure, the monome lacks velocity sensitivity, but here, it remains an instrument, a 64-button sampler. It’s not so ...
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SevenUpLive 2.0 Preview from bar|none on Vimeo .
Planet monome is getting to be an exciting place. The biggest news: SevenUpLive, an extraordinary original application that melds the monome as controller with a set of Live functions, is getting a major rebuild and Max for Live support. ...
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The monome phenomenon in music making owes a lot to a combination of powerful elements: elegant, human-readable messages that describe button presses (using OSC), open software built with a patching environment that anyone can modify and customize, and sample-slicing audio playback mayhem ...
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You know, tracks. Tracker. Photo ( CC ) Roey Ahram .
So much energy is spent reflecting on the merits of different tools, or re-hashing tired debates like the comparison between analog and digital, often with the assumption that you can hear the tool in the finished work. But the real ...
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Act now, or this puppy is in grave danger. Podcasting pug photograph ( CC ) zoomar .
Patenting the use of all episodic media on the Web might sound absurd, but the US Patent and Trademark Office has granted just such a patent, to a company called VoloMedia . It’s a significant issue, one ...
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For anyone whose complaint about OSC aka OpenSoundControl is that it lacks broad hardware support, I have one word for you:
Unicorns.
OSC now runs on magical unicorns. (Would a unicorn not want high-resolution, human-readable messages encoded with time-stamps? I think they would. And ...
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John at HighlyLiquid has been busy this year- he’s got a new kit out and one in the works that really step up the game. You may be familiar with his previous kits, which add MIDI control to Speak & Spell , Atari 2600 , or pretty much every Casio . HighlyLiquid also stocks more ...
