QuNeo Controller controlling Ableton – sort of chase light sample position sequencer in here

if you’ve been following Keith McMillens new QuNeo Controller it looks a lot like it is all based on Max/MSP (hard to handle but..) there have been sequencers for Monome doing almost the same – following a clip referring to the position and showing it via the Pads quite similar to a TR808 or Electribe kind of sequencer – mosly limited to 16 or 32 steps (unfortunately) but this one looks promising – just because those slides are colour coded and may show the position later and jump when one 16-bar…

Read More

Mogees – Gesture recognition with contact-microphones

Connect a contact microphone to anything you want to „play“ – the software makes it like a real instrument, (Ircam / Bruno Zamborlin), that patch is (of course) a Max/MSP patch. here’s the same thing that uses speech samples and now the same on/with a phone – some water (virtually) splashing over it by tilting it and other nice things shown here..

Read More

Lemur is back – as an iPad app

App Store – Lemur is back, I knew it had to come, it comes fairly late – after touchOSC and MIDItouch it might be hard since it’s 40€ which is really a lot. I tried a Lemur in 2006 and it was reviewed in Synthesizer-Magazin #2, the second issue ever made but had to sell it to pay my bills to move to another „yet cheaper“ house. I sort of hoped they’d make it to the app world and they did — and yes, the JazzEditor had it’s odds, it wasn’t…

Read More

SmithsonMartin – Emulator Kontrol Surface „Multitouch“ Style-Controller

SmithsonMartin Announces Emulator Kontrol Surface |. discussed on the forum for a while – they’re at $2.4k, looks a bit like 2 iPads in one box – possibly hard to sell but if it’s made the right way? – they say it’s 4 touches at once is the limit, that should work for a lot of controller purposes – they also offer this for Akaos, Live, DJ-Software or Resolume, so this isn’t made for audio only – but let’s see, will be out early 2012, they say they got some…

Read More

Electric Recorder

add some electronics to any simple flute and recorders (incl. chinese cheap ones, like this) and get another controller for your synths. well, it’s somewhere between, no CV/Gate right? here’s the „how to“: Electric Flute   they are using a special board called ProtoPlus – it uses piezos as sensors. and micro switches – so it’s no magic in it. (no pitch to voltage or MIDI or whatever in here).

Read More

Keith McMillen QuNeo, Multi-touch Open Source MIDI & USB Pad Controller

QuNeo, Multi-touch Open Source MIDI & USB Pad Controller by Keith McMillen Instruments — Kickstarter. This Controller is (like the Softstep) sensitive to 4 directions and pressure can not just used but pressing it toward a side of a button or slider with LED feedback. very interesting controller which may follow the Buchla Thunder in a good way – this looks like something I might love. more videos here Tom Oberheim appears in here, too.. and another video

Read More