rumours on Apple Tablet – no OS X but iPhone OS only

They say, the tablet is based on iPhone OS. So this is not really something that might really be interesting to musicians. there are some nice toy apps for the apple phone and ipod touch, but since it is a very „locked“ and proprietary system this may not be the one for us, but possibly it could be nice as a controller if they had some nice ideas. but you never know. tablet doesn’t mean touch, it means you may need a „pen“. do you want to control your softgroovebox…

Tom Oberheim – more SEM models and no more dogs – And Sequencer till End 2009

Tom already announced the production of new SEMs, but there will be MIDI and „bare“ ones without anything like the original for 599 Dollars, which may end up in 599€ over here? Anyway the Dog dissapeared and there’s a very nice big shot of the new SEM. It’s alive! The Oberheim MIDI SEM. Click to see it up close. Click to see my talk at the at the recent Red Bull Music Academy in Boston. * SEM with MIDI input and MIDI to CV routing panel (as shown in above…

MOTU.com – What is Volta?

MOTU.com – What is Volta?. Looks, Volta becomes available, of course no word about it for germany.. lucky american people.. but they’ve been very closed on the musikmesse either. the new selling strategy: don’t say something, they even did not really knew about it but hat a doepfer connected to a motu on their stage.. so when..? where? what price? ..

Firewire – Lang, sehr lang..

Interessant für die, die ihre Rechner in einen Maschinenraum stellen und dennoch an Firewire ran müssen. FireWire über 70 Meter und mehr: Der DFM Long Fire Hub macht’s möglich – DFM Long Fire Wire Hub überbrückt große Distanzen mit 400 Mbit/s – preiswerte Standardkabel (CAT5e/CAT6) ausreichend – Profiqualität aus deutscher Herstellung für Studioeinsatz Der deutsche Audiospezialist DFM GmbH in Lahr präsentiert brandneu den DFM Long Fire Hub und liefert Studios, Broadcastern und Kameraleuten die professionelle Lösung für FireWire-Verbindungen über große Distanzen. Das kompakte Gerät der DFM GmbH überbrückt bis zu…

Symbolic Sound Kyma: Products Pacarana

Symbolic Sound Kyma: Products Pacarana. Ok, it’s out now. New concept and faster than Capybara 320. Kyma , Capybara Modular Synthesizer (2005) Forum: SSC Pacarana deutsch: Bericht zu Kyma findet sich im Synthesizer-Magazin Ausgabe 10 New Supercomputer for Sound: Pacarana for Kyma Sound Design Environment Champaign IL, January 12, 2009: Musicians and sound designers for film, games and live electronic music now have a new supercomputer designed specifically for interactive sound exploration and live performance. The Pacarana and Paca are two new multiprocessor computers optimized for capturing, processing and synthesizing…

Kyma Capybara will be faster and new and it’s name is Pacarana

Compatibility There will be two new products: the Pacarana and the Paca sound computation engines. Both the Pacarana and the Paca are named for animals smaller than the Capybara and either can serve as a smaller-yet-more-powerful replacement for the Capybara-320 in a Kyma sound design workstation. Each of these new platforms connects to your computer via FireWire 800 (we can supply an 800-400 cable if your computer has a FW 400 port). The new devices use external FireWire or USB audio converters and they can also use the Capybara-320 converters…

34. Festival – NEUE MUSIK LÜNEBURG

34. Festival – NEUE MUSIK LÜNEBURG 12.-18. Oktober 2008 Konzerte, Seminare, Workshops KonzertOrt: 19 Uhr Live-Konzert, Glockenhaus, Glockenstraße 21 Uhr Elektroakustische Musik, Glockenhaus, Glockenstraße Konzerte So., 12.10.2008 Olivier Messiaen „Quatuor pour la fin du temps“ talea ensemble (Halle) Elektroakustische Musik internationaler Studios Mo., 13.10.2009 Noise Factory: Y-Ton-G u.a. Ergebnisse eines Workshops für elektronische Musik Elektroakustische Musik internationaler Studios Die., 14.10.2009, 11, 13, 15, 17, 19 Uhr FLUTISSIMO 2008: Helmut W. Erdmann – Flöten und Live-Elektronik Elektroakustische Musik internationaler Studios Mi., 15.10.2008 Komponistenportrait Helmut Bieler Elektroakustische Musik internationaler Studios Do., 16.10.2008…

Basics & Tutorials – Sound Synthesis

Patches / Sounds / Downloads where can I find Sounds / Patches or Samples? where can I find Impulse Responses / IR? Programming Patches Tutorial FM Basses Sounds on Ableton Live Operator (4 OP FM Synthesizer) The real ancient Waldorf Programming section more Synthesizer Tricks (english) Sound Synthesis Tricks + Tutorials – Index MIDI History basics / tutorials / synthesis.. SYNTHESIZER INTRODUCTION Sound Synthesis Types additive synthesis physical modeling FM frequency modulation wavetable subtraktive synthesis (most common!!) sampler / sampling („rompler“) – PCM = Pulse Code Modulation vector karplus strong…