Step Sequencer via Launch Pad on / with ReNoise

Step Sequencer – Start page. 8, 16 or 32 steps (due to the Launchpads 8-step principle) unlimited amount of tracks / patterns set up for each track a sample, sample bank, a vst instrument or a Midi instrument of your choice set for each step: velocity, delay, note values including „note OFF“, note length chord mode: insert up to 3 notes in one track variable note resolution: 3 modes switchable (for example edit 1/2, 1/4 or 1/16 notes) quick clear: delete all steps of a track at once complete bidrectional editing: all…

gTecture Synthesis FMDCO – upcoming fm synthesizer?

GTECTURE SYNTHESIS FMDCO – they say they have got a new FM Synth? This looks like hardware, but renderings sometimes refer to something software – doesn’t look like „cool ’n‘ easy to edit“ thing, but maybe they’ve found something we do not yet see? it quotes some synths (strangely the Alesis Micron and Minimoog), anyway – have a look.. Forum: Neuer Hardware FM Synth ?

Articulation Exercises – by W.Palm – singing plugin..

Articulation Exercises – Wolfgang Palm has a new prototype „singing“ vocal synth plugin, here’s a second demo. incl. stretching in granular style. ok, there’s Virsyn Cantor & iVoxel and that old Mac-App when software wasn’t called an app back then (that was cabable of 4 voices with the built in speech synth – remember the name?)..

Tim Thompson @ Y2K Loopfest – Space Palette Demo + Q&A for Loopers

Tim Thompson @ Y2K +1 Loopfest – Space Palette demo + Q&A before and after the demo/show. He’s exactly what Rick said.. for the nerds: had a little talk and if you’re interested in tech stuff, here’s the most important quote – if you’re more into the music and the fun of it – just watch the video: I use KeyKit (see http://nosuch.com/keykit/ ) as the language for coding the music algorithms, it’s an interpreted programming language for MIDI realtime/algorithmic stuff that I wrote decades ago.  The Kinect code is written in…

Loomer Aspect – Semi-Modular Synth

A Nord Lead 3 inspired Soft Synth with LED-Look for Mac and PC with 3 ENVs, LFOs, 2 Filters and 2 OSCs is up for checking, there’s 4 audio demos that sound quite nice – not revolutionary but good. why software should remind of hardware? I don’t know. but maybe it’s simply helpful like a remix of a well known song. well – me impression from those demos: straight gritty basic sound. the clearness the clearness the clearness. I seem to like it. well, but just from the audio. at…

Roland SPD-SX Sampling OctaPad

Roland CONNECT – SPD-SX: Sampling Pad. has 2GB ROM Samples and 260 Mins of free Sampling RAM, so it took decades, thought it would come much earlier but here it is – the SPD SX samples drum sounds and is as I thought Pads should be at least minimum. and it has USB and another port for usb stick (which is nice but watch your sounds on stage, then) – the only odd one I can see it has no MIDI thru, and a bit more „control“ or elastic audio…

Roland’s latest..

Roland CONNECT 2011. they got a new looper called RC300, a sampling octapad (that was really a good idea, finally) and they finally got into the iPad with something called R-Mix.. and – it HAS Variaphrase in it, so it looks a bit like re-animating the VariOS on the iPad. it literally looks like some spectral tool like Metasynth and the coloured pixels and the audiofile are represented in both – the Desktop and the iPad Versions which seems sort of remote for „something“ – so since this is a…