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SPL DrumXchanger To Debut At Musikmesse 2010
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In practice, drums are among the loudest of instruments. While they are have the potential of being among the most expressive of instruments (given their dynamic range), the subtle nuances of drum playing can be easily drowned out. The SPL DrumXchanger is the latest SPL project to provide a solution for drums.
The DrumXchanger is a new plugin designed to provide transient processing for drums. The way it exactly works is as follows: it replaces drum sounds in multitrack sessions irrespective of their level. What this means is that despite existing audio levels, DrumXchanger can make drums sound right, complete with all nuances, being given the most appropriate levels. Users can either replace or enhance the original sound through processing or combining it with samples it is equipped with.
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Posted by admin on Friday, March 05 @ 23:00:00 CST (90 reads)
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InnProcess Music Fret-X: Accurate MIDI Guitar Technology
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The technology behind guitar synthesizers is one that has been struggling with problems over the past few decades, problems that have never plagued keyboardists. For one thing, tracking is among those problems. The usual MIDI hex pickup gives that noticeable delay which has made the standard MIDI guitar an almost impractical device for recording and live performance. It just wasn't possible for guitarists to play synthesizers mixed with the sound of the natural guitar sound synced in real time. This was the problem until InnProcess Music Fret-X was conceived.
Fret-X is a revolutionary technology aimed at providing guitarists the same benefits that keyboard players have been enjoying for years: realtime control and performance of synthesizers. The principle behind the accuracy of Fret-X is its fret scanning technology. The thing about fret scanning technology is that it can detect which fret and which string you've fretted way in a few hundred microseconds according to Leroy Young of InnProcess Music. This means that it can detect the note way before you've even plucked a string; latency is therefore nonexistent in Fret-X.
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Posted by admin on Sunday, February 21 @ 23:00:00 CST (170 reads)
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Musicrow "Reaktor Ensembles Pack: The Ebola": It Ain't Gonna Make
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The Ebolavirus is among one of the most deadly viruses known to the world, with a fatality rate of roughly 90%. Not only it is one of the deadliest, it is also among the most gruesome with victims hemorrhaging from every bodily orifice until death. The Ebolavirus is so powerful that it became an inspiration for Musicrow's new semi-modular virtual analog synthesizer. The Musicrow Reactor Ensembles Pack: The Ebola may not make your listeners literally bleed to death but it sure can pack enough power to get you working on face-melting jams.
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Posted by admin on Sunday, February 14 @ 23:00:00 CST (111 reads)
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Diego Stocco Experibass: An Entire String Ensemble Spicing Up Sherlock Holmes
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The movie adaptation of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes has its share of fans and critics. Nevertheless, the movie's sensational nature filled with over-the-top characters set within a classic story line can't really cut its teeth in the box office without the score. Highly regarded film music composer Hans Zimmer was recruited to create music that was close to the Avant-Garde broken pianos, a banjo, and a unique soloist, a sound designer and composer named Diego Stocco brandishing a string instrument with four necks, the Experibass.
If you hear passages of squeaks and squeals as well as some form of drumming within the Sherlock Holmes score, there is a big probability that it all came from Diego Stocco's Experibass. Played very much in the same fashion as third-bridge guitars employed by Fred Frith and Sonic Youth, the Experibass certainly brings out the weirdness factor in a good way both sound-wise and technique-wise.
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Posted by admin on Tuesday, December 29 @ 16:20:39 CST (122 reads)
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Yaktronix Electronically Modified Didgeridoo: Acoustically And Electronically Ha
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Whether or not the anecdote that they originally came from eucalyptus logs hollowed out by termites, the wavering low and buzzing tone of a "brass" instrument known as the didgeridoo from Australia is fascinating. Such has been the fascination for the instrument that even without eucalyptus logs, people have managed to create didgeridoos out of some beeswax and a variety of materials including PVC pipes. Such has been its development that even so-called didge-bones (didgeridoos that have a slide action like a trombone) have appeared over the last few years. One person by the name of Kyle Evans decided to take a step further with a PVC didg, Bluetooth, and Max/MSP to create the Yaktronix Electronically Modified Didgeridoo.
Kyle Evans created the Electronically Modified Didgeridoo to experiment the combination of the organic sound qualities of a didgeridoo with the advanced signal processing capabilities of sound synthesis and modern-day computer programming. The didg has externally mounted modules for processing and manipulation of sound.
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Posted by admin on Monday, December 28 @ 01:09:43 CST (124 reads)
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Kenji Kojima RGB MusicLab: Who Ever Said You Needed Magic Mushrooms?
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In the actual physical realm, sound and light are so related that each one of them could be translated or converted from one form to another. Synesthetes such as Mozart or Messiaen have had the most benefit from this, being able to actually see colors in every note that they play. Alternatives to this could easily lead to a run-in with the law. If you’ve ever wondered how that photo stash of yours would sound like without having to resort to entheogens, the Kenji Kojima RGB MusicLab is something that would want to have.
RGB MusicLab converts the RGB value (Red, Green, and Blue) of an image into chromatic scale sounds. The program will read any image the user specifies from top left to bottom right. They way that RGB MusicLab translates visual data into musical information is that a single pixel is interpreted as a three-note harmony and the length of the note is determined by the brightness of the pixel. As an example, an RGB value of 120 is more or less C4 and an RGB of 000 (black) is silence.
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Posted by admin on Saturday, December 26 @ 16:41:36 CST (118 reads)
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Autodafe B8 Organ VSTi: Organ Emulation With A Naked Bang
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Synth enthusiast Autodafe has just released his own Hammond Organ emulation, the Autodafe B8 Organ VSTi. The name itself is a pun on an Italian word for bang "botto" being that "eight" in Italian is pronounced as "otto". Being also a pun on another Italian term "biotto" meaning "naked" in some Italian dialects, the B8 Organ VSTi is out to try and make that big naked bang.
The heart of the B8 organ are its nine oscillators which can produce either sine or saw waves. Use of the sine waves provides emulation of tonewheel organ sounds like in Hammonds. The saw waves provide that tone similar to transistor combo organs such as Farfisa. A switch toggles between sine or saw waveforms.
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Posted by admin on Saturday, November 14 @ 23:51:45 CST (133 reads)
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Eric Singer's Sonic Banana: One Long Stick, Added Stage Presence
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Guitar envy syndrome is one thing that has plagued keyboardists/synth players for years. Whether it's about the fact that they have greater freedom onstage to show off their "talent" or the suggestion that they seem to be getting more women in the process, the definite fact is that keyboardists usually remain stuck in their own worlds of swirling keys and synth sounds. Try as he did with all the antics Jimi Hendrix pulled off with his guitar, Keith Emerson couldn't really lift an L-100 Hammond organ just as Jimi Hendrix would play the guitar on top of his shoulders. And let's not go into keytars; they simply don't have the curves that guitars have. Eric Singer offers some performance solutions to guarantee that synth and keyboard players are not stuck on their stage corners with the Sonic Banana.
When we say keyboardists at this point, we are assuming that these people have used or know their way around synthesizers so in this regard "purists" are simply out of the discussion. Getting onstage to play the synth as well as exhibit an air of performance art is possible for keyboardists and other instrumentalists through the Sonic Banana. The Sonic Banana is a controller that can be seen as quite disturbing, given that it only looks like a long rubber tube with a pushbutton switch at the end. The Sonic Banana takes phallic symbolism to the extreme as it is used by bending the thing in a variety of directions to coax out sounds from a device that it controls.
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Posted by admin on Friday, November 13 @ 06:38:39 CST (137 reads)
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Producerloops Nova Loops Street Sweepers: The Beat Of The Street
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The stylings of people such as Dr. Dre, 50 Cent, and Eminem could be described as the music of the streets. Getting those beats done require that special characteristic that could only be matched by Dr. Dre's production technique. The easy way to do that would be through Producerloops Nova Loops Street Sweepers.
Nova Loops Street Sweepers is a huge package that features a collection of 27 multitrack construction loop sets that are designed to drive your speakers to the edge. A total of 985 WAV, Apple, and Rex loops are in this collection and all are designed to create those hits that characterize the streets. All the loops can be mixed and matched according to your preferences. The tempos and keys can be manipulated according to your needs with the Apple and Rex loops.
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Posted by admin on Saturday, October 31 @ 09:31:06 CDT (139 reads)
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Tonehammer Zitherette: Stringed Elation
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Moving slightly away from their usual unusual percussion fare, Tonehammer decided to look into string instruments. Why slightly away? They haven't decided on going for your usual violin or guitar fare. In some manner of sorts, they're still going a more percussion-related string instrument with the Tonehammer Zitherette.
The Zitherette is a sample library based on the instrument of the same name, a small and simple eight-string fretless zither. It is a handheld instrument similar to the autoharp. This particular sample library has a smooth dark tone, a clean biting attack, and long natural decay. Playing it softly yields harp-like qualities and gives out a particular twang when played hard with the hardest notes bending deeply at the attack.
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Posted by admin on Thursday, October 29 @ 21:46:15 CDT (144 reads)
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| · | The Touch-Style Subculture |
| Friday, September 18 | | · | Photosounder: "Seeing" Sound Is No Longer Exclusive To Synesthetics |
| Thursday, August 13 | | · | H-Pi Tonal Plexus: Going Far Beyond 88 Keys |
| · | Microtonality In Today's Music Technology |
| Monday, June 15 | | · | Electro-Harmonix POG2 Generates Polyphonic Octaves, Too |
| Thursday, May 28 | | · | Double Whammy With Digitech EX-7 |
| Wednesday, May 17 | | · | hyperinstruments |
| Wednesday, July 31 | | · | new CD released :> The High Impededance |
| Tuesday, November 13 | | · | L'entrepot Interviews Stefan Knappe/Troum |
| Tuesday, November 06 | | · | Red76 Arts Group Seeks 'Artists/Thinkers/Freaks' |
| Friday, November 02 | | · | Voices Needed for Experimental Opera |
| Monday, October 29 | | · | Incursion 'In Conversation with Sussan Deyhim Singer' |
| Tuesday, October 16 | | · | Call for 8-Channel Works |
| Thursday, October 04 | | · | Nomusic.org - Free Audio Art Gallery |
| Friday, September 28 | | · | Ohmrecords- Invitation to Sound Manipulators |
| Wednesday, July 18 | | · | Generative Art 2001 Seeks Works & Papers |
| · | CCA Opens Call For 4 Minute Audio Works |
| Wednesday, July 11 | | · | Log Converses with Otomo Yoshihide |
| Thursday, July 05 | | · | Sound Art CD Magazine Seeks Sonics |
| Thursday, June 28 | | · | Staalplaat Blowout Sale - July 5th |
| Tuesday, June 26 | | · | To Arcadia Seeks 'Bedroom Alchemy' Artists |
| Friday, June 15 | | · | A Look at Austin's Freejazz/ Experimental/ Improv Scene |
| Monday, June 11 | | · | Simballrec's 45 Second Song Compilation |
| · | Crouton Music Interviews Thomas Weber |
| Wednesday, June 06 | | · | Art on the Net 2001 - Post-Cagian Interactive Sound |
| Thursday, May 31 | | · | Max Eastley Interviewed in Motion |
| Wednesday, May 23 | | · | Inviting Interference - Art Papers on Achim Wollscheid |
| Monday, April 30 | | · | Q. R. Ghazala - Behind the Circuit Bending (image-free version) |
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