After the long preview period, Digidesign has released the final version of Transfuser, their loop manipulating instrument for Pro Tools. It is priced at 300 USD, and has all the features as the competitors - in some stages it goes slightly further; for example it has an on-board effect processor with more than 20 effect types. Two gigabytes of groove material is shipped in the package - check the product's page if you want to know more.
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Science!! Wood Density DOES Affect Sound Performance in String Instrument
July 2, 2008 on 6:43 am | In Music Industry News, Articles |
If you’ve ever looked through guitar community forum posts you’ll come across the topic of which wood sounds better. A lot of people have been saying that it makes no difference, while expert ears stand by their claim that the type of wood does. Well a new study has shown that wood density does affect the sound quality! Since the study was done on the violin, an instrument with a resonating cavity, it could be applied to acoustic guitar. I’m willing to take the leap forward and say it does have some affect on the sound quality of a solid body electric guitar. So density does affect sound performance!
The Secret of the Sweet-Sounding Stradivarius Link
Ebay Auction: Yamaha Dx200
June 30, 2008 on 11:24 am | In New Gear |Here is an auction for a very nice FM synthesizer box.
The yamaha dx200 has the same FM style chip as the older DX7, except it comes with….KNOBS!! It seems to be in good condition, except for a normal problem on DX200s: slight selector knob tracking problem/dirt. Here is a link to the auction.
Ariel Pink
June 27, 2008 on 10:03 am | In Music Industry News |
I just love this video. Ariel Pink is hilarious.
A reminder: The auction on this website ends in 4 days. Link.
New DS Homebrew Music Programs
June 27, 2008 on 8:58 am | In Videos |
Glitch DS is a stuttering sample player
And DSMCU is a Midi Controller app. Check that remote automated fader action!
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[noizone.com] Transfuser is finally here
[Matrixsynth] Theremug
Theremug from Kyle McDonald on Vimeo.
"Instructions for turning a mug of tea into a Theremin:
1 Prepare some tea
2 Expose the L/R leads on an 1/8" cable
3 Immerse leads in tea
4 Plug cable into audio input
5 Start up max/pd/processing/etc. and average every 735 samples (882 if you're in Europe/running on 50Hz)
6 Scale value and drive oscillator
(The tea should not be neglected, be sure to drink it once you're done making noise.)
My camera's been acting funny, hence the jitter.
See the Max patch for a more in-depth explanation: flickr.com/photos/kylemcdonald/2126494098/"
[AudioLemon] Punk lovin Robots
For three hot and sweaty nights in July, punk music and robots collide at the ICA in a series of exciting and evolving gigs called Neurotic. Neurotic highlights the neurology associated with the essential human experience of pleasure, learning, taste and ageing within the context of the instinct to dance.
Artist Fiddian Warman has created 3 robots schooled in the ways of old school punk using neural networks, which respond to musics level of 'punkiness' with pogoing and freaky dancing.
[AudioLemon] More homemade MultiTouch
The future of music hardware is....handmade!
[Matrixsynth] New TR-707
YouTube via underneath0skin. Pretty cool.
"Yes. That's my sister in the background. Sorry the sound quality is bad. The kick sounds crunchy."
[noizone.com] Native lowers the price for DJs
Next summer price hit at Native Instruments is related to Traktor 3, the company's DJ solution which can be bought for the half of the money, 99 euro. Check it here, for a limited time.
[NOW AT: http://earpick.cubicfruit.com] Blog Moved
I have successfully transferred the weblog over to my new hosting so from now on all the new posts will appear here:http://earpick.cubicfruit.com
[NOW AT: http://earpick.cubicfruit.com] Updates
UPDATE: Some of you might have noticed the style and layout of the blog slightly changing. I’m actually planning to introduce a bit of a change to the site including most likely moving the blog to my own hosting to customize and integrate it into my other activities. Stay tuned, some major stuff happening soon! [...]
[sighup's blog] SIGHUP blog is moving to a new home
There are some changes afoot at Intelligent Machinery. While we wait to see how things all shake out here, I thought it would be a good time to set up this blog on my own server, now that I have a web package that's fully able to accommodate such things.
New blog home:
New RSS feed:
Update your bookmarks or RSS readers. It is a work in progress as I learn how to use and refine Wordpress effectively. All of the old content has been ported over, minus the comments, as I had no way to export them.
I still hope to be doing stuff around Intelligent Machinery, just not blogging, so I'm not leaving this fine and wonderful collective of ours.
