Illuminated Sounds

I went back in and spent a good long time glitching my Casio CA100 again to provide you guys with another glitch library. I am very pleased with the variety of sounds from this machine. I recorded them in pro-tools at 24b 44100khz as mono wav files. there is 106 samples, as of now it is my largest circuit bent library.

Download Circuit bent CasioCA100_samples2

Please post any comments or requests for glitches. I love preparing these for you guys!

Also send us links of anything that you make with our samples we like to see what everyone creates with our sample packs!

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Recently I found an old Roland TR-606 drum machine at a local music swap meet.  The previous owner thought the 606 was broken because it would not save his presets,  after some bartering he sells the drum machine to me for a ridiculous price.  Once I got 606 home I find out everything is fine with the unit and it is able to save my presets fine,  although the master volume pot was a little scratchy and at some point in time the batteries leaked inside the unit.  Anyways here is my sample pack of the TR-606.  In this library I sample the drum machine in two ways.  The first is directly into  ProTools recorded at 44.1 16-bit.  The second is sampled into my MPC2000XL and then into ProTools.  I hope you all enjoy, this is a fun little drum machine with some cool sounds.

Here is a link to more info about the 606 - http://www.vintagesynth.com/roland/606.php

Download the Roland TR-606 Sample Pack Here

-tron

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Space sounds, is a very interesting site with regards to sonofication
they have some very cool sounds available to listen to. This has inspired me to start work on a cosmic sample library. I have worked one of my favorite samples from this site into a song, “the sun’s heartbeat”

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I got a Casio CA100 and made a couple mods to it and made a sample library for you guys. hope you enjoy

Download CasioCA100 sound library

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The people down at Track Team Audio have made the Monome emulator for APC40. I am excited to share this with you guys and to try it out myself. Happy April fools day!

View the discussion here @ monome.org

Download the source here from track team audio

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Recently one of the guys that I work with gave me some gear that was not working so I could fix it up.  One of the pieces that I ended up with was a Farfisa Professional 1 electric organ.  At first the organ seemed to be working fine and just needed to be cleaned and restored a little bit,  but with a closer look it seem that the Farfisa took a nice hit to the top of the organ.  A couple of the tone switches were bad and the faders are almost useless.  The organ works fine as long as you do not play a Ab or a Eb, pressing one of these notes would cause the organ to start to glitch out in a cool way.  So before I start to fix this guy up I wanted to sample it, and share it with all of you.  Enjoy.

Download Farfisa Professional 1 Glitched here

-tron

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This is a program I created that allows you to add some randomization to what you play. It waits for a MIDI message in, then alters that note up a perfect 3rd, a perfect 5th, a perfect 7th, or an octave, also it is velocity sensitive and is polyphonic! I wanted to add more controls but as they say “keep it simple, stupid!” I planed on adding the other intervals but wanted to share what I have with the world! Shoot me an e-mail with any suggestions, and I will be more than happy to add them to the program. Watch for updates and new versions.

Download PRI for windows
Download PRI nanoKEY edition for windows

Updates coming soon!
- More Intervals: minor 2nd, major 2nd…. diminished… (As of now, it supports perfect intervals.)
- Color coordination for diminished/augmented/major/minor/perfect inversions
- Negative inversions: octave down…. perfect 5th down… etc. (Currently, it adds value to the note you are playing.)

PRI nanoKey edition allows you to turn on/off the three middle controls with the pitch down, pitch up and mod buttons on your nanoKEY controller

Listen to “C,D#,G#” a quick song I made with the PRI pressing only three notes C, D# and G# making the Cm chord. I recorded some loops in Abelton and threw on a beat. I had the “octave” and “5th” settings activated during this song, there are 4 different MIDI loops. Enjoy

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I couldn’t let there be just one link of the month, so here’s
LINK OF THE MONTH PART 2

Karlheinz Essl’s Realtime composition library

I have here a link to all sorts of interesting max/msp patches. This is a great resource to get some help from. These patches are awesome and I am very excited to share them with all of you.

Exert
“In order to create an evironment which enables one to concentrate rather on high-level compositional questions than on low-level technical problems, Gerhard Eckel and I started to develop a set of tools which became the corner stones of the RTC-lib. At the this time, Serge Lemouton (my musical assistant at IRCAM) wrote “nth” according to my indications, James McCartney released his “list objects”, and a few years later Peter Elsea developed his “LObjects” (inspired by RTC-lib, as he told me). Some externals from these packages were included into the RTC-lib, and Peter Elsea was nice enough to port some of my abstractions (like trans-log) to C-externals.”

Thanks Karlheinz Essl for your hard work

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If you haven’t heard the Gorillaz new album “Plastic Beach” is coming out in a couple of days.  For those of you that can’t wait that long, want no more.  You can stream the album on NPR.

Stream Plastic Beach Here

-tron

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I thought it would be cool to have a graphic eq display on the launchpad so I built this 8 band graphic EQ. As of now, it has these controls:

1. Adjustable peak filters on each band
2. Individual band volume controls for those unruly frequencies

Download 8bandGraphicEQ for the Novation Launchpad (Windows)

(forgive the cheap webcam framerate, it actually preforms better then this video can reproduce)

This is version 1.0. I will continue to update and add more features. I hope you enjoy 8bandGraphicEQ for the Launchpad.

-James

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