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”
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
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
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
Being that it is now 2010 and we are living in the future lets take a look at a new unconventional Ableton Live controller. For your consideration I give you the Emotiv Epoch. This headset with 14 sensors of pure awesomeness detects player thoughts, feelings, and expressions. I just received mine a couple of days ago and last night was the first time I really got a change to play with it. The Emotiv Epoch comes with a software application call Epoch Control Panel. In the Control Panel there is a tool call Cognitiv Suite. This is that part of the application I use to control Ableton Live. In Cognitiv Suite you move a floating box around on the screen using thought. You can then can assign these different “thought actions” to keyboard commands. Next I assigned these commands to start and stop an audio clip in Ableton Live. Here is a video of my buddy Jay using the Epoch for the first time. In this video when he pushes the box with his mind he triggers a drum loop to play and when he lifts the box it stops playback of the clip. This video was made last minute so it does not have the best lighting. Next I plan on getting the Emotiv Epoch to communicate with MAX/MSP, and making some custom applications for it.
-tron
If you do not have any plans yet and you live in the Seattle area, I’ll be DJing a New Year’s cruise on Elliot Bay. Tickets are still available and will be featuring myself and DJ Scapel playing a mash-up of Hip Hop, Dance, and Top 40. Happy New Year to all our readers and I hope everyone had an awesome holiday season.
-tron
Here’s some songs I made with Random7 over the last year.
Enjoy
-tron
I got a number of Tablet Pc’s that were from a cd store’s shelves as listening stations. I didn’t beg borrow or steal them, but I still had to reverse engineer them a little. Stock on these puppies (as i got them) was a 512Mb flash card as the memory and their not capable of anything bigger. running XPe I found on the flash card after inspecting it I found a few scripts to suppress Explorer and run a custom web page at startup that was tailored to the record store it said “disconnected from server” and had an ugly picture. so first things first, I made a new web page based launcher with shiny buttons and everything, ooooo shiny.
then I added small programs that I felt that I needed. A VNC host called TightVNC one was this great VST shell program called VST host. its’s great, its lightweight and dosen’t use much cpu. so I can run fun free vst’s like xy grid thermins and such. the last picture is of my media interface for my xbox’s XBMC
So when I gave one to mike the first thing we came up with was a standalone midi program made just for the touch screen using Max Msp. we tossed around ideas for midi interfacing like midi over IP and stuff but we found some of these midi uno cables for pretty cheep and so we got a couple and hooked them up.
Mike might do an extended post on the subject of the program Buttons that he wrote for the project but its basically a midi button array, you can get midi info from every button and using a program like Ableton map every corresponding button to a trigger. Very fun indeed for doing stuff like triggering drum loops and doing mutes and stuff on the fly
This site will bring you news and updates on projects in music, music tech, music engineering, and technology. Expect everything from simple midi contollers to vst plug-in’s. We will include schematics, audio files, and even source codes. So check back soon.
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