Thursday, February 11, 2010

Lemur Electronic Jazz Instrument

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Jazz Mutant's Lemur - it's a multi touch screen, midi and osc programable, musical controller. Here it is set up with a custom template I pieced together with my friend m.0 & from the template on their site - nothing to it - these are just some scrap sounds from a session we had the other night. The faders bring in the tracks and the buttons above the faders are record enable, solo, mute, and select. Everything else is pretty much set up to control whatever I might want. More to come...

max/msp lemur sequencer

this is a sequencer i programmed in max using the lemur as a control interface. it sends midi info to whatever program you use. i also forgot to mention that each track can have independent timings, so varitions can span longer than just 1 bar of music.

lemur users can download it off the jazzmutant website. user name - Andrew Graham


Ableton Live with KORG KAOSS PAD KP3.

Stage6 version:http://stage6.divx.com/content/show/1...

In "EXT CTRL" mode, KP3 acts as a MIDI controller. It has eight virtual sliders, fourteen keys, one slider and volume. These controllers are assignable to any MIDI notes or CCs using KP3-Editor (PC software).

KP3 is not just a multi effector; It is also a MIDI controller with nice LED illumination :) I think KP3 is one of most cost-effective gears in the current market.




Jordan Rudess on the Harpejji

Here is something completely Analog for once. Jordan Rudess demonstrating the great new instrument the Harpejji by Marcodi. www.marcodi.com

reactable: basic demo #1

More information about the Reactable instrument:
http://www.reactable.com

iPad Steve Jobs presents Apple's new tablet

Apple's CEO Steve Jobs gives a live demonstration of the iPad. I want to try one out so bad. The one thing that annoys me is that apple doesn't have SD card slots. They charge you a fortune just to get extra memory that with an SD card or SD mini could be bought for a few dollars.

Beat Blocks

Beat Blocks is a tangible interface for a rhythm sequencer. The user is able to create and manipulate a 4-track drum loop by physically re-arranging wooden blocks within a 4x4 grid.

More info at www.beatblocks.com



Dan from Schaack Audio just sent us this cool video of a single audiocube controlling the slicex in FL Studio. Dan is building a new version of MIDIBridge using Raw Material's JUCE framework. More info about audiocubes at http://www.percussa.com/.More info about FL Studio athttp://www.flstudio.com/.

Sound Design with AudioCubes

A demo by http://alloyelectric.com/
(Chris Warren, UCSD)

Chris is controlling a soft synth developed especially for AudioCubes by Percussa, to be released in the next months.

No setup or configuration necessary to make the cubes talk to the software, since the software was designed specifically for the cubes.

No drivers necessary, and runs on Mac OSX 10.4 or Windows XP SP2 and later.


straker on monome and audiocubes

A pot-pourri of performance technologies. The sample manipulation is courtesy of the shard plugin, which is being controlled by the monome and the audiocubes using the straker sequencing framework, which itself is built on top of the shado rendering library for the monome.

TENORI-ON Review

We had the Tenori-On for a few short days here at Sonic Labs, check out what we made of this new instrument

Haken Continuum

Demo by Mark Smart at NAMM 2007. Video is taken from Haken Continuum Fingerboard homepage.

http://www.cerlsoundgroup.org/Continuum/


Axis 64 Midi Controller

Designer Peter Davies threw out preconceptions of what a music keyboard should be and designed a layout based on the Harmonic Table. According to C-Thru Musiic, the arrangement of notes helps you understand note relationships and create as you never have before.

Monome 40h Usb Midi Device

The light and button systems interface to the computer independently: the light feedback does not necessarily follow the button input. this means that a button press doesn't always toggle its corresponding light, which would be completely limiting. by splitting the systems, the computer can display different information on the grid of lights continually while collecting button presses.

the interaction between the buttons, lights, and computer software is all configurable by the user. of course we provide several preset configurations which feature our favorite uses. we've designed an easy to use routing system, so that programming skills are by no means required to integrate the box with a preexisting computer software setup. for those interested in making more complicated control applications we provide direct software access to button and light activity.