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Maschine Mikro Electronic Groove Composer Kicks Out the Jams Without Killing Your Bank Account
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Electronic musicians, here’s another new gadget you might just have to add to your arsenal of music-making toys. The Maschine Mikro is a moderately priced, but professional-grade music composition tool, designed for use in the studio or in live performances.… |
September 11th, 2011
Isle of Tune: SimCity Sequencer
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Digital audio workstations like Reason, Ableton Live and Apple’s GarageBand have made it relatively easy and cheap to make music. But even though these programs enable users to create tunes literally at the push of a button, their interface can be quite intimidating. Which is why I’m quite intrigued by… |
June 21st, 2011
Apple ][ Gets a Brand New Synthesizer
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I still remember my first Apple computer. It was an Apple ][ with a whopping 16k of RAM and it didn't even have a floppy drive. So the sounds that come to mind when I think of my old ][ are the squeals of program data loading from cassette tape.… |
February 11th, 2010
Vj Fader’S Fadertouch Touchscreen a/V Interface Lets Audience See What He’S Playing
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Live audio-visual artist VJ Fader tipped me off about this cool visual interface he built for manipulating music and images in real-time. The faderTouch 3.0 isn’t just your run-of-the-mill sequencer. Nope, the unique portable device features an innovative rear-projection system that allows not only VJ, but his audience to watch… |
January 23rd, 2010
Ableton Novation Launchpad Controls Music With Lots of Lights and Buttons
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For digital musicians who have longed for a performance controller for Ableton Live, you’ll be totally stoked to check out this cool new control pod that lets you interact with Ableton Live in real time. Designed as a collaboration between Ableton and Novation, the new Launchpad is a dedicated controller… |
October 5th, 2009
Microsia Makes Molecular Music
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Here’s a cool little PC program for creating ambient electronic music. And it sure looks purty while it’s doing it. The setting for Andreas Illiger’s Microsia is inside of a virtual “plant cell” of a leaf. As you move your cursor around, you touch “cellular particles” which will be used… |
October 3rd, 2009
Blinkm: Arduino Programmable Leds Let You Control the Pretty Colors
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Want to do something creative with color-changing LEDs? This new programmable LED module might be just what the doctor ordered. The BlinkM from ThingM (I just love saying that) is a compact module that contains an ultra-bright RGB LED and a microcontroller that you can program from your computer. You’ll… |
June 30th, 2009
The World’S Most (Face) Shocking Videos
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What do you get when you take four of your closest friends, attach electrodes to their faces, and then fire off small jolts of electricity to the beats of electronica? Video genius, I say. Tokyo electronic artist / programmer / composer /DJ Daito Manabe connected each of his four friends… |
March 28th, 2009
IPhone Drum Machine Kicks Out the Jams
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Already sick of playing the piano on your iPhone? Maybe it’s time to hit the drums. Developer MooTheCow has created this homebrew drum machine application called “Drummer” that runs on the iPhone or iPod Touch. |
February 29th, 2008
Windows Xp and 98 Make Beautiful Music Together
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So what happens when you take the system sounds from Windows XP and Windows 98 and carefully arrange them in a music sequencer? Something pretty unexpected, I’d say. This is truly a case where the whole is definitely greater than the some of its parts. UK electronic music hacker Robbi-985… |
February 18th, 2008
