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Some interesting things I found recently:

# YouTube – “Monkey Jazz” : BEARDYMAN & mr_hopkinson™

Fantastic video of Beardyman doing the jazz thing.

Combining the talents of 2 times UK Beatbox Champion Beardyman and master of the edit mr_hopkinson, this is a one take performance by Beardyman using live looping technology that has been visually explained and augmented by mr_hopkinson's edit and animation.

More here: http://www.monkeyjazz.co.uk

# elastic~ – the ultimate pitch-shifting time-stretching looping MaxMSP object – Incorporating the same algorhythm as software giants Cubase, Ableton Live, and Kontakt, elastic~ is a powerful and intuitive tool for looping, pitch-bending and time-stretching audio within MaxMSP.

# For Life – Free DJ Magazine From Stanton (pdf)

Stanton is thrilled to announce the first issue of our new hybrid magazine/lifestyle catalog, “For Life”! This new e-zine will be issued periodically to bring our DJs interesting articles, all our latest gear, and even a special “city guide” that focuses on a different city each issue and highlights all our favorite spots. We’re excited about this new venture, and hope that you enjoy reading it as much as we enjoyed creating it! This issue features the new SCS.3d controller, artist Richard Devine, an insider guide to Seattle, and more! Check it out!

You can subscribe to For Life Magalog and Stanton News here.

# LP 2 FLASH – LP 2 FLASH is the fastest and easiest way to convert your vinyl recordings directly to an SD card or USB thumb drive* without the need for a computer. LP 2 FLASH listens for the silence between songs on your recordings and automatically breaks up album into individual tracks. Once converted, you can listen to your music on any audio player with a standard SD card slot, or on your computer. Converting your records is a snap with LP 2 FLASH!

# Touch the Wave – Objective-Audio – Free iPhone app for looping and scratching. More info over at CDM.

# Music Thing: Review: Arturia Origin
Tom Whitwell: It’s big, it’s expensive, it’s sexy. Why don’t I want one?

Why am I writing this, rather than playing with the thing? How come I've already taken the top off to have a look inside and see how it all works? Because the Origin has crossed that line – it's not a hardware synth, it's a computer in a box covered in knobs.

# Noise.io – iPhone Synth – iPhone Synthesizer – Noise.io is one of the most intriguing applications for iPhone/iPod Touch which is available exclusively on the AppStore. It is a unique, new-generation sound synthesizer for iPhone / iPod Touch featuring revolutionary user interface and technologies: ESFM, ControlSurface, SoftRibbon and many more. Noise.io has hit the AppStore on the 30th of October 2008 and is available for purchase for $9.99

# Software Programmer Dreams of New, Small Music Machines – Belgian musician Marc Resibois talk about little music machines.

Peter Kirn writes:

Marc “Nostromo” Resibois, aka “m.-.n,” lives the digital life of computers. The Belgian musician and hacker [@MySpace] is renowned as a Game Boy musician, as the inventor of legendary Nintendo tracker LittleGPTracker, and even has a day job as a programmer for VJ software maker Arkaos. But lately, his thoughts have turned to more traditional synthesis hardware – hardware that acts as tiny computers. Nothing is going to shake me from my love of computers, but that doesn’t mean I’m not interested in having what he describes sitting next to mine. Here’s what he imagines – and it’s a variation on a theme I think we’ll see a lot in the coming weeks and months here on CDM. And without giving away the punchline, that Nintendo DS is going to make another appearance.

NuGen Audio has released Visualizer Music Tech Edition, a free version of the real-time audio analysis tool for Windows.

This plug-in is featured in Music Tech Magazine, along with a two-page tutorial on taking spectral imprints.

The special edition version is basically the same as the original Visualizer plug-in, with the exception that only the following analysis tools are available:

• Level Meter
• Spectrum Analyser
• Correlation Meter

So the Stereo Spectrum Analyser, Spectogram, Stereo Spectogram, VectorScope and Stats are not included in this version.

Note: After downloading the plug-in, you will need to provide a valid email address to obtain a challenge/response code.

Visit NuGen Audio for more information and a link to download Visualizer Music Tech Edition.

Some interesting things I bookmarked on del.icio.us on August 20th, 2007:

• How to Use Chopsticks in Seven Easy Steps – I usually give up after three bites and grab a fork instead.
• Free Air Conditioning – Technically it should be called a heat exchanger, we lovingly call it the water cooler, but it has been providing us with free cold air for more than 20 years now so it definitely does work.
• Arcade Game Manuals – A collection of 1,700 arcade manuals, schematics, and general information in PDF format
• Magazine Illusions – Are you on the cover of that magazine?

Some interesting things I bookmarked on del.icio.us on August 8th, 2007.

• Eight-million-year-old bug is alive and growing – An 8-million-year-old bacterium that was extracted from the oldest known ice on Earth is now growing in a laboratory, claim researchers. If confirmed, this means ancient bacteria and viruses will come back to life as ice melts due to global warming.
• Apple’s new metallic keyboards: in wired and Bluetooth flavors – The rumored pictures seemed plausible enough, and now Apple has confirmed the hopes / fears of typists the world over: there’s a new desktop keyboard (er, two actually) in town.
• Earbud cord wrapper in 5 minutes or less! – Love your shiny new iphone, but sick of tangling up that darn cord on your earbuds? Grab an old credit card and a pair of scissors. Boom! You are about to solve one of life’s least important problems.
• iphonenes – A native NES emulator for the iPhone, currently using the InfoNES core.
• 80 Beautiful Typefaces For Professional Design – Every now and again designers stumble upon the very same problem: the choice of a unique and beautiful typeface which manages to fulfil three basic tasks.
• SpiralFrog – SpiralFrog is a new online music destination, offering ad-supported legal downloads of audio content licensed from the catalogs of the world?s major and independent record labels.
• New York Times is setting its TimesSelect content free – The New York Times is poised to stop charging readers for online access to its Op-Ed columnists and other content, The Post has learned.

Wusik has released Wusikstation V4 VSTi Player, a special version of Wusikstation, which comes free with Wusik Sound Magazine subscriptions.

This is basically the full version of Wusikstation V4, but with 2 limitations:

1. Limited to 2 Instances
2. Will only load presets created for the Wusik Sound Magazine. Won’t read 3rd party presets

Wusik Player default Blue skin (Grymmjack)

The Wusik Player (22MB download) is now included with all new Wusik Sound Magazine subscriptions, at no extra fee. Just keep in mind that if you cancel your subscription, you will no longer receive any future updates. The player is NOT included with individual issues. Only for users that subscribe to either monthly or 6 months non-recurring option.

There’s also a promo going on for WSM where you’ll receive extra issues. The more users sign up, the more goodies everyone gets.

You can subscribe to WSM for $9.95/8.95 EUR (monthly subscription) and a 6 month non-recurring option is available as well.

Visit Wusik for more information.

Wusik’s WilliamK has come up with a new promotion for Wusikstation, a totally insane group-buy.

The idea is to reach 150,000 users, at which point you get the following for just $1.95 USD:

• Full copy of Wusikstation V3 VSTi (Windows version only)
• Two Gig Collection set of sounds
• 3 Past Issues of the Wusik Sound Magazine (of your choice)

So how does this work? William explains:

To enter this Group-Buy, you need to pay a non refundable $ 1.95 USD fee. If we reach over 149,999 users, you don’t need to pay anything else. If we don’t reach this amount, you can opt to purchase a regular version using this $ 1.95 as credit. We will not refund any payments if we don’t reach the max amount. We will only start the delivery of the software once we reach over 150,000 users.

150,000 users seems a bit steep perhaps, but at least you’ll just risk $ 1.95, which you can also use towards buying Wusikstation or a WSM (magazine) for the regular price in case the group-buy does not reach its target.

The group-buy will end December 10th 2007.

Visit Wusik’s group-buy page for more information.