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Some interesting things I found recently:

# PERSPECTIVE LYRIQUE via Make:Blog

An interactive architectural mapping.
Fete des Lumieres / Lyon / France / 2010

A mapping by 1024 Architecture, projected on the facade of former Lyrical theater the “Celestins”. The building deformations and figures were controlled by the audience, using a microphone and an audio analysis algorythm.

More info at 1024architecture.net and 1024d.wordpress.com

# Thumbs Up for Madrona Labs AALTO Software Synthesizer (Modulate This! – A Blog for Electronic Music Artists)

Mark Mosher shares some info on the Aalto semi-modular software synth.

Peter Kirn over at Create Digital Music did a post on a new synth by Madrona Labs last month. Even though I wasn’t in the market for a new synth right now I ended up buying this Aalto within an hour or so of downloading the demo so I wanted to pass this along and help promote Madrona’s great work. At $99 this is an incredible value.

# Flickr: LEGO Album Covers via wire to the ear

# Talking About The Upcoming Sound Packs With Elliott Fienberg

Nick of Nick’s Tutorials:

I just finished recording a really enjoyable conversation with Elliott Fienberg, the man behind the Wobble Tech Radio podcast.

We chatted about some recording industry news and talked a bit about my upcoming Ableton Live packs that I’ll start releasing in the next month or so.

Check out the recording here, and be sure to check out Elliott’s other episodes: http://mixlr.com/mrtunes/wobble-tech-radio-10-with-the-ableton-tutor

# Open-Source Rockit 8-bit Synth Kit Coming

Peter at Create Digital Music:
Chicago-based hacker and synthesist Matt Heins is working on an open source synth kit. As a co-creator of the MeeBlip open source-synth hardware, I’m biased — I want more open synth hardware! So this is looking like some great company. The instrument is 8-bit, with analog filter circuitry, coded in C.

Yamaha has released TNR-i, a music app for iOS.

The iOS version of the world-renowned TENORI-ON brings you a completely new musical interface.

Even if you don’t know much about music, you can create music intuitively as if you were arranging sounds in space. The music that you see on the 16 × 16 grid of buttons is the music that is performed.

On the 16 × 16 grid of buttons, basically, the horizontal direction is time, and the vertical direction is pitch. By laying sounds on these buttons, you can combine rhythms and melodies to produce music. A button will glow when its sound is produced. The movements of the glowing lights produce a visual performance.

TNR-i for iOS is available to purchase for £11.99 GBP.

More information: Yamaha / TNR-i

Some interesting things I found recently:

# The World’s Biggest Drum Machine

If you ever wonder what we do at night here at the PHQ, here it the answer: We build large, silly drum controllers and haul them across town.

# Incredible vintage lucite organ for sale

Wersi Electronics Delta Digital DX500

From Boing Boing:

Over at ye olde Submitterator, Pea Hix points us to this magnificent c.1970 lucite Wersi Digital DX500 organ and speakers for sale.

“The Delta Digital DX500 organ comes replete with all manuals, control panel templates, music stand, amplified speakers, lucite dollies, pedal board, adjustable bench and chromed keys. And it works beautifully!!!” Just $85,000 at 1stdibs.com.

# Percussa AudioCube Production and Performance Notes for “I Hear Your Signals”

Mark writes:

For my original music album “I Hear Your Signals” (download the album free) I use Percussa Audiocubes as performance controllers. In this post I’ll give you all the geeky details about how the controllers were applied in the project.

I used 4 AudioCubes plus Percussa’s free MIDIbridge app on Windows to configure and route AudioCube signals to Ableton Live. I use the same MIDIbridge patch for every song which allows for consistent and predictable data mapping from the cubes to Ableton Live.

In general, I play a lot of the notes on you hear on the album via keyboards, Theremin and Tenori-On live. I tend to use the cubes as controllers, for scene launching, and for real-time modulation of effects and synth parameters and only use them for triggering notes from time to time.

Some interesting things I found recently:

# Craftsman Music Experiment – Kutiman takes on a bunch of Craftsman tools to create music.

“What you are watching is built entirely from the sounds of Craftsman tools mixed and edited by Kutiman. No musical instruments were used.”

# CC6 Studio, various freeware VST effect plug-ins for Windows.

I’m a audio and video performer from montreal. the CC6studio is my hidden spot where I blog my inspiration and audio performance.

Evans also posted SPIDER 1.3, a midi router for TENORI-ON (standalone Windows application).

SPIDER converts midi notes to CC parameters.

Currently you can assign:

• Midi in ( track to convert from tenori-on)
• Midi out ( to the synth target)
• Control Change (what CC parameter to control)
• Control Change offset

More information: CC6 Studio / via waka_x @ Twitter

WOK has released Blip2000, a matrix step-sequencer plug-in for Windows.

Sure you know the Bliptronic5000® or the Tenori-On™. If the first one lacks MIDI and the second one is too expensive for you, you might try this VST-version of a matrix stepsequencer: Blip2000

Every column corresponds to one step, each line represents a note. Just click the buttons to enable the notes to be played. The orange line runs thru while playing. Select the number of steps to play (2-16), the speed in relation to the host clock, the direction (forward, backward, random etc.). Blip2000 outputs MIDI notes, so you can use your favourite synth (-plugin) as the sound source. MIDI channel, note length and velocity can be set.

With the fields on the left side you can adjust any scale to be played – or use Blip2000 as a drum sequencer!

Blip2000 features

• Clear and easy interface.
• Number of steps selectable (up to 16).
• Note per line selectable from 3 octaves with display.
• Several play modes (forward-backward and so on).
• Syncs to host – clock divider adjustable.
• Sequence transpose by MIDI input .
• MIDI ouput channel selectable.
• Automatable in the DAW.
• Sequences can be saved as VST plugin presets.
• Random play.
• MIDI-ouput; any plugin or synthesizer can be used as sound source.
• Low on CPU.

Blip2000 is available as a donationware VST instrument plug-in for Windows. The free version has a nag-screen, but is fully functional.

More information: WOK / Blip2000

ThinkGeek has released Bliptronic 5000, an LED synthesizer.

If HAL 9000 mated with R2-D2 and their electronic offspring was tutored by Kraftwerk it would probably end up something like the Bliptronic 5000 LED Synthesizer.

At once a minimalist musical plaything and a hardcore old-skool synthesizer, the Bliptronic defies categorization as it belts out 8-Bit style style tunes from its grid of glowing buttons.

You’ll notice sound similar to a retro Casiotone with an interface not unlike a simplified Yamaha TENORI-ON… if that makes any sense. Either way, once you start touching the keys of the Bliptronic you’ll be hooked by it’s simple pattern-based approach to music.

Bliptronic 5000 features

• Unusual retro synthesizer is played with a grid of glowing buttons.
• Create looping patterns and change them dynamically while playing.
• Chain multiple units together and create more complex melodies.
• One octave range. 8 notes can be played simultaneously.
• 8 different old-skool synth sounding instruments to choose from.
• Sounds created using FM waveform synthesis.
• Set the BPM (beats per minute) from 60 to 180 in 20 BPM increments.
• Built in speaker with headphone jack and line-out jack.
• Front panel is constructed from brushed aluminum.
• Includes, manual and 2 link cables for connecting additional Bliptronic units.
• Requires 4 x AA batteries (not included).

The Bliptronic 5000 is available to purchase for $49.99 USD.

More information: Bliptronic 5000