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Native Instruments has announced the release of The Finger by Tim Exile, a unique keyboard-controlled performance effects processor based on Reaktor.

Based on advanced REAKTOR technology, THE FINGER provides musicians, producers and DJs with an inspirational and truly musical tool for intuitive sound mangling and live remixing in the studio and on stage.

“I’ve always been into the idea of playing electronics like you play acoustic instruments.” says Tim Exile, designer of THE FINGER. “I used to sit at the back of class at school tapping out jungle breaks and edits.
That’s when I fell in love with my fingers. I want to go on sound adventures by finger alone. I love it when sounds end up somewhere completely different from where they start off. I want to be able to play these transitions with my fingers and keep wandering with the sound.”

The Finger features

• Over 40 effects including real-time samplers/transformers (e.g. loop, re-arrange, reverse, scratch, heavy granular effects etc.), as well as filters, gaters, delays, reverbs, distortion, wave shapers, ring modulation and many others.
• Each effect has two parameters controlled by velocity or mod wheel, and is tempo-synced to a master clock or the tempo of your audio host. The KORE PLAYER user interface allows for even further tweaking via the Macro Controls.
• Trigger effects via MIDI keyboard (or the “piano roll” in a sequencer). Four octaves of MIDI notes have a specific effect per sound with their own settings assigned to each.
• When used within a host sequencer as an effects plug-in, you can record your playing as MIDI in the piano roll editor allowing to edit your effect chains in a much simpler way.
• Besides the possibility to use THE FINGER out of the box (with the free KORE PLAYER or KORE 2), it can also be loaded into REAKTOR 5, where an individual user interface is available allowing you to setup custom effects to any MIDI note.

The introduction of THE FINGER is complemented with the release of Tim Exile’s “The Finger EP”, a four-track album derived from live performances that utilize the software. The tracks are available for free download via “The Now Wave”, a new blog established by Tim Exile and dedicated to live electronic music performance, at http://thenowwave.blogspot.com/

The Finger by Tim Exile is available for purchase from the NI online shop for $79 USD / €69 EUR.

More information: Native Instruments / The Finger by Tim Exile

Some interesting things I found on June 19th, 2008:

# DIY Stompbox: Beavis Board – The beavis board is designed to give you a platform for learning and building. If you can follow along with simple instructions, you can start building and modding a classic and new stompbox circuits.

Beavis Board on the left, full kit on the right

The beavis board makes it easy to:

• Build a huge array of stompbox circuits including overdrives, distortions, fuzzes, filters, amplifiers, tremolos, noise generators, oscillators, and more.
• Learn about the different components and how they work to shape your guitar’s signal.
• Modify stompbox designs to tailor your sound.
• Easily try out your circuits through a true-bypass breakout box.
• Have a giant buttload of fun.

You can pick up a complete kit for $249 USD, or get just the Beavis Board for $109 USD. That is, when they aren’t sold out… New stock should be available by the end of July.

# BodySurf // Wii Balance Board + Audiosurf + Motion Controls – BodySurf is a script for GlovePIE that rigs up the Wii Balance Board to play Audiosurf. It is full-featured, with a strong focus on player immersion and ease of user interface.

# Elektron-Users: Richard Devine interview – Interview, gear list, imagery, and an exclusive Richard Devine track.

Richard answers What inspires you to compose?:

I find inspiration from many different sources. Sometimes I will be out at an art museum, and see a video installation, short film, or sculpture piece, and it will inspire me to create something. I love late 21st century modern architecture too. I see the skeletal structures of buildings and spaces, and it makes me think of musical structures. I have always believed that there is a close relationship between visual art and music. They are based on the same principals of design, repetition, color, balance, rhythm, tone, texture, etc. I tend to get more ideas from visual references than audio sources.

# New Early Computer Music Discovered; What Was the First Digital Synth? – So, who gets the credit for the first digital synthesis? This particular recording doesn’t change much, in that Bell was never recognized as the first computer-created music – they just happened to have the earliest recordings still available.

# Tim Exile Video – Exclusive | Videos | matthew hodson

Matthew writes:

Here it is! Mr Exile gave a fantastic performance at The London College of Music & Media last year and I have only just gotten around to editing the footage together. Here you can see him at length talk about that fantastically creative live setup he has based on software by Native Instruments – Reaktor. I for one use the same software a lot when I am making electronic music under my bit|bin as I really rate not only its flexibility and ability to build/create anything from a synth to an effects unit but it also sounds great too.

link via NI Kore Minisite @ CDM