A nice afternoon in the garden

Working on and practicing our live act

AKAI APC40 + MPK25 Reviews

We are very busy putting together our new live act and as part of that got some new gear, here are some imrpessions of the AKAI APC40 and MPK25.

Attention Producers! Multiple X/Y Midi Control for 10$ ? Yeap!

So!! I finally got my gamepad to work well as a midi controller! There are a load of options for doing this, (and yeah I do remember Fruity Loops could do it internally to some degree since about v3) and you would think it would be very simple, but in my case I had to go through a bunch of apps and trial and error before i got it to work. Here is what i used that finally worked using Rejoice and Midi Yoke. You can even connect multiple joysticks by running multiple instances of Rejoice. The program itself has a small footprint and I'm sure you can run a few alongside your DAW and not feel any resource drain.

- Midi Yoke:
This is a "virtual" midi driver that will take the info from Rejoice and translate it into midi messages.

Now, the thing is, there is no "windows 7" version, so if you try to install it on 7, you will get an error and it won't install. What you need to do is run the installer in compatibility mode for "older version of windows", then it works. After the install the program runs in windows 7 with no problems.

Get Midi Yoke here - http://www.midiox.com/

- Rejoice:
This is basically a mapper that will let you config joystick actions into midi control numbers.

Grab it here - http://raritiesvault.net/bcd3000/viewtopic.php?f=4&t=19&start=0

The rejoice manual will take it from there, basically all you need to do after installing both aps is in Rejoice choosing Midi Yoke as your Midi Out, and in your DAW enabling Midi Yoke as an available input. Then, in Rejoice itself it is pretty simple to configure X/Y axis and buttons as midi control numbers (if you have a hard time the Rejoice manual shows you step by step). Now your joystick outputs midi like any other controller, and all you need to do is map it like you would map any other device in your DAW.

Here is an amazing link I found containing a boatload of other aps that create midi from non-midi devices and manipulate things:

http://forum.djtechtools.com/showthread.php?t=2862

Working on a Faxi Nadu Remix to Digicult - Every Single Second

Faxi Nadu - Yamaha DX200 Review / Demo

Yamaha An1x Review / Messing Around / Demo

The Yamaha AN1x is a beast..... and here is why --->



"The voice architecture, on a superficial level, resembles a typical twin-oscillator plus multi-mode filter design. Available waveforms include PWM-capable saw and square, saw2 (behaves in a different way than "saw" when used with PWM), a saw/square "mix", additional waves (Inner1-3) for OSC1 in oscillator sync mode, triangle and sine by altering the Edge of pulse waves (or any wave for the sine), and various intermediate waves available through Edge. For each Scene, amplitude, filter, and pitch envelopes affect the combined two oscillators on a per-note basis, and two LFOs, the first with more capabilities, affect all notes at once (i.e. monophonic LFOs). The AN1x also offers a non-resonant high-pass filter in series with the resonant multi-mode filter, feedback from the VCA back to the mixer of oscillators before the main filter, and frequency modulation that can be used alongside oscillator sync. Finally, a digital multi-effect, reverb and delay system can process the output of the Scene(s)." -wikipedia 

Messing with Korg MS-20 Mini External Input

Some cool features of the MS-20 Mini. Sorry for the dodgy video quality, from now on only HD promise :)

Korg M-Oss-20 + B-Oss Metalzone

Faxi Nadu - Processing Synths with Synths - some fun in the studio

Yet more gear porn

 

Gear Porn

curently around...

novation k-station

moog slim phatty

doepfer dark energy ii

deopefer a-100

yamaha dx200

access virus

yamaha an1x

korg triton le

roland sh-201

Synthesis and Fun - Youtube playlist

Made a playlist of all the current synthesis and studio videos we have on Youtube :) have fun!

Fun with Sonic Core Modular with Doepfer A-100 Noise and Theramine

Just a fun little video with Scope Modular and Doepfer A-100 modules

Oss Faxi Nadu - Psytrance tweaks with Doepfer Dark Energy and A-100 Modules

Oss experimenting with our Doepfer Dark Energy and first Doepfer A-100 modules over a track we are working on.

Arrived! Our Doepfer A-100 Analog Modular Synthesizer case!

Arrived! Our Doepfer A-100 Analog Modular Synthesizer case. First step towards euro(c)rack addiction!

Just a short fun vid of our session with Manny Zagri, Korg MS-20 Mini and Doepfer Dark Energy II

Lunch and a studio session with Manny Zagri

Our musical collaborator Manny Zagri came over for lunch and a fun synthesis session with his Korg MS-20 Mini. Incredible sounds experimenting with different routing between the MS-20 and my Doepfer Dark Energy. Got some intense channels layed down for a track in progess :)

The girl, the beer, the virus

New toy :) Traded for a Virus A