Touchscreen drum machine for Max/MSP

On Cycling ’74′s site I found a video of a drum machine someone have made in Max/MSP. They use it with a cheap touch overlay and the result is very impressive. A real performance tool! read more about the project here

Brian Eno Goes Soft

I usually avoid writing about apple products, but this video is ok: It’s Brian Eno’s ambient music application for Iphone or Ipod Touch. Just flick your finger on the screen and piano tones pops up. It’s relaxing!

Cool organic synth thing

I stumbled across a brilliant post on Synthopia, a video showing a demo of the project the Sound of Touch. The instrument is made by David Merrill at MIT and is based on using a contact microphone and DSP to record and manipulate the sounds. I’m glad to see that there’s still some good ideas [...]

IR fra norsk stavkirke

Om man er registrert bruker av Audio Ease Altiverb kan man laste ned en impulsrespons fra Gol stavkirke som står på Norsk Folkemuseum på Bygdøy. Impulsrespons- og konvulsjonsteknologien har blitt veldig populær, men er kjent for å bruke mye minne og prosessorkraft. Altiverb går vel for å være en av de beste programmene for IR-klang, [...]

Skwrk for Csound

Skwrk (whatever that means) is a new front end to Csound that seems very promising. It claims to give Csound possibilities of real time rendering and automatic score generation. Still only for Windows, but that’s fine with me. Haven’t had a chance to try it out though.. The official Csound site Checkout this cool music [...]

JazzMutant Dexter

Surroundmiksing med JazzMutant Dexter Les anmeldelse av Dexter i Future Music. Eller hos SonicState – se videoen! Nettsiden til JazzMutant. Dexter er jo uten tvil en heftig kontroller, men prisen på 2700EUR er ganske høy.

Multitouch links

Posts marked multi touch at Gizmodo Posts marked multi-touch at Engadget 1 Posts marked multi touch at Engadget 2 Posts marked touch screen at Engadget The reacTable The ultimate multi touch gadget must be the reacTable from PFU in Barcelona, Spain. Here is a video featuring the reacTable

openFrameworks

openFrameworks, et bibliotek for C++ som jeg bruker i min masteroppgave har fått ny framside på nettsiden sin: http://www.openframeworks.cc/ Her presenteres nå forskjellige prosjekter som er lagd med hjelp av biblioteket. openFrameworks er en slags C++variant av det populære Processing som gjør det enkelt å programmere applikasjoner som inkluderer audio, video, bilder, fonter og interaksjon. [...]

Herbie Hancock & his Fairlight CMI

Check out this cool video of Herbie Hancock and Quincy Jones playing the Fairlight CMI. This beautiful synth / sampler / sequencer / music system was revolutionary in the late 70′s / early 80′s. Even now the Fairlight system looks and sounds very futuristic and cool. Now Fairlight makes an audio controller, the Xynergy. The [...]