New fruit-based MIDI-controller

Check out this video with Dr. Robert Schneider and Elijah Wood presenting a new kind of synth controller: By the way, the new Apples in Stereo record is here

Native Instruments gives The Finger

The Finger is a new live multieffect for NI Kore and Reaktor platforms. In this video you’ll see Tim Exile presenting the software he’s made: Check out Tim Exiles blog here Go to Native Instruments

Derivative TouchDesigner

Derivative’s TouchDesigner is a new programming tool, at least for me. It’s a graphical programming language for art, video game prototyping, 3d animation, audio and more. It’s also got support for OSC, XML and html, and that’s a good thing! There are two versions, one free and one you have to pay for. Here’s a [...]

Jasuto Iphone/Ipod modular synth

Through wire to the ear I discovered a new modular synth for the Iphone. I usually don’t bother to mention that particular phone too often, but this time I’ll do it, and just because the program I’m talking about is so bloody cool. The program in question is called Jasuto. It’s a soft synth that [...]

Highlights from 2009 Musikmesse pt 2

Eowave Persephone MK2 Eowave Persephone 2 features: 2 analogue oscillators with tune, fine tune, space, 12dB LP filter, LFO duophonic pressure and position sensitive ribbon, ribbon scale from 1 to 10 octave 16 routing presets (8 fixed, 8 assignable),  modulation key, 2 pedal inputs, pressure on the ribbon 4 CV outputs, MIDI in/out, audio out, [...]

Highlights from 2009 Musikmesse pt 1

The 2009 Musikmesse in Frankfurt, Germany started today. I’m not there but I read about it at Sonicstate, Harmony Central, Synthopia and Music Radar. Here are some of the most exiting new products I’ve found: Akai Miniak minisynth/vocoder Developed by Akai together with Alesis, this is a promising new synth. Alesis hardware has in my [...]

OpenFrameworks 0.06 released

Today version 0.06 of OpenFrameworks was released. There has been a lot of changes including the most important: new library Poco ( http://pocoproject.org) included – used for events event system for base events (setup, update, draw, mouse, keyboard) and constructing new events the addons.h system has been dropped in place of direct inclusion of addons [...]

The history of multitouch

Bill Buxton of Microsoft research has made an overview of what has happened in multi-touch research. For those of you who thought multi-touch first came with Jeff Han or the Iphone, have a look at this page. The picture on top here is from the Multi-Touch Tablet developed at Toronto University in 1985. By the [...]

Gibson Dark Fire Update

MusicRadar.com now has a review of the Gibson Dark Fire. There I found this video from Guitarist magazine. Some of Dark Fires tuning possibilities and sound options are demonstrated briefly.

Physical Heart, Virtual Body

New guitar deisgned at MIT Media Lab This guitar represents something very new in guitar design. By using a small woodplate with five piezo microphones coupled with a dsp audio chip that simulates a guitars body the researchers at MIT Media Lab has made an instrument that is capable of a wide range of inspiring [...]