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

Terrarium Interactive Installation

This is a video from an interactive installation made by Emily Gobeille and Theodore Watson. The software is made with openFrameworks. Participants can interact with the sonic ecosystem by speaking into a microphone. It’s very beautiful. More pictures here and here

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 [...]

Propellerhead Record

Today the swedish company Propellerhead released info about their new audio recording software application. It’s called Record, and the promo video is a bit funny: Record will be available early September and will cost 299EUR. For info and specs, go here: http://www.propellerheads.se/products/record/

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 [...]

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

Master project update

I’m currently working hard on my master degree project. I’m making a controller / sequencer interface program for touch screen (sadly no multi-touch yet). The program will have various functions, among them the drum sequencer that you can see in this picture: (never mind the colors, they are a little bit ugly) When the sequencer [...]

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!