Monday, December 31, 2012
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Friday, December 14, 2012
Retronyms Tabletop turns AKAI iMPC into a 32 Track Sequencer
Picture by DOM of mpc-forums
"Now, for those who don't know Tabletop. Tabletop allows you to put multiple devices together (on a tabletop)... That being said, it looks like I can put 8 iMPCs on the table (no other devices can be added, though)." -DOM
"You can edit the sequences and programs when you use iMPC with Tabletop." -Daniel Walton (Synthtopia Reader)
"Now, for those who don't know Tabletop. Tabletop allows you to put multiple devices together (on a tabletop)... That being said, it looks like I can put 8 iMPCs on the table (no other devices can be added, though)." -DOM
"You can edit the sequences and programs when you use iMPC with Tabletop." -Daniel Walton (Synthtopia Reader)
Thursday, December 13, 2012
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Saturday, December 8, 2012
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Tuesday, November 6, 2012
Akai MPC3000LE, with Homemade IB-CRT-RGB Controller (Multicolor)
Quote:
"Akai MPC3000LE, with homemade VGA cable/box to enable switching the normal green only VGA output signal from the Akai MPC3000 IB-CRT VGA option to any combination of the red/green/blue signal lines into the VGA monitor. Each of the sends to the red/green/blue lines of the monitor can be switched between off/on-full/on-variable. It is just a simple homemade prototype idea with 3 switches, 3 potentiometers, a project box, a VGA cable, and a laser printed label. If anyone makes one with a nicer engraved, or similar, metal faceplate, please make me one as well."
More information on this modification here...
http://www.mpc-forums.com/viewtopic.php?f=4&t=160522
Monday, November 5, 2012
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Wednesday, October 31, 2012
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Friday, September 21, 2012
Ensoniq ASR X Turbo Overview
This Machine was on eBay and most likely sold, but I thought the video was cool detailing what originally came with the X. This is a TURBO model with SCSI and Urban Sound Card (Dope Oldschool Sounds & Drums). This one also has 8 Out X-pander Installed.
Friday, September 14, 2012
Wednesday, September 12, 2012
Tuesday, September 11, 2012
MPC Renaissance Review - Legacy MPC Compatibility (Part 1)
You can read the review here:
http://www.mpc-tutor.com/mpc-renaissance-review-legacy-files/
This review covers the MPC Renaissance Software support of legacy MPC projects (this one covers 'Numark Era' MPCs and JJOS).
Monday, September 10, 2012
AKAI MPC 500 Pad Fix (DIY)
This video demonstrates the difference between using perfectly cut pieces of a bicycle inner tube and electrical tape placed under each pad to get better sensitivity. The inner tube is clearly the winner here and I'll have to give this a try on my 500.
Sunday, September 9, 2012
Thursday, September 6, 2012
Completely Free Sample Pack: Nanoloop 1.6.3 Kicks
By: littlescale
Forty-four yummy kick sounds recorded directly from an old grey Nintendo Game Boy with Nanoloop 1.6.3 software. Royalty free, copyright free, license free, restriction free.
Download here:
http://milkcrate.com.au/_other/downloads/sample_sets/nanoloop_163_kick_samples.zip
Wednesday, September 5, 2012
Monday, September 3, 2012
Saturday, September 1, 2012
Completely Free Sample Pack: VCS3 Synthi Percussion
Published on Aug 31, 2012 by littlescale
Twenty six tasty percussive sounds recorded directly from an EMS VCS3 Synthi synthesizer. Royalty free, copyright free, license free, restriction free.
Download here:
http://milkcrate.com.au/_other/downloads/sample_sets/VCS3_Percussion_1.zip
Completely Free Sample Pack: JV-30 Ensemble Sounds
by littlescale
One hundred and twenty-four delicious ensemble sounds recorded directly from a JV-30 keyboard synthesizer. Royalty free, copyright free, license free, restriction free.
Download here:
http://milkcrate.com.au/_other/downloads/sample_sets/JV-30_Ensemble_Samples.zip
Friday, August 31, 2012
Animoog novation BassStation Analog Keyboard Timbre Pack V1
Thursday, August 30, 2012
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Tuesday, August 21, 2012
Friday, August 17, 2012
Wednesday, August 15, 2012
Monday, August 13, 2012
Buying Animoog Midi Out Supports in-app purchase fuckery
Supporting the nonsense that moog is doing is not good for the iOS Music Community.
I owned a iPhone since 2007 and a iPad since 2010 and have purchased 100's of apps and the majority of them are music creation apps from The top Rated Developers like Korg to the up and coming Basement Developer that can still code a kick ass useful app. Not one of them had an optional in-app purchase to buy a midi add on. (Well there was one that failed) Midi always came standard or none at all.
There are developers who paved the way for iOS to have a perfect MIDI / CoreMIDI implementation and shared the knowledge through the developer community for FREE so everybody can be on the same page and for music apps to work together in harmony. Which helped make iOS Music Making and incorporating the iPad or iPhone into your existing hardware or software setup what it is today!
In my opinion moog is taking advantage of its loyal customers and cult followers buy 1. Charging for MIDI Out, and 2. Charging a whopping $5 bucks. Even if some picked up the app for a $1 which earned moog all those 5 Star reviews to sell @ $29.99, I feel they still have the right to boycott the MIDI Out fee especially if they know and respect the history of MIDI.
Not even the Legendary Dave Smith sells MIDI as a option on his hardware synths.
I owned a iPhone since 2007 and a iPad since 2010 and have purchased 100's of apps and the majority of them are music creation apps from The top Rated Developers like Korg to the up and coming Basement Developer that can still code a kick ass useful app. Not one of them had an optional in-app purchase to buy a midi add on. (Well there was one that failed) Midi always came standard or none at all.
There are developers who paved the way for iOS to have a perfect MIDI / CoreMIDI implementation and shared the knowledge through the developer community for FREE so everybody can be on the same page and for music apps to work together in harmony. Which helped make iOS Music Making and incorporating the iPad or iPhone into your existing hardware or software setup what it is today!
In my opinion moog is taking advantage of its loyal customers and cult followers buy 1. Charging for MIDI Out, and 2. Charging a whopping $5 bucks. Even if some picked up the app for a $1 which earned moog all those 5 Star reviews to sell @ $29.99, I feel they still have the right to boycott the MIDI Out fee especially if they know and respect the history of MIDI.
Not even the Legendary Dave Smith sells MIDI as a option on his hardware synths.
Sunday, August 12, 2012
Friday, August 10, 2012
BeatMaker 2 v.2.3 Update Available
New features for this version:
- Audio tracks with disk streaming support and simultaneous recording
- Support for USB class audio interfaces on iPad via Camera Connection Kit inputs/outputs
- Individual Gain and noise gate on audio inputs
- MIDI CLOCK IN support for tempo synchronization
- Sample drag'n'drop on drum machine via "Quick Load" feature
- New Pad auto-loop mode
- Layers supported in Keyboard sampler
- Revamped Keyboard sampler mapping editor
- Event recording is now allowed anywhere in the app
- Patterns can be dragged directly on the song editor
- Sample streaming in drum and keyboard samplers (samples are not loaded in RAM)
- Automatic audition of samples in browser
- Revamped iPod Library import
- Sustain pedal is now supported in the keyboard sampler and is editable in the pattern editor
- App Settings: Added OMNI and input clock
- More automatizable parameters: Effects bypass / Auto-pan sync and sync toggle / LFO sync rate / Invert ADSR / Tune, Fine-Tune / Filter key / Pads reverse and mute / Mixer track mute and solo / Sustain pedal
Improvements and bug fixes:
- Retina graphic content for the 3rd generation iPad
- Fix crash when resetting auto-scale on an empty pads
- Fix noise when looping very small samples
- Fix issue with installing BeatMaker 1 'bmkz' files
- Fix sampling rate issue with some accessories (ie. Apple Digital AV Adapter)
- Fix behavior of MIDI virtual input ports
- Install BMKZ kits when using Dropbox
- Update to Dropbox SDK v1.2.2
- Improved preset and project file format (quicker load/save)
This major update is free for BeatMaker 2 owners.
- Audio tracks with disk streaming support and simultaneous recording
- Support for USB class audio interfaces on iPad via Camera Connection Kit inputs/outputs
- Individual Gain and noise gate on audio inputs
- MIDI CLOCK IN support for tempo synchronization
- Sample drag'n'drop on drum machine via "Quick Load" feature
- New Pad auto-loop mode
- Layers supported in Keyboard sampler
- Revamped Keyboard sampler mapping editor
- Event recording is now allowed anywhere in the app
- Patterns can be dragged directly on the song editor
- Sample streaming in drum and keyboard samplers (samples are not loaded in RAM)
- Automatic audition of samples in browser
- Revamped iPod Library import
- Sustain pedal is now supported in the keyboard sampler and is editable in the pattern editor
- App Settings: Added OMNI and input clock
- More automatizable parameters: Effects bypass / Auto-pan sync and sync toggle / LFO sync rate / Invert ADSR / Tune, Fine-Tune / Filter key / Pads reverse and mute / Mixer track mute and solo / Sustain pedal
Improvements and bug fixes:
- Retina graphic content for the 3rd generation iPad
- Fix crash when resetting auto-scale on an empty pads
- Fix noise when looping very small samples
- Fix issue with installing BeatMaker 1 'bmkz' files
- Fix sampling rate issue with some accessories (ie. Apple Digital AV Adapter)
- Fix behavior of MIDI virtual input ports
- Install BMKZ kits when using Dropbox
- Update to Dropbox SDK v1.2.2
- Improved preset and project file format (quicker load/save)
This major update is free for BeatMaker 2 owners.
MPC 1000/2500 XLCD JJOS128 update (1.03)
JJOS128 update (1.03) for the MPC 1000/2500 XLCD now shows both stereo channels in trim mode. The update should be out to the masses shortly. via @mpc-tutor
Thursday, August 9, 2012
The new 3"1/2 version of the SD HxC Floppy Emulator
The new 3"1/2 version of the SD HxC Floppy Emulator is available here:
http://torlus.com/floppy/index.php?en
Works with tons of Hardware Drum Machines/Samplers and Vintage computers like EMU, ensoniq, AKAI, Atari ST and Commodore Amiga.
Compatibility list :
http://hxc2001.free.fr/floppy_drive_emulator/support.htm
A short Demo :
http://torlus.com/floppy/index.php?en
Works with tons of Hardware Drum Machines/Samplers and Vintage computers like EMU, ensoniq, AKAI, Atari ST and Commodore Amiga.
Compatibility list :
http://hxc2001.free.fr/floppy_drive_emulator/support.htm
A short Demo :
MPC1000/2500 XLCD w/modified JJOS
Wednesday, May 30, 2012
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Monday, April 30, 2012
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Friday, January 20, 2012
iZotope teams with Akai to provide its time-stretching algorithm
iZotope announces a new partnership with Akai Professional to provide iZotope’s acclaimed Radius time-stretching algorithm and Loop Slicing Engine for future products in the MPC line, including the new MPC Renaissance and MPC Studio. Combining MPC hardware with new MPC software, these are the first MPCs designed to harness the processing power of a user’s Mac or PC.
Source: Gearjunkies
Source: Gearjunkies
Thursday, January 19, 2012
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