Archive for the 'Gadget' Category

End of Week Links or Steaming Summer Pile of the Interent

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kubton
on August 7, 2008
in DIY, DS, Gadget, Links, free, guitar, resources, samples, synth and theory
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HACK A DAY Has a cool tutorial on how to make a really simple digital synthesizer.

Looperman has some free acapella and vocal samples.

If you like crazy musical gadgets you should check out Found Electronics.

IG Blog has a post about a soon to be launch vintage guitar hedge found. Thats right a vintage Guitar Hedge fund. Well, it can’t do any worse the than my 401k has lately. Maybe it will make rich people even richer it the nature of investment but it is a same if more cool vintage guitars will be locked up out of site and out of the hands of guitarist.

I found this entertaining video via wire to ear:

DEEPSOUND MUSIC has a cool web based sample calculator.

Ambience has a great library of free field recording capturing you guessed the ambient sounds of different environments.

Yellow Tools has 2 gigs of free samples for the download.  If your German is, like mine, is consits of a few words used on Hogans Hero’s use google transalte or babble fish.

Ronnie Pries also has a free sample pack.

Captain Beefheart is awesome.  So are his 10 Commandments of Guitar Playing.  Not your normally tips but what else would you expect.  Moses would approve.

The Chip Collection has a link to a .pdf for making your own chord wheel.

Remain Calm has a collection of home brew music making apps for the Nintendo DS.

Beatmaker or iPhone Music Making

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kubton
on June 20, 2008
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Intua are planning on releasing a music making application for the iPhone and iPod Touch. It looks slick as would expect for anything Apple handheld related. Here is the feature list from the site:

16 triggerable pads with polyphonic control

Automatic sample slicing on multiple pads

Edit pads individually
Duration and tonal controls
Reverse
Gain
Output selection (Dry, FX Bus1, FX Bus 2)
Graphical sample bounds editor

Instant muting
Muting individual pads makes your song breathing

Sample accurate Sequencer
Pattern step sequencer
Step velocity editor per pattern
Song pattern sequencer
On the fly live editing

2 FX Busses, each rack containing
3 Band EQ
Synchronized Delay
Bit Crusher

Live pattern recording
Record grooves from pads to sequencer patterns

Browser
Provided Sound Library
Multiple purposes instruments
Artist Kits
Local Library
Network share
Load and save samples, kits and projects

Song Export
Export your songs to commonly used sample formats

I am going to be a little skeptical until the “introducing” turns to “releases.” It has a lot of potential though. Some of the controls look a bit might be a little trick if you have fat calloused finger like myself. Imagine we will be seeing a lot more of this kind of stuff.

Korg Nano Video or Small Controllers Captured on Film

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kubton
on June 17, 2008
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Found Via Chip collection:

Here is some video of one of those cool Korg Nano Controllers.  More at SOS also.

More Tenori-On or The Black Gadget Market

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kubton
on April 17, 2008
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Gizmodo has a hands on video review of the much lusted after Tenori-On.  It is going to be available May 1st for $1200 but only about a hundred units a month.  I smell a black market.  Read more at CDM Article 1 & Article2.

DS-10 Again or Import Export

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kubton
on March 26, 2008
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The Korg DS-10 cart will ship on July 24, for around $50. NCSX has pre-order available now. I am 99.9% sure this is the Japanese version since NCSX basically imports Japanese titles. Still waiting on dates for the rest of the world.

edit: I am now 100% sure this is the Japanese version. NCSX says they will have preorders available as soon as other version are available when every that maybe. But you can’t wait past July you have an option.