Allen & Heath has unveiled a sweet new DJ mixer/controller – the new Xone:4D performance DJ controller. Evolved from the revolutionary Xone:3D, the Xone:4D has an updated feature set, combining a professional analog DJ mixer with 105 MIDI controls, and a new 96 kHz/24bit 20-channel USB 2.0 soundcard. Features: The mixer section is based on… Read More Allen & Heath Launches Xone:4D DJ Controller
EM’s Geary Yelton has an interesting review of the Tenori-On. Their take: You could easily argue that the Tenori-on is not suitable for professional music production. It has no filters, LFOs, envelope generators, nor any of the user-programmable parameters you’d expect in a real synthesizer. It has only one oscillator per voice, and it provides… Read More Tenori-On Review
Some interesting footage of Stephen Hobley testing out his DIY laser harp. Says Stephen: The visuals look great, but the sound is out of sync (we’re not film-makers!). In retrospect we should have had more people working on the different parts of the shoot. How tired was I when we shot this? We’d been setting… Read More Laser Harp Test Footage
The ATTIGO TT is a futuristic DJ controller, created by Scott Hobbs, a student at Dundee University studying innovative product design. He’s created a touch screen turntable that’s pretty f****** awesome! It lets you loop, sample and scratch wave forms just as you would a record. The size of the touchtable is approximately the same… Read More The Future Of DJing: The Touch Screen Turntable
Livid has put together a couple of cool videos demoing AudioCube basics: Percussa Cubes Basics Impressions and demonstration of using the Percussa Audio cubes with the tutorial Ableton Live set. The center cube detects the faces of the other cubes to send MIDI notes to Live to change loops. Percussa Cubes with Resonant Synth Here’s… Read More Percussa AudioCubes Basics
This video, by Livid Instruments, shows scratching with Percussa AudioCubes: I set up four loops in an audio looper program I’ve been working on for future release by Livid Instruments. I’m using the speed of my hand gestures as detected by the four distance sensors on the audio cube to change the playback speed and… Read More Scratching With Percussa AudioCubes
Steppers are an interesting music controller designed for 5-year olds: As a group, we hoped to make a toy that not only encouraged physical activity, but that also acted a clear and direct musical interface. Steppers transform walking, dancing, running, and jumping into a unique and dynamic activity, allowing the user to express themselves audibly… Read More Experimental Music Controllers For 5-Year Olds
i3L (pronounced “i thrill”) is a freeware music controller app, developed using Max/MSP from Cycling74 and is a support application for akaRemote by Masayuki Akamatsu. And guess what? You can use it to control Ableton Live! i3L receives pre-defined UDP messages from akaRemote.app running on the iPhone, scales the values to MIDI, and allows you… Read More Use I3L To Control Ableton Live With Your iPhone
The iPhone seems to becoming the new “because it was there” controller for Ableton Live.
The League Of Electronic Musical Urban Robots‘ Eric Singer demonstrates the Slime-o-Tron – a controller that works by moving conductive slime around copper nails. What do you think? Is this the most disgusting way to create music ever invented?
