Off to blipfest
I'll leave sunny (?) Belgium tomorrow, heading for sunny (?) new york to play at the blip festival on the 4th. Then will probably cruise around down south. Anyways, this mean this blog will stay pretty quiet for the next 3 weeks. See you later ! read more.
Ben Burtt talk
Someone from the sound design mailing list sent this link to a presentation by Ben Burtt (famous for having done the R2D2 job) on the sound stage created for the Wall-E movie. It's quite fascinating by how much field recording these guys still do (before joining the list I was ... read more.
eery piano
So far most of the examples I threw out were kind of harsh and very digial. So I though I would use the fact I got now transposition and release implemented in the aSquealer to go slowly through a various set of timbres I can already achieve with the limited ... read more.
Oscillator mode
Back in the beginning of the piggy, I've setup a loop mode for samples I called oscillator mode. It's pretty simple: once you got a sample, you know it's lenght and can adapt the speed at which you scan the sample data so it it tuned to a given note. It's ... read more.
live at one
Patric uploaded a couple of vids from our littlegptracker+kaosspads performance for the ONE festival in aalst two weeks ago. It's kind of all blurrey but the sound athmosphere is quite nice. We're going to have a split 7" on emphase records for the festival too. read more.
Distorted Arduino
I got pretty much my filter code for the arduino piano working now. It's quite tame but I think it'll work correctly once modulated. I introduced a quick 'page' system so I can now toggle the functionality of the pots between different pages allowing access to more than the limiting ... read more.
The Tone Generation
The tone generation is an amazing show dedicated to the early start of synthetiser music. Originally planned to be a 10 show serie, I was very glad to see it was continuing further dropping unexpected candy in my google feed. This last one (12th show) is focusing on RCA synth ... read more.
synth spotting ?
Ok, I'm not a huge radiohead fan lately but I got to admit this version of "where i end and you begin" (from the "from the basement serie") is really nice. now... What synth is that guy playing ? It seems like he has a contact strip under the keys (pretty obvious ... read more.
Oscilloscoping
When developping sound code, there's nothing more invaluable than a good oscilloscope. Of course, the good ol' analog one is a beauty to watch, but it's not exactly handy if you decided for a late night session of coding in bed. I find it's always been tricky to find a ... read more.
things that make you go woof
I'm not sure I'll be able to keep up. Seriously, there's so much coming out lately that it's mind blowing. Already, as I am working on the arduino piano, my Line6 ToneCore developper kit is waiting for me in it's box - it's actually more waiting for line6 to publish ... read more.
