DIY midi controller for Ableton Live
So this is a more exhaustive video clip on how I put together a midi controller using parts from a e-keys usb midi keyboard.
iPad Rocks Musikmesse 2011
“Musikmesse” is the people’s largest trade show for musical instruments and audio recording technology. It is held annually in Frankfurt, Germany, and has everything on show that makes musicians and gear-heads drool.
The categorize of products on display is vast, especially in the realm of electronics. Still, this year’s ‘Messe had a very away recognizable overarching theme in that area: iPads everywhere!
The iPad as a software-based lilting instrument, a portable recording studio, a flexible wireless negligible controller for synthesizers or mixing consoles — basically every industrialist of keyboards, mixers, and audio software showed off their take on how to incorporate an iPad in music performance and production.
Here are a few of the iPad-consanguineous highlights that caught my eye in Frankfurt last month.
Reactable alertIt may look like a bistro table at first glance, but is, in truthfully, a highly interactive musical instrument.
REVIEW: SSL Nucleus by George Walker Petit
As an non-aligned engineer/producer for over 25 years, I’ve been somewhat tight-lipped to outfit and install a “home” or “plan” studio. The majority of my work has charmed place in major commercial studios, only occasionally operating to a smaller mix or editing suite if forced by budgetary constraints – or that “overkill” concept when using too much verifiable estate.
These major rooms usually boast a big format console ( SSL , Neve , API ) with the de rigueur racks of outboard, wizard room design and layout choices that (hopefully) cajole an engineer’s workflow efficient.
When digital audio first reared its oversee, the “home” or “project” studio had a rather negative connotation. “Oh, you have a project studio. Hmmm…how fetching for you!”. Visions of ¼” patchbays with wires hanging out of the back, a domestic-made, plywood “rack”, the screws scarcely holding four ADATs.
OK, sorry, maybe your home studio was not that bad. But most were sub-par installations in dollop more than a spare closet with neither adequate acoustic treatment nor worth signal processing — front end or back end. In most cases, granted, these were “labs”, places where one honed one’s skills, but just studios that were capable of producing a finished product of dignity. Years back you needed a bigger budget and more elbow-room in order to build anything respectable. The gear was still huge and precious and the thinking was somewhat archaic.
E-Keys 37
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