This is a crazy controller that I have put together for the purpose of controlling visuals software, and probably sequencers and synthesizer software as well. It’s a hack together of a bunch of different controllers as a way to test out what works.
Here is a track I put together using just Apple’s Logic and my Minime.
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Just a try at creating a Cure-like track. Ended up sort of New Order.
I usually end up getting lost in how many options there are on the computer. Three hours later, I’m surfing the internet and the only way I can remember I was trying to put a song together is that I’m holding onto an instrument. This one I finished because I didn’t do almost anything with filters or effects, and I only used the guitar.
This is a weird little conglom made using various pieces of software. The main audio was created on the fly using the Korg DS-10 software for the Nintendo DS. This was transmogrified using the RjDj app for the iPhone and the Echelon patch. A small amount of leveling was done on the file in Sound Studio, a simple audio program on Mac OS X. The resulting audio file was dropped into Apple’s Motion program.
The video clips are all of my creation, I use some of these files when I am doing live visuals. I tend to use Motion sort of similarly to the way I do visuals. I blend multiple layers of video and fade clips in and out while trying to have the video go with the audio. I can’t work fully live in Motion (at least with the machine I have it running on), but since it can loop segments or the whole project, I get a pretty good idea of what the end result will feel like.
Just got the Korg DS-10 cartridge for the Nintendo DS, and it’s great! This is a simple little modulish patch, somewhat like a modular synthesizer patch.
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A little playing in Gleetchlab
A lot of the samples in this are recorded from my 1975 Moog Minimoog. The cars have nothing to do with the audio, but they just might be in the same color scheme.
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Prophet64 for the Commodore 64 playing through my Moog MiniMoog. I just wish I could get some cleaner sound out of the Prophet64. I’ve never heard recordings of the Commodore sound as buzzy as mine. Maybe mine’s faulty? Either way, the combination of retro computer with retro synthesizer is quite fun to play with.
(Watch your volume dial, some of the audio is fairly off the scale)
