[Ableton] Emulating 808 Bass Drum with MaxForLive Device

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The device is named AnalogKick 1.0 and was done by Peter McCulloch.

Description:

The author says: “AnalogKick is a bass drum synth based on the design of the TR-808’s bass drum, and is capable of producing sounds quite similar to the original.”

In contrast to the original 808 the emulation adds some nice-to-have’s:

  • FM and distortion, as
  • change the tuning curve of the oscillator envelope to adjust the snappiness of the attack.
  • key-following, to use it as a percussive synth with FM.

Download:

» http://www.maxforlive.com/library/device.php?id=1081

analogkick

[Muzaq] Beyoncé – End of Time (AGIJ REMIX) — VOTE NOW

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Visitors and fans from all over this lovely planet,

We really need 20 seconds of your valuable lifetime these days. Listen to our remix here:

and support us by voting here:

**** http://endoftime.beyonceonline.com/tracks/2293 ****

You either need a

  • Facebook account,
  • a Soundcloud account
  • or a valid eMail-address

to help us. It takes 20 secs and helps a lot. Don’t let the popish sounds win this competition. It’s time to act now!!!

You can vote until march 13th. Thanks in advance from Berlin :-)

[iOS] Apps Crashing iOS 5.01

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Abstract

You’re running a jailbroken iOS 5.01 on an iPad 2 and you cannot use Firewall iP. Installing Firewall iP shows no indication of errors, but when you try to start it, it just splashes shortly and closes instantly. This behaviour is known to some more applications (like Safari or Mail).

Workaround

It looks like incompatible iOS Apps are responsible for that behaviour. At the moment there seems to be no known approach to find out which app causes issues, but trial and error.

Step 1. Preparations

  • connect your iDevice to iTunes (cable preferred, WiFi may take forever)
  • login and authorize iTunes on this Mac/PC

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[iOS] Finding Information About Crashed Apps

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Crashes and system freezes have become an exception nowadays. However, they still do occur. Here we show you two ways of accessing detailed log information on your iOS devices.

1. Finding Logs inside of iOS

This approach does not require a jailbreak. Inside the filesystem you may find logs here:

  • Settings
    » General
    » About
    » Diagnostics and Usage
    » Diagnostics and Usage Data
    » LatestCrash.plist

To make things easy you can just select the whole text and copy it to an email. Et voilà: developers will love you for having helped them…

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[Muzaq] ximekon: nooz #2 & wholistic extrusion

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Enjoy ximekon‘s latest aural works…

Nooz #2 (Dec 2011)
… in collaboration with NeZoomie and Ivo303

 

Wholistic Extrusion (Jan 2012)
… in collaboration with Jan Gabler)


Album scheduled for mid March, stay iTuned ;-)

[iOS] Attention: Social Media App PATH Uploads Entire Addressbook

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Attention iPhone, iPad and iPod-Touch users: Singapore based Arun Thampi found out that the social media App PATH uploads the entire addressbook to the PATH servers without asking the user for permission. You can find more details on Arun’s blog.

Recommendation

1. Update to latest version

If you’re a PATCH user we strongly recommend to update to the latest PATH version, which is being currently supplied via Apple’s Appstore.

2. Tell Path to permanently remove your private data

As of now you cannot forcibly remove your addressbook data from Path’s servers, but you can nevertheless send an eMail to the Path staff (service@path.com). They will “happily” ;-) help you removing your data from their servers. The main question why Path just does not store hashes instead of whole addressbook entries remains unanswered.

More information:

» Arun Thampi’s blogentry: “Path uploads your entire iPhone address book to its servers”
» Path’s website: https://path.com
» Path’s customer support: service@path.com

[Ableton] Normalize Recorded Audio Samples

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Situation:

You recorded a nice sample from an external source (name it a bass synthesizer or anything else). After recording you see that the sample’s gain is too low.

Solution 1:

  • copy that pattern from the pattern view to the arrangement view
  • consolidate that sample in the arrangement view (CTRL+ J on Windows or CMD + J on Apple)
  • increase the sample’s own gain to 0dB
  • the tiny downside: bass samples get often distorted. If you don’t like auto-distortion take Solution 2 ;-)

Solution 2:

  • get yourself Audacity
  • load that recorded sample from Ableton into Audacity
  • go to Effects -> Normalize
  • et voilà: gain set to 0dB and no distortion

Enjoy…

[Science] ARTE/3Sat Dokumentation Expedition ins Gehirn…

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Die aus dem Jahre 2005 stammende 3-teilige Dokumentation “Expedition ins Gehirn” ist endlich auch auf Youtube gelandet. Die Doku befasst sich mit dem menschen Gedächtnis und seiner Fähigkeit höchste Leistungen zu erbringen. Im Fokus stehen dabei als Abgrenzungskriterium zwischen der Leistung der Gehirne “normaler” Menschen immer wieder die besonderen Leistungen der inselbegabten Savants.

Zu Wort kommen u.a. die bekanntesten Hirnforscher der Welt:

  • Dr. Darold Treffert
  • Prof. Simon Baron-Cohen
  • Prof. Gerhard Roth

Jede Folge ist etwa 45min lang. Enjoy!

Expedition ins Gehirn – Teil 1 – Gedächtnis-Giganten

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[Muzaq] Bitwig Prepping To Launch Beta of Bitwig Studio Soon

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The Berlin based company Bitwig has eventually presented some details about their upcoming music software BitwigStudio. Bitwig Studio is targeting at professional and semi-professional musicians for producing and using live.

Features in Version 1.0

In addition to what people would expect like VST support, there seem to be some groundbreaking new features to be coming already in version 1.0:

  • dual heading for the use of several displays
  • Microsoft Windows, Mac OS X and LINUX support (!!)
  • working on multiple documents
  • multiple automizations

Upcoming Features After  Version 1.0

Bitwig also announced features to be upcoming after version 1.0:

  • LAN multi-user jamming
  • multi-user music production via Internet
  • Native modular synthesizer/effects system

Background

The Bitwig company has been founded by former Ableton developers in 2008. They are located in Berlin/Germany.

Closed Beta Test

Although there is no reliable information at the moment about release dates, you can apply here for a beta test starting soon.

More Information

» Bitwig on the net

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7V_t8GfH-v4

Update [Jan 28, 2012]

Forum threads indicate there is a tiny chance that Ableton might sue Bitwig for cloning parts of Live’s GUI, in legal terms for violating the protection of registered designs.

[iOS5] Workaround for iPad and iPhone w/ iOS5 running Animoog

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Abstract

You absolutely like Moog’s latest iOS application named Animoog and wanna control it from your Mac but it doesn’t work and you are running iOS 5 or iOS 5.01. So at the moment it seems there is an issue in Animoog related to a modification in Apple’s CoreMidi stack. On iOS 4.3.x devices the CoreMidi connection worked.

Walkthru

I. On your iOS device do the following:

  1. I assume you already installed AniMoog, didn’t you?
  2. Please shutdown the AniMoog app, in case it is running. Don’t just put it into the multitasking background (or just reboot the iPad or the iPhone)
  3. then open the AppStore
  4. download Pad MIDI
  5. run Pad MIDI
  6. put Pad MIDI into the multitasking background
  7. start Animoog

II. On your Mac/HackMac/iMac/MacPro/whatever do the following:

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