Finally

Posted on Thursday 2nd of May 2013 at 22:52 by

So we’ve got a couple of things to celebrate today.

1) It’s the 2nd of May which means that your tax report have to be sent in today (if you’re in Sweden). I finished mine a week ago or so and I’m hopefully getting some money back.

2) My Modular case finally arrived and I’ve mounted all my modules in it as well.

3) Patrik has sent me a short piece of music which is definitely worth to keep working on. It will be categorised under our Nachmahd project and we’ve got a vocalist who we hope can sing on the finished track.

4) Today is Day #100 in the #blogg100 challenge. I have now written 100 posts in consecutive 100 days. That’s worth celebrating, isn’t it? I’m not sure every post have been that great in the context of substance but still. I’ll keep the blog alive, but I will slow down and not blog everyday from now on. I think that might bring more substance since I think some of the posts (or a lot of them) have been a bit rushed.

More MMG

Posted on Wednesday 1st of May 2013 at 22:18 by

Here’s another fun video showcasing the Make Noise MMG module;

I was discussing the MMG with my best friend and we agreed that four MMG’s aren’t a QMMG and that a quarter of a QMMG isn’t a MMG.

Rumours also has it that the Maths module Make Noise is working on will be sold in late May. Can’t wait!

Pet Shop Boys – Axis

Posted on Tuesday 30th of April 2013 at 23:22 by

My heroes are back.
While Elysium is being an album I’d rather forget, and will just put in the archive, their upcoming album Electric sounds really promising.

Their track Axis it heavily scented with Italo Disco.

You can listen to Axis here;

The track is lacking a full vocal track, but I hope the rest of the album still sounds like this. Because even though it’s full of 1980′s it still sounds fresh. Stuart Price has done a great job on this one. The bell melody towards the end of the track is just beautiful.

The album will comprise 9 songs and with a total length of 50 minutes they’re averaging in at over 5 minutes each. Doesn’t sound like radio pop format to me – and I love it!

I think mindXpander should be invited to remix the track, don’t you?

I boldly pronounce this Track of the Week.

Make Noise MMG

Posted on Monday 29th of April 2013 at 19:30 by

I couldn’t resist it. I got too much GAS and bought a Make Noise MMG.

My Eurorack modular is starting to take shape now and I’ll post some MMG adventures as soon as I’ve got the module (picking it up tomorrow – yay!).

Make Noise MMG

Make Noise MMG

I’m think of how I’d best go about to make a nice video, but I’m not ready with my thoughts yet. You’ll probably notice when I’m posting my own videos here.

Catching Waves

Posted on Sunday 28th of April 2013 at 22:49 by

If you’ve been thinking of jumping aboard the Waves‘ ship, now’s the time.

Waves are kindly selling their Platinum bundle for $899 instead of $1600. Remember that the Gold bundle is $800 so the bang for the buck (another 13 plugins and L2 Ultramaximizer, L3 Ultramaximizer and L3 Ultramaximizer LL being three of them) that Platinum offers is something to really look at.

I’m actually considering these being a great substitute for Universal Audio plugins.

Offer ends 30th April, 2013.

Launchpad Scripts

Posted on Saturday 27th of April 2013 at 23:19 by

Henri has created a really cool script for the Launchpad, if you’re running Ableton Live.

The script transforms your Launchpad into something really cool. How about;

The only downside, which put me off a bit, is that the keyboard function only works in Live 9. And since Live 9 is released the Launchpad script for Live 8 is no longer maintained.

But you can upgrade from 8 to 9 without being robbed.

Still, it’s worth checking out if you’re running Live and have a dust collecting Launchpad laying around.

Make Noise Mult

Posted on Friday 26th of April 2013 at 22:51 by

Make Noise has recently release a new module which they call Mult.

It’s a simple module with multiple out’s so you can send a signal multiple destinations. It’s actually a passive module since Make Noise claims that it doesn’t need to be buffered.

Here’s what Make Noise has to say about the module themselves;

The Multiple is a simple but important module that allows for sending a signal to multiple destinations. Within the Make Noise system the Multiple may also be used for combining clock, gate and pulse signals together to create interesting timing sources (in other words, it acts as a Gate combiner aka logic OR circuit). It has 9 inter-connected sockets that may be split into different group combinations depending upon how it is patched. The jacks circled in white will make or break the interconnects between the 3 groups of three, thus allowing for three 3-way, one 5-way/ one 3-way or one 7-way multiple. The Multiple is passive, because the Make Noise system does not require Buffered Multiples since all critical control signals are already buffered in such a way as to provide a large fan-out capability.

It can be configured as 3×3, 1×5 and 1×3 or as 1×7. And it’s black!

Envelope trick

Posted on Thursday 25th of April 2013 at 22:17 by

I was thought a nice trick on the Eurorack this weekend and thought about translating it to the G2 with a twist.

But I’ve been trying and trying without succeeding so I have to admit failure. But, if you’re after a cool toy-ish sound effect you might be in for a treat after all.

Sad little synth

Sad little synth

I hope I’ve got better luck next time.

Badger Badger Badger

Posted on Wednesday 24th of April 2013 at 23:08 by

The envelope experiments have to wait yet another day.

But here’s something hysterical to pass the time with;

Yes, Brian May has produced a new version of the Badger Badger Badger song. It sounds very Queen-ish and is actually based on their track “Flash”.

Raspberry Pi

Posted on Tuesday 23rd of April 2013 at 22:25 by

There will be a slight delay in the music blogging tonight due to nerdy exploration of the Raspberry Pi which I’m setting up to be my main web server. It’s now running PHP5, MySQL Server and nginx.

It’s a nice little toy, the Raspberry Pi, and if it works as I hope I might get another one.

I’ll experiment with music tomorrow. Had to have a night off.