Une très belle interface de contrôle MIDI en version modulaire et française monsieur (Mont de Marsan). 32 modules en configuration de base et peut être étendue jusqu'à 128, chaque module coûte 20€ , 4 pour 60€. Des versions directement adaptées à des softs comme Traktor ou Ableton Live sont également proposées , autour de 1000€ HT. Plus d'images ici

Quote> The Mazwer is a new modular MIDI controller allowing an infinite customizable combination of controls. You can cange the configuration in seconds to adapt your studio project or live situation, day afer day, just by pluging Mowzer Modules in the Backplane, assign midi controls in your favorite software, and you're ready to play.

Mazwer will be available in June 2005. Estimated prices are (excl VAT) : empty box 550 euros, one module 20 euros, 4 modules 60 euros (example for a 16 track mixer 970 euros).

On est tous d'accord, Reaktor c'est une tuerie! Comme moi vous avez sans doute tenter de construire vos propres ensembles avec des résultats plus ou moins bons. Si vous n'avez encore rien tenté voici un lien qui va vous aider à y voir plus clair. Le tutoriel en anglais de Computer Music est plutôt bien réalisé et très pédagogique, je vous le recommande. Allez-y , lâchez vous et soyez créatif.

Reaktor may have won the 1999 readers' award for Best Soft Synth but, judging from the amount of mail we get, it's clear that a lot of you still see it as a bit enigmatic when it comes to building synths of your own from scratch. So, being the nice chaps that we are, we've digested, regurgitated, translated and rearranged the manual into something a little more coherent. In this two-part tutorial, we'll be concentrating on building a fairly basic analogue synth that can be used for lead and bass sounds, but more specifically for slow filter-sweeping pads. read more

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Le site coutant.org rassemble des tonnes d'infos sur les vieux micros. Une galerie qui rentre dans le détail de chaque modèle. Ce site constitue une bonne introduction au type de microphones utilisés dans les radios et les studios d'enregistrements. Des oldies mais aussi des micros plus contemporains. Bonne pioche!

Software gratuit de création de sons. [GleetchLAB] est disponible pour Mac OSX, la version pour Windows est prévue pour bientôt. Attention à vos HP!

[GleetchLAB] software is a complete freeware suite for sound designers and open minded musicians. Designed to create and manipulate drones, glitches and amazing digital noises with few mouse clicks. [GleetchLAB] software is a peculiar collection of instruments that you can patch togheter with a modular matrix. The suite features four stereo loopable wave readers/writers with different random loop point algorithms, one wavetable oscillator, ectoplasm generator, a sonic reducer, 3/4/5 bands parametric EQ, an amazing sonic disgregator, a granular re-synthesis engine, a 512 points convolver, a ring modulator, a 5 stereo tracks mixer with opto compressor/limiter, VST plugins implementation and a friendly spectrogram/sonogram/oscilloscope/ phase-scope analizer, as well as 2 stereo audio inputs to process several exernal sources. With [GleetchLAB] software you can create complex digital drones, design glitches and spikes with a pencil, process and reprocess samples, play live or prepare your samples for studio work. [GleetchLAB] is not a classic editor/instrument, there is no timeline, MIDI sync or sequencing. You just load samples or plug your real instruments and start manipulate them in realtime. It is an organic tool, it is perfect to create sound efxs and the most modern digital avant-garde sounds on the fly. It uses several synthesis thechniques and DSPs, and you can even use your favourite VST plugins. [GleetchLAB] is a tool designed for openminded people, researchers of the new frontiers of sound, mad scientists of the glitch art. Whether you are a sound designer or a fanatic of minimal microsound music, you’ll find [GleetchLAB] an incredible and versatile tool.
Due to the nature of digital noises, please pay attention to high sound pressures and very fast transients that may damage your speakers (and your ears), if you do not operate carefully the overall volume output.

Voici le plug auquel je n'aurais jamais pensé. L'émulation d'un visiteur virtuel dans votre studio. En temps normal un chanteur ou une chanteuse ne chante pas tout à fait pareil selon les personnes qui se trouvent dans le studio. A coup sûr, ce ne sera pas la même prise si vous faîtes rentrer son ex ou sa mère dans le control room. Voilà ce que le Virtual Studio Visitor de Sonicfinger émule. Je ne jamais testé ce plug et vu le prix je n'ai pas l'intention de l'acheter. 950 $, pas franchement lowcost, même si les personnages sont plutôt drôles (Un ninja, le label manager, Elton John, un clown, un curé & more). Si certains d'entre vous l'ont testé, merci de me laisser un commentaire. Pour être complet le plug est au format RTAS, VST et AU.

Ange est le premier corset musical. Cette interface, désignée par Danielle Wilde, réagi aux mouvements de l'abdomen relié à des capteurs électroniques, elle peut produire plusieurs types de sons.
Avec toutes les interfaces que je vous ai présenté vous devriez maintenant être habillés de la tête aux pieds. Manque plus que le "string interface". Sick…

Ange is a musical interface, which by nature of its design invites reflection upon the idea of “playing” the body.

The design is inspired by an 18th century medical engraving and women’s corsetry throughout the ages. The engraving, Ange Anatomic by Jacques Fabien Gauthier d’Agoty, is of a woman whose back has been flayed, exposing the musculature and bone structure and creating the suggestion of wings. Ange incorporates this form into a wearable piece of custom-made corsetry.

Using electronic sensors to make the rib cage “playable” (i.e. enabling the player’s touch to trigger and manipulate sound samples and tones), Ange allows the user to metaphorically touch and “play” the body of the wearer.

sound design : tara creme

Un gadget comme je les aime : Transformez tout ce qui vous passe par la tête en haut-parleur pour un prix raisonnable : 20$

SoundPads stick-on speakers transfer sound to any surface you stick them on. SoundPads convert posters, bookcases, tables, doors - any thin-walled high-transmission surface into permanent stereo speakers! Sound quality varies depending on the surface you peel and stick them on, so be creative!
These are designed to stick permanently to the location to which they are adhered. A bit of trial and error in choosing where to mount the sound pad is recommended. For example, you might find improved sound quality in one area of a framed picture by sliding the pad on its surface (before peeling to expose the adhesive), so be creative *before* you give these a permanent home...

SonicImpact SoundPads

Converts any thin-walled high-transmission surface into permanent stereo speakers, including posters, pictures, bookcases, boxes and more
Contains 2 stick-on speakers
Discrete, ingenious, peel and stick design
Makes most surfaces thump with sound
Wire to almost any amplifier (speaker wire not included)
Impedance: 8 Ohms
Recommended Power: 10W - 50W input
Power Rating: 6W each
Weight: 2 oz each
Dimensions: 4.2" dia. x .9" H

Interface malléable conçue par Florian Vogt, Timothy Chen, Reynald Hoskinson et Sidney Fels. Les concepteurs souhaitent développer un nouvel instrument de musique. La vidéo.

The malleable surface touch interface combines a deformable input surface and video processing to provide a whole-hand interface that exhibits many attributes of conventional touch interfaces, such as multi-point and pressure sensitivity. This interface also offer passive haptic feedback, which can be effective with applications such as sculpting or massage.

Certainement l'un des contrôleurs les plus High-Tech. Le Jazzmutant de Lemur impressionne par son design , sa technologie tactile et un peu par son prix : 2495$
Quelques courtes vidéos : 1 - 2 - 3

Quote> At first glance, the Lemur looks like a high-fashion etch-a-sketch. As a performance interface, the Lemur is immediately appealing. You touch colorful rounded interface objects on the 12" LCD display to control your computer in any way you can imagine . The Lemur's elegant simplicity is made possible by its sophisticated graphics processor and proprietary touchscreen interface that tracks multiple fingers simultaneously.

Using an editor application running on your choice of Mac, Windows, or Linux, you drag and drop switches, faders, and other objects into an exact simulation of the Lemur's screen. Make any number of interfaces, store them in an XML-based project file, then upload them to the Lemur and it's ready to go.

Page Up and Down buttons above the display will flip through your pre-defined interface pages, instantly changing the appearance and behavior of the device (making it more of a Chameleon than a Lemur). One moment you can be mixing by moving several faders simultaneously. The next moment you can be controlling a software synth with switches and balls that can be thrown around in a two-dimensional space.

Now the Lemur is ready to control a synthesis or processing application in a modular software program such as Cycling '74's Max/MSP or Native Instruments' Reaktor. Assign a fader object to change filter cutoff. Use a two-dimensional controller for multi-channel panning or scratching a sound file. Spend some quality time alone with your imagination: you'll find no shortage of cool applications for this animal.

The Lemur communicates using Open Sound Control (OSC) over a 100-baseT Ethernet cable, an emerging standard for controllers that has numerous advantages over MIDI: no latency, higher data capacity, 32-bit numerical precision, and easy configurability. OSC is currently supported by modular software applications such as Max/MSP, Reaktor, and Pd - and more OSC-compatible applications are on the way. Once you experience the ability to name controllers freely and hook them up to high-resolution values, MIDI will seem very 1980s (which it is, by the way). Not surprisingly, OSC can be used with multiple controllers on a network, so if one Lemur isn't enough, just use a standard ethernet hub and you can have a whole zoo full of 'em.

The Lemur's palette of user interface objects currently includes uniquely stylized buttons, faders, one- and two-dimensional area controllers optimized for live performance. Each object can be labeled with the name of the parameter you're controlling as well as its numerical value. You can also use the two-way nature of OSC to display numerical status information sent to the Lemur from your computer, allowing you to track what's going on with your computer without the computer being anywhere nearby. This means your performance can look more like performing and less like office work.

In addition to taking on any size and shape, the Lemur's user interface objects have "physical" properties including friction, evaporation, and smoothness. Faders and area controllers can either stay where you drag them (maximum friction), or slide away from your finger as if on ice (minimum friction). "Throw" a low-friction fader hard enough and it will bounce off the bottom of your mixer.

And you're not forced to control the non-linear world of audio with 0 to 127. Objects can be attached to arbitrary mathematical expressions to transform your movements into ranges appropriate for what you're trying to control.

At Cycling '74 we've fantasized about hardware for the dynamic world of modular music software that started with Max almost 20 years ago. During this time, we've seen many controllers: hard to use, lacking any visual feedback, and a pain to configure. But most of all, hardware controllers have lacked the sense of infinite possibilities we've come to cherish in software. Until now.

The Lemur is the first hardware controller that mirrors the unlimited potential of reconfigurable modular software. If you too have dreamed of the Lemur, stay tuned for updates as this one-of-a-kind product moves closer to shipping.

Très bon site pour tous ceux qui auraient envie de se lancer dans le DIY mais n'y connaissent pas grand chose. A condition de comprendre l'anglais, Tonepad propose plusieurs niveaux : beginner, intermediate et advanced. Il s'agit d'ampli et d'effect uniquement, pas de synthés. Chaudement recommandé!