One of the most exciting plug-ins I’ve tried lately is Antares’ Harmony Engine. I don’t know why, but I’ve always been attracted by vocal harmonizers. And since they’re not a common thing in the plug-ins’ world, I couldn’t miss Harmony Engine!It’s a real time, “intelligent” harmonizer, and this makes it…
A monome-like step sequencer for iPod Touch
Are you dreaming of a touch-screen monome? Here it is, ehm, just kidding. But these iPod/iPhone hacks show a great potential, and Apple did not even release its SDK yet!This is from Patrick and its cappel:nord blog: an early version of a step sequencer created with SuperCollider and running on…
news
The first monome+thanksgiving album?
Matthew G Davidson, a.k.a Stretta, is a musician and designer, well known in the monome community for being one of the most active developers of Max/Msp patches for the controller. Well, I don’t think I’m far from the truth saying that some of you have bought a monome just to…
interviews
Off-the-record: GForce [ENG]
As anticipated in the Virtual String Machine review, we asked GForce’s Dave Spiers some questions about, well, VSM, his past, piracy, and… his Citroen DS Pallas (?!?). First of all, I am talking with Dave from GForce Software, GMedia, or what else? I admit I’m a bit confused with these…
news
TENORI-ON meets Live, via Max/Msp
Kurt “Pyrolator” from Germany is a TENORI-ON owner, and he’s trying to use the TENORI-ON as a controller for Ableton Live (as you can see from the picture).The User Manual is not helpful about these things, so Kurt decided to go on his own. He had to face a couple…
software reviews
Virtual String Machine (VSM)
Virtual String Machine (or VSM) is GForce’s new baby. Yes, GForce, the ones behind the M-Tron, Oddity, Imposcar, Minimonsta. I’m sure you remember… And yes, they did it again… The VSM is a sort of tribute to a particular genre of synth, which was very popular in the 70s (therefore…