TS by IRCAM Lab – new school time streching

TS by IRCAM Lab is a Plugin for Mac OS X and later Windows version will be added. it is able to stretch audio in large amounts like 300% – the editor looks simple as you can see like a spectrum analyser. not only stretching – it’s purpose is to make and build new sounds Now try the formant, transient, sinus or noise sliders to sculpt your sound and you create totally original audio textures. but it’s also to help your work can be stretched without too many artefacts (since most…

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Motu Thunderbolt Interfaces 8 + 16 ch. analog in 1248, 8M + 16A

MOTU has just announced the new Thunderbolt Interface Line 1248, 8M and 16A. Including a 16ch Interface (I really enjoy and see more 16ch analog input interfaces coming and hope for 24in/8out interfaces from Motu and RME – still for USB3 and TB).. here we go – looks like the 16A is my favorite one since it is still a more rare fact to get 16 or more analog inputs – I will buy one when the first 24ins come since I am still on MP with no TB interface. but having…

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ASIO for All – Windows Update is up now (64bit)

Windows Users – this is for you and important – recommended to install immediately since it is essential for audio stuff on Windows – ASIO4all has always been important since there is no CoreAudio (or Core MIDI) pendant on Microsoft Machines, the more important is to keep track of ASIO – which has been updated to a 32/64bit and available to all Windows versions from W98SE to Win8.1 – including better latency – to get it right I just quote their post: After more than 4 years, of course, this…

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Leap Motion Controlling Music via Gestures in Airspace Geco Software sending MIDI + OSC to your instruments + SoundMorph Timeflux

I posted about Leap Motion earlier – this time it is a Max Addition to Ableton Live to be controlled by the Leap Motion Controller – looks a bit like dBEam but it is in fact a bit more than that – so it is more in the Kinect category of controllers than measuring a distance alone. It could look like this in a promo video: GECO : musical expression from thin air!Dieses Video auf YouTube ansehen it understands OSC, has 40 gestures or better means – it can handle…

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Bazillen überall! – Betafest mit Betatest für den bakteriellen Modularsynth

Bazille (Bacteria!) is a small scale software synth most of you may already know since there are a lot of pre-infos and even a beta that is still running from older times – but the new and final one has some more stuff in it especially what’s going on between oscillators. so just check it out and listen yourself since it is public beta.. Die Bazille ist schon sehr lang erwartet – ein 4 OSC-Modulsystem mit einer Menge Möglichkeiten – diverse Modulationsoptionen zwischen Oszillatoren neben FM sind das wichtigste „Neue“…

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