Nodal – Generative Music Software

Nodal – Generative Music Software. Generates Sequences and even „Beats“ algorithmically. What is Nodal? Nodal is a generative software application for composing music. It uses a novel method for the notation and playing of MIDI based music. How does it work? This method is based around the concept of a user-defined graph. The graph consists of nodes (musical events) and edges (connections between events). You interactively define the graph, which is then traversed by any number of voices. These voices play the musical events as they encounter them on the…

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Reaktor 5.5 Beta – (Forumsdiskussion)

Reaktor 5.5 Beta ist draussen. Switch Programs in DAW, new darker GUI. Automap seems to work with it, also. Sounds umschalten in der DAW geht jetzt direkt und neue GUI gibt es auch, Automap scheint auch zu funktionieren damit.. Additive synthesis capabilities (based on new „Sine Bank“ module) Modal synthesis capabilities (based on new „Modal Bank“ module) Instruments can now be loaded as ensembles and vice versa Revised one-window GUI with flexible „split“ view Unified interface layout for standalone and plugin operation New full-screen view in standalone mode New „structure…

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RME Fireface upgrades – more stable

I have updated the RME stuff quite a while ago when Snow Leopard was very new and they all went to 64bits. Well with taking some hurdles of updating and deleting I fixed my problems on the Mac and updated the Fireface 800 to 2.72 and now it’s also back – I can switch it on and off and nothing freezes. I had those problems after the 2.64 update and did not dare to switch it off when I did not need the audio interface (just surfing etc). so it’s back…

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Aalto looks Buchlaesque – Softsynth

This one reminds a lot of Buchla 200e’ish sound design. in fact it has a main OSC modulated by another „Mod OSC“ plus Waveshaping which isn’t a bad idea, still. They say they did it for expressiveness – true, tho‘ – so.. and here’s the link to them – and the SynthDB entry about Aalto says.. to me very usable at the smallest possible component number at maximum output and efford to get interesting sounds as fast as you can beside a very classic structure of a – say – Nord Lead…

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New Sonic Arts Granite Granular Texture Generator

Reminds me of what I did with the EPS16+ and ASR10 back in the 90s: Sampling with LFO modulated Position and other things to extend my simple „speech sample“ to make it a crowd on my first CD „regression“, well – here’s a PC only plugin that tries to do exactly that – since it is Windows this is just for you non Mac-ists. and it sounds like this to them. My answers are still on my first 3 Albums if you want to listen to recycled and looped samples..…

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iOS4 ruckelt auf 3G / 3GS offenbar mächtig #iphone #FAIL

Das iOS 4 ist erschienen und kann für iPhone und iPod touch geladen werden, viele User berichten von Problemen, starkem Geruckel und sogar schlechterem Empfang von UMTS/3G Netzen und sind zur alten Version 3.13 zurück gekehrt. Sieht nach einem Problem aus und damit ist die Empfehlung wohl zu optimistisch gewesen für Leute, die Telekomzwang akzeptieren aber auf dem alten iPhone mit iOS4 arbeiten wollen. Übrigens werden gejailbrokene iPhones mit dem neuen iTunes wohl auch nicht mehr erkannt. Also ein Frontalangriff auf freie Netzwahl könnte man meinen. Offenbar ein doppeltes no-go,…

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