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Analogik3 out now!

2012-01-27T21:04:00.002+01:00

The latest installment in the Analogik series is here! This time I've veered from the orignal concept a bit in that I decided not to stick to the original only modulars formula. Percussion and some post processing is done on computer and an Elektron Machinedrum as well as a Korg Monotribe. Also, this time around I'm using my own modular which amongst other things, has a Tiptop Audio Z-DSP, Cylonix Cyclebox, The Harvestman Piston Honda and many other digital modules.

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K3LOID Trailer

2011-12-10T21:17:00.001+01:00

K3LOID is a promising short film with mecha designs by Aaron Beck, a concept artist I've been a fan of for a long time. Aaron has done some great artwork for flyers and is currently working at weta workshops where he's done some designs for Avatar.

The music is made by Noisia and Amon Tobin, both tremendously talented artists. They've collaborated before, on sunhammer, a track from Noisia's album, Split the Atom:
Noisia - Sunhammer ft Amon Tobin (Split the Atom) by NOISIA

Veqtor Live at Norberg 2008

2011-10-29T10:41:00.001+02:00

So, I finally got around to editing this thing. Sorry for lousy sound quality and picture. Shows my wii-reaktor setup I was rocking at the time.

New Remix Released: Noisebud - Fuckin' Vacation

2011-09-05T08:11:00.002+02:00

Noisebud just released their 8-track album, Fucking Vacation', featuring a remix by me of the title track.

Fuckin' Vacation (Veqtor Remix) by Noisebud

Some new tracks on soundcloud

2011-09-02T07:23:00.001+02:00

Scanner by Veqtor
Pulse-code by Veqtor
Broken Droid by Veqtor

LZX New Prototypes Testing

2011-08-08T11:43:00.001+02:00

This is a demo-reel demonstrating the features of some forthcoming LZX video modules. The most prominent features being demonstrated is "video logic" and video ramps.

Korg Monotribe has hidden midi features!

2011-08-06T10:46:00.000+02:00

via my friend Nitro2k01

Glitch!

2011-07-16T22:04:00.000+02:00

Glitch is a very interesting game from Canadian developers Tiny Speck, they've recently been joined by Keita Takahashi, maker of Katamari Damacy so keep your eyes on this one or why not sign up for the beta?

Veqtor Live @ Camp 303 - Norberg 2009

2011-06-19T23:44:00.001+02:00

Veqtor @ Camp 303 Norbergfestival 2009 from Måns Almered on Vimeo.

Found this on Vimeo, can't believe I haven't found it until now!

New video and introducing Noisesource!

2011-01-29T15:38:00.003+01:00

Since it's really hard to keep track of the thousands of modular blogs, I've decided to join Noisesource, a community-driven blog with several writers, if your interest are modulars, synthesizers and DIY, then I can highly recommend following it.

Awt – Lost Found – Found Lost Love Album – Out now on OXO-Unlimited!

2010-12-10T14:53:00.003+01:00

We got to release Awt's excellent "Lost Found – Found Lost Love Album" on OXO-Unlimited today I've got to say I'm really excited about it! It's a really good album, when I first heard some of the tracks at the Blipp Blopp festival we arranged at Kulturhuset in Stockholm I was totally blown away. Now these incredible tracks have found a home, what are you waiting for?

DOWNLOAD IT NOW, IT'S FREE!!!

Quants - The Alchemists of Wall Street

2010-09-16T11:26:00.002+02:00

Reaktor 5: Morphing Effects as Sound Generators using Feedback Matrix

2010-01-13T01:22:00.006+01:00

Here's something I've been playing around with recently: using effects in feedback matrices and morphing between presets. I got the idea when playing around with frequency shifted feedback in a Serge modular system. So I created a crude macro that let's you morph between the presets, but intend to improve upon it before releasing it (morphing speed modulation, snapshot lists etc). A lot of effects in Reaktor unfortunatly use non-interpolating parameters, like switches (which is good for saving cpu), thus creating clicks when morphing. I will be creating a set of effects intended for morphing like this which are completely designed for morphing (complete with polarizing mod matrices and such). In this particular setup, grainstates fx, a stereo frequency shifter with a wide range and crossfade between up and down-shift, a spacemaster reverb and an analogic filter box are being mixed using a matrix mixer. This allows for any output to be sent to any input. All of the effects are morphing randomly between presets and so is the matrix mixer. Works quite well as a proof of concept if you ask me!

Limit Cycle EP - Out now on Fools Forest!

2010-01-03T18:45:00.005+01:00

Limit Cycle EP, containing the tracks Limit Cycle, Ax34 Suimle, Tryastvec Pattern and Mosaic, has just been released by Fools Forest! This EP basically started out with me getting into the Max4Live beta, spawning the track Ax34 Suimle. When Fabian at Fools Forest heard it, he said he wanted to release it and I said go ahead. Limit Cycle followed Ax34 Suimle and then Tryastvec Pattern. At that point there were going to be just those three tracks but before Fabian had the time to finish up the cover artwork I finished Mosaic.

These four tracks are in a sense experiments: They are all made using possibilities open up by Max4Live, the extension to Ableton's Live sequencing software, which allows for easier control over things such as algorithmic composition. And this EP is filled of just that. Variations on the concept spawned by Per Nørgaard's Infinity Series are restrained by mutating scale quantizers while psuedo-random pattern and weighted random generators create constantly moving rythmic material. These numbers comes to life via synthesizers in which all sound parameters are slightly, slowly moving, creating an organic texture of sounds. These tracks could have been created before Max4Live of course, but I can only imagine having to spend at least 6 months on every track, working out these tremendously complex mathematical relations between the notes by hand, in a traditional sequencing enviroment.

With this, I would also like to say that Max4Live is quite possibly, in my opinion, the greatest innovation within music technology in the 00's!

I hope you'll enjoy listening to it as much as I did making it!

Download via Fools Forest 320 kbps mp3

Download via Bandcamp Multiple Formats

Spinal Tap Amps, via XKCD

2009-12-17T02:41:00.003+01:00

Parsuitel Orbitelum

2009-12-08T12:08:00.002+01:00

New album out now:

Live: Netaudio Megarave@Ginglik, London

2009-10-20T19:27:00.002+02:00

See you there hopefully!

DIY Flux Capacitor Expander

2009-10-20T19:15:00.005+02:00

This demonstration uses my crude DIY flux capacitor for the Livewire AFG, basically 5 switches and 10 jacks corresponding to the flux cap pins. Two pin pairs are attenuated by two VCA's controlled by the makenoise/wiard wogglebug, crosspatched with the malekko/wiard noisering, which drives the melodic noodling, via a A-189-1 used as a bitcrusher, to perform cheap quantizing.
The sine output is sent to an input of a makenoise QMMG, driven by the A-143-1 envelope. About halfways through, a feedback path from the animated pulses, animated by A-143-1 LFOs, into the A-106-6 xpander filter (wogglebug controlled) goes into one of the pins on the flux cap expander, resulting in strange noises and unpredictable inharmonic distortion.

DIY Flux Capacitor Demonstration - Sine Out by Veqtor

Next up is a quite complex patch, demonstrating some weird possibilities open up by having access to the individual pins of the AFG flux capacitor pins. All the AFG outputs are sent to the A-152 for switching, then into a f(h) plague bearer and after that routed into flux cap expander. At the same time, a pair of flux cap pins are sent into another f(h) plauge bearer. Everything is controlled by a Wogglebug/Noisering crosspatch quantized by a A-189-1 bitcrusher.

You're listening to the currently selected waveform from the A-152. This creates highly unpredictable noises, ringings and well... listen for yourself!

DIY Flux Capacitor Demonstration - Feedback Abuse by Veqtor

Don't try this if you're not certain about what you're doing, you might destroy your AFG!

Exploring M4L & The Finger: Ax34 Suimle

2009-09-23T17:41:00.006+02:00

Ax34 Suimle by Veqtor
First audio demo/track using Ableton Live with the Max 4 Live Beta and Tim Exile's The Finger. All control data is generated through different infinity-row generator max devices. One drum track, manipulated by two instances of The Finger. And two instrumental tracks, notes are infinity row again, one instance of The Finger on each. Loads of filtering and dynamics processing, controlled by M4L LFOs. I love this kind of over-the-top complex processing.

This track will be released on Fools Forest.

SH-101 Birthday Cake!

2009-07-29T14:16:00.007+02:00

My girlfriend Johanna surprised me today, on my birthday, with this INSANELY well-made SH-101 cake! Tomorrow is Norberg, see you there I hope!

FREE: Retrospective EP - Out Now!

2009-06-07T01:00:00.002+02:00

I'm very proud to announce the release of Retrospective EP, released by The Centrifuge, home of prestigious drill n' bass artists Neutek, Gasman, Mark Swift, Gareth Clarke and many more!

"An action packed bumper 8-track EP from Sweden's Veqtor, curator of the OXO-Unlimited netlabel and all round hardware/software demon. The release twists and turns between melodic junglism, max/msp-fuelled glitch explorations and a dirty, dub techno vibe."

Tracklisting:

Tanuki Jingle
3-Aulien Caexf-9
Pecking F-Key
Kickuchi and Retort
Room 431
Computers Will Inherit The Earth
Snowflakes
Retrospective

What are you waiting for?
DOWNLOAD NOW!

Iterations - Quadraphonic piece premieres friday 15/05/09

2009-05-12T22:05:00.005+02:00

Sorry for the short notice, I've been REALLY busy, no time to update my blog.
On friday my quadraphonic piece iterations will be played to the public on the "Ljudvågor" festival in Visby. It's a piece which I've been working for ever since I moved to here. What makes me proud of it is that I've managed to combine all my old techniques with new found ones and done things I've always wanted to try out, all in 6:42.

Just a small list of things I'm using: My modular (AFG, Z3000, A-106-1, A-106-6, A-132-3, A-143-1, A-189-1 and A-196), Reaktor (custom patches), Max/MSP (for algorithmic stuff), DtBlkFx, Ableton Live, Logic Studio (surround mixing, panning, quadraphonic reverbs etc)

I will try to find some proper medium to get it online somehow, for you to burn onto dvd-audio discs or whatever, in 5.1. Also it might be available in stereo on my upcoming release in june... =P

Ticket booking

Eden of the East

2009-04-13T16:26:00.004+02:00

I just finished watching the first episode of Eden of the East, a really promising new anime, written and directed by Kenji Kamiyama (Ghost in the Shell: SAC, Seirei no Moribito) and produced by Production I.G. The plot pulled me in right away and the animations are extremely well done, I can hardly wait for the next episode! Here's the trailer:

Multi-touch for Max 5 and potentially Live 8

2009-03-21T13:39:00.002+01:00

"Max Multitouch Framework by composer Mathieu Chamagne makes turning your Max patch into a multitouch interface a breeze. When I first reviewed the Lemur, I was frustrated by the hardware-style abstraction between your software and the interface. Why was I having to go through Max patches painstakingly assigning Lemur controls to Max controls - why not just make the Max controls appear on the multitouch screen? Well, that’s exactly what you get with MMF. Using a set of Max abstractions, all you have to do is build your Presentation Mode style UI and add in the MMF ingredients - it automagically becomes touchable on a variety of displays."

via Create Digital Music

This should be easily incorporateable into Live 8 I hope... Man, the future is looking bright, multi-touch, live 8 w. max for live, motu interface interfacing with my modular... I can hardly wait...

OXO-Unlimited: Now Free!

2009-03-18T14:19:00.003+01:00

Yes! All of the paid releases are becoming free downloads,
check it out!

The glitch of things to come...

2009-03-16T00:28:00.004+01:00

Just a little tease, this is done in Max/MSP... yes... it's circuit-bending samples:

Glitchfreak Teaser by Veqtor

Edge by Mobigame

2009-03-11T00:09:00.001+01:00

Perhaps one of the coolest things I've seen for ages...

Another reason to want something you can't afford: The Iphone... =/

A-143-1 sequencing AFG in Antimatter Universe 2.4

2009-03-10T21:05:00.001+01:00

I've been playing around with the antimatter jumpers on my AFG and came up with this with the jumpers set to 2 and 4.
It's being sequenced by two of the comparators of the A-143-1, going into the FM inputs.
The LFO's on the A-143-1 are modulating loads of parameters. AFG subsaw ringmodulated by AFG animated pulses go into the HP in of A-106-1 while pulse out goes into LP in. Animated saws FM A-106-1 frequency. Makes you long for the flux capacitor expansion... I might make one myself...

A-143-1 sequencing AFG in Antimatter Universe 2.4 by Veqtor

Snowflakes

2009-03-09T17:44:00.004+01:00

Composed using Per Nørgård's fractal infinity series:
a(2n) = -a(n), a(2n+1) = a(n) + 1, a(0)=0.
Every four notes in the primary voice, the modus is transposed into a neighbouring one.
It was made using Max/MSP, the Modal Objects Library by Vince Manzo and Fredrik Olofsson's f0.noergaard external. Sonically the voices are performed by Vember Audio's Surge. The glitch noises are from DEVSND's Arp 2600 and Bent 808 libraries, processed by DtBlkFx, Buffer Override and Reaktor.
Tempo is 120<=>180

Snowflakes by Veqtor

Klubb Adrenalin Live Video

2009-02-09T20:21:00.001+01:00

C.Loneberg was kind enough to upload this video from saturdays live performance.

Veqtor @ Klubb Adrenlin 2009-02-07

2009-02-02T22:31:00.003+01:00

As you probably noticed, my previous gig at Klubb Adrenalin was unfortunatly cancelled, but organisers have now found a new venue and things are back on track. One thing has changed though, you need to send an e-mail or join the facebook group to be able to attend. Cya there!

Hobnox Audiotool: Feedback

2009-01-21T16:44:00.003+01:00

Having nothing to do I opened up Hobnox's Audiotool, which is kind of like a modular version of rebirth, running in most browsers, using flash. What I discovered through experimentation was quite fun, you can do feedback loops through the tb-303 if you have delays in the loop. The results are, unpredictable, filthy and awesome.

Audiotool Feedback Demo

Tim Exile - Obama's Inauguration Speech Mashup

2009-01-21T02:37:00.001+01:00

Here's Tim Exile's take on Obama's Inauguration Speech:

More Tim Exile!

2009-01-14T01:38:00.011+01:00

Tim Exile, known from my previous post, uploaded a few more videos, this time he's playing live with the Elbipolis baroque orchestra. Some elements of the players are being remixed and he's also adding electronic sounds:

His new album is coming out on Warp and Planet Mu (!) on the 19th of march. Here is the tracklisting with some samples courtesy of Planet Mu:

1. Don't Think We're One
2. Family Galaxy
3. Fortress
4. There's Nothing Left Of Me But Her And This
5. Pay Tomorrow
6. Bad Dust
7. Carouselle
8. When Every Day Is A Number
9. Listening Tree
10. I Saw The Weak Hand Fall

Perhaps some of the most mind-boggling and interesting music out there right now...

Color Codes

2009-01-03T22:32:00.002+01:00

Scientist extracts images directly from brain!

2008-12-15T02:55:00.003+01:00

It sounds like science fiction, but it seems japanese researchers have managed to extract letters using a functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) machine!

Via Pink Tentacle:
"The scientists were able to reconstruct various images viewed by a person by analyzing changes in their cerebral blood flow. Using a functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) machine, the researchers first mapped the blood flow changes that occurred in the cerebral visual cortex as subjects viewed various images held in front of their eyes. Subjects were shown 400 random 10 x 10 pixel black-and-white images for a period of 12 seconds each. While the fMRI machine monitored the changes in brain activity, a computer crunched the data and learned to associate the various changes in brain activity with the different image designs.

Then, when the test subjects were shown a completely new set of images, such as the letters N-E-U-R-O-N, the system was able to reconstruct and display what the test subjects were viewing based solely on their brain activity.

For now, the system is only able to reproduce simple black-and-white images. But Dr. Kang Cheng, a researcher from the RIKEN Brain Science Institute, suggests that improving the measurement accuracy will make it possible to reproduce images in color.

“These results are a breakthrough in terms of understanding brain activity,” says Dr. Cheng. “In as little as 10 years, advances in this field of research may make it possible to read a person’s thoughts with some degree of accuracy.”"

This opens up some insane possibilites if you ask me!

Doepfer A-106-1 Xtreme filter AR-FM Demo

2008-12-02T02:24:00.001+01:00

I just bought a A-106-1 Xtreme Filter, I got it in the mail today!

Audio rate FM using four ADSR's in loop mode, the ADSR's are running in audio-rate.
ADSR1 is doing the syncronization.
ADSR2 is synched to ADSR2 and connected to a real ring mod, X input.
ADSR3 is not synched and goes into real ring mod, Y input.
ADSR4 is synched to ADSR1 and goes to CV3 (adjustable +/-10) on the A-106-1
real ring mod out is going into LP in on the A-106-1 VCF.
Resonance is up quite high, some kind of clipping is always active, either +, - or both.

Doepfer A-106-1 Xtreme filter AR-FM Demo by Veqtor

Live @ Fylkingen 5/12/08

2008-11-23T23:51:00.001+01:00

Teknoist, Me and my friends Daniel Araya and Marcus Ihlar, don't miss it!

Tim Exile @ Elevate Live Video

2008-11-21T07:44:00.003+01:00

This is what in my opinion electronic music is all about,
it's the man, the machines, Tim Exile! =P

If you don't know Exile from before, he's made a lot of reaktor work, from core-cells to ensembles to his live-setup.

"Sell sell sell sell, spin the carouselle once more, one more brick between the rich and the poor"

Analogue vs Digital

2008-11-07T08:47:00.007+01:00

So, for fun I wanted to do something with my currently extremely limited modular: I patched 2 ADSR's from my A-143-2 into self-trigger mode, with their speeds set to high. This creates two oscillators with a waveform which goes from saw-wave, to triangle and into ramp. Then I ran them into my passive ring-mod. The output was recorded while I tweaked away at it.

Then I decided to go crazy, I put the soundfile into a track in Ableton Live and set the sample's playback setting to complex, I recorded tempo-changes to create fft'y time-stretches where needed. Next up was dtblk, binding settings to a midi-controller, made automating it a really good time. The end result was bounced to a new file, as I wanted a fresh start.

Next up was loads of filtering, using PSP Nitro, Oligaric, Arcdev Cyclotron and much more. This was done in parallell, in order to create more movement in the sound.

Veqtor-AnalogVsDigitaltest.mp3

If you're wondering how I get it to integrate well with the modular sound, then I can give you some pointers.

1. Always work in 96 Khz and 24 or more bits, to avoid aliasing at all times, especially when working with recorded modular material! Then when all processing is finished, you can use some nice resampler, like the one by izotope which is available inside Audiofile Engineering's Wave Editor, for mac users, Adobe Audition's resampler isn't too bad either. Doing it this way will create a highly vivid result.

2. Automate

3. Automate

4. Automate, I really can't stress this enough, without movement, even if it's hard to hear it, effects and such which are static is what a lot of people associate with a digital sound.

5. Use your DAW and plugins to do things which aren't possible in the analogue world (why try to make your computer something it's not?), ideally, use a modular software, such as Plogue Bidule as a modular effect to control these plugins. Plogue Bidule can be utilized with multiple inputs and outputs to create extremely complex routings.

6. NEVER, and I mean NEVER, synthesize a waveform on a computer unless it's meant to have digital characteristics, a highly trained ear simply tells it from an analogue one instantly, unless it's a painstakingly accurate emulation, like d16-group's phoscyon, but it is the only example of an analogue emulation that has actually tricked one of my friends ;-)

TipTop Audio's Z3000 pics and Audio Demos

2008-11-06T14:36:00.004+01:00

This is from Muff Wiggler's Forum, he also was kind enough to post some audio demos!

"First is a comparason between Blacet VCO sine and Z3000 sine. I just pan back and forth between them with a joystick. It starts with 2 bars of Blacet sine, then 2 bars of Z3000 sine, then back to Blacet, etc.

It ends with 4 bars of Blacet VCO."

Simple Sines

"The second is just a very rough demo of applying FM to the Z3000. I'm not modulating the FM index through a VCA or anything, just one Z3000's triangle wave into the FM input of the other Z3000.

First you hear the Z3000 saw by itself. I have the other Z3000 into the Linear FM input, but the Linear FM control is set to nothing. A few bars, then I turn up the Linear FM control just a bit, then turn it down, then a bit more, then turn it down, then a bit more, then down....you get the idea

Then in unplug the external VCO and plug it into the Exponential FM input. Then I mess around with the tuning of the external VCO.

Then I unplug it and you have the dry saw again.

Now this is just a quick n' dirty because I know people are talking about it on other forums. I only had a few mins for this, I'm supposed to be working and gotta get back at it"

FM Test (this is my favorite -v)

The original forum thread

update:
Here's another pic by REwire

And a nice little sound example by him as well:

256mbps Mp3

Soundlist: Pulse, PWM, Saw, ExpFM, LinFM, Sync, HSM (Hard Sync Modulation)

FM and source was RS95e. During end HSM, I was moving the waveform shape of the RS-95e.

REwire_-_TipTopZ3000_Demo.mp3

Sounds like a really powerful module! For a complete description, check it out at Analogue Haven

and don't miss noisesource's awesome review!

On the fringe of science...

2008-10-29T19:25:00.006+01:00

Fringe, a series co-created by J. J. Abrams, Alex Kurtzman and Roberto Orci, has captured my interest lately. It's a science fiction series and it's subject is "fringe science".
What really lifts this series above average is the acting-effort of John Noble as the mad-scientist, Dr. Bishop.

Oh, and so far I've spotted an Roland MC-303 and several computer-screens sporting something extremely similar to Max/MSP or pure data (couldn't tell because of low resolution.)
Makes you wonder who the prop-guys are.

nitro2k01 - INSEX Micro EP

2008-10-15T15:05:00.004+02:00

My friend nitr2k01 just released a FREE "Micro EP" of 4 tracks made on Gameboy using only two channels, the pulse no.1 and the pitched noise channel. And not just that, the pulse instrument had to be really short.

Check it out NOW!

Multi-Touch "Cell"

2008-10-09T11:13:00.005+02:00

Via Create Digital Motion
"Multi-touch for visualists? It’s coming, and it may have nothing to do with names like Apple or Microsoft. But while many projects now are experimental and pricey, your hands do seem to be close to being liberated from the mouse and keyboard alone."

I can't wait to make a av-patch in max w. one of these!

Reaktor + Touchscreen

2008-10-08T13:52:00.003+02:00

Via KORE@CDM and Create Digital Music

Building instruments and effects in Reaktor is a lot like building your own hardware. But ever wished those fabulous UIs you’ve seen could be used via something other than … ugh … your mouse? View Reaktor with a touchscreen or touch-controlled projection, and it’s an entirely different game. We already knew Tim Exile was a fan of touchscreens, but here’s what it can do in the hands of another Reaktor master.

Above are videos of Metrognome a.k.a Karl White getting down with a custom ensemble on a touchscreen. Karl reveals on the NI forums:

That was a huge undertaking and is one very complex Reaktor mod. I’ll be making more stuff public on the user library once I get the documentation lined up.

His site sports a lot of cool reaktor stuff like the BushInABox:

Plogue Bidule + DtBlkFx = Fun

2008-10-06T20:29:00.005+02:00

Something I've been working on, using plogue bidule to turn dtblkfx into a FSU-device (like glitch but with fft fx)
Example, featuring livecut:

Plogue+DtBlkFx

Meet the bitfreak!

2008-10-06T05:37:00.004+02:00

This is the Bitfreak for Reaktor 5, it uses pseudo-random, or pitched noise (NES, Atari 2600) as it's main sound source, and more than 200 types of it!!!There is no other software synth that does anything even similar to this
(I have no idea why, because it sounds awesome!).
Now you have another good reason to get your hands on Reaktor 5!

Download (rar)

Bitfreak Demo

A MIDI-Ready Nintendo Game Boy, with Help From Arduino

2008-10-05T22:21:00.002+02:00

Arduinoboy mGB from trash80 on Vimeo
via Create Digital Music

Lovers of the sound of the original Nintendo Game Boy, the Minimoog of game systems with its distinctive, rich 8-bit sound, this may be the best solution for integrating it with other music gear.

Our friend trash80, aka Timothy, has completed a project with open-source code for the affordable, easily-programmable Arduino electronics platform. To make it work, he’s built his own custom cartridge, adding standard MIDI communication with other devices. An 1/8” minijack plugs into your Game Boy cart, but you get standard MIDI DIN on the other end for connecting to keyboards, computers, and the like. With all the code available, you should not only be able to build your own MIDI Game Boy, but apply some of trash80’s techniques to other MIDI hardware projects, as well.

Full documentation:

Flickr set

Code, project detail, and docs at Google Code

That’s the full Arduinoboy shield below:

trash80 also has a great liveset demo featuring the wayfar midines and monome:

Liveset Filter Scratching from trash80 on Vimeo.

Spiral Sequencer for Reaktor

2008-10-04T16:12:00.002+02:00

via Kore Noisepages. The new spiral sequencer, created by lazyfish. Looks cool...

"Native Instruments has posted a teaser video of something new called Spiral. It’s a sequencing instrument, and as you can see modulation is represented by swirling squares. It looks fantastic, it sounds wonderful and fluid – it’s, naturally, the creation of Reaktor maestro Lazyfish, who brought us ensembles like the cellular automata-powered Newschool and the brilliantly inscrutable Gaugear in Reaktor 5.1. Lazyfish is the kind of person who can make you believe the future of software instruments is unlimited."

A short étude for flute UPDATE!

2008-10-03T19:11:00.002+02:00

Just a short étude I did for school.

Update:
Today our études were to be performed by professional musicians, although many of them were okay, I had the bad luck of getting a somewhat... disillusioned, to say the least, flute player as the person who was going to perform my étude. Now what really bugs me is that these guys were getting paid to do this and only one out of five seemed to take it remotely serious. If they could at least try...

Yet another time my love of electronics has been reinforced, not having to think about fumbling musicians ruining your ideas really helps when trying to be creative... Not to mention what computers can do to sound recordings. I did record it and just for you to compare I edited it to sound a bit more like I would have wanted it to be like. First it's his FAIL, and then the edited.

veqtor-a_small_flute_etude_failvsediting.mp3

What annoyed me the most was his excuses that the piece was written way too fast and bla bla bla. Hey, this guy is supposed to be a pro right? How come he's not at least on par with most other flute players. If you don't take your profession seriously (not as in being overly proud of being a musician but as in being devoted as hell) you should just quit, especially when it comes to being a musician these days since information is so readily available no one's interested in semi-professional skills.

I wish I could work with someone like this instead:

DtBlkFx is awesome and free!

2008-10-02T23:33:00.016+02:00

Do you sometimes discover an awesome thing that's been around for ages but you for some reason haven't encountered it despite how cool it is? DtBlkFx was one of those things for me. My flatmate showed it to me the other day and I've been hooked ever since!

It's an FFT-multi-effect for Win and Mac and has a couple of different transformations you can perform on the FFT'ed material, but what really opens up some new oportunities is the masking, which lets you for example select all the even harmonics and perform the transformations on it instead of on everything.

Official Site and Download

And here's a little thing I made using a couple of instances of it, and some BO, with a lot of Random, tempo-synchronized LFO's controlling almost everything there is in both effects...

edit: try opening it in audition's spectral view:

Veqtor-DtBlkFx_Glitch_Demo

The Combine Interview

2008-09-29T17:41:00.001+02:00

“Where’s the Party At?” Bendable DIY Sampler Brings 8-bit Back

2008-09-28T15:55:00.007+02:00

Via Create Digital Music.

Todd Bailey’s “Where’s the Party At?” wants to return to a simpler, glitchier era of sampling. When CDM spoke to Hank Shocklee, Public Enemy’s legendary producer, he talked about how those artists really preferred earlier samplers because of, not in spite of, their flaws. And because lo-fi is a little easier to pull off, this makes a great project.

WTPA is an open source 8-bit digital sampler kit, designed to be hacker and bender friendly. Inspired by the preponderance of wack samplers proliferating in music today, WTPA brings back the fun, the danger, and the aliasing errors.

I want one!

Adrenalin 3/10

2008-09-25T22:57:00.005+02:00

Stockholm's first real Breakcore-club, Adrenalin is held at Fylkingen, on the 3rd of October DuranDuranDuran gets to see the miserable culture-starved scandinavian city of Stockholm and probably play to the smallest breakcore crowd in europe...

Unless you and your friends go there, so as not to embaress ourselves.

Veqtor Loves Renoise 2.0 BETA

2008-09-15T10:49:00.004+02:00

Some of the features that I had only dreamed of:

Full, automatic, sample precise Plugin Delay Compensation (PDC) for Track FX (native and Plugin) and Instruments (aka everything). You simply don't have to care if a VST Plugin or instrument introduces unwanted latency. Renoise will compensate it for you under the hood.
Mac OSX: Added support for Audio Unit (AU) Plugins (finally)
Multi output VSTis (AUs) are now fully supported. Samplers or Synths with multiple channels can now be routed to individual tracks.
Sending notes to VST (AU) FX is now supported. Simply create a FX alias in the VST Instruments pane to do so (link an instrument to an existing FX).

A little gift to you...

2008-09-14T04:04:00.007+02:00

This is just something I've been working on a few nights in a row, decided I just wanted to give it away. Relaxation-music, so click the download, make a cup of tea and fire it up and grab your favorite book or magazine, also works great falling asleep to. Cheers

Download Veqtor - Retrospective (35 megs @ 710 kbps FLAC)

edit: a new version of this track has been submitted to the what.cd compilation 2, until I know if it'll be on there it won't be available for download...

edit2: the new track can now be downloaded from here. It's a bit different, and a lot more worked through AND it's in FLAC! Enjoy!

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