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I want a Korg monotron

tim — Thu, 25 Mar 2010 10:15:58 +0000

I just covered the Korg monotron for Gizmag. It’s $85 worth of FUCK YES with an MS-20 filter. Go check it out.

Meat Axe track on new Zenon compilation

tim — Wed, 06 May 2009 09:28:33 +0000

Our breaks project, which we’ve decided to break off under the name “Meat Axe“, has a track coming out on the new Zenon compilation, Permutations Vol. 2. Needless to say, we’re stoked. Samples are here.

The original Permutations released on Zenon in 2004 is considered a seminal release in the minimal-progressive genre. Permutations Vol.2 retains the concept of the original, yet takes it even further. This is made possible by technological advances and the dedication of the Zenon crew to push their own musical boundaries. With a host of newcomers aboard plus all the Zenon stalwarts, this album contains 10 tracks of fresh, technical progressive that you don’t want to miss!

Release date: 05/06/2009

1. Grouch – Mayan Toolkit
2. Shadow Fx – Minimal Technician
3. One Tasty Morsel – Get Your Wide On
4. Psypox – Boon Moots
5. Autonomech – Bit Generation
6. Sensient – Chambers
7. Sensient – Madmans Playroom (Tetrameth Remix)
8. Tristan Boyle – Into My Spiral Arms
9. Meat Axe – Two Whiffs and Your Greedy
10. Vacuum Stalkers - Ironman

Lenovo’s IdeaPad S10 is a pretty hot live rig

tim — Wed, 26 Nov 2008 05:58:42 +0000

I recently got my hands on a Lenovo IdeaPad S10 for a couple of weeks through work, and I’m happy to report that it will work beautifully with MOTU (and presumably, most other FireWire-based-) interfaces once you’ve found a Texas Instruments-based ExpressCard-to-FireWire adapter.

I’m seriously considering getting one for a new live rig, as I’m sick of my 17″ MacBook Pro and my MOTU taking up most of my carry-on allowance on flights.

Lenovo IdeaPad S10 Review [Gizmag]

Music Production Quick Linkage Vol 3

tim — Wed, 01 Oct 2008 06:39:17 +0000

CellDS grid sequencer for the DS [link]
Audio Damage Rough Rider is out [link]
Joys of Reaktor @ CDM including how to build sequenced instruments [link]

Oh, and MAKE is awesome:

Today’s SK-1 bender is yesteryear’s model train guy [link]
Controlling a Sega Mega Drive with MIDI [link]
Generate house music with the number Pi [link]

Music Production Quick Linkage Vol 2

tim — Sat, 06 Sep 2008 02:47:54 +0000

Ableton release free Designer Drums for Operator [Link]

That Audio Damage compressor will be free [Link]

US$1.19 TouchOSC app does Open Sound Control on the iPhone/iPod Touch [Link]

DiscoDSP Discovery now available for Mac and Linux [Link]

If you aren’t reading Audio Cookbook, start [Link]

Music Production Quick Linkage Vol 1

tim — Thu, 04 Sep 2008 13:08:51 +0000

Sound Hack release free Delay Trio (Win/Mac) [Link]

Virus TI OS v2.7.3 released [Link]

Audio Damage working on a compressor [Link]

Universal Audio release the UAD-2, with 2.5x the horsepower [Link]

Zero G running a great deal on samples until the 7th of September [Link]

Audio Damage posts three tutorial videos

tim — Fri, 29 Aug 2008 04:56:56 +0000

Chris from Audio Damage has posted tutorial videos for their plugins Dr Device, Ricochet and Replicant. Dan and I have been using these plugs pretty much since their release, but never had the understanding we do after watching these videos.

Replicant Overview And Tips… from Audio Damage on Vimeo.

Ricochet Overview from Audio Damage on Vimeo.

Dr. Device Overview… from Audio Damage on Vimeo.

How to use a Kaoss Pad 3 as a MIDI controller

tim — Thu, 28 Aug 2008 13:45:22 +0000

Here’s a quick and dirty tutorial on how to use the Kaoss Pad 3 as a MIDI controller. If you have any ideas on how to expand it, drop me an e-mail at tim at heftyoutput dot com.

The Kaoss Pad 3 sends the following MIDI events:

Touch Pad X-axis	CC #12
Touch Pad Y-axis	CC #13
Touch Pad on/off	CC #92
LEVEL Slider	CC #93
FX DEPTH knob	CC #94
Hold button	CC #95
Sample Bank A button	C1
Sample Bank B button	C#1
Sample Bank C button	D1
Sample Bank D button	D#1

One thing to note is that the Sample buttons don’t send MIDI until there’s a sample in that particular bank. It didn’t take me long to figure out, but I thought I’d mention it to save anyone headache.

Using Logic’s Environment, you can easily turn the CC #92 messages generated by touch on/off into a far more useful note on/off. The following example gives us a C1 note on touch - if you want a different note, select a different note in step 3 and 4.

#1 Open the Environment and select “Click & Ports” from the dropdown menu in the top left

#2 Create two new Transformers and wire them like so

#3 Open the first Transformer and mirror the following settings

#4 Open the second Transformer and mirror the following settings

Hefty Output shirts available

tim — Wed, 27 Aug 2008 14:24:52 +0000

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We’re still doing that album…

tim — Wed, 27 Aug 2008 13:27:59 +0000

I know we’ve been saying this for about four years, but we are honestly working on that (psytrance) album. We’ve been pretty side-tracked with the breakbeat stuff for a while now, but we have eight psy tracks chosen that are dancefloor-tested and almost complete - and last week I started the incredibly painful and time consuming process of moving the projects from Logic 5.5.1 on my old PC to Logic 8.0.2 on my MacBook Pro for a final polish and mixdown.