Category: Music
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Serialismo for Launchpad X
Serialismo turns a Novation Launchpad X into a pitch-class–aware twelve-tone keyboard. It enforces Schoenberg-style serial constraints: each pitch class can be used only once until all 12 have appeared. LEDs provide immediate visual feedback (by changing colour). serialismo.py — Python script Serialismo_LPX.syx — Launchpad X custom mode (four-octave chromatic layout, LED-ready) README.md — this file…
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A Logic Pro Scripter Inspired by the Vermona randomRHYTHM
I have created a Logic Pro Scripter that recreates the core behaviour of the Vermona randomRHYTHM module directly in software. The script generates probabilistic rhythms across four time-divisions—quarter, eighth, sixteenth, and triplet—using the same concept of internal random values and threshold-based sliders found in the original module. Two working modes are included. Dice mode locks…
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Elektron Analog Rytm II vs Digitakt II
For longer samples like speech phrases, the two boxes behave quite differently once you look past “it can play samples”. Analog Rytm II and long samples Key constraints and quirks: For spoken bits: 33 s is fine, but you cannot do multi-minute speeches or many long stereo ambiences. Digitakt II and long samples Now the…
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Elektron Analog Rytm II vs Digitakt II
For longer samples like speech phrases, the two boxes behave quite differently once you look past “it can play samples”. Analog Rytm II and long samples Key constraints and quirks: For spoken bits: 33 s is fine, but you cannot do multi-minute speeches or many long stereo ambiences. Digitakt II and long samples Now the…
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Chasing DFAM’s “stepless” feel across other synths
How to approximate Moog DFAM’s analog, continuously variable sequencer on other hardware? DFAM baseline Arturia MiniBrute 2S Arturia MatrixBrute Sequential Pro 3 Buchla vs Eurorack compatibility Tiptop/Buchla 200t that feels DFAM-like Takeaways
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Ableton Live 12.1 effects with sidechain option
Ableton Live 12.1 (Standard) audio effects that let you feed them with audio from another track (“Sidechain” input) Device What the sidechain does Where to turn it on Compressor Classic ducking or keyed compression; optional side-chain EQ Click the little triangle on the left of the device, then hit “Sidechain” inside the panel. (Ableton) Glue…
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Dub Techno
“Dub Techno” got its name from merging two foundational styles: Jamaican dub (known for its spacious effects, heavy reverb, echo, and stripped-down arrangements) and techno (originating from Detroit’s electronic dance music scene). Producers in early ’90s Berlin—especially Mark Ernestus and Moritz von Oswald of Basic Channel—were among the first to blend the minimal 4/4 pulse…
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A soundtrack for a romantic sci-fi movie that does not yet exist
For “Memories of a Space Odyssey” I tried and used only Arturia Analog Lab V sounds. What came out seems to me reminiscent, for tone but not quality, of a new Blade Runner movie. It is available on Pond5 for licensing.
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AI chooses the title for my track
Suggest a title for a Simple and short carefree melody, that repeats itself with small variations, made of plucky sounds, synths and claps. I composed it! me to ChatGPT Joyful Echoes ChatGPT to me The Elektron Digitone helped me a lot. It is now available on Pond5: https://www.pond5.com/item/241564582
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Accordi e acqua ritmata
Ho usato due soli ingredienti per Water drips, water flows! Il condimento è stato fornito da qualche plugin nativa di Logic Pro.
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Logic Pro: correctly routing MIDI from DigiTone
I thought it was easy and straightforward but I was wrong: just easy. Sending the MIDI data from the four tracks of the Digitone to Logic, to play simultaneously four MIDI virtual instruments, requires a touch of environment. You create a Monitor, associate it to a track, and then route from it to four instruments,…
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Violent, brutal DFAM!
The MOOG DFAM is at the core of this track, now available on Pond5, that I baptised “The violent war of the marching robots.” Logic Pro glued all together.