#kore2

From The Good Folks At Sonic Couture. Makers of Great Kontakt Sample Libraries.  They Have Just released another free kontakt script called Smart Pitch.  It's Supposed to mimic guitar pitch bend techniques on a keyboard. This script overrides any normal pitch bend that might be programmed into an Instrument.There are three knobs, and all can be automated. The first is the Pitch Bend TYPE, and the second two are just the range for upper and lower bends in semitones.

There are 6 types of pitch bend included 

All – this bends all notes, like normal pitch bend

Last – bends only the last note played

Highest – bends only the highest note being held down

Lowest – bends only the lowest note being held down

Held – bends only notes being held down (not those in release )

Release – bends only the notes in release (not those being held down)

The last one, Release, is obviously impossible on a guitar, but can be fun to play with.

Die einzelnen Instrumente und Bestandteile meines Studios die in “Try” Verwendung finden sind die folgenden:

Native Intruments Maschine

Die Maschine ist eine Hybridlösung aus Software und Hardware aus dem Hause Native Instruments. Das Herz des Systems ist die Software, die Hardware ist ein ausgereifter Controller zur Steuerung der Software. Die Software lässt sich im Grunde vollständig mit der Hardware kontrollieren, was beim musikzieren ein großer Vorteil ist, den Haptik bei der Musikproduktion ist etwas schönes. Die Maschine erlaubt es, einzelne Samples auf die verschiedenen anschlagsdynamischen Pads zu legen und diese damit zu spielen. In erster Linie liegt die Stärke der Maschine darin, Beats zu Programmieren. Dank dem integrierten Sequencer sind aber auch komplette Song-Produktionen und Arrangements möglich. Ich nutze in der Regel allerdings nicht den intergrierten Sequencer sondern lade die Maschine als VST-Instrument in Cubase.

Well - not really.  :)  More like just making it do what I want it to do using the features it comes with that I don't know about.    I've got a couple of gigs coming up for Ottawa Fashion Week at the end of September and I'm planning to rock them both with Ableton Live as the backbone of the show.   I can't recall Ableton ever really crashing on me, so it gets the job!   Right now I'm currently trying to structure my set of original jams into a few big projects in Ableton that I can basically run scenes for.  I've been ripping my hair out trying to understand why I couldn't map a rotary controller to the tempo box, but I just nailed that.  Turned out I needed to enable the Remote setting on the midi controller in Ableton.  Strangely though, unlike when you select, say, a fader in MIDI map mode, and its related blue area is "cross-hatched" with little black corner markers to let you know you've selected it, the tempo box does no such thing.  So I thought at first it couldn't be assigned....   but alas... it can.  :)))

In the meantime I'm cranking out jams and grooves, heavily into using Reaktor, Absynth, Massive, Alchemy and a variety of beat tools like Sonic Charge's uTonic, AD's Tattoo and SC's awesome library of breaks and beats (Tremors, Abstrakt 1&2).   Dusting said tracks with some home made mouth sounds, bass guitar and general noisemaking stuff.... fun fun fun.   I figure to have all my songs turned into audio tracks so I can keep the processing live to a bare minimum (crash avoidance 101).   After I get a few hours of jams worked out to audio, I'm going to rip my AxiomPro61, monome64, KaossPad and possibly my Kore 2 rig all out of the studio and see what I can do with all of this off the laptop.  Big question marks on the Kore 2 stability...we'll see.  I've never set it up on the laptop....   hmm.....

But I'll also run the iPad2 with some audio coming from a few apps in there, plus my iphone library, so I should be able to mix and match and handle any weird glitches with another source of audio while I get things rolling again.  Right?   rrrrrrright...... :)))