Archive for January, 2009

Thanks to Les Fradkin for submitting this ineresting video from Japan.

Les Fradkin is one of the guitar legends of the 1970’s, a Guitar Synthesizer pioneer of the 1980’s and is now a 21st Century innovator on the Starr Labs Ztar. A classically trained musician as well as being an original member of the hit Broadway show “Beatlemania”, he has found success as a recording artist, composer and producer with MGM Sunflower, ESP-Disk, Bell, Arista, RCA, and Laurie Records. Les has written the well known French hit “La Chansons Des Souvenirs” (”Song Of A Thousand Voices”) for the famous French songstress Mireille Mathieu and the Latin Pop icon Roberto Jordan (”Donde”). He has played Mellotron, 12 and 6-string Guitar, Bass and Piano on dozens of Top 40 hit records throughout the early 1970’s , scoring many US and UK chart placings throughout his career.

More info about Les at http://www.youtube.com/user/lfradkin

Thanks to Pepe Mogt from Nortec Collective for sending this in:

Having fun with Percussa Audio Cubes, This is our First Test Ableton Live and some loops and filters, we will use this set up on our next gigs….stayed tuned
enjoy!
Bostich+fussible

Nortec stopped by our NAMM booth past weeks and decided they had to get the cubes.

More info about their work at http://www.myspace.com/tijuanasoundmachine

They are also Grammy nominees:

If you happen to be going to the Joshua Tree Music Festival in May, be sure to check them out: http://www.joshuatreemusicfestival.com/mayartists.htm. Alternatively you can see them at the MUTEK festival in Montreal, Quebec.

Nortec collective is not a band or a group but a series of compilations created in (and about) Tijuana Mexico where electronica, norteño and tambora music come together with visuals. See http://www.nortec.info/

Nor-tec has spawned audio imitators, Volvo ads, t-shirts, and indie films, popped up everywhere from art installations to MTV and HBO, and now Tijuana’s first-next-big-global-thing finally has its own full-scale scholarly book that lends a critical ear to border beats. With a focused and serious mix of theory, interviews, and lots of listening during long nights in Tijuana clubs, Madrid has done the music and the scene a great service by unraveling its histories and dissecting its meanings for fans and scholars alike.

–Josh Kun, University of Southern California, author of Audiotopia: Music, Race, and America

We are visiting robotspeak tomorrow, the 22nd of january, to do a demo and presentation about the new software for audiocubes shown at NAMM2009. We will be talking about loopshaper, VSTWrapper and Deckabridge. Join us!

More info at http://www.robotspeak.com/html/classes.html

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Thanks to Okudaira-san from Japan for submitting these nice videos. In the video, Reason 4 is used for live music performance together with Quartz Composer for Visuals. All software is controlled by Percussa AudioCubes.

AudioCubes VST Wrapper 1.0

Existing VST plugins or instruments in your DAW can be instantly
used with AudioCubes through included VST wrappers from Percussa.
The wrapper is compatible with popular DAW software such as IL FL
Studio, Ableton Live, …

Plugins can be instantly mapped to cube sensors without MIDI Setup.
Sensor info can be scaled, inverted and limited to plugin parameters
and colours can be linked to incoming MIDI notes in the case of VST
Instruments.

With just one cube and VST wrapper software, you can apply effects
to your tracks very easily. The tiniest gestures of your hands and
fingers are instantly audible.

AudioCubes Loop Shaper 1.0

Producing sounds or music directly with the cubes is possible through
the included sound design software from Percussa.

VST plugins can be loaded and hosted directly in this application
without running a DAW or other software.

With just one AudioCube, your gestures are captured and translated
instantly into parameter changes for the VST plugins.

The results can be recorded into the built-in looping sequencer, and
stored to disk as a WAV file, for reuse in your DAW or sequencer.
Alternatively, audio can be streamed via Rewire to popular software
such as IL FL Studio, Ableton Live, …

DeckaBridge 1.0

Deckadance, a popular professional digital DJ application by Image-Line,
can easily be used with AudioCubes through included Deckabridge software
from Percussa.

Real-time sensor signals from the cubes can be assigned to DJ effects
without complicated MIDI setup.

Classic MIDI DJ controllers for transport control, cueing, loop setting,
can be used simultaneously with AudioCubes without any problems.

Relooper sequencers in Deckadance can be easily controlled using multiple
cubes for interesting loop slicing and reconstruction.

Deckadance template files are included for use with DeckaBridge.