Let’s start with the reminder – Meet up #1 is coming up this Sunday! 6:30 – The Walnut Room.

Ableton-Land:

Looking for a job, relocation, and a new language? How about working for Ableton?

Public Profile is coming soon on the Ableton site. Just noticed that element at https://www.ableton.com/account.

This comes from Native Instruments but has a lot of generic “how to” tips for Vista (same tips different version) – If you use Vista / Windows you should go through this.

Akai is sponsoring Tresor Award contest (with Numark – the sister company with Alesis and others…). Editor note : I smoked the crossfader in a Numark mixer in 10 days. The contest seems to be “kid” orientated. The contest states “Open to 18-22 year old…”.

File under cool or fun?

Side Note:

I am sure everyone heard that Propeller Head’s Record is live (out of beta / need to pay for it now). Here is a post I bumped into on Synthtopia. For the record Record is “an electronic system designed to record, edit and play back digital audio”. Okay, movin’ on…

Synths and Gear: I am a synth head, more physical and less virtual.  As much as this site is Ableton, synths really do make the world go ’round.

Free VST Synth here! Windows only, sorry folks.

Mellotron IS BACK! via Gear Junkies

File under “how did this escape my radar?” http://www.vintageking.com/

Add to the I want list: http://www.schippmann-music.com/ebbeundflut.html

Via Wire To The Ear Love thy Doepfer!

Doepfer Sneak Peek from niamhguckian on Vimeo.

Wavedrum or Otto? Here is some more information on the re-creation of the wavedrum from Korg. Answer : Both?

Portable Analog Groove Box – I think I like this!

New idea on control surface for reason (these ideas are important to watch evolve):

Hey elder statesmen, remember the SH 101? Here is a SH-ish virtual via Synthtopia

So freakin’ sexy: The article.

Tech:

Either this will blow your freaking mind or you already know! The idea is simple – use images to synthesize sounds / music.  I first ran into this through a friend of a friend here. (should we call him into Denver to demo some sick shit?) It was this Synthopia article that pointed me to http://photosounder.com/ and the flashback ensued.

Mix Cloud – the YouTube of Radio – did you know? Mark from Modulate This did! (They need to work on UI imho – took 5 clicks for a dumb user to get any results (youtube = 1 click) and buffering is not programmed correctly – no play while loading without click -GREAT START how ever!)

Mashine gets some vital updates.

The 64 bit stuff is coming in for the Mac world such as the  Gear Junkies report. Now remember, Windows was WAY ahead on the 64 bit curve.  The problem was simple – few companies would write for XP 64 (with good reason) or for Vista 64 (with good reason).  Keep your fingers crossed that Microsoft is not going to FAIL on version 7.  I am seriously considering a move to Mc for all my mastering in studio  (tracking os moving to Linux).

Faderpro.com is getting into re-mixing instruction.

And DNA has been ALL OVER the net this week, worth the mention because it really is amazing! DNA is Direct Note Access – allowing you to edit single notes in polyphonic recordings – sound like a dream, not any more. Info

Gearjunkies reports that the Voxengo Polysquasher version 2.1 update is now available for download here.

The end is near? DJ Hero? I have never played any of the *hero games (not my thing) – In fact, I jumped on Call of Duty on Friday to “Kill some Nazi’s” and only lasted 5 minutes before I decided to practice Ableton. So, here is a brightly colored Daft Punk DJ Hero spot!

If you are in Seattle Sept 24+ go see The Decible Festival.