Hi, this is Wayne again with a topic “Molten Music Monthly – June 2016”.
Hello, I’m Robin Vincent and welcome to this summer edition of the molten music monthly. It’S June, it’s summertime, it’s always nearly July and something serious happened to. May I’m not really sure I’m going to see if we can find it somewhere, but all reports are that it’s just been lost to another dimension anyway, let’s plow on so here we are again for another round up of what school and happening in the world of Computer music, today we’re going to be looking at the new arturia V collection. We’Re going to be getting into VST hosting with freestyle, will be feeling all wobbly without put movement controlling Ableton with screen Forge yech.
Oh street, fighting with Smith, sir Martin’s control master checking out the new, second-generation focusrite scarlett range, getting our cables or in a twist, with soft, tube modular, having a bit of a poke at reason, 9 and getting our fingers on the first Universal Windows. 10. App of midi control called why midi, why not? Let’S have a look but first to lose that sony has sold off its entire creative software wing to MAGIX. Now this may not mean a whole bunch to you, but sony have been looking after three very important business. Software first of all acid, then sound, forge and then vegas pro now acid is like the original loop based production software.
It kind of created the idea of acid eyes loops where things have be moved about in pitch and time, and it’s one of the fundamental building blocks of a lot of modern door and luke based sauce lists. Sound forge is kind of like the originals wave editor on the pc and vegas pro is an awesome sort of door inspired. Video editor and i’ve used all three of these for a very long time at it. Not so much that’s kind of dropped away a few versions ago, but sound forge is still might go to wave editor and I do all my videos in vegas pro so have them suddenly ticked off to another company is a while it’s a little bit worried, but At the same time, sony haven’t really developed the software as much as all us users would have light, and so perhaps in their new home at magics, something new and exciting could evolve.
However, magics do already have their own video software, but at the same time they do also run samplitude and sequoia, which are very professional, high end bits of door software. So, although magics is mostly associated with kind of music maker fund loop based bits of old crappy software, they do have some professional products in their lineup. So hopefully it’s all good we’ll have to wait and see. There are 17 since organiz, pianos and bits and bobs in the amazing arturia V collection. It’S always been amazing. It’S been a great deal.
It’S like yo native intruments, complete you get a whole load of stuff in one package for what ends up being a reasonable price. In the new version, they’ve all been reworked and sort of restyled and the interface is gorgeous. It’S just looks like it’s been lovingly created all the stuff that pops out all the new pages and the way that you can scale the interface up and down depending on the resolution with your screen, is brilliant. The new piano is amazing, it’s quite intensive, but it gives off an extraordinary sound within an amazing environmental space. Avenue synclavier is an extraordinary, sound generation device and everything in there is just going to give you a lifetime of interesting playing and tweaking and nothing about. It’S also very, very multi touchy, mostly it has some issues like you can’t select some of the menu items with finger, but you can control two different knobs or two different parameters.
Three four: five different parameters, all at once with your fingers on the touchscreen, which is a fabulous thing for more thoughts on the V collection check out my video of it running surface pro 4 freestyle is a ver SI host for hosting of vsts. What does that mean? Well, rather than having to open up a a big door program like cubase, just to run a virtual instrument? This allows you to open any virtual synth within its own sort of little front end GUI. It also lets you plug in two or three or four or more to combine to creating some kind of combination patch.
So you can either layer different since across your keyboard for performance or you could put them all together to create an uber enormous patch. The style of freestyle is very sort of trendy and at the moment, it’s very sort of flat and grey, but works and looks beautiful. It creates a whole bunch of thumbnails down the side.
You can drag your stuff in it’s very visual, very easy to work with, and I think is going to be awesome. It’S in feature at the moment, and it has a few little issues of the old, absolute Mouse mode when you’re trying to use it with touch of Wang and about. But it looks like it’s going to be an excellent piece of software because most other VST hosts.
Let’S face it like forte and such like, they just all look a little bit so own 1990s, so this is a bit more like it. So I’m looking forward to the full version of that output are the makers of some innovative contact instruments, but movement is their first actual plug-in and what it is really is kind of a delay and modulator effect. But it’s designed beautifully and the way that you connect things together is very intuitive and very interesting and instantly pleasing you get all these sort of weird delays and pulsing and modulation stuff going all over the place.
Looks great works great. It’S a bit expensive at about 179 quid, but it is a really nice piece of getting I’ve enjoyed using it. The echo is a strangely named controller frames, live controller for ableton live a, he say: we’ve got like dozens of those. Everything is a bleedin control of wrote in the life.
Yes, but this is a multi touch controller. It’S a piece of software. That’S going to run on your multi-touch screen, it’s not an iPad app shock horror. This is actually could run in windows.
Rather, it does run in windows. It will run on your surface pro 4. You can set it up to control whatever you like in Ableton. You’Ve got clip, launching you’ve got to MIDI control, you’ve got mixer control, all of that kind of stuff is built in, and it looks brilliant.
It’S very very touchable, obviously, and it’s kind of the solution for ableton that we’ve been waiting for, because a what’n are just not going to support multitouch. They just don’t see the slightest bit interested the fact you can’t get your fingers on those tiny bloody little play buttons, it’s just without a major rewrite. It’S not going to happen so something like this that pops in overlays and allows you to access all the functionality of Ableton for performance is brilliant. Are we doing a full review of it as soon as I can? The other touch software company smithson martin, have released a conover hardware controller that looks every bit like a retro arcade machine. However, they don’t seem to be called smithson. Martin anymore, they seem to be called touch innovations, but I can’t seem to get any more information on that other than they seem to have changed their name.
But anyway, any day now the control Master will be released and it’s essentially a big knob with a bunch of really big buttons around it. It seems like a slightly large solution that does sort of very little. I mean the knob essentially moves whatever you got your mouse over and the buttons can be assignable to whatever you like. So it doesn’t do a whole lot, but it looks brilliant and I’d love to get go on it. Focusrite of updated this scarlet ranger interfaces. These are apparently some of the most popular interfaces on the planet and the second generation ups, the quality of the pre amps up the quality of the cases that they’re in and the most important bit is that I believe it ups the speed of the USB drivers, Because, unfortunately, focus rights drivers have always been mediocre in terms of performance.
They work well enough, but once you get down to low latency is the CPU. You know overhead just increases and increases to the point that you can do very little so hopefully, with a new driver architecture, that’s going to sort that out there shown that they can do it with their Thunderbolt interfaces, and so it will be awesome to finally remove The element of doubt when recommending a focused right interface, the windows store, is completely devoid of any interesting midi. Apps, it’s just not taken off, and anyway, I think mainly because most MIDI software can run as a as a win32 desktop app. So why run it as a Windows Store app? Well, why MIDI have decided to go that route and they’ve released last year? Something called why MIDI, which was a controller general controller and a mackie emulated controller, which is really nice. It looked a bit sort of dodgy, but the functionality was certainly there now they’ve released something called why MIDI toolbox and that allows you to create and customize your own midi controller to control whatever you like.
It’S simple use, it’s easy. It looks still a bit dodgy but they’re getting their gym at level. 6 Productions is always up for improving it and changing it and listening to feedback from users, and so he’s now allowed you to change the color of different things.
You put in a background image and it’s really starting to develop and coming on to be something nice. So I’m gon na be doing a deeper look at that as soon as I can modular since always seemed like a really good idea. Until you actually get your fingers and your patch cables in there and spend half an ax and not getting any sound out at all, most modular sense that we play with virtually I kind of had everything you’ve done. For you mean reactor blocks is a good example of where all the difficulty in the complication handy and the science of it, I suppose, is all hidden away behind the interface.
Then we get to do is play with the gorgeous sounds now. Soft use modular is colleague on the other way. It’S trying to do it for real.
It gives use proper modular modules and then says they are killing with it, and so you spend half an hour not get any sound out, because you actually have to know how to wire vc o up to a vca, maybe buyers in CF. What does that mean? Well, that’s anybody’s, go, thankfully, there’s a whole bunch of presets in there, so you can get some sound out, but softube modular is kind of the real deal. I mean it sounds amazing, but it’s also going to require a bit of horse and a bit of working and perhaps a bit of sort of knowledge to get sound of it, which is no bad thing.
The only issue for me is that it kind of just looks a bit disappointing. You interface the GUI in this day and age of very high-definition screens. It’S just coming of it. Oh alright and that’s a shame. It should be amazing today, at least what I’m making this propellerheads have released. Reason 9, hooray a whole new updates to an entire door, which is quite exciting.
They have lots of new things in terms of device players which are a bit kind of like and maybe plugins. I suppose they have pitch correction. So they’ve got a melody, ng esque thing working in there.
There’S lots of workflow improvements, there’s audio to MIDI and the thing they’re pushing the most there there’s a thousand new preset designed by really awesome people. So that’s exciting. However, there’s no new synth and we had this last year with reason: ain’t no loose.
It hasn’t been anything new since version 7 and I don’t think propeller heads are really listening. I think that users just want something new, I mean with the Combinator technology in a way that you can combine all of their cinch together to create new and exciting infinitely. Interesting things is great, but you know just Travis in a nuisance, something interesting something we haven’t played with before. I think that would be really cool so ah well, are we looking at it deeply and give me a really good thorough review, but I think that’s always going to count against them interesting, but give it time, let’s see how it progresses and finally, we’re about to Vote on the EU referendum, whether to stay in the EU, or whether to leave and hang out by ourselves watching box sets in our pants behind closed curtains.
The amount of rubbish I’ve read on internet about this whole thing is just astounding and I don’t think that we are in any way qualified to make this decision. I mean we voted a government into power in order to make hard decisions because they get all the information they have the time to look and research everything and to come up with the right answer. We don’t have that time. We don’t have a clue and what I read and hear people saying about their reasons to leave is just based on sort of fantasy, and how can we have a referendum where it’s supposed to count for something when people are basing their decision on just crazy talk? It boggles my mind. All i know is that selling to places like norway and switzerland is an absolute pain in the ass. It’S awful, the paperwork, the customs, the taxes, it’s just a nightmare, and we want to do that with everybody. Apparently. So, no that’s not going to work for me.
I personally would much rather be connected to people communicating with people trading selling being together working together for peace in our time and for a better world, and you can’t do that if you shut the doors and start looking inward and go to the rest of the Eu, that’s not it it’s not for me anyway, but whether we’re in / out we’ll find out in a day or two and in the meantime go make some tunes. You .