Hi, this is Wayne again with a topic “Molten Music Monthly – Dec 2015”.
Hello, I’m Robin Vincent and welcome to Malta, music monthly December 2050. The weather in the wilds of Norfolk is atrocious, so we’re back here in my kitchen and we’re on our way to Christmas yay. So this month, up in searching out the best gifts for the music technology, lover in your life for under say 100 quid, which is quite an ask really because most of the gear we like really expensive, we’ve also got the surface pro. Do Kickstarter campaign. We’Ve got the best Windows, 10, music, making apps and a super monster prize giveaway. So what’s this Kickstarter thing all about them? Well, over at service pro audio com. For the past year, I’ve been making videos on the surface pro 3 video to get dropped into the multi music technology youtube channel. But to continue doing this, I really need your support. I need some help, and so I’ve started as Kickstarter campaign just to raise a little bit of cash to keep us going so that we can get the right gear and keep on making quality videos.
A bunch of people have already stepped up, which is just flipping awesome, but I need a bunch more to make this work so pleased at the very least head over to the Kickstarter campaign and check it out and share it on Facebook. Share it on Twitter, and maybe if you feel so inspired, if you like what I do, if you appreciate the videos that I bring then maybe dig behind the sofa a little bit find a couple of quid and throw it my way you could sort of see It as behind me a virtual beer. You know that would be awesome, I’m not trying to make a load of money. I just need some help in getting the right gear together to continue making the videos that i do and if you become a backer, then you get the opportunity to choose what sort of video you’d like me to do next or you could even get some personal One-To-One tuition, that’s pretty cool, so go and check it out cuz. I really appreciate it. Apparently, this Christmas is going to be all about headphones.
But if, like me, you’re a bit bored of the whole beats thing, and can I offer include the deliciously named skullcandy? They offer a wide range of headphones and earbuds and they look fantastic. They sound, probably awesome. At least I understandably sound pretty good. If these are not studio, monitoring headphones there for your listening pleasure, they look great, they feel great. They sound great. I’Ve check them out.
The Waldorf, the pole filter, is one of my favorite bits of gear to demo. When I used to work in the 10-team music shop. You know you run music, very cool, it was just awesome and the software version has certainly lost none of its zing and it’s now bundled up in the Waldorf addition to. It also comes with the PPG weight Abelson and the attack analog percussion machine version.
2 updates. The interface and expands the whole effects section on each of the, since i haven’t 69 euros that would light up the face of any music technologist on Christmas morning. We sell a lot of these keyboards with our Pro Tools piecing systems, but they also do keyboard shortcuts. For cubase for reason, for it was live and logic and all that kind of stuff we used to do keyboard shortcuts that Kara, normal user individually stick stickers on two big fat chunky keyboards. But these are much lighter and much groovier than that they do a backflip version by a nice sort of sleek aluminum version they’re all under 100. Pounds and they’ll be great for improving your workflow.
It’S a guitar tuner, sits on the end of year, headstock thing and tells you whether your strings are in June. You also think about it is that it tells you all the strings all at once, all the time the polytune thing from TC Electronics is just extraordinary. I couldn’t believe it when I first saw it something which is able to pull individual harmonica individual strings and show you everything in tune all at once. It’S awesome and it’s about 25 quid I mean. Why would you not have one? I don’t have one yet, but it’s not quite Christmas, saying you just.
I don’t often talk about the ipad on here, but i guess obvious reasons, but there are a stack and really good music making apps available on that platform, but one that stuck out for me recently is the korg IM one base on. Of course, the awesome called em one workstation synth. It is a faithful recreation. All stuffed into apples of life had interface all the original sounds. Are there all the parameters and the tweaking its you know as as faithful as it’s going to get, and you could even explore patches and stick them into a real and one if you have one or into the korg legacy sweet if you’ve got that running on Your desktop a 15 credits, a bit expensive for an app, but it’s a fantastic thing of a simple lover in your life and while we’re talking about cork, they have volker boxes which were just the best thing.
Perhaps last year, they’re all sort of around 85 quit now they’ve really come down in price and they’re still awesome boxes of music-making tweaking beating squidgy stuff, so maybe as evil as well and along with the voelker’s and controllers like the arturia beat step and the Ovation Circuit there’s a lot of really interesting analog e nabi staff out there. They stole the show at navan for being brilliantly bonkers for making noises and scratching and beeps and beats and box and flips and they’re only 49 quit they’re. Just awesome twisted electrons offer a bunch of sort of yummy electronic kickers and you’re soldiering on into and they’ve got a little kid called the cheshire which lets you build a little sympathy thing in the kind of a shape of a cat, and we were like cats At the time of filming the prices that undisclosed, but it looks like it can be under andrew quick, i don’t really know what goes on in beat labs, particularly, but i’m loving kind of the mad scientist five, and you can pick yourself up a bit of digital Noise insanity for about fifty dollars – i mentioned this fellow the other month and one is currently on its way to me for review, which is dead, exciting. It’S one of those devices that sort of rides that edge between being really cool or perhaps a bit ridiculous.
But we don’t know which side it’s really going to fall until i get my hands on it, it should be available from the first I December and costs around about 100 quid and I’ll do all I can to get my review out before Christmas. In case, you want to wait before you order one driving the best Windows – 10 apps for music making is either really hard or really easy. Depending on your point of view, it’s really easy because there’s only really one, but then it’s really hard, because you can spend a lot of time trying to find something else and not really get anywhere. If you search, for instance, for music, you get about sort of two thousand possibilities and they’re all about playing music.
Oh I there DJ apps or Spotify type ax or streaming apps, or playing audio files apps. So that’s not really that much interest for music making. So we try audio, we get 109 apps and all of these are really kind of sound recorder, apps, so for dictaphone use or recording little snippets of things. If we try MIDI, we get 17 whole apps and those are books and guides on stuff about me, the, as opposed to anything kind of interesting, has to be a better way of tagging, these sorts of apps to make them more discoverable in the Windows Store, but Unfortunately, most of what you find looks pretty ropey and kind of works even worse, even with the windows 10 audio improvements, the latency in playing some of this stuff is just awful be probably the best thing I found is vintage synth, which is this fella here it Looks okay, it doesn’t. It doesn’t sound too bad. All the controls work into what they’re supposed to, but you still got a bit of lag going on there and it also takes advantage of the new MIDI API and lets you play it directly from a keyboard.
So you know that’s about as good as it gets. I mean the quality of some of these apps make. You think that this is some kind of Android knockoff, but the thing is – and this is really important – that no one actually needs windows. 10 apps for music production, but why I hear you say: look at the ipad, all those lovely, synths and bits of software yeah, it’s an illusion. It’S an illusion, brought on by this iPad ecosystem. That people seem to think is so awesome because my surface and any Windows tablet can run Pro Tools Inc around Cubase reason, Ableton bitwig cakewalk on this sphere.
It can run the archery Oh range of analog modules, synthesizers. It can run symphonies, orchestras, big bands, guitars strumming things, delays, distortions, modulations, huge synth, thingies, video software, editing, DJ software, nixing Laurie track. Moosic production live, recording, live performance.
It can all do it because it’s flipping windows so yeah the windows platform is completely fine for regular. What we call win32 apps normal software, running on your desktop doing whatever you want it to be. You don’t need little squeaky Windows, 10 apps.
In order to do anything for music on the Microsoft Surface or other Windows tablets. You just use the full-fat software. The real thing and do it for real. There is one app, though, of course, and that’s: staff pad staff pad is just the most amazing app ever from music, really and totally encapsulate, what’s good about the microsoft surface and the digital pain, because it enables you to write music directly on the screen, like nothing Else can it also contains an orchestra with instant or playback stuff.
The ipad pro can’t possibly cope with that kind of processing, and so the surface with a pen is the only place where start pad is going to show what it can really do good with a month in star wars and finally, the super mega prize giveaway. Oh yeah, we’ve got a lot of stuff to give away. It’S amazing. I’Ve got a copy of FL Studio, got a copy of bigwig, got a copy of stage, light and staff pad those four to give away as a first prize, and then I’ve got second prize. Third prize, and even a couple of more stage lights to give away.
It’S amazing: it’s like thousands of pounds of dollars, billions of dollars worth of software almost so. Why are we doing it? Well, it’s there to promote the Kickstarter. I talked about earlier yeah. All these software companies think that I do a pretty decent job and have given me this software in order to help promote the Kickstarter campaign. We can’t unfortunately sell the software in order to raise the money – that’s not quite right. Somehow it needs to come from you. The Watchers, the listeners, the people who are entertained by these videos – that’s where the support needs to come from in order to reward that support, we’re giving away all this software.
The first prize comes with the all plugins bundle of FL studio, which is amazing. That’S about sort of six, seven hundred quid all by itself, plus the full version of bit weak, plus the brand new version of stage light, which is out very very soon and that’s the ultimate edition. So it contains a whole load of stuff and a fully working version of staff pad that’s the first prize. That is awesome for all the prize details Gary check out a link. So what is it you have to do where you just have to share? You have to follow.
You have to like all that kind of thing up to five entries per person, so the more that you do, the more sharing and stuff that you do we’ll pick that up and we’ll enter your name more than once. It could not be simpler, but not only that I’ve got something extra special, which I’m going to tell you first, our YouTube subscribers is that Microsoft UK have given me a surface pro 3 to put in to the prize, draw a surface pro 3. One of these one of the fellas I’ve been talking about all this time so that you can run all of this awesome software directly on it.
So I don’t know the specs. Yet I don’t have it in my hands yet, but it’s not on the website and I’m not going to talk about it on the website or promote it until it’s actually in my hands. So you get the heads up first, so get over to the competition website.
Check out what you’ve got to do, share and tweet and have a look at the Kickstarter and you could be in for a mammoth prize of not just a bundle of awesome software, but a surface pro 3 to run it on how the competition closes on the Seventeenth of december, at the same time, that the kickstarter finishes, and so someone is going to have a very Merry Christmas indeed, but all of that is fairly pointless if we don’t make, are terribly humble thirteen hundred pound gold on Kickstarter so come on people, if you Would ever consider buying me a pint in a pub and just there’s a couple of quid that would be awesome until next time make some Christmas tunes .