Hi, this is Wayne again with a topic “Molten Music Monthly – July 2015”.
Hello, my name is Robin Vincent. Her welcome to the mall to music monthly July 2015. Yeah, it’s a new thing. It’S an adventure endeavor a commitment to bring together all the most interesting news from the world of computer music technology. All neatly wrapped up in my own thoughts and feelings about it all, along with notable software and hardware releases, i’ll, also be highlighting some of the interesting and obscurely related bits and bobs that that float my boat this month, we have some pre Windows, 10 thoughts.
We have Harrison mixbus 3, we have persona studio 13, we have the launchpad Pro, we have chimed, we have whiplash and stuff. Microsoft is poised to roll Windows 10 out onto a billion devices at the end of the month. There’S lots of interesting developments in terms of how Midian audio going to be handled in the new OS, although how that actually pans out in terms of audio performance and latency is yet to be seen, but we’re only about a week away. At this point, one of the more exciting ideas is enabling an audio process to run on a single core sort of constantly and uninterruptible, which could have a really interested impact on audio interfaces.
Microsoft did a keynote at the seminar that just went past in June, where they talked a lot about all of the different audio and MIDI technology, and they had a really cool demo with bitwig showing how they had made a customized version to run purely on the Surface pro 3 utilizing touch and the pen and it really sort of brought to life. How that, if a manufacturer and just get hold of what something like moldy touching something like the surface pro 3 can bring to the table. It can produce an immensely creative and interesting music making environment so go and check out the whole video in the from the link below and you’ll find the bit with stuff at about minute 41. But all of it is really interesting.
Stuff and there’ll be lots more on Windows 10 coming up next month, once we’ve got it kind of installed on a few important systems, personas recently released version 3 of their really quite excellent studio. One software. It comes with a new look, some new instruments in ways of stacking effects and combining instruments to new and innovative sort of songwriting features, and the whole lot is completely touchable. I spent the last month working with it in order to write an in-depth review for soundless. Our magazine, which should be out in the sep tember issue, so that will be available about mid August, where you can either pick up a copy or you can download it from their website. In the meantime, I’ve been putting together a couple of videos about the multi-touch elements, because it’s very difficult to describe in a magazine article and so I’ll be sticking those up in a few days.
I should think so check those out as a companion to the main review. I love my launch pad. I love it. I use it all the time with Ableton Live when playing live. I think I’ve been here before, but they now have the launchpad Pro. Innovation have just released it to the shops, so you can now go and pick up your own one.
It costs about two hundred thirty quid, I think, and it gives you lovely RGB colors on the pads it’s sort of thick chunky. Oh, it’s got these buttons that go all the way around the outside a lot of different functions. I’M gon na have to get one. I think I’m yeah I’m definitely going to have to get. I think of then perhaps I’ll do a review. There’D be good.
Let’S do that so yeah, that’s out now the novation launchpad Pro Harrison may not be a name that you’re familiar with in terms of door software. What they usually do is build enormous consoles for post-production and for studios and for filmmaking and all that sort of stuff. Most of the best classic tracks in the universe have been mixed through Harrison consoles, and so it’s that level of engineering and experience that they bring to their Harrison mixbus version 3. This is a fully fledged piece of door software, where they have a particular emphasis on the sound of the mixer and the processing. The mixer is designed like an analog mixer, so anyone who’s used to an analog studio. It’S going to feel right at home straight away.
They’Ve released it with a $ 79 price tag, which is quite extraordinary for a fully fledged piece of door. Software and there’s no doubt that the quality of the mixer interface that you have is just really something: that’s beautiful and needs to be seen and experienced and for $ 79 well, it’s kind of you know it’s not far off the price of an xbox game. It so it’s got to be worth a punt just to try it out do be aware, though, that many of the plugins are actually optional extras. I was talk to him about a year ago because they were saying that they were planning to introduce multi-touch control over the whole console. I haven’t actually seen that happen yet, but you never know it might be coming along very soon, but regardless it’s a very interesting environment, go and check it out. A few years ago, Zoe mode released a musical puzzle, game called chyme. It’S like a combination of Tetris and sort of ambient music sequencing and what I loved about it was that, as you played, he sort of remixed the music and fan yourself completely lost in transforming these sort of cool loot by such diverse artists as Philip Glass Paul Hartnell and Moby, the look and feel of the game was just fantastic and the sound and the way you manipulated the music. Just I thought it was.
I thought it was really dreaming. After many false starts, one of the original designers Dookeran has been fiddling with chime too, and it’s finally got to a half-decent stage, so they decided to call it something else. I’M gon na call it chime, sharp and they’ve whacked it on to Kickstarter to see if they can get some investment to make it into the game that we all want it to be. They’Ve got new artists on board; they’ve got a new look and also the potential have been able to stick your own music into it, which would just be awesome at the moment.
They’Ve hit their first goal and are now looking to do interesting. Stretch goals, including sticking. Your own music game, but they’re also now to 13 tracks, which is fantastic. So I can’t wait for this to come along, so they need a little bit more investment just to get up to the really really interesting stretch, goals to go and check them out. The link is below throw him a few dollars and, at the end of the day, you’re gon na get an awesome, fun musical game to play. And finally, my film recommendation of the month – everyone’s probably already seen this over because I’m Way behind, but I got out on DVD very recently and it’s whiplash.
It was nominated for Oscars for Best Picture, among other things, and it won for best sound editing and for the the guy with the JK Simmons. The best supporting actor got his award too because he was awesome, although I’m not sure that he was supporting particularly don’t think it was very supportive fact he could have been the star. It could have been the other way around. Doesn’T matter. You got money rich here. Little trouble there you’re rushing here, we go five.
Six, were you rushing or were you dragging? I don’t know. If you deliberately sabotage my band, I will cut you like a pig. Oh, my dear God, are you one of those singled pier people? You are a worthless pansy-assed, who is now weeping and slobbering all over my drum set like a nine-year-old girl, but if you’re not aware of it, it’s a semi-autobiographical journey of a jazz drummer student trying to get into one of the best fans in their Conservatoire JK. Simmons plays the instructor who’s, a hard-nosed sort of psychopaths, evil, genius, jazz, something who’s running this band and so psychologically and physically abuses, the drummer in his quest and determination to be one of the greats. The feel of the film is total electricity. I haven’t felt anything like it in ages. It just buzzes on the screen, the the performances, the sound, the music, that the way that they’ve combined the playing of the drums with the visuals and sound and everything is always all come together. It’S just truly amazing.
I mean it kept me awake all night with my brain just chewing over the entire experience. It was an awesome movie, an awesome movie, the quality of the sound, the drumming at the speed. It was just intoxicating to watch miles, teller smack those things an apparently. He did like margin nine percent of the drum in himself, so you know some of these movies where people got work out for a couple of weeks to get a bit buff to look like a Space Marine, this guy he played drums, but he never played jazz Drums and he was somehow able to pull off he’s extraordinary performances. It was just amazing so anyway, if you haven’t seen it go and get it stream it buy it rent it and borrow it whatever you don’t have to see it. The cinema is not that kind of film but to sit there and watch it. I think, even if you don’t know anything about jazz, nothing drumming don’t even care what music is about. Don’T like bald-headed men doesn’t matter, it’s a fantastic film, go and watch it. That’S it for now next month I imagine we’re going to be steamrolled by Windows 10 and everything that that means. So as soon as that’s destroyed, my studio, pc i’ll, come back and tell you all about it.
So that would be fun so until then, cheers go. Make some tunes? Oh .