Shout to to Sam Bliss, a fan from Australia who sent me this Trizzy-fied X-Box avatar that he made. I’m pretty impressed! It has my bird-chest and narrow shoulder build… quite accurate! That beard is more DJ Drama than A-Trak though.
Andrew C’s comment the previous blog post brought my attention to this other iPhone app, Tonetable. This one plays the control tones of most DJ software so that you can use your iPhone to control (I’m guessing) Serato, Traktor, etc. I like the design on this one.
It was only a matter of time before something like this came out.
I like the little crossfader. I also feel like this privileges people with tiny fingers, but such is life.
The app is called Baby Scratch, it’s free! I wonder if they made it free in light of sample copyrights.
Soulwax’s live show is one of the best in the biz. Seeing the amount of gear that they’re running on stage and just how precisely timed everything is, it comes across like it was programmed by a nuclear physicist. In this video, David Dewaele breaks down exactly how it works. They even control their own lights from Ableton!
Linos is a portable USB record player designed by Charles Pyott. You just slide it onto vinyl, extend the little needle arm, plug the other end into the USB jack, and presto-blammo you got a portable vinyl listening device! The USB both powers the unit and allows you to plays the sounds through your laptop. Too bad you can’t buy it at stores, I gotta find me one of these things.
In Calgary we stopped at the little-known Cantos synth museum and… well… just watch it. It’s insane.
Special thanks to our gracious host Brendan.
Last Wednesday I went to the Native Instruments office in LA for a tutorial on Maschine. While I was there I asked them to explain to me the true science behind Massive, a plug-in that I’ve used a bunch but never quite understood! I got the mathematics, and then my instructor told me that he made this hugely popular youtube clip explaining how to make wobble basslines. Sure enough here it is with 162K views. Watch and learn, kids! Wawawawooowawawooomp.
By Todd Vanderlin:
AR scratching from vanderlin on Vimeo.
Make sure you watch the 2nd half of the video, it gets pretty bugged out.
This text is taken from the Vimeo description:
“I was playing around with some AR markers the other day and came up with this idea. taking just a plain old vinyl record and attaching an AR marker to the label you can track the record in 3D space. The next question was, can you scratch the record? So by figuring out the velocity of the records rotation and applying it to the payback of the audio you can scratch. There is some digital noise that needs to bee worked out, but sounds pretty good. Its still really hard to scratch, it takes some practice but is super fun.”
Then this guy Theodore Watson created this iPhone app as a response:
Spinning vinyl ipod app from Theodore Watson on Vimeo.
Shout out to Martelo for the inside scoop!
Make sure you cop your advance tickets for the 10,000LB Hamburger Tour which starts this weekend! Ticket links are here.
By Korean designer Rhea Jeong.
This is not an illusion. This thing is said to actually levitate vinyl and play it in the air through that red ball. Check the description:
“The record player uses a carrier and dock outfitted with a magnetic and auto-calibrating control system which carries the LP into thin air as it is playing music. A self-running record player shaped in the form of a red sphere, contains a needle, amplifier and speaker, spins around the record, bringing the music to life.”
Wawaweewa! From designboom blog. More pics after the jump.
