I remember seeing this a while back. It's a DSP box that supports MIDI and a Palm Pilot interface. Some programs actually do not require either. It's an OPEN DSP system that people can create custom apps for. Below is a list of some of those apps. Title link takes you to the main site with more info.
- Remixer Automatically remix sounds into new sounds! NEWest!!!
- Combyops All the Combyops from Death Synth! NEW!!!
- Oddelay Self-FM Delay
- Sinlut Sinusoidal Lookup Table Waveshaper NEW!
- Burrito The ultimate MIDI controller program for Palm Pilot and EZ-Kit Lite devices!
- Xpand Spectral Inversion and Un-Inversion to enhance your existing FX!
- Click-O Acrid Distortion sound with randomizing paramters
- Modulation Domain Not the freq, not the time, but MODulation domain.
- GenMusic Algorithmic programs-- synthesize an entire pseudo-random song! (created by a user on our mailing list)
- SVF State-Variable Filter, a.k.a. Multi-Mode
- Template Updated!!! a template to get you started writing your effect own algorithm.
- Finally! Hear the effects on an audio stream of AND, OR, and XOR! (with source code and build scripts!)
- HarmEQ Download version 0.2 now! timbre re-arranger/harmonic equalizer
- Rim Job a Ring Mod with some Special Features (created by a user on our mailing list)
- Death Synth a many-parameter variable synthesizer
- Skank raunchy multi-effects box
- Fmadness screamingly weird modulator with extra controls
That's my friend Noah! We were in a band together! 3 people had normal sorts of synths and drum machines and stuff, and Noah would crouch over in the corner with a feed from everybody's private mixers and a stack of cheap delays and early-80's pitch shifters and random circuits he'd thrown together (putting audio through logic circuitry was lots of fun), taking what we did, messing with it, and handing it back to the main mixer.
ReplyDeleteIt was a BLAST. Usually we could tell what he was doing because he had so much looping and feedback going on that the noises he made would keep going long after we'd stopped...
This is an interview with us...
oh, and he's now working (and playing, it looks like) at the MIT Media Lab...
ReplyDeleteThanks. I updated the post to check out these comments. Also check this out: http://www.makezine.com/blog/archive/2005/11/the_homebuilt_effect_processor.html Your friend Noah just made Make: : )
ReplyDeleteWell, that link didn't work. Try this link.
ReplyDeleteI just built a Death Synth inspired thing for the Nord Modular G2 - works pretty well, and it's certainly more fun to tweak the knobs than to program in numbers in a palm pilot:
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