micronaut trapezoid

YouTube Uploaded by Cranda11 on Sep 2, 2011
"No DAW, no MIDI, no computer. Entire track clocked from a single Doepfer LFO. If you're listening to this on laptop speakers, you're only hearing about half of it.

Synthi AKS (with no AKS, obviously.)
Doepfer LFO, Intellijel uStep, Makenoise Réne
Korg MaxiKorg, MS-20, and a MonoTribe for the drums
Eventide TimeFactor, circuit-bent BOSS RRV-10, and Roland Space Echo for effects.

Recorded to TASCAM TSR-8 tape deck."

Update: Cranda11 is Chris Randall, the man behind Analog Industries and Audio Damage. See this post for some additional info on the track.

Touchscreen Sequencer Test

Published on May 25, 2013 Cranda11·47 videos

"This is a quick demo of Yet Another Touchscreen Music App. I'm trying to come up with a global live performance / songwriting app for the touch interface, and this is my seventh attempt. Definitely getting closer. Still have to add the sound-sculpting interface; this is just a quick demo of the step sequencer scene switching."

Chris Randall - Didn't I?

YouTube Uploaded by Cranda11 on Jun 4, 2011

"I set myself a challenge to write, perform, record, and mix a song in three hours, and this is the result.

Gear used: Korg MS20, Korg 770, MeeBlip, DSI TETR4, Eventide TimeFactor, My First Piano, Airline Stratotone guitar, Guild Thunder I Reverb amp, Red Type B mic. Recorded and mixed in Ableton Live, using Audio Damage and DMG Audio plug-ins."

Chris is the man behind Analog Industries and Audio Damage.

DroneStation Demo

YouTube via Cranda11. via Analog Industries where you'll find some screenshots and more info.
"This is a quick demonstration of DroneStation, my new app for the iPhone/Touch. A 2-oscillator synth, with an unique multi-touch interface that will hopefully make it more playable than trying to peck away at a little keyboard."

Eventide Stompboxes Controlled From Modular Synth...

YouTube Uploaded by Cranda11 on Oct 22, 2011

"This video demonstrates using a simple custom cable to enable one to control Eventide stompboxes (or pretty much any digital stompbox) with a modular synth via the expression pedal port.

The cable consists of a mono 1/4" jack, wired to two jacks of whatever flavor your modular synth is. Just connect the tips only (not the sleeves) of all three jacks. Plug the 1/4" jack in to the Eventide pedal's Expression Pedal port, and the two other jacks in to the in and out of a VCA in your modular synth. Then you can send CV to the CV-In of the VCA, and this will control the pedal as if it were an expression pedal.

For more discussion on this, visit:

http://www.analogindustries.com/blog/entry.php?blogid=1319321991586"

Beepcat Beagleboard-based Synth Demonstration 1

YouTube Uploaded by Cranda11 on Sep 16, 2011

"This is a quick demon of the Beepcat open hardware/software shield concept for Beagleboard. This is a demonstration of the software backbone only. The Akai MPKmini is set up to send specific commands that duplicate the front panel setup of a theoretical Beepcat (eight buttons, eight encoders.) The Beepcat monosynth software is creating the synth sound. The drums are coming from Audio Damage Tattoo."

Phaedra Sequencer for iPad

via Analog Industries, run by Chris Randall of Audio Damage.

"In my ludicrously ample free time, I've been working on this bad boy, Phaedra. It is an "analog" style four-channel MIDI sequencer for the iPad. Click the picture for the full-rez screenshot. In the interests of full disclosure, I borrowed heavily from the Moon Modular 568 Quad Sequential Trigger Source, which you can read all about up in here.

I still have a long way to go, but it is coming along nicely. Each step has note, velocity, gate time, and a pair of MIDI CCs of your choosing. I haven't yet coded in the chaining feature, but it'll be able to do 4 x 32, 2 x 64, and 1 x 128 modes. The steps can be 32nd note, 16th note, 8th trips, and 8th note, and each "bus" can run in arbitrary lengths. The "Live Control" knobs on the left can be used to modify one of the four destinations..."

Additional info and links on Analog Industries here.

iPads on eBay

Update:

Phaedra driving NLog Pro

Uploaded by Cranda11 on Nov 25, 2011

"Phaedra clocking NLog Pro's arpeggiator using background MIDI on an iPad."

micronaut - oxide

YouTube Uploaded by Cranda11 on Aug 7, 2011

"For this one, I busted out the TSR-8 tape deck. I'm only using Live for MIDI sequencing in this video. This is all done live, in real time, direct to tape. I then mixed from the deck on a small analog console.

The iPad is stuck in an Alesis iO Dock, and is running Korg iMS-20. This provides the hat and zap sounds in the beginning, and the kick and clap sounds a little later on. The Monotribe is doing the 16th note snare pattern, and the synth arpeggio thing that comes in at 3:30 or so.

The big synth sound in the beginning is the DSI TETR4, and that off-beat digital-sounding sound is the MeeBlip running through my circuit-bent RRV-10. The Doepfer stuff is sequenced by the MakeNoise René, and the real MS-20 is sequenced by the uStep from Intellijel."

chris randall - barthes (second return)

YouTube Published on Aug 19, 2012 by Cranda11

"Another Sunday jam, continuing my "old-skool IDM" phase, apparently. This one has a drum loop sliced in the Maschine as the main sound component, along with simple little synth lines from MeeBlip and AniMoog (in order of appearance.) The bass is coming from Massive.

When you see me peck that little Akai MIDI controller occasionally, I'm triggering Audio Damage Replicant's MIDI slicing features, and I have the knobs on the Akai mapped to the two filter frequencies and the "Reverse Random" slider. The only other effects are the Roland RE-201 Space Echo (on the two synth lines) and the Eventide Space (on various other things, for texture.)"

http://www.audiodamage.com/
http://www.analogindustries.com/

Follow-up to chris randall - texteral

chris randall - texteral

YouTube Published on Aug 12, 2012 by Cranda11

"A little late-night jam on some old-school IDM stylee.

Gear used: Ableton Live, Audio Damage Phosphor, Replicant, Filterstation, and Automaton, Native Instruments Maschine, Eventide Space, Access Virus, and MeeBlip."

http://www.audiodamage.com/
http://www.analogindustries.com/

Improvisational1

YouTube Uploaded by Cranda11 on Mar 31, 2012

"Having a bit of improv with some new kit. The bassline is done with the original MeeBlip; there are four two-measure MIDI clips in Ableton, and I'm randomly switching amongst them using follow actions. All drum and percussion sounds were created on a Yamaha TX81Z, then imported to and edited in the Maschine software.

Gear used: MeeBlip, MeeBlipSE, Native Instruments Maschine Mikro, SammichFM, DSI TETR4, Eventide Space, Eventide TimeFactor. Recorded with Ableton Live in one pass of live improv."

micromov001

YouTube via Cranda11. Note this is from Analog Industries.
"Quick test of Elektron MonoMachine and MachineDrum together."

chris randall - d2

Published on Apr 8, 2013 Cranda11·45 videos

"Some afternoon noises from the Lab, Analog Four and modular. The A4 is sequencing the modular. No software was used."

Elektron on eBay

micronaut - experiment four

YouTube Uploaded by Cranda11 on Mar 3, 2011

"The very definition of getting carried away. I bought a Boss RRV-10 reverb last night, and just wanted to test it out to make sure it was all working, and 5 hours later, here we are.

This piece is done with no sequencing at all. A Max patch does the dirty work, and everything you hear except the snare drum is coming from the hardware synths, six of 'em. I'm arranging things by turning specific metro objects on and off in Max via the Korg nanoControl; they're all quantized to the Global Clock."

micromov004 - Assemblage #1

YouTube via Cranda11
"Assemblage #1 is music set to a repurposed industrial video courtesy of the Prelinger Archives. Gear used: Roland MKS-80, Elektron MachineDrum, Soniccouture and Goldbaby samples, Audio Damage plugins"

micronaut - experiment two

YouTube via Cranda11 | January 28, 2011
follow-up to part 1 here
"http://micronaut.bandcamp.com

The second workflow exploration/live improvisation with this set-up. As with the previous video, the Apple //e with Roland CMU-800R is in the driver's seat. It is providing the drums with its internal sounds, and is controlling the modular synth, the Korg MS-20, and the Yamaha CS-5 (out of frame underneath the MS-20) via CV/Gate.

The main melody line that comes in after a bit is coming from a Reflex MeeBlip, which you can just see sitting on the desk. I'm controlling it with a Snyderphonics Manta controller.

Effects used: Roland RE-201 Space Echo, Eventide TimeFactor delay, Realistic Electronic Reverb delay, Audio Damage Eos reverb, Lexicon 300 reverb."

micronaut - experiment three

YouTube via Cranda11 | February 09, 2011

"http://micronaut.bandcamp.com

Another experiment. This time, a whole raft of Audio Damage plugs (Axon, Phosphor, Tattoo, Replicant, and Discord3) plus two instances of Scape, the new Reaktor ensemble from Twisted Tools. The usual suspects, otherwise."

micronaut - experiment nine

YouTube Uploaded by Cranda11 on Oct 13, 2011
More micronaut music at http://micronaut.bandcamp.com

"Further exploration of the 16 Beats performance mode in the Tempest. Also taking my new Eventide Space out for a spin.

Gear used:
Eventide Space
Eventide TimeFactor
DSI Tempest
DSI Tetr4
Doepfer (MakeNoise, TipTop, Harvestman) modular
TASCAM TSR-8 1/2" tape dec"

micronaut - experiment one

YouTube via Cranda11 | January 26, 2011

"http://micronaut.bandcamp.com

Having a bit of fun with the new equipment set-up, and trying to get a feel for the workflow. This piece is entirely sequenced from an Apply //e and Roland CMU-800R. I'm recording in to Ableton Live, but there are no samples or pre-recording. This track is 100% live.

The quick arpeggio sound, drums, and 16th note pulse are coming from the CMU-800R. The low bass note is from a Korg MS20 running through a Roland RE-201 Space Echo, and the main melody sound is coming from the Doepfer modular (in this case a TipTop Audio Z3000 oscillator, plus some Doepfer shit) and running through a Realistic Electronic Reverb and an Eventide TimeFactor. I used a couple instances of Audio Damage Eos for the main reverb inside the DAW, but that's the only computer effect."

micronaut - experiment seven

YouTube Uploaded by Cranda11 on Sep 29, 2011

"More micronaut music at http://micronaut.bandcamp.com

In the middle of beta-testing the DSI Tempest, I decided to knock out a quick movie showing the cool pattern-switching and ribbon controller abilities. Also in this video: MeeBlip and DSI TETR4, and Eventide TimeFactor. Recorded to and mixed from 8-track 1/2" tape."