LooperTest - Cellular.m4v

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YouTube Published on May 5, 2012 by rrr00bb

"When adding in an echo, I made it more like a looper. You can record a loop, and mix in with it after the loop is setup. The sliders to mix in and fade out the looper is essentially what you need with an accurately timed echo anyway."

Not sure if this is a new synth called AlephOne in the works or if it's Geo Synth. It is from the same developer rrr00bb.

Jordan Rudess: Wizdom Music, LLC
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Pythagoras-MicrotonalMarkers.m4v

YouTube via rrr00bb | February 11, 2011 |

"Got microtonal markers that show where all the tone ratios lie. It creates visual interference patterns that tell you when a chord will sound "in tune". Notice that I am tuned to physical fourths rather than diatonic fourths. The idea is to be able to play *really* well fretlessly, and not even bother thinking about snapping until just about everything else works well."

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Libpd latency demo

rrr00bb | February 12, 2011 |

"To contrast with the Mugician sound engine. I still haven't figured out how to get below 150ms or so of latency. But notice that the engine never drops, so the sound is clean (good sound quality in that sense). But it's late to pick up finger pitch and volume changes. It might be due to a simple mistake that I am making with libpd."

pythagorasOctaveRounding1.m4v

YouTube Uploaded by rrr00bb on Mar 9, 2011

"Put in octave switch and octave rounding, which automates octave switching to make scale and arpeggio runs easy. I still haven't added pitch snapping to Pythagoras, which slows me down a little when doing this kind of thing. With pitch snapping, I should be able to do this as fast as on Xstrument."

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MicrotonalTutorialVid.m4v

YouTube via rrr00bb | September 17, 2010

"A Demo of how Mugician's microtonal capabilities are used in practice."

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FeedbackyChucKSynth Wi Fi

Published on Dec 14, 2012 by rrr00bb

"Testing out more complex ChucK scripts to see how much I can get away with, load-wise. Feedback, 3 timbres, chorus, reverb, echo."

myChildren1.m4v

YouTube via rrr00bb | September 24, 2010

"Some really freaky microtonal metal, all fretless Mugicians. I can't sing, so I did something indecipherable."

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SampleWizViaGeoSynth.m4v

YouTube Uploaded by rrr00bb on Aug 30, 2011
"SampleWiz driven by GeoSynth."

GeoSynth aka Pythagoras. Not seeing it in iTunes yet.

Noise Cellular

YouTube Published on Aug 17, 2012 by rrr00bb

"Playing around with a sample-based oscillator design. Isn't even filled with a sample right now, as the sample is random noise at the moment. I was kind of surprised that it even sounded like a reasonable tone."

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Geo Synthesizer for iOS Released

GeoSynth featured in numerous videos by YouTube user rrr00bb (aka Rob Fielding, creator of Mugician) is now available.

"Geo Synthesizer is a musical instrument and MIDI controller. A collaboration of Wizdom Music's Jordan Rudess and Kevin Chartier (MorphWiz, SampleWiz) and Rob Fielding (Mugician), Geo Synthesizer is an incredibly expressive musical instrument specifically created for a multitouch surface.

Jordan says: "Since touching a preliminary piano keyboard on an iPhone screen and realizing the amazing potential for musical expression on a multitouch device, I have been inspired to create next-generation musical instruments for iOS. Geo Synthesizer is a dream come true in many ways. It is the fastest truly playable iOS instrument that I have put my hands on to date. I can fly through the range of an instrument while expanding on the kind of advanced pitch control we introduced in MorphWiz. As someone who grew up with synthesizers, I can tell you that pitch bending has never been this good!

"Geo features many of my custom sounds and in addition, Geo is also a MIDI controller, so you can use it with any external midi instrument or virtual MIDI. Virtual MIDI allows you to control an app running in the background on the same device! A great feature of Geo is that internally and externally we send independent voices on each note played, so as an example, you can pitch bend one note and not the other, or add unique expression on every note! I can't wait to see the YouTube videos of all of you guys rocking out with Geo Synthesizer!!!"

Features:
- ability to load waveforms from SampleWiz presets
- octave rounding for effortless soloing over large ranges
- whammy slider with absolute and relative modes
- 12ET, 24ET, 53ET, and 665ET temperament options
- mono, string, and full-polyphony modes
- tuning and transposition controls
- snap speed control to affect how quickly the instrument pulls notes in tune
- playing surface options for number of rows and columns on screen
- octave and fifth harmonics synthesis options to rich, organ-like sounds
- gain control to add distortion to the sound
- FM and touch FM controls for timbal variation
- mono out for use with guitar amps
- sine, sawtooth, square, and custom (SampleWiz) wave options
- attack and release controls
- synthesis body control
- lowpass filter with resonance
- stereo delay
- reverb
- MIDI output with polyphonic note bending and multiple configuration options to allow compatibility with a wide range of hardware and software synthesizers
- performance menu lets you make your own custom menu so all the controls you need are always right at your fingertips
- 40 presets carefully selected by Jordan Rudess, including patches from Jordan's personal sound library"

While my Geo Gently Wails

YouTube Published on Sep 18, 2012 by JCRUDESS

"Sharing a practice session while playing with one hand while trying to film with the other!
This app is our Geo Synthesizer app for iOS. Works on iPhone and iPad! Here is the link. [Geo Synthesizer - Jordan Rudess: Wizdom Music, LLC]

Jordan Rudess Live Webcast on September 20, 2012 from The Iridium / CDs of the Iridium performances available after the shows.

On September 19-20, Jordan Rudess will Play ELP's "Tarkus and Originals" at the Iridium on 51st and Broadway, NYC - two shows at 8 and 10. Freshly burned CDs of the shows will be available after each performance. Both performances on the 20th (8pm & 10pm EST) will be available for all to see via live webcast at iridiumlive.com

Tickets available at theiridium.com"

Geo Synthesizer - Jordan Rudess: Wizdom Music, LLC
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whileMyGuitarGentlyWeeps Cellular

Published on Sep 18, 2012 by rrr00bb

"Sketching over While My Guitar Gently Weeps, jamming over Jordan Rudess' background track. Where is the guitar you say? I have one around here somewhere...."

PythagorasMovieTake1.m4v

YouTube via rrr00bb | February 20, 2011 |

"An incomplete but viable instrument. 12tet markers, microtonal markers, octave switch (beyond hearing in both directions), string count change. The distorted metal sounds is the only one that's right at the moment though. Using itablapro for rhythm as always."

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WakeUpIPadDevs.mp4

YouTube via rrr00bb | December 06, 2010 |

"This is my take on what iPad instruments need to do to be playable. If you see some of my users doing non-constructive criticisms of other instruments (specifically yours! :-) ), please don't take it too seriously. I don't do that myself, and it bothers me. Some of Mugician's evolution was guided by Jordan Rudess' Morphwiz, Roger Linn's Linnstrument, and the many things I learned working with Leon Gruenbaum's Samchillian (my Xstrument instrument is a derivative of it)"


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customScales1 - Cellular.m4v

YouTube Uploaded by rrr00bb on Jan 6, 2012

"Initial user interface for custom scales. Using 53ET based Pythagorean scales, with low quartertone put temporarily in just to show how it works. Legato and polyphony behavior are controllable now. This is ThumbJam being controlled, but SampleWiz does this correctly, and Arctic may have this working reasonably well in private beta builds as well."


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PythagorasPentatonicBlur.m4v

YouTube via Uploaded by rrr00bb on Mar 10, 2011

"Octave rounding already lets you arpeggiate and run scales very fast. I made a change to the rules that simplifies pentatonic runs so that those are easy to play very fast as well."

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Mugician17AppleTutorial - Computer.m4v

YouTube via rrr00bb | August 26, 2010

"Tutorial done using the same binary as what's on the store. Please don't overwrite your Mugician 1.5 install until you are sure that this sound will suit you, and even then *always* update from the iPad for any app so that you can delete and resync to go back to the previous version.

This may be the last Mugician update, other than possibly updating presets or fixing any critical bugs that get found. Feature requests, sound changes and such... another day, another app."

Mugician on iTunes:

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microtest.m4v

YouTube Uploaded by rrr00bb on Aug 28, 2011

"Showing the shapes where chords lock tight in 53ET, with all the dirt turned on so that the beating is obvious when pitches aren't right."

Mugician - Rob Fielding
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mugician-1.7DemoSubtitled.m4v

YouTube via rrr00bb | August 23, 2010

"Demoing Mugician from the point of view of how it began. It really is a different kind of instrument that will have you making a new kind of music."

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harmonic

YouTube via rrr00bb | October 08, 2010

"Demonstrating where pitches seem to lie when playing natural fretless quartertone scales. The pitches move around according to tonal center, but something is clearly there."

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FinalCutExpressTest2.m4v

YouTube via rrr00bb | February 01, 2011 |

"Second simple Final Cut Express test with microtonal Mugician."


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AudioBugFixesFor1 - Computer.m4v

YouTube via rrr00bb | August 31, 2010

"Fixed the two sound bugs mentioned in my web site - will be in 1.8. Reverb feeds back and tails off better, and impulses are gone. I am playing the worst settings of 1.7 here."

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