Winners of the Groovemonkee withdraw

We’ve written each name in same sized piece of papers and put them all in a supermarket plastic bag. It took only 40 seconds until one of our cats – who has a kind of paranormal power, some believe – shake the bag making the first three papers come out so, the three winners of a Groovemonkee midi pack are…… Thomas Leroux, Stephen Crane and Julian Rademacher ! Congratulations guys!

eMusicTips contest powered by Ohm Force

Are you a computer music geek? You know – or even better, you’ve figured them out! – production tricks that could be also useful to the rest of the world and make this planet a better place to live (or at last with even more interesting music to listen to)? And concerning the possibility of sharing that with everybody, in addition of the fame, the love, and the respect, what about getting some Ohm Force plugins for free? Hmmmm… we’re starting to talk in you language, hein?! .. (…) eMusicTips.com is a nice initiative from Cam Gaut, who’s from the US, but the site quickly became international, with regular contributors from countries like Costa Rica and Iceland (!). Their goal: create a skill database for electronic music production and audio processing, little pieces of knowledge that could surprise you. An example? Have ever an arpeggiated line inspired you to imagine some nice note variations? But it’s an arpeggiated line, so you just can’t edit the notes, isn’t? Well, it seems that if you’re running on Ableton Live, you can. It’s about knowing how to ‘record’ the arpeggiator midi FX output in a new midi clip, so you’re then able to tweak the notes as you want…

Using an iPhone to control the Oddity synth

Korg nanoKontrol is a melohman dream!

Nowadays a lot of people produce on the go with laptops, make live concerts with laptops, and everyday a little bit more, have a laptop as their main music work center. In a studio is easy to pimp a laptop with several midi controllers, but on the go and live it’s not that easy to carry heavy hardware in your backpack all the time, and if you’re in a train or plane, no way at all to use controllers when composing compose. So that’s why all nomad producers will just love Korg’s new nanoKontrol series, with tiny midi controllers made to seat seamlessly in front or next you mobile computer. For all live artists working with Ohm Force plugins in wich you can browse and morph between presets with midi notes, it’s a dream coming true! At Korg’s main website there’s nothing for the moment concerning its price or release date; wich probably means that it will be released first only at the japanese market, and then in the rest of the world.