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Export paperwork is the most frustrating part of this job.

Finally accepting new media ways for old analogue ideas was a hard thing for me. An old friend alias videoamt brought me there and it looks like we will have some good fun with movies in our near future. Have a look and give it a bit, its growing right now.

Eddy Boxerman from Hemisphere Games has written a very interesting post on the dilema of creating universal apps for the App Store…

When Apple first announced the iPad, including information on its App Store and Universal Apps, we began asking ourselves should we go “Universal”, or release two separate builds? This is a question that every iOS developer is faced with, and there are those on both sides of the fence, each with their own reasons. It also depends on the nature of the App itself. In the end, we decided to release two separate Apps: “Osmos for iPad” followed by “Osmos”, an iPhone only app. Some of our players have asked “Why?”  continue…

Read the rest of the post on Hemisphere’s blog…

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Featuring the Toppobrillo Sport Modulator as VC divider and Triple Wave Folder as VC Multiplier.



Today's PotD is based on the 'VC divider' patch with the added twist of a multiplied pulse train courtesy of the TWF. Mult your clock source to four destinations: the TWF, Env1, SM1 S/H and SM2 S/H. Set both sections of the SM to cycle in 'hold' mode, send the output to two VCOs (in this case for pitch and PWM) and the End Out to envelopes 2 & 3. Take the TWF's pulse output to trigger a fourth envelope. In the recording, the first sound you hear is paced by the source clock, the two VCOs by the divisions generated by the SM and the hi-hat by the TWF stream.

You might not want the pitch changes generated by patching the SM's outs to the VCOs, but in this case it allowed me to generate some noise bursts by flicking each section's mode button from S&H to lag and hold. I also added some variation to the patch by sending three CV variables from Pressure Points to the two Toppobrillo modules.
For more patch ideas, see the Sport Modulator page and manual here.

Skiffs should be at Analogue Haven.

Our dear new friend Jens from Germany just ordered some cables and was the one with the delivery note #10000 !! This made us so happy that we decided to spent an extra synthesizer by gotharman for free. Jens was so happy about such a surprise that he made a little video about it that you can see here. My congratulations again and thank you, jens.

Thanks a lot to all of  you btw  for nearly 11 years as Schneidersbuero in between. I had a very nice time mostly with nice clients, manufacturers and friends, with all your analogue synthesizers and modular systems, we all hope, you did enjoy it, too.

BRAINS, Pressure Points, MATHS delivered to @SchneidersBuero in sunny Berlin.

BRAINS, Pressure Points, MATHS delivered to Post Modular UK.

We are selling out our very last Gotharman deMoon synthesizer units now! This gotharman_demoon_beispiel should give you some impressions about whats possible with it. We did not buy the additional available updates for the extra money already, we just made the units extra cheap for you to afford it yourselves.

By the way.. the inventor of this brilliant little synth from denmark also designed the stepsequencer Cyclus3 that has been realized by a swiss company called spectral audio. One very last unit of the cyclus and two quite good racksynths called Neptune2 from our demo/support rack are selling out now, too.  Please ask for availability.

No, not everything is true what you read in forums on the web! With the famous FLAME clockwork unit there was a Midi to CV/Gate converter added , that did not work properly latest after the unit was updated to give out 5V always after fulfilling that demand from clients. Now somebody wrote about a chip update that somehow could fix this minor bug, unfortunately this is wrong. IF you send note events into the clockwork as long as there are rhythmical events to shift or divide at the same time - This is the brilliant function of the unit ! - the outgoing CV for the notenumber is mostly flickering in the rhythm. Its not a bug - its a feature.  So .. if you need a CV-interface, just buy one, we have some .. and the clockwork is great !

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A very symphatic visitor called Andrej made an interview with me last week that now has been released on Deutsche Welle in russion language.  So if you have friends who talk russion, you can now recommend them what we do over  here with this link, have a nice day and thanks a lot to all of you.

Hemisphere Games are giving away free copies of Osmos for iPhone/ iPod on their Facebook page for the next week, but only if you’re speedy.

Osmos Looks like we have some extra iPhone promo codes for Osmos that will expire soon, so we’re going to give some away over the next week or so! :) Here’s the first code — WPAWX96H3464 — first-claimed-first-served! [Please post a reply to this post if you've successfully used it or see it's already been claimed.]

 

Grab them whilst they’re super chilled, visit Osmos on Facebook…

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I popped in to Maplin on the way to the studio today to check out the knobs. Theres always lots of knobs in Maplin. Here are the ones that I thought looked nicest, so then I tried them out on the Doepfer, as I am planning on modifying some of the modules to put into the spare panel on the Serge

The idea is to create a delay and services panel. There is a pretty big quirk with the Doepfer 188 delay because it doesn't automatically filter out the internal clock that controls the BBD line, and a whining oscillator sound is clearly audible in the delayed signal. So what you have to do is use a separate low pass filter to remove it [it has got a CV output from the delay speed control for this purpose] but then you need to use a mixer to mix the delayed and filtered signal with the original to get what is normally achieved with a delay unit. So in other words you need to use 3 separate modules and six patch cables to get it working right. But I suppose that is the joy of modular synthesis!

Here is the patch in audio form, using an oscillator which is being driven by an LFO through a S&H clocked by a saw wave

On the surface, it would seem Apple's event yesterday is about positioning product updates for the holiday season, but really it is about the implications of integrating iOS vertically though Apple/s various consumer products. This is smart for Apple to do, as it provides many benefits including cheaper development, and leveraging existing technology across many products. What this means is iOS is now providing the technical underpinnings to products like the new nano and Apple TV.

The evidence is this. The nano is clearly using iOS technology that would be absurd to develop just for that form factor, like two finger rotate. Yes, Apple says the nano doesn't run iOS, but I think this is a matter of semantics. Really, what they're saying is there is no A4 there and they want to distance the product from the expectation of running iPhone apps. The included apps obviously are nano-form adaptations of existing iPhone apps. There is obviously a huge amount of technology from existing products that they're leveraging.

The Apple TV lost its storage and became much smaller. I don't think consumers were asking for a smaller set top box. The existing Apple TV was already 1/8th the size of a tivo. The Apple TV is smaller because it is basically iOS hardware. Smaller hardware creates savings across the board for the manufacturer. Leveraging existing technology creates savings across the board for the manufacturer. The hard part is the presentation and spinning this into a benefit to the consumer. "Nobody wants purchases, so uh, no storage! Yeah!"

A lot of people are extrapolating iOS on the Apple TV into the ability to access iPhone apps. This isn't the point. It was never the point and you'll never see it because the iPhone apps rely on a multitouch interface on a display screen. You can't decouple the gesture from the screen. It just doesn't work, at least, it doesn't work well enough for a company like Apple. So stop. Really. It won't happen.

Technically, it is certainly possible to develop new apps or port iPhone apps to the Apple TV that use gestures from the Apple TV remote. I wouldn't hold your breath, though.

I thought the demos were well done and Steve masterfully navigated the presentation with no technical flub ups. He even went charmingly off script a couple times.

Ping is a launch disaster. When digg relaunched recently, you could import your contacts from other social networks. I can't find anyone on ping. I can't even find artists on ping. Nothing is there. It is a party in iTunes and no one is invited. Would it have been so difficult to create artist stubs from iTunes music store data? How do independents claim their pages? You have to have this stuff ready at launch otherwise people will sign up, look around, shrug and leave. Don't launch untested or poorly-conceived social networks or you've doomed yourself to a google buzz/wave fate.

Speaking of digg, I thought the relaunch/redesign was very bold. News aggregator social commenting sites have a tendency to become the community. The technology of the site doesn't matter, and the reason people stick around is because of the familiar friends they have there. In a lot of ways, digg was fark with a dose of slashdot up/down voting. Certain active personalities tend to take up disproportionate space, eventually becoming more important than the site itself. This is not a good long term strategy as evidenced by the long slow decay of something like fark.

Digg's redesign blew all this up, which democratized the site (a good thing) and pissed off a ton of self-important people who invested a lot of their time increasing their importance and footprint on the site. Digg isn't about these individuals anymore. Digg has reoriented itself from a monolithic personality site (with associated turf wars and political system gaming) to smaller individually-cultivated networks of people who share similar interests to your own.

Extrapolating this effect in the future could lead to surrounding ourselves with nobody to challenge our beliefs, and a false assumption that your views are more popular than they actually are. This is especially evident politically.
There may be something to be said for a widely shared cultural connection. That used to be television. Cable eroded this effect and the internet is killing it off completely. Say "ancient chinese secret, eh?" to any 40 year old around you. Stupid, but you get my point (if you're of a certain age).

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Brief demonstration of the Intellijel Flip Flop module in Eurorack format.

Cast: James Cigler