#soundplane

[yannickbrouwer]

The nerdy part of me is very into expressive digital instruments lately. It is the ultimate blend of two of my passions, interaction design and music. I’ve been watching a lot of video’s about Roli’s Seaboard, the Linnstrument by digital music pioneer Roger Linn and the Madrona Labs’ Sounplane. I think that the rise of MPE or ‘Multidimensional Polyphonic Expression’ where every note can be tweaked individually by gestures just like you know from guitars or violins is going to be one of the most interesting developments in digital music. Since many of these solutions are still pricey I’m planning to build my own instrument. 

While researching the world of expressive intruments recently, I came across the Touché by Expressive E. A controller that can be used to expressively modulate the sound of a traditional controller or synth! Cool stuff.

[zgoheen]

Song Sparrow (Melospiza melodia)

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Madrona Labs Soundplane & Aalto

[djsoundplane]

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Get it free on Soundcloud. http://www.soundcloud.com/dj-sound-plane

[republique-sonore-blog]

Traveling Through Grain Space...

Trying to use the soundplane for something experimental which is basically a surface for traveling through a single long sample, selecting cool points and then being able to play those grains pitch-wise but with the ability to travel as well using the continuous surface.

At points if it gets disorienting, it's like trying to hone in on a radio signal using coarse and fine tuning to discover something.

Soundplane is also responding to pressure as well a x position and relative to where you first touched a pitch. I don't have y connected but I could. Pressure controls volume envelope.

arc|tangent is a new monome arc app I am working on for high resolution control of anything in a generic sense with a lot of options for routing on the fly.  Resolutions are variable from highly quantized to pretty much unlimited resolution if you are willing to spin the dial enough times. Visual feedback on the arc helps you understand what is happening. This allows for very high resolution control of scrubbing through a large sample in coarse or fine increments and control of many other parameters at high or low resolution.

The sound source is Monolake - Granulator. I am just controlling it in an unusual way and with finer control than you can do with the M4L patch controls alone.   The sample is a Stretta sample of a bunch of raw takes from a modular session of his. It is totally raw unedited material.  

This was a very first rough test. There are so many tweaks you can make to make the control more musical. This is very exciting and fun. Different material yields totally different results and you can approach it in many ways.

[ingmob]

First take.

This metamorphosis facilitated by Madrona Labs: Soundplane & Aalto.

[solarpunks]

More from Ingmob on his experiments in sustainable, resilient computer music here:

My approach has been heavily inspired by the Princeton Laptop Orchestra (PLOrk), specifically the idea of a computer-synthesized acoustic ensemble. To clarify, that means 'no PA' - each performer is their own acoustic entity with a hemispherical speaker, and in a concert setting would be mic'd the way a chamber orchestra is. Specifically, Scott Smallwood has made a number of contributions & explorations in this area, his paper 'SOLA: Sustainable Orchestras of Laptops and Analog' is a must read. I'm curious to learn about the off-the-grid endeavors of others, and interested to see what kinds of feedback evolve from this seedling community.

[ingmob]

My first song on the Soundplane from Madrona Labs. Off the grid again.

[xsjournal]

"Super Mario Spacetime Organ (illucia and Soundplane)" by Chris Novello