WeeklyBeats 2012 Week 41: "Amputation Fantasy Land"

http://weeklybeats.com/#/little-scale/music/amputation-fantasy-land-2

WeeklyBeats 2012 Track #18: "Microscopic Gestures"

http://weeklybeats.com/#/little-scale/music/microscopic-gestures

"Nervous System" (One Hour EP)

Once again, another one hour EP, this time made using my iPod Touch with Nanoloop for iPhone. My favourite track is number three.

Listen to and download "Nervous System" below:
Track 01
Track 02
Track 03
Track 04

little-scale: Biometrics (2010)

Music for Nanoloop for iPhone, field recordings, broken AM/FM radio (courtesy of Veronique Laforest) and Atari POKEY. Artwork by Lauren Tomczak. Download here: http://www.milkcrate.com.au/littlescaleweb/little-scale_Biometrics.zip

Three Improvisation Tracks for Nanoloop For iPhone (with Tristan Louth-Robins)

Jamming with Tristan Louth-Robins. Enjoy!

http://www.lazerscale2010.com/track.php?id=633

http://www.lazerscale2010.com/track.php?id=634

http://www.lazerscale2010.com/track.php?id=635

Periodic Waveform Editor for iPhone via TouchOSC

This is a simple periodic waveform editor for the iPhone / iPod Touch made using TouchOSC. The waveform has sixteen steps. There is also a slider that controls the frequency of the waveform.

This is not supposed to be something particularly useful; rather, it further explores the idea of touching sound, something that I have been fascinated with. You're welcome to muck around with this setup. Download the Max/MSP patch here and the TouchOSC template here.

Nanoloop for iPhone

Nanoloop for iPhone was released recently, and although I think it could use a few small updates in terms of certain functionality it is a really nice piece of software, and seems to have held my attention for longer than other pieces of standalone music software for the iPod / iPhone.

Find out more about NL4i here: http://nanoloop.com/iphone

Listen to two tracks I've written using the software here and here.

Sequencing Sega Master System YM2413 Drums from iPod Touch via TouchOSC and Max/MSP

Today I've been working on a setup whereby an iPod Touch / iPhone running TouchOSC can sequence and manipulate the drum channels from a YM2413 inside of a Sega Master System.

I would have simply made my own patch for TouchOSC, but I was having some troubles uploading it to my iPod, so I simply mapped data from the default 'Beatmachine' template.

The following parameters can be changed from the iPod Touch:
• Rhythmic sequencing
• Step-wise pitch sequencing
• Global pitch transposition
• Global note length
• Individual drum volume control
• Tempo

Here is the mapping at the moment. I am hoping to add a 'loop' save / load type mapping, where the user can build up a loop, save it, change the loop until it is a different thing entirely, and then come back to original easily (with 9 such 'save slots' available).






The YM2413 has five basic drum sounds, kick drum, snare drum, tom, hi hat and cymbal.

In the video below, the only effect that has been added to the direct output from the Sega Master System is a bit of a delay line. All other changes in sound are a result of changing the parameters of the sequence or changing the parameters inside of the YM2413.

iPod Touch & TouchOSC Controlling a C64

I made a quick video of using an iPod Touch and TouchOSC to control a Commodore 64 in real time.

Using the default 'Keys' patch for TouchOSC, a number of parameters of the Commodore 64s sound chip, the SID, can be controlled:

• Note on and off commands for two octaves' worth of piano keys
• Attack
• Decay
• Release
• Filter frequency
• Filter resonance
• Enable / disable triangle waveform
• Enable / disable sawtooth waveform
• Enable / disable pulse waveform
• Pulse wave duty cycle

Although this is only a preliminary mapping, I do like where this is going from a performance point of view, and I will be working on better / more meaningful mappings in the near future.

3 Sega Sample Kits for BeatMaker (iPhone)

Today I picked up the brilliant application BeatMaker for iPhone and iPod Touch. It is a great combination of a simple interface with enough flexibility to do some interesting things with it.

Here are three Sega kits for BeatMaker:

• YM2413 Drums (recorded from a Sega Master System 1)
• YM2612 (recorded from a Sega Mega Drive 2)
• SN76489 (recorded from a Sega Master System 2)