Music Sequencer Links

Logic Pro 8: A First Look At The Ultrabeat Rhythm Synth / Sequencer

As a long time user of Logic 6, and then Logic Express 7 for years, I was really overdue to catch up with my colleagues and collaborators and plunk down for Logic Pro. When the pricing and inclusion list for Logic Studio was announced several weeks ago now, I simply had no choice.

It Takes Balls Of Steel To Play This Sequencer [Video]

# music While talent isn't required to play Alkex Instruments unique eight-step sequencer, you will need a set of steel balls to lay down the beats. Forty-eight steel balls, to be exact, which trigger the optical sensors the machine uses in place of physical buttons. More »

A spreadsheet based music tracker: get ready to rock your accounts (video)

Art and geekery : two sides of the same coin. A fact wonderfully demonstrated by this spiffy spreadheet-based music sequencer. Live-coder and all-round music hacker Patrick -- aka cappel:nord -- spotted the LibreOffice spreadsheet's sonic potential and decided to work his magic. The result is demonstrated in the video below. Sure, it's a little bit senza functionally, but it does appear to have ...

Dmitri SFC: Circuit-Bending the Limits of House Music

These are Dmitri SFC's actual soldering safety goggles.​A few years back, Dmitri SFC's studio had been robbed, his girlfriend of seven years had left him, and he was depressed. "I needed more g

'Years' modified turntable plays a tree's inner rings like a record

In what might give new meaning to the term “green technology” Bartholomäus Traubeck’s amazing ‘Years’ turntable takes slices of wood rings from a tree and plays them like a record.