The free application, YXBoZXh0d2lu, augments Aphex Twin’s new EP, bringing the artwork, music and video to life.
Created by Tokyo-based spatial internet studio KALKUL, visual artist Weirdcore with Warp and Aphex Twin, the app offers an alternate world of interactive AR bringing the artwork, music and video to life in 3D.
The app was developed by KALKUL with Weirdcore and Warp Records. It is available now as a free download for iOS and Android devices:
Sound designer and Ableton Live expert Brian Funk let us know that he has released a new Ableton Live Pack, available in both free and paid editions, the Casio SK-1 Ableton Live Pack.
What he say about it:
“I sampled all the preset sounds of the SK-1, as well as its drum hits and 11 rhythm patterns. Using its additive synthesis feature, I created another 11 sounds and sampled those.
In total, it’s 23 Ableton Instrument Racks with 83 Macro Variation Presets. The rhythm patterns are tempo-synced to fit into any Ableton Live Project. I also included 2 Audio Effect Racks: One mimics the SK-1’s Vibrato and adds Tremolo, Reverb, and Delay. The other is the Casio-ize Effect which captures the exact sample and bit rate of the SK-1 and makes anything sound like it was sampled to the SK-1.”
A quick demonstration of the Casio-ize Audio Effect Rack:
Casio SK-1 Ableton Live Pack Audio Demo:
Casio SK-1 Ableton Live Pack is available now for $15. A free edition is also available.
Reader Chris Beckstrom lets us know that he has released a “weird free sample pack” based on the Roland TR-808, featuring 808 samples treated in unusual ways.
“These sounds aren’t intended to be ‘bread-and-butter’ 808 sounds,” he notes. “There are already millions of those!”
Here are some of the ways Beckstrom processed the sounds:
“Playing the samples through a Zoom call and GoTo Meeting, playing the samples through a little speaker inside a güiro, using very bad mp3 compression as a filter, spectral resynthesis using Virtual ANS etc.
I also ran the sounds through my homemade modular which is very much NOT a Eurorack system – it’s based mostly on CMOS logic chips and is aggressively DIY. Like made of wood and uses machine screws and alligator clips for connections DIY.
I did some more typical stuff with the 808 samples too, like tube amplification and playing the sounds through a boombox.”
