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Organizers of ContinuuCon 2024 – being held in Pittsburgh April 26-28 – let us know that the full schedule of events is now available.

ContinuuCon is an international conference that focuses on the Haken Continuum and instruments that share its EaganMatrix synth engine, including the Haken Continuum Fingerboard, ContinuuMini, EaganMatrix Eurorack module and Expressive E Osmose synthesizer.

The three-day event features an opening reception and two days of workshops, seminars and performances. Musicians from around the world attend and participate.

ContinuuCon 2024 is being held at the Andrew Carnegie Free Library & Music Hall, in Carnegie, PA, a Pittsburgh neighborhood. All events take place in the Studio space of the Library, located downstairs under the main library.

Location:

Andrew Carnegie Free Library & Music Hall

300 Beechwood Ave. Carnegie, PA 15106.

The venue is close to downtown Carnegie, which organizers say has a walkable main street, with restaurants and shops for you to enjoy, while in town.

ContinuuCon 2024 Schedule:

Thursday, April 25:

7:00pm – 10:00pm: Continuum Invasion

While not officially a part of ContinuuCon, several ContinuuCon attendees have agreed to perform on a live music event sponsored by local Pittsburgh underground electronic music scene performers. Continuum Invasion is Thursday evening from 7-10PM at the same venue as ContinuuCon and admission is free to the public (donations accepted at the door).

Friday, April 26, 4-8PM:

Evening reception and introductory words by Lippold Haken and Ed Eagan.

The evening will be rounded off by some music improvisation that follows a quick review of Chick Corea’s treatise on jamming given by Russ Hoffman and Rob Schwimmer.

Saturday, April 27:

9:50am: Josh Madoff – A Deep Dive into Osmose

11:00am: Josh Madoff – Counterpoint and Polyphonic Playing on Continuum

1:30pm: Christophe Duquesne – Additive Spectral Analysis Tool Updates

2:45pm: David Gerard Matthews – History and Demonstration of the Ondes Martenot

3:30pm: Rob Schwimmer / Ed Eagan – Ondioline Demonstration and Ondioline-inspired Jenny Oscillator Eaganmatrix Sounds

4:30pm: Open Discussion

Sunday, April 28:

10:00am: Christophe Duquesne / Ed Eagan – Dune 2 Sound Design Secrets Revealed

11:15am: Tony KT Leung – A Bowed String Player’s Gestural Controller Meets the EaganMatrix

1:30pm: Mark Smart – 3D Laser Show Controlled by Continuum

2:15pm: Paul Dempsey – HC One Plugin for VCV Rack

3:15pm: Open Forum Discussion / Wrap Up

 

Tickets are available now. Find out more info on the event website.

 

 

 

Fuse Audio Labs has introduced VCE-118 Dynamic Range Enhancer, a new audio effects plugin for Mac and Windows, based on the sound of ’70s VCA technology.

VCE-118’s central knob offers compression ratios ranging between 1:1 and Infinity:1 or expansion between 1:1 and 1:2, while the intensity of the effect can be tweaked with the Threshold control. A ‘mode’ button switches between regular gain reduction or expansion, whereby only ABOVE THRESHOLD levels are processed, to LINEAR operation, affecting the full level above and below the threshold.

Audio Demos:

VCE-118 is available with an 50% off intro price of $29.00 until April 29, 2024 (regularly $59.00).

 

 

United Plugins has introduced Randomachine , a new effects plugin that they say is “designed to relieve monotony wherever the need to quickly make many variants of one sample in next to no time arises”.

Randomachine randomly changes multiple parameters in each of its six effects, so that every hit differs from the next or last to avoid monotony.

Best of all – it’s available as a free download for a limited time.

The six effects include:

• DISTORT — randomly changes the distortion or saturation of the audio being processed;
• PAN (panorama) — randomly changes the panorama (left/right position) of the audio being processed;
• AMBIENCE — randomly changes the ambience (reverb time and space) of the audio being processed;
• TIME — randomly changes the timing of the audio being processed;
• PITCH — randomly changes the pitch of the audio being processed; and
• FORMANT — randomly changes the formants of the audio being processed (albeit with a caveat of the spectral analysis involved adding latency to the plug-in).

Randomachine can be triggered by three different trigger sources:

• TRANSIENT, which, as implied by name, triggers by transients, thereby igniting Randomachine’s engines with each incoming signal, so sonic hits instantly change the settings of the selected effects;
• SYNC, synchronises to the project tempo within the host DAW (Digital Audio Workstation), changing the settings of the effects regularly upon whatever interval is set (such as every beat as well as every hi-hat hit, for instance); and
• MIDI, meaning any MIDI (Musical Instrument Digital Interface) note coming from the dedicated source, be that track or controller, can reset Randomachine at any time.

Features:

• Avoids monotony wherever the need to quickly make variants of one sample arises
• Three different — TRANSIENT, SYNC, and MIDI — TRIGGER sources availability
• Randomly changes multiple parameters in six — DISTORT, PAN (panorama), AMBIENCE, TIME, PITCH, and FORMANT — effects
• Every hit differs from the next or the last

SounDevice Digital’s Randomachine is available for free from April 15 until April 21, 2024, followed by a time-limited introductory promo price of only €9.00 until May 21, 2024 — rising thereafter to its regular price of €49.00 — as an AAX-, AU-, VST-, and VST3-compatible plug-in.