Small demo of one of my recently built Shruthi-1 synth in an unusual ambient Pad. As usual, the ValhallaShimmer reverb add a lot of lush to the sound.

Shruthi-1 Pad demo by hpsounds

Strange Tribe (v15-extract) by hpsounds

This is the first track made in Iceland, since I moved to Reykjavík a couple of months ago.

Technical notes

Bjarnarflagsstöð’s power plant by hpsounds

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Iceland soundscapes map

Kroflustoð powerplant’s turbines by hpsounds

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Iceland soundscapes map

Norddepil’s fish factory by hpsounds

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Faroes Islands soundscapes map

Il est né à Montpellier en 1921 au cœur de l’été. Ancrée en Méditerranée, sa poésie voyage au loin, sur les pas des explorateurs : vers l’Atlantique celte, le désert marocain, mais aussi les grands espaces américains qui l’habitent depuis ses lectures d’enfance.

En 1942, il s’engage dans les 3e Spahis algériens de la 3e division d’infanterie, ces bataillons d’Afrique qui assureront en 1944 la terrible campagne d’Italie. Fracassé par la guerre, « coupé du monde », il écrit. Depuis 1946, il a publié une œuvre importante, en marge des modes littéraires : des recueils d’une poésie solaire, terrienne, charnelle, des romans, des récits, des essais littéraires et des traductions.

Homme-lien, il a animé plusieurs revues littéraires, dirigé la radiodiffusion française en Languedoc-Roussillon jusqu’en 1986. Suivre l’itinéraire de Frédéric Jacques Temple, c’est ainsi traverser un siècle littéraire et artistique en croisant les pas de ses amis : Henri Pichette, pendant la guerre, Blaise Cendrars, à partir de 1948, Lawrence Durrell, qu’il accueille à Sommières, Henry Miller, qu’il rencontre chez Joseph Delteil ainsi que le peintre Pierre Soulages… . Dialoguer avec les artistes de son temps, les admirer, les faire connaître, a toujours été comme une nécessité pour lui.

Frédéric Jacques Temple aime à dire : « l’Écrire n’est qu’une des nombreuses formes du Vivre ». Ses amis Indiens Pueblos lui avaient trouvé un nom : « celui qui marche avec le soleil ».

Rencontres et amitiés

Premier recueil publié à Alger par Edmond Charlot en 1946. Henri Pichette, camarade de régiment. Les amis anglais et américains : Richard Aldington, Lawrence Durrell, Henry Miller… Les peintres Jean Hugo, Pierre Soulages, Alain Clément. Paul Gilson et les studios d’essais radiophoniques.

Le goût de l’ailleurs

« Je suis un arbre voyageur ». Influence des lectures d’enfance. Le désir d’Amérique : première transatlantique en 1960. Salt Lake city, Santa Fe, le Nouveau-Mexique, Long Island. Le Brésil de Cendrars. Dans le sillage d’Ulysse. Être partout chez soi. Rentrer chez soi.

Just a small demo soundscape/texture.

Instruments: eurorack modular synth (Cwejman, MakeNoise, MOTM, Malekko/Wiard, Toppobrillo modules), Kurzweil KSP8 effects processor.

Production: Ableton Live 8.

Main modules used:

Listen it with a good headphone or a good pair of loudspeakers to enjoy the very low bass part !

Screenshots

Anti Oscillator demo sequence by hpsounds

This question stared after having recorded 4 audio clips from my modular synth in 4 separate audio tracks. I’m wondering how to crossfade between 4 tracks in realtime using the joystick of my FaderFox micromodul LV2 ? A kind of vector mixing between these 4 tracks ?

What I’ve tried first was to make some group tracks:
- Group Track 1 = Track A + Track C
- Group Track 2 = Track B + Track D.

Then I assigned the X MIDI controller of the FaderFox’s joystick to control the level of track A and in opposite the level of track C. I did the same for Track B and D with the Y MIDI controller of the FaderFox’s joystick. But that’s not a true vector crossfader.

I think that the X MIDI controller of the FaderFox’s joystick should also control the level of the Group Track 2 and the same with the Y MIDI controller of the FaderFox’s joystick for the level of the Group Track 1. But then the MIDI controllers values must be mapped to have a special curve …

Instead of thinking about axis (X and Y) where each of the four audio sources is along these axis (axis X : source A & source C – axis Y : source B & source D), the idea was to think about a square where each corner is an audio source. Here is what I’ve done …

1 – I cut my 4 loops to the same length (16 bars in this case) and put each on its own track.

2 – Right-click on each audio clip and convert them with “Slice in a new MIDI track”.

3 – Select the smaller resolution you can have (here 1/8 bar give 128 slices) and for Slice Preset select “Slice to single Sampler”.

4 – Now you should have 4 new MIDI tracks in which you have a single Sampler instrument playing a 16 bar MIDI loop triggering 128 sample slices of the former audio loops => Loop 1, Loop 2, Loop 3, Loop 4.

5 – Create a new MIDI track, copy the first Sampler instrument in it (Loop 1), and copy the MIDI clip too.

6 – Create a rack with this Sampler instrument and copy in it the second Sampler instrument (from the 2d audio loop : Loop 1) => Rack 1-2 with MIDI triggered loops 1 & 2.

7 – Embedded Rack 1-2 into an new rack => Main Rack.

8 – Duplicate Rack 1-2 and rename the copy Rack 3-4.

9 – Copy into Rack 3-4 Sampler instruments Loop 3 and Loop 4, and delete Sampler instruments Loop 1 and Loop 2 which were copied when we have duplicated Rack 1-2 (see previous step 8).

10 – Now in each sub-racks (Rack 1-2 and Rack 3-4), click on the CHAIN button and draw a crossfade with respectively Loop 1 and Loop 2, and Loop 3 and Loop 4.

11 – For each sub-racks (Rack 1-2 and Rack 3-4), assign a circular knob to control the crossfade between respectively Loop 1 and Loop 2, and Loop 3 and Loop 4.

12 – On the Main Rack assign a circular knob to control both knob from Rack 1-2 and Rack 3-4, and label it Fade X.

13 – On the Main Rack, click on the CHAIN button and draw a crossfade between Rack 1-2 and Rack 3-4 and assign a second circular knob to control the main crossfade. Label it Fade Y.

14 – Assign MIDI controller to knobs b>Fade X and b>Fade Y and have fun !!!

NOTES
- You should make some minors level adjustments in each of the 4 Sampler instruments to get a good audio balance.
- If you are using a MIDI joystick (I’m using the one in my Faderfox micromodul LV2), each corner is an audio source. Making circles with the joystick crossfade between the 4 audio sources.
- If you put the joystick in the central position, you may get a kind of “bad spot” audio level, but it depends on your audio materials too.

ableton Live – How to crossfade between 4 loops in realtime ? by hpsounds

More informations about vector synthesis here : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vector_synthesis

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