some sounds we like

In the “edison” drum sort of sense. I’m totally amazed!

Музыкальный девайс

thanks, jono!!

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Dear propellerhead.se. Ego stroke, love you, etc. Now then, here’s a bit of wish listing for you. Can you please add remote overrides for the redrum module’s step buttons?

Observe… here’s the redrum module. Notice the step buttons highlighted in red.

And here’s what the redrum module looks like in “remote override edit” mode. Notice the severe lack of blue arrow assignment indicators:

Here’s one of the newest members of the Reason family, Thor. It has, somewhat awesomely, a step sequencer built right in! Notice the step buttons highlighted in red:

And now we look at what Thor looks like in “remote override edit” mode. Notice a perplexing surplus of blue assignment arrow indicators on the step buttons. Wtf?

Ok, but now notice that there’s no way to attach the swing settings to Thor’s sequencer. Wtf again? A double Thor whammy. And hey, excellent work on Thor, overall. Awesome stuff. I haven’t even begun to scratch the surface. I like how the sequencer spits out CV. Really cool.

ok, so in theory, I could attach buttons from, say, a monome, to the step sequencer buttons on Thor, and use the CV out to control one channel on redrum. So I could, in theory, use 10 Thors to fully control step sequencing in redrum with a monome, but I lose all of my swing. Boohoo. In fact, I’d be happy with this setup because I can easily assign buttons to specific drum sounds using the CV out from Thor. I just can’t in regular practice do this because I’ll lose swing, and honestly, swing is the most important feature to me. I can sequence beats all day long on any number of platforms, but none really nail swing and the simplicity of assigning samples to the various channels in redrum like you do.

While you’re at it, can you please re-add the voice selector to redrum like in rebirth’s 808 module?

Then i could use a slider and a button matrix to control rebirth. That would be ridiculously awesome. Or hey, make general step sequencer that spits out multiple CV channels. That’d work for me.

Love, your paying customer,
-steve

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Here’s an updated and edited file from QORSER, The Rhythmist, and Steve Cooley at silicon valley techno jam session #1… trust us, you’ll be glad you listened to this version instead of the raw file.

We had a way bigger response than we expected, and it was pretty awesome, so thanks to everyone who came out to jam at Works! We had 9 people participating at the peak, and 6 people who walked in off first street to check it out and see the exhibit in the gallery. Thanks again!

If you liked this event or if you’d like to participate in something like it, definitely check out Share-SJ.

Here are the media files I have… if you have more, please post a comment.

Hour one audio

Hour two audio

Hour three audio

Hour four audio … and the last couple few minutes

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I just discovered that one of my oldest friends has an album for sale on itunes!

I really dig it. Knowing what I do about his musical tastes, I think this album is a tour de force for him. Well done, sir!

Go check it out!

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My album “Imprecision” is now available for sale on Amazon. iTunes coming soon!

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I have a new release out on Dobox! Happy birthday to me. You can read about it on my record label here: Dobox Recordings, or you can preview and/or purchase it riiiight here:

Soon to be on the iTunes Store, so if you want to wait… no hard feelings.

Tim writes:

We’re going to have our monthly jam/experimentation session at Villa Montalvo this Wednesday (i.e. tomorrow), from 7:30 to 10:00pm. Details/directions can be found here:

http://montalvoarts.org/events/sharesj_oct08/

We’re going to be in the Carriage House Theatre.

MIDI (wired and wireless) and OSC (wired and wireless) will be distributed in various experimental ways. We’ll have a number of people doing video as well as audio. Much fun will be had. Come join us. Observers are as welcome as participants. Bring cables if you bring equipment.

…Tim…

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