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Attacco turns any mic – and any surface – into expressive percussive music input
Attacco’s Virtual Controller, now in beta, makes anything into a percussive MIDI controller – not just for triggers, but expression, too. And you don’t need special hardware, either.
Read moreDown with Sequencers: The Age of Glass Finger-Drums Through Their Beats, Live [Videos]
For years, drummers have had to look sideways at drum machines — boxes with step sequencers blinking, out to replace them. With acts like The Age of Glass, tables are turned. The sounds are electronic (Access Virus, Machinedrum), but the playing is all live. Drummer Nick Froud plays all those parts without any sequencing, fingers […]
- July 22, 2013
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Do It With Lasers: R&D Experiment Makes Drum Microphones, Triggers More Accurate
Sennheiser Element – Laser Drum Microphone System from Andy Greenwood on Vimeo. We cover a lot of experiments that make an interesting proof of concept, or that make performance, frankly, more difficult but in interesting ways. Here’s an idea that might just work. You know, like might actually make an existing technology better. The idea […]
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