iTunes LP format and ituneslp.net

The site iTunesLP.net has a lot of information on how to create an iTunes LP and a sample – a reproduction of Disney’s Fantasia release from 1957 (without the tracks, but with the visuals).

This looks like it could be a good promo item for independent musicians, allowing them to provide otherwise-unavailable items via iTunes LP sales, benefiting both themselves and their fans.

Welcome Russian posters, but not spambots

I will give some of you the benefit of the doubt and assume you to to be human and not robotic – please, if you want to post, make it in English (go ahead and use the Google translator or Babelfish – we’ll understand if the English isn’t perfect).

Otherwise, if either I can’t figure out what you’re linking to, or it’s unrelated to the content of the blog, I’m regretfully going to have to mark it as spam.

And for you obvious spambots: you’re signally failing the Turing test by making comments on five-year-old posts…

Korg SV-1 Stage Piano

Man, this is one gorgeous keyboard. Not only is it pleasing to the eye, but it sounds like a dream. I’m a sucker for those old ’70’s electric piano sounds. The SV-1 specifically adds all the noises that the actual instruments make. Organs, acoustic piano, and clavinets too. Here’s a
Massively detailed demo from Sweetwater Sound.
I’m really seriously considering switching to this instrument plus maybe a softsynth or two.

@differentskies on Twitter

We’re trying an experiment this year for Different Skies: the @differentskies Twitter ID will be used by all the participants to do updates during the week.

Normally we have a lot of different blog entries that generally end up getting written at the end of the day or even a day or so later – a lot happens at a Different Skies!

Having the one Twitter ID to watch saves everyone from having to chew up Twitter real estate on a #differentskies hashtag.

It will be interesting to see if everyone’s too busy even to use Twitter.

And now, ahead of the curve with 2.8.4

Apparently there’s yet another nasty worm breaking into WordPress blogs; 2.8.4 blocks it. Looks like I actually beat the worm for a change.

iGenDyn

iGendyn (App Store link) is a moderately interesting synthesis app that’s let’s you play with Xenakis’ general dynamic stochastic synthesis.
It’s essentially a powerful noisemaker. You can make some pretty rough-edged sounds with this; the iPhone gives you surprisingly sensitive control surface. The accelerometer-based controls are less sensitive and harder to make reproduceable gestures with; the [...]

APC40 Hack 1: Monome Emulator for the APC40 on Vimeo

So it’s not necessary to wait for hard-to-get hardware: the APC40 can emulate a Monome, just fine.

Simple Sequencer

A nice eight-step build-it-yourself sequencer at Instructables: Simple Sequencer.

Torley

This is Torley. Torley has fun with stuff. Torley is also adroit and educational. You should be reading his blog.

Harmonia Prohibitorum

I like this blog – just started, but the writer’s funny, articulate, and passionate about electronic music. One of the first posts is on noise: a discussion of the analog recording process, with its inherent noise, versus the nearly-silent digital realm. A blog worth reading.
Harmonia Prohibitorum.