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A floor lamp that looks like it’s from the golden age of Hollywood, a parasol that will use the sun to tell you the time, an iPhone app to help you with your green screen work, Hyundai’s tech for gesture control, Live Mesh beta is ending, and we’re having another contest at Geek Beat LIVE!

Check out the dubspot blog to learn more: bit.ly Learn how to use Touchable, the iPad app that allows you to control Ableton Live. In this three part video series we take you through the basics of the Touchable interface, how to control Live with Touchable and how to use it for composition.

STOPMOTION 2.0 LABORATORIO EXPERIENCIAL (GINMOV) Vídeo-Arte. Audiovisual Stopmotion controlado en directo por MIDI y guante con SENSORES DE FLEXIÓN bajo software de VJ MODUL8. Creado a partir de materiales cotidianos como latas de cerveza, refrescos y otros. MAS INFO: ginmov.com Creativo Audiovisual Rubén Fernández ginmov@gmail.com

Classic Game Room reviews FLIGHT CONTROL for iPod Touch and iPhone, a video game where your objective is to land planes and helicopters without crashing them into each other. Flight Control is also available on Nintendo Wii as WiiWare and as a download videogame for Nintendo’s DSi as DSiWare. It is available for other mobile devices too and was developed by Firemint. Flight Control HD is available for the iPad and another version was released on Playstation 3 PS3 which uses the PS Move controller

TouchAble App for iPad is available worldwide exclusively through the iTunes App Store www.itunes.com touchAble is an unique iPad app is the first application to give Ableton Live users full control over their digital audio workstation, without the tiresome process of manual midi-mapping. touchAble allows live users to walk away from their computer and perform live from anywhere within Wi-Fi range (using ad-hoc connection or router) while keeping latency at a minimum. TouchAble App includes 6 advanced modules, Clip grid, Mixer, Devices, Pads, Keys, XY Pad, and 2 commands menu : clips and transport. TouchAble provides a powerful, intuitive and reliable multitouch control solution for professional use. TouchAble includes templates for lives plugins and is fully compatible with vsts, audiounits and instruments. TouchAble is supported by many professional musicians, performers, djs and composers around the world, who use touchAble on stage or in studio. FUTURE MUSIC UK: “You may think about touchAble and an iPad instead of a hardware controller. A compliment indeed.” MUSICTECH MAG UK: “It can handle the majority of performance or interactive elements within Live without requiring any manual controller design or mapping, making it an easy-to-use but nonetheless powerful Live controller.” 9/10 MUSICRADAR.COM UK: “The cheaper, more fully featured touchAble is a clear all-round winner. Its advanced control options give it the advantage in terms of power and make it the obvious …

This is a short clip of alex over showing how to set up the Korg Nano Control using ‘The Bridge’ function on Serato Scratch Live. Just shout for any questions Follow me on Twitter – www.twitter.com/alexoverdj Facebook – www.facebook.com/alexover88 Soundcloud – www.soundcloud.com/alex-over

Video courtesy of Serato.com Overview for the functionality of Ableton Transport Control for Serato Scratch Live available in ‘The Bridge’ (Ableton/Serato) collaborative software

www.agiprodj.com http 866-PRO-MIXX (776-6499) DJ Ty shows us how Native Control works on Serato Scratch LIVE using the Pioneer CDJ-400. Native control for Serato Scratch LIVE means – NO TIMECODE! You connect your controller to the computer with a USB cable and you no longer have to use timecode. You still must use some type of Scratch LIVE hardware – SL1, SL3, MP4 or TTM57SL. You get 2 direction communication between the Pioneer CDJ-400 and Serato Scratch LIVE. This shows track info on the CDJ-400 screen, plus BPM and you can use the loop in or out buttons to set loops on the fly – there’s a visual representation on the computer screen of the loop you just set on the hardware – something that could only be done before with the mouse, keyboard or a MIDI controller, recently. Native mode control is awesome for Scratch LIVE – why not choose one of the most reputable and well built CD Players on the market for it? The Pioneer CDJ-400 is one of our favorite Scratch LIVE controllers. Cool with timecode? The Pioneer CDJ-800MK2 is rocking too! Instant Message, email or call us toll free for more info!

‘The Mandala is the Best and Most High-Definition Way to Control All the Pro Audio Software Out There,’ Says Mandala Inventor Vince De Franco

Laurel Canyon, Calif. – Showcasing the Mandala’s unprecedented ability to control pro audio software, Synesthesia Corporation today released 50 Native Instruments Battery 3 presets for the Mandala 2.0, along with an HD Black Beauty Battery 3 Player for Mandala.

They are available now to anyone via free download from the company’s website at http://www.mandaladrum.com

The presets configure drum sampler Battery 3 for use with the Mandala (Battery 3 required, and is not included with the Mandala), using only samples from the Battery 3 12GB library of more than 100 drum kits with more than 23,000 individual samples. The presets configure the Mandala pad as a straightforward MIDI controller. The Battery 3 presets also:

* Assign samples in up to seven circular trigger zones across the Mandala pad.

* Extensively use the Mandala’s 128 circular strike zones to change triggering and effects parameters as drummers play, for true HD drumming.

* Cover playing styles from straightforward grooves to experimental sonics.

The HD Black Beauty Battery 3 Player for Mandala offers drummers the most accurate digital representation of an acoustic drum, via 3,360 samples of a single vintage 1970s 5×14 Super Sensitive Ludwig Black Beauty Snare Drum.

A drummer’s sound changes with every strike anywhere on the surface of the Mandala, just like with an acoustic snare. Four separate players include: (1) Snare On, and (2) Snare On with Rim, each consisting of 10 zones center to edge, 20 velocity layers and 6 round robins; (3) Snare Off, and (4) Snare Off with Rim, each consisting of 4 zones center to edge, 20 velocity layers and 6 round robins.

“The Mandala drum controls pro audio software with unprecedented resolution,” said Vince De Franco, Synesthesia founder and CEO, and inventor of the Mandala.

“These Battery presets really just provide an example of what drummers are capable of accomplishing with this instrument. Our goal has always been to give drummers and musicians a way to experiment and let their imaginations fly, while never losing the basic functionality that they’re already comfortable with.”

The Mandala works seamlessly with most major music software as a USB MIDI controller. In addition to Battery, it works with Reaktor, FXpansion BFD, Ableton Live, Propellerhead Reason and Apple GarageBand.

Mandala’s Virtual Brain software is available online for free download at http://www.mandaladrum.com. Even without buying the Mandala, anyone can download the software and tinker with it – on its own, or with other PC or Mac-compatible musical devices.

Synesthesia also is producing a series of video tutorials for beginner, intermediate and advanced levels. The company will make them available on its website and on YouTube later this year. The series of videos will walk users through the entire process of using the Mandala – from physically connecting the drum to a computer, to using the EZ software, on through to setting up advanced audio techniques using the pro version of the Virtual Brain software.

The Mandala 2.0 retails for $349, and is available online at http://mandaladrum.com . Each Mandala is hand-crafted and thoroughly tested before it is shipped.

About Synesthesia
Synesthesia Corporation ( http://www.synesthesiacorp.com ) is exploring new sonic terrain with the Mandala™, its patented high-def drum and synthesizer – the only electronic drum that faithfully emulates an acoustic drum, and then transcends it. A new kind of synthesizer, the Mandala offers the world’s fastest trigger, precise strike detection across the entire pad, and a musical range so wide it can be the top of the line Black Beauty® Snare Drum or virtually any other instrument imaginable. The Mandala plugs into PC or Mac via USB cable, and works seamlessly with most major mixing programs. Co-developed with professional drummer Danny Carey of Tool, Mandalas are used by professionals and hobbyists the world over. Vince De Franco – inventor, physicist and musician – founded Synesthesia to develop his state-of-the-art electronic sensor technology and to use it to create products that inspire imagination and exploration. Based in Laurel Canyon, Calif., the company currently has several other products in development.

www.agiprodj.com http 866-PRO-MIXX (776-6499) DJ Ty shows us more Native Control on Serato Scratch LIVE using the Pioneer CDJ-400. Native control for Serato Scratch LIVE means – NO TIMECODE! You connect your controller to the computer with a USB cable and you no longer have to use timecode. You still must use some type of Scratch LIVE hardware – SL1, SL3, MP4 or TTM57SL. You get 2 direction communication between the Pioneer CDJ-400 and Serato Scratch LIVE. This shows track info on the CDJ-400 screen, plus BPM and you can use the loop in or out buttons to set loops on the fly – there’s a visual representation on the computer screen of the loop you just set on the hardware – something that could only be done before with the mouse, keyboard or a MIDI controller, recently. Instant Message, email or call us toll free for more info!