We’ve heard from DJ Chinkial — and via several of you — that he’s working on a way of turning Korg’s KP3 KAOSS Pad into a step sequencer, by way of Reaktor. Each step lights up, causing him and others to use the phrase “Monome-like.” Monome as an adjective? Congrats to the Monome designers for that! The KP3 is a cool device on its own, so it looks fascinating to me.

Just be prepared to try to read chinkial’s massive run-on sentence describing the project. He writes:

just thought id let youse know im making a reaktor ensemble at the moment to utilize the korg kp3s 8×8 grid as a seq its going pretty well managed to get the kp3 to trigger the steps on an 8×8 event table and ouput them im also getting visual feed back from the kp3 aswell so u can make beats and not look at the screen just like the monome this is just a test to c if it could b done as i plan on porting it to a vst plugin in sythedit somehow that was my initial idea as not everybody uses reaktor that has a kp3 u know so let me know what youse think about my project

More power to you, man — I think you’ve learned to speak better to the Reaktor than to us, but keep on rocking the KP3. The project looks really cool, from what I can see through blurry cameraphone footage. Anyone in the UK who wants to go shoot this with a real camera, let us know!

It’s like a spy video. And 69 views, plus two tips from CDMers, which means basically you guys see everything before the rest of the universe, even if it’s barely capable of being seen.

chinkial also wins bonus points for plastering his MySpace page with marijuana leaves, being the first and only person to create a stoner mystique for Reaktor. (As opposed to, you know, basement club in Berlin and Red Bull or, maybe more like a lineup of espressos and cigarettes.)

The project looks great, though, so you can bet we’ll stay tuned to the chinkial YouTube channel.

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Krispaglia invites Artur for a guestmix on DeepLine radio show. Classic broken beat tracks for your ears. Enjoy. - Source Site:http://www.myspace.com/arturjazzband

29th January 2008: Version 1.14 of Impromptu is now available. Changes include: Improved Multi-Channel AudioUnit support. Rational numbers. Virtual MIDI sources and destinations. Keybindings support (International ...

A mixture of old and new tracks on a house/deep house & techno tip: * Kadebostan - Back To My First Heroes * Motor City Drum Ensemble - Stripped Down To The Bone * Terry Hunter - Jouse Scat * Move D - Your Rolling Hills * Kelli Hand - Escape In Detroit * Redux Ep - Can You Feel It * Dubbyman - Messages from the Dub (Mike Huckaby remix) * The Mole - Thanks For Coming Out Pt.1 * Mr Chinn - Eoan (Living Souls Free Mix) * Tony Allen - Ole (Moritz Van Oswold Remix) * Kadebostan - Spirit Soldiers * Christian Prommer - Dirty Drums * Don Williams - Exhibition * Losoul - Open Door (Gerd Remix) * Losoul - West Side Horn * Jeff Mills - Micro Terra * Will Saul - Pause (2020 Soundsystem Remix) * Mike Huckaby - Jupiter * Patrice Scott - Visions Of Mantada * Abacus - Sunrayz * Mike Huckaby - Fantasy * Caston Jost - Love - Source Site:http://www.trackwerk.net

tracklist: 1. international observer - hip hop's final 2. international observer - low light meter 3. international observer - minicell 4. international observer - barone 5. international observer - flat 6. international observer - seedsavers dub 7. international observer - london dub 8. international observer - leaf mold - Source Site:http://aaa-audio.blogspot.com

29th January 2008: Overloud has updated BREVERB to version 1.1.2. Changes: Fixed some problems with the RTAS version. Added Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard compatibility. New additional factory presets.

This is a funky Tribute to some Friends of the Soulfood-Club. Just enjoy the Music and please send us your Feedback !!!! Playlist soon on www.thesoulfoodclub.de - Source Site:http://www.thesoulfoodclub.de/audio/Mix%20-%20The%20Soulfood%20Club%20-%20A%20Tribute%20To%20Moskau%20Inkasso.mp3

Take it down a notch with some North of the border chill-out vibes. Dj Takuhiro blends up a soothing tincture of ambient textures and IDM downbeats. With some classic cuts from Boards of Canada, David Last, Organic Grooves and others this mix will keep your wanting more. I've been kinda down on chill out music lately (too boring!) but this mix brings chill back to life by changing up the flow of the mix with some deft vocal additions interspersed with flowing sonic textures. Keep it chilled. - Source Site:http://ch.ill.fm/2007/03/21/07-blue-hand-spring-chill-mix/

CDM contributor, mic flag fabricator, beat bicyclist, and sound artist extraordinaire Michael Una has been up to more sonic magic-making in Chicago. He showed two recent creations at MGFest 2008 — that’s MG as in “Motion Graphics”, not, sadly, the car, though I think sound art would also go deliciously with MG automobiles.

On display in Chi-town: giant pods to fill rooms with sound, and a man in a sound-induced, hypnotic blizzard of milk. (Yes, they have winter in northern Illinois.)

Snowy Day at MGFest 2008 from Michael Una on Vimeo.

Octophonopod at MGFest 2008 from Michael Una on Vimeo.

Behind-the-scenes commentary is available on Mike’s site, not to be confused with the domain-squatting personals site that you get if you leave out the hyphen. (Will, someday, an entire romantic community be devoted to Una Love? I wouldn’t rule it out.)

One lesson learned: milk can be incompatible with electronics.

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Aud is either a “Music Industy insider with a finger on the pulse of more than BPM” or “consummate psuedonisticmusictechnophilosoph” or both. I got hip to his music through a friend who may soon be publicly identified, and have heard some really terrific productions (some not yet on the MySpace page yet). But I bring Aud to everyone’s attention in this case for his run-on rant poetry about the relative value of certain technological acheivements. If you could condense everything you feel about music technology into a 60-second speech in the local pub, it might come out something like this.

audnoyz - 36 - Male - UK [MySpace.com]

I submit in this age of “in the box” for some, where all is manipulatable and nothing is beyond reproach, the same holds true for noise found or contrived. All is art, all is beauty. ode to aud :-/ More Musings: The pub landlord rules! -Pro Tools: the mix bus sounds great through my Neve -Steinberg: what the fuck happened to you? -Sonar: time has been good to you -Live: awesome, awesome, awesome -DP: don’t get the respect it deserves- -Props for props- -Dangerous: now that’s some good noise- -Korg: CHAOS rules! -Adams: the best!- -Saxonia: German precision- Go SPL before play with your big knob- Liquid channel:too much- Duende:the sound is classic the UI could use some modernization- -RME: worth the extra quid- -64bit don’t mean shit on the dance floor- -Wavelab rules- Focusrite: RED!- TOFT: great stuff- Apogee:little brittle w/o nuts- Benchmark:solid-*** Wedlock is like a dongle*** +Mac still got it over PC+ Macbooks awesome, and you can you warm your tea on them too–Windows: why can’t you remember I already installed via that USB port already!- Mac towers: what you say I did not catch that, the fan is ON…- Robin Trower deserves more!- Jobs: Brilliant! Create a culture that hates Gates, that pays a premium for superior technology? while YOU profit from the biggest proprietary scheme ever devised…. Don’t get me wrong, I LOVE my mac, I just hate Apple!– Ipod: freepass on this one… wait a minute, I got rid of my vinal for cassette because it was better, then to CD cuz it sounds better, now you want me to drop my CDs for inferior sound quality… BRILLIANT!

“Wedlock is like a dongle”, appearing on a t-shirt near you. (Perhaps for some it’s more like challenge-response authorization. Well, unless you pirated your significant other.)

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