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Maschine 1.5 is here. I’m trying to download it now but it seems the internet connect at my hotel is throttled so I may have to wait till I get home in the morning to give it another go.
The update is also accompanied by a 1 gig library update as well. I’m not sure at [...]

So I’m working on YAMP (yet another midi project and it took me a while to recollect all the binary arithmetic required to parse MIDI packets.
Take a midi packet with 3 bytes in hexadecimal notation such as 98 3C 64. This stream encapsulates the following instructions:
Play middle C on channel 10 at velocity [...]

Finally something else worth talking about besides the iPad!!!
The imminent  os 4 upgrade will offer a mod matrix feature on all Virus TIs. The feature allows you to use an arpeggiator pattern as a source in the modulation matrix. To those of you not familiar with a mod matrix, I would describe it as a [...]

I love it!!!
First, a bit of my background with beat machines/workstations. I’ve owned Akai mpc 1000/2000xl,  Yamaha Rm1x/RS7000/Motif Classic/ES/XS, e-mu MP7, Roland MV-8000, Korg Triton/M3.
I liked the MV8000. Very easy to use, great elastic audio, greate effects but it was too big, preset management was a bit quirky as well and saving took too much [...]

mLan16e2 expansion on motif xs handles 16 channels out and 6 channels in at 44.1 khz
korg exb-fw, only does 6 out and 2 in at 48khz. Motif wins.
As a performance synth, the m3 wins. It has karma, drum pads, drum track, xy pad, chord memory.
Motif has an arp.
As a sequencer, Motif wins. Motif has pattern [...]

So I just added a Motif XS6 to the setup. I know I was supposed to be done but I couldn’t help it. Nice looking baby, great sequencer, interesting layering capabilities not so wonderful screen. I’ll tell you more about it. 
I have 32 hours of flying coming up so i guess thats a perfect opportunity [...]

Before I get into it, let me say that I don’t think the presets are as bad as I initially thought they were. There are a few that I like now. Now back to scheduled programming.
One cool thing I discovered as I was preparing for this post was that, the knobs always send a MIDI [...]

Audition button.
Software Editor/Librarian.
MIDI Thru.
Audio Inputs to process external signals.

This has bugged me since the big bang. I’ve just come up with a method that seems to work really well for me. 
This solution will only work for keyboard players. The basis for my method is the assumption that all the notes in the key that the song is in, will sound fine when played [...]

Up until a couple of years ago, I had an ever so slight disdain for people that programmed their own patches. It smacked of arrogance to me. What? these amazing presets aren’t good enough for you? Whatever! I bet your music sucks anyway.
It turns out these arrogant monkeys have been right all along. Consider the [...]