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I’ve had a few questions and comments regarding playing chords with axis. Here’s how to do it in ableton: This’ll only work in ableton but there might be ways to do this using comprable vst plugins etc. The new Zeal set is coming together and the first of many Melbourne gigs is lined up for April. Oh yeah, and did i mention I have a new album ready for release? next few posts should be bigguns…
zeal has been appearing in interesting corners of the blogosphere in the last couple of days. there’s an interview at fiese falle about process and gear. they’re the sort of things that interest me in interviews so maybe you’ll be into it. also, there’s a write up about my guitar hero to midi app AXIS on one of my fav blogs – hack a day. the post has drawn out some entertaining flames like: “Get a haircut and a real job. Also, learn to play the real guitar. It’s a lot more fun, I promise.” upon reading that i got a hair cut and a real job and learned to play the “real” guitar. it’s not as fun. speaking of fun – fun new things to buy appearing soon and even fun new ways to buy said fun new things. but for now… bob out.
My Xbox Guitar Hero to MIDI application AXIS is available now! The videos below explain all:
Mac users:
Windows users:
AXIS was built in Max/MSP. If you’d like to adapt it for a different guitar or anything just get in touch and I’ll send you the source.  33 comments  DIY, excitement, music, software, video, video games  axis, DIY, excitement, guitar hero, max msp, midi, music, releases, software, space-time, video
spent the last two weeks finishing my new album. i don’t think i’ve mentioned what’s it’s going to be called yet… i don’t think i will now either. but i will moon soon. a few tracks are mastered and i’m being a one man CD duplication factory this very second, pumping out a small pile of cd singles. feels like we should have been done with these lumbering circular plastic things 5 years ago. catch up radio! next step, artwork. it’s quite exciting. you’ll like the album, i promise. it makes mention of robots a few times and there’s this three note refrain that’s sprinkled through out the 15 or so tracks which all weave together. it’s almost a concept album… just with a poorly defined concept… more of a unproven hypothesis album.
also on the work bench, for all you unfortunate souls, i’m getting AXIS up and running on windows… i say that but really xp’s alright. the windows versions going to be minus a few small features just because of the way the windows drivers interpret the guitar (or unless someone else can fix it). this is one big step closer to release meaning it will be out before the years up.
i’ve been making stickers too. as i promised: robots and swear words. if you want one you have two options. the hard way: print out the above robot on sticker paper and cut it out. or the super easy way: enter my EP + sticker give away! there’s four days left and it’s super easy. back to the assembly line for me. upped another vid demoing the Guitar Hero to MIDI app AXIS that i’ll be releasing soon. tilt sensors should be on everything! they make the world so much more fun. 3 comments DIY, excitement, music, video, video games DIY, guitar hero, max msp, midi, music, software, space-time, video, video game, zeal
i know i haven’t been gigging very much this year. and i could forgive you for thinking i’ve not been doing much on the live music front but you’d be wrong. so very wrong. i don’t want to make you feel bad or anything, it’s just the truth. this is my new guitar hero to midi max app i’ve been working on. it turns the guitar into a playable instrument while keeping all the control functionality of my previous patch. here’s the hastily thrown together blurb i slapped up on my youtube.
at the moment i’m building up my new live show utilizing the guitar to simultaneously shred, trigger samples and effects, control the rest of the track and control the accompanying video. see, i have been busy! and not just on this. i’ve got a whole album of new material which i’ll be relentlessly plugging through out the near future. this post is little a bit of a tease, now i think of it. perhaps this video might make it appear more substantial.
winter’s the best but the weather’s been holding back shooting on the agnes kain clip again. i’ve been working on everything that can be done inside out of the way of the falling sky water which luckily includes experimenting with projected backgrounds – parallels are cropping up between the agnes clip and the cuba is japan clip again. planning a big rear projection shoot this week. should be a sort of scaled up, person size version of what’s going on down there. i’ll be sure to post something about it. for the moment i’m setting up the mini version…
Thanks to everyone who made it out to the Aleks and the Ramps album launch. it was a great night. there’s some footage of the night that i’ll post up when i can. if you’re unfamiliar with the ramps you should go edumacate your self. they’ve got a new clip which is pretty fantastic and just happens to share a few themes with my clip for faux pas‘ track coach. while i can’t really overtly claim it’s plagerisation, i certainly can insinuate it. SPOT THE DIFFERENCE:
i know now some of you might think this whole thing’s a trick, that they are both obviously exactly the same video, but i promise you there are some subtle differences. It might help to watch on a larger screen…
and if you want to do that you can! because COACH is going to be screened through out july at fed square in melbourne thanks to a competition curated by the portable film festival. it’s fun news, coach has been pretty underground since its creation. so if you’re around melbournia between July 15th to 25th go and see it debut daily for ten days … i don’t mean you should go see it all 10 of those days. just the first day. and the last day. and the day right in the middle. and the two days between the first day and the middle day and the middle day and the last day. then arrange yourselves into human sculptures to represent the screening times you’re attending. tearing it’s debut from the 4th dimension into the 3rd with little forethought to the dire consequences for the cosmos. that would be an apt debut… Continue reading kittens, space, axes late last year i picked up a second hand copy of the playstation2 music software “MTV music generator 2″. i was surprised by a few of the quirks i discovered, most importantly it’s ability to sample with a singstar mic(!). couple this with it’s nifty little sample editor that lets you trim, reverse, filter etc. and it’s stepped up to play a significant role in the recording of my next album. so i thought i’d tell you, the intertron, all about it and it’s glorious quirkiness. so apparently this game had a usb sampling dongle you could buy to plug in your diskman or walkman or horse or what ever we were using back then. it was basically a usb audio interface for your playstation, which is pretty cool, but you’re unlikely to have one just lying around. lucky for us, the software confuses the singstar mic dongle for the sampling kit which turns your ps2 into a sampler sequencer… and a pretty capable one. Continue reading music gerneration station greetings and welcome to the year 2009. incase you were unaware, the year actually begins on the first of febuary. don’t worry, it’s a common mistake. i don’t think any less of you. recording’s continuing and the scaffolding of an album is well and truly in place. progress was halted briefly by a crippling heat wave and while i would of liked to have been recording i was too busy curled up on the comparitively cool bathroom floor in a sweaty heap… not really… but it was too hot to think… or even exist. anyway, more has been happening too. i think i left off talking about the guitar hero drums and my attempts to MIDIfi them. well, my success was limited. but i did put together a little video for youtube world to explain my guitar hero rig and some of things other people are doing with these awesome little plastic axes. it’s quite likely you don’t care but i do get asked about it and sharing is caring. more has been happening too. i’ve started on a new clip for the new album and this particular clip is being filmed from the air! with this thing! i’ll report back as things happen. and things are happening so i’ll report back soon. i think i’ve got some gigs coming up in march so i’ll have to tell you about that… it’ll involve banjo! farewell for now as we launch recklessly into the future, |
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