wax&wires

What happens when a monome and bassoon make themselves a love child?

Percussa initially released the AudioCube over a year ago. The unique interfaces provide a creative means to playback samples, manipulate effects, and even generate audio based on proximity to other cubes, rotation, and a myriad of other features. Beyond everything else though, they just look cool.

Check out these sneakers manipulate audio via photocells in MAX while moonwalking.

From the makers of GlitchDS, the awesome little music making app for the Nintendo DS, comes Glitch-Sequencer for Mac and PC. Check out this video of GlitchDS fed into Reactor with RepeaterDS.

Check out this video of a little Max/MSP patch that tracks the color red, translates the location info of the red object to MIDI CC and shoots it out toAbleton.

Brian Green crossbred his guitar with a pair of iPod Touches to add a new dimension to his performance.

Picture an ultra-widescreen laptop with an iPhone-like multitouch interface in lieu of a keyboard. Now imagine that it’s dedicated to music making apps. That’s essentially what Young-Shin Lee and Hai-Jin Jung have created in the Vivace.

Just looking at Teenage Engineering’s new “Portable Wonder,” the OP-1 is enough to make you want it… and then you find out what it can do…

Ever since I first saw the ReacTable project a few years ago, I’ve been keeping tabs on it and where we are in the realm of new computer interfaces. I worked on trying to learn the open source protocol to build my own ReacTable and had delusions of grandeur to be the first one to [...]

I love where this is going. David Merril demonstrated Siftables at TED this year. Siftables are small blocks used to manipulate data based on their rotation, placement near other Siftables, and other gestural cues. At about 4:45 in, he demonstrates a sequencer using the blocks, and it looks incredible. Don’t just fast forward to that [...]

Now that we’ve posted a video on MOTU’s BPM, it’s only fair that we post the other most talked about groove box from NAMM 09, Native Instruments’ Maschine.

Though I’m not sure how useful the “step squencer” mode would be with just 4 pads and 4 tracks per bank, the ease of use for hooking it [...]

Here’s a quick overview video of the new MOTU BPM (Beat Production Machine) released at NAMM 09.

MuteMath was on Leno last night with quite a few additional musicians, and down one trademark instrument. Paul’s keytar, the instrument that No Doubt tried to, and Mute Math did, make hip. Now you don’t have to hunt down a used Yamaha SHS-10 or Roland AX-7 on ebay to bring the funk.
At NAMM yesterday, Roland [...]

M-Audio released 25, 49, and 61 key Axiom Pros today that look very similar to the Novation controllers. So what’s the difference in your standard Axiom and the pro model?
1) It looks better. Check it out in the picture above. It’s much sleeker than the old clunky Axiom.2) Semi-weighted “TruTouch” keybed. I think TruTouch is [...]

From Ableton.com:
The APC40 (Ableton Performance Controller) is a dedicated controller for Ableton Live, designed by the same engineering team responsible for Akai’s iconic MPC range of products. This is a dream come true for the Ableton Live community and an exciting first step into the world of Ableton Live for new users.

The APC40 features high [...]