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RiffBox - now as an iPHONE - Looper App | 01 Sep 10

17:35:33 by Elantric
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http://backline-eng.com/home/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=2&Itemid=3&74a0ad6b5f7a1df0ef4ab98b8fffbb41=f52df6619015f35cd747501d7adc5a0d

RiffBox App Owners Manual
http://backline-eng.startlogic.com/Uploads/RB-Manual.pdf

Introducing the RiffBox App

With RiffBox you can easily create audio tracks that automatically play back over and over again (also known as audio looping). Become a one-man band, capture a musical idea or practice your beatboxing skills. By detecting repeated notes or rhythm patterns that you play or sing, RiffBox uses patented technology to automatically recognize and create perfectly timed loops. Change the loop length by timing them to notes or chords that you play. An unlimited number of layers can be added to create complex musical passages. Store your music in a loop library and e-mail loops as WAV files, or download basic rhythm loops from the web. RiffBox offers many exciting looping features.

Works on the iPhone, iPod Touch and iPad.

There are multiple ways you can create a basic loop:

* Based on the number of notes or chords played
* Starting a...

Arc Attack - Building The World's First Lightning-Proof MIDI Guitar | 20 Aug 10

14:29:09 by Elantric
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ArcAttack ~ America's Got Talent, Top 48 week-4

http://gizmodo.com/5617443/building-the-worlds-first-lightning+proof-midi-guitar

Building The World's First Lightning-Proof MIDI Guitar
The folks of ArcAttack—a crazy group of performers who use singing tesla coils to create incredible melodies—have built a lightning-proof guitar for a performance on America's Got Talent. They've decided to tell us how they constructed the instrument and how it works:

The fret board is 72 optically isolated switches. The fret board, instead of frets has 6 brass contacts per fret. When the string is pushed down to the contact, it makes a connection.
From there the signal is optically isolated, to protect from EMF and sent to a micro controller thats only job is to priority encode the fretboard, and keep tabs on which string is pushed down to each fret.
So priority encoding means this basically: if you are playing the 6th string on the 12th fret, then the computer ignores if say the 11th and 10th frets are pressed on that string also, since the 12th fret needs to take priority - just like a real guitar.

Now there is a second computer that is located on top of the fret board underneath the metal box. This computer detects when the strings are strummed, and is also updated by the first comput...

Room EQ Wizard | 19 Aug 10

01:49:34 by Elantric
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http://www.hometheatershack.com/roomeq/

Room EQ Wizard is a Java application for measuring room responses and correcting modal resonances. It includes tools for generating test signals; measuring SPL; measuring frequency and impulse responses; generating spectral decay plots, waterfalls and energy-time curves; generating real time analyzer (RTA) plots; calculating reverberation times; displaying equaliser responses and automatically adjusting the settings of parametric equalisers to counter the effects of room modes.
Key Features

* Free!
* Support for the Behringer Feedback Destroyer Pro models DSP1124P and FBQ2496, including filter setup via Midi (Midi interface required). For a great resource on using the DSP1124P with a sub, check out the BFD Guide.
* Support for the TMREQ equaliser in the TAG McLaren AV32R DP and AV192R AV processors, including filter setup via RS232
* Signal Generator offers sine waves, square waves, linear and logarithmic sine sweeps, random pink noise (full range, speaker calibration, sub calibration and custom filtered) and periodic pink and white noise
* Compensation for C-weighting when using an external SPL meter as the input, calibration files can be loaded for microphones or SPL meters
* Existing measurement results can be imported ...