Ucreate Music Sample Track by madebyrobot

Recorded into the 2.30 memory that it has built it, using only the OOTB samples none of the ones available online.

This weekend I will start some initial trials into building my Made By Robot iPhone app.

I’m not going to go into much detail about what I want to do with the first app, but I’m excited by the idea and will hopefully either give it away for free with the next album, or give the next album away for free with the app. Not worked out which is easier.

I actually have a couple of ideas for Made By Robot iPhone apps, so I’m hoping that I can maybe do one for each release.

Having zero Objective-C experience I’m aware that this might be a painful transition from the day job of coding for the web, but maybe the challenge is what I need.

On a side point, I’m also planning a couple of hardware projects reaching finale this weekend, it all depends on the weather and how much time I spend at the beach with the family.

RPM Challenge

10 songs in the month of February, I’m 2 songs in with 3 days down, so I’m ahead of schedule.  The album will be called Binary, and is a mish mash of stuff (so far at least).

Ableton to Max to Arduino to SX-150

I’m working on finding a way to make my sx-150 a black box synth.  The aim is to end up with a box with only a phono out and usb in, no knobs, buttons, or input.  First step will be trying out Mrbooks arduino control setup for the sx-150, the second step will be using a few digital potemtiometers to allow the arduino to control, what used to be controlled by the rotary knobs.  Then all I’ll need is a little max patch with those controls and I’ll have a digitally controllable analog sythn, for less than $50.

Ableton Midi clock to Max to Arduino to Music Box

This ones a little more adventurous.  The aim is to get a punch card music box, with a motor controlling the turning of the handle, this motor would be variable speeds to match a midi clock from abelton.  The music box will use something like guitar pickups to get the sound back into the computer for tweaking.  This project is largely influenced by Mapmaps awesome music box setup – just with an additional twist.

At the moment I’m just playing around and seeing what comes out of my Monome’s, Ableton, BCR2000 experiments.

Also available on last.fm ( Made By Robot – Nothing Bees )

And you can download all the MP3’s zipped up nicely.

Very quick tune I put together last night, whilst playing with SevenUp Live and Ableton. It’s the OOTB drum samples, 3 or 4 melodizer loops that have been processed greatly in ableton and a couple of my own loops and one from State Shirt in the MLR part of 7up (oh and an old bird sample I had in some library I downloaded). Great deal of it was improvised at the time of recording, hence it seems a bit disjointed. Consider this my very first piece of Monome music (hell you could say this is the first piece of Music I’ve ever recorded).

Those who are curious a Terza Rima is:

“a rhyming verse stanza form that consists of an interlocking three line rhyme scheme. It was first used by the Italian poet Dante Alighieri.”

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