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Electronic Musical Instrument 1870 - 1990. HDMI Cable, Home Theater Accessories, HDMI Products, Cables, Adapters, Video/Audio Switch, Networking, USB, Firewire, Printer Toner, and more! Create Digital Music » Music Made with Bees, Free Sample Set, and Why You Should Care. I’m late in posting this, but it’s too good to pass up – our friend Troels Folmann sends us his latest sound design experiment, this time with bees.

Better audio:Bees by Tonehammer Specs: 200-230 wing flaps per second (hence the tone)Top speed: 15 mph.Compound eyes with thousands of tiny lenses plus simple eyes.A life form with 20,000 known species, on which human life dependsAvailability: with our protection, a long, long time. Without, we’re toast. There’s also a free bee sample set for use with Kontakt or (via WAV) any other tool. [Download link, .rar ] We’d love to hear music you make with those samples. Lots of additional info:Music Made with Bees [tonehammer] Bee populations are in decline, which is a deep concern.

The New York Times has a good recent article on bees, why they’re so important to human life and agriculture, the disturbing rapid decline in their population, and a breakthrough that’s occurred in the last week. Sound Super Stretch. By Nasca Octavian PAUL Introduction This is a program for stretching the audio. It is suitable only for extreme sound stretching of the audio (like 50x) and for applying special effects by "spectral smoothing" the sounds. It can transform any sound/music to a texture.

The program is Open-Source and it's released under the version 2 of the General Public License. Please note that this is suitable only for extreme time stretching (e.g. if have a melody of 3 minutes and you want to listen it in 3 hours). Features It produces high quality extreme sound stretching. Sound examples Download You can download the source code for Linux or binary for Windows from here. Screenshots Usage Before starting, you need to open a WAV, OGG VORBIS or MP3 file. The main window has two main controls: the stretch amount and the audio window. The stretch amount The audio window This program doesn't process the sound as a single piece: it cuts the sound in small pieces and process them.

The playback controls Suggestions. JB U Smile Slowly.