A hand possessed! New finger stimulating device will help wannabe musicians learn their favourite tunes By Daily Mail Reporter Updated: 07:10 GMT, 23 June 2011 If you've ever tried to learn the guitar or violin, moving your fingers just right can sometimes prove difficult. Now an invention by a group of Japanese scientists could teach you how to mimic your favourite tunes - even if you have no talent. The PosessedHand is an electronic device that stimulates the muscles on your forearm that move your fingers. HandPossessed: The Device stimulates muscles in the forearm to produce movements in the fingers and could be used by wannabe musicians This means it could be programed to move your fingers in time with your favourite guitar solo - without your brain needing to think about it. Using a belt worn around the forearm, the machine contains 28 electrodes which flex each of the joints in your fingers and thumb as well as producing two wrist movements. Designer: Emi Tamaki led the research using a Japanese stringed instrument called the Koto
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EQ Chart « ObiAudio This is from a thread on Future Producers..I did not write this and do…to an extent…agree with most of this. I just copied and pasted the good stuff: To understand EQ and its intricacies you need hands-on experience, but to help you get started, here’s a table of general uses and the different ranges that EQ can affect. As every sound is different, though, these are necessarily very general guidelines… Kick Drum Any apparent muddiness can be rolled off around 300Hz. 50-100Hz ~ Adds bottom to the sound 100-250Hz ~ Adds roundness 250-800Hz ~ Muddiness Area 5-8kHz ~ Adds high end presence 8-12kHz ~ Adds Hiss Snare Try a small boost around 60-120Hz if the sound is a little too wimpy. 100-250Hz ~ Fills out the sound 6-8kHz ~ Adds presence Hi hats or cymbals Any apparent muddiness can be rolled off around 300Hz. 250-800Hz ~ Muddiness area 1-6kHz ~ Adds presence 6-8kHz ~ Adds clarity 8-12kHz ~ Adds brightness Bass Try boosting around 60Hz to add more body. Vocals Piano Electric guitars Acoustic guitar 1.
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beatlab Making music in Linux and beyond You can do a lot with free open-source software, also known as FOSS. Musicians with a yen for Linux are in luck; the array of choices for creating, editing, producing, and publishing music using nothing but FOSS software is staggering. One way to get your hands on a plethora of audio tools is to run the Ubuntu Studio distro, which comes preconfigured for real-time audio processing and includes every studio tool under the sun. Pick your favorite multimedia distro and go nuts, or just install the applications you want to try out, one RPM or DEB package at a time. To cover it all in useful detail would take a book, so we'll spare you most of the gory details. You still don't know JACK Having a lot of tools available lets you work in the grand tradition of Unix-like operating systems, chaining specialized programs together to perform complicated tasks. On the downside, JACK can be a beast to configure just right. To get a MIDI workstation running properly, you need a few things:
Recording in Ubuntu Linux (aka Free and Open Source Digital Audio Workstation) Editors Most of these toolbar buttons should be familiar to anyone that uses multitrack and sequencing programs, but the editors deserve a little extra explanation. Editors The matrix and percussion editors are your standard sequencer style editors. Rosegarden allows you very fine control of sequencing in multiple formats, which is mainly what I use it for at the moment. EDIT: Thanks to Gunhild Anderson and the Rosegarden Mailing List I now know that you can configure your own keyboard shortcuts under Settings >> Configure Shortcuts. Tracks Tracks are displayed in Rosegarden's main window. Segments I used Fruity Loops before I dropped Microsoft like a sack of old doorknobs, so I'm used to sequencing within patterns and then sequencing the patterns within a playlist. The ability to make variations like that was a pain in Fruity Loops because I needed to make a new pattern. Audio Segments The audio tracks in Rosegarden are only suitable for placing samples. Ins and Outs Conclusion
Making Music(Beats) on Linux/Ubuntu with Hydrogen I am going to review a couple of Music Making Softwares for Linux and am starting with the simplest and one of the best!HYDROGEN. Hydrogen basically is a pattern based drum programming software which in layman terms means, it allows you to make your own beats.And in case you aren't much into music, you might be wondering “what the hell will i do with this piece of software”...well here is a word from my friends who've tried this: “Its pretty fun playing with this software, n even without knowing much, you could actually MAKE SUM MUSIC!!!” About the software:(technical:from the software's website itself!) General Very user-friendly, modular, fast and intuitive graphical interface based on QT 3. This is how HYDROGEN looks Installation: To install Hydrogen issue the following command in the terminal window (Applications -> Accessories -> Terminal) sudo apt-get install hydrogen that will install the basic hydrogen with a default drum kit..if you want a few more drum kits(actually a lot more!)
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