Pablo Martin

The most innovative artist from Argentina: JUANA MOLINA

Pablo Martin — Sat, 28 Aug 2010 23:58:42 +0000

No comments ………. his music speaks for itself…..just listen……..

BRAVO !!!
Please visit Juana web site: www.juanamolina.com

Nostalgic moment: 1986 Marshall Jefferson

Pablo Martin — Sat, 14 Aug 2010 22:00:26 +0000

Jefferson was originally a record producer in the Universal Recording Studios in Chicago, where he met the owner of Trax Records, Larry Sherman. Jefferson’s 1986 single for Trax, “Move Your Body (The House-Music Anthem),” the first house song to use piano, was a popular and influential song in the genre.

Emulator new MIDI multitouch controller

Pablo — Sun, 06 Jun 2010 23:30:37 +0000

The older Monotouchlive is now discontinued and the new software born is called EMULATOR.
The first version i plan to launch very soon, include control for traktor on internal mode; the other interfaces are under development (traktor external ableton etc etc)

This software is designed to work with tablet PCs, the model i suggest for use with my software is the wonderful HP TM2, or the older model TM2Z. It also can be used with lenovo multitouch tablet and DELL XT tablet. All these tablets support multitouch, have capacitive digitizers, but again i suggest the HP TM2, due to it having a wonderful capacitive digitizer from WACOM; it’s really good quality tablet.
The CPU power of TM2 is perfect to run Traktor; I tested with Ableton without any troubles. Some guys think the CPU on HP TM2 doesn’t have enough power, but that is wrong.

The major problem with present touchscreen controllers is that you don’t have tactile feedback (you can’t feel with your fingers knobs, buttons, sliders etc etc), for that reason you need put your eyes all time on the touchscreen device for use the controller, and lose the focus over music software.

Emulator is a software where you have all what you need on same screen and combine the power of multitouch, the useful standard mouse and the native interface of software to be controlled all in one nice and useful GUI.

This software runs under windows 7; the first version I plan to launch only works on tablet PCs with 12.1 inch screen (1280×800). I decided to do this because the big LCD multitouch screens available on the market aren’t really accurate and enough for pro usage; [optical sensors can] generate false touch, ghost touches, etc. and you lose portability [on larger screens].

More info soon.
Stay tuned!

High quality pictures: Pic1 , Pic2

MonoTouchLive end of life!

Pablo — Sun, 06 Jun 2010 09:18:21 +0000

Today MonoTouchLive software is discontinued, but new multitouch midi controller software was born, is called Emulator, more info very very soon : )

Neurosonics Audiomedical Laboratory

Pablo — Fri, 07 May 2010 17:55:26 +0000

Kingdom of the unreal but also a higher state of being, ultimately free of the limitations of the material world through the agency of science, technology, and imagination.

Luisine – Two Dots

Pablo — Sun, 25 Apr 2010 11:58:44 +0000

Britta Johnson (video director for Andrew Bird, among others) brings Lusine gorgeous single Two Dots to life, illustrating the songs relationships-as-trigonometry analogy in an intricately animated video. In the clip, a pair of marbles—one blue, one yellow—engage in the timeless dance of seduction on a horizontal plain, mapping the ups and downs of a courtship through pencil-drawn geometric principles. Like Two Dots, Johnsons video lives in the middle ground between technology and humanity, emotional immediacy and obsessive detail.
This song happened almost unnoticed when it was launched in mid-2009, until Nic Fanciulli realize an excellent and powerful remix without losing the sweetness and subtlety of the original version.

One of my favorites: Korg microKorg XL

Pablo — Sun, 18 Apr 2010 18:50:11 +0000

•Display: Custom backlit LCD
•Keyboard: 37-note Natural Touch action
•Switches: 7; Bank (2 position), Octave Up and Down (toggle), timbre select (2 position), Arp On/Off, Vocoder On/Off, Write, Exit/Shift
•Knobs: 7; Volume, tempo, program select (genre and category), real-time assign, edit menu selector
•Wheels: Pitch and Modulation
•Polyphony 8 voices (up to 4 when the vocoder is selected)
•Program: 128
•Number of timbres Maximum 2 (when using Layer, Split, or Multi)
•Synth 2 oscillator + noise generator
•Multi-mode filters
•16-band Vocoder, adjustable level and pan for each band
•Format Shift function, Formant Hold function
•Effects Timbre: 2-band EQ
•Master: master effects (17 effect algorithms)
•Arpeggiator UP, DOWN, ALT1/2, Random, Trigger (6 types)
•Step Arpeggiator
•Audio In (Line): Jack
•Audio In (Mic): Jack
•Output: L/Mono, R with jacks
•Headphone jack
•MIDI: In, Out
•USB connector B type
•Power supply: DC9V
•Included items: XLR Gooseneck Microphone with windscreen, Power Adapter

Fails on the stage !

Pablo — Tue, 23 Mar 2010 17:07:16 +0000

CD player is really complex system, inside the any unit you can find a complicated electro-mechanical system, computer and software.
Absolutly complex, plus dependency of fragile optical media (lens and CD)
If something can fail in the DJ scene, surely the CD player is in first place, anyway any system can fail and fail at any time, computers, cd players, soud system, light system.
Here few nightmare moments:

Thk! to Javier Tapia for this links.

Pioneer has announced a new DJ mixer, the DJM-2000

Pablo — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 20:24:25 +0000

The DJM-2000 is Pioneer’s most powerful performance mixer and is designed to be the perfect match for CDJ-2000 digital decks. It features a 5.8-inch LCD multi-touch panel display.
Suggested retail price of $2,999