Guitar Hero vs Vinyl Hero

After a good few hours crying with laughter playing guitar hero the other day I can safely say this game has my vote.

I’ve had an idea of creating a Vinyl version called…. drum rolllllllllll (excuse pun) – Scratch hero!! It has been done before mind with the playstation and arcade games: ‘beatmania’.

How about doing it with a real turntable tho?? Surely the technology is there to create such a game. Using the same GUI as guitar hero for example but have a real turntable/mixer as the interface ?

It could even be stretched to the limits by having a mixing section of the game using different turntabalist techniques to have as different levels of the game e.g. blending, cuting, using the gains, beatmatching etc…

Maybe im jumping on the bandwagon slightly here but it’s definetely food for me thoughts

Beatspinner 2.0

Interesting project using a turntable as the interface for a beat making device. The user can change beats depending on a variety of wooden cylinders that can be placed at different points on the physical ‘timeline’ or platter.

The project uses a MAX/MSP path to control how the beats are processed. This also works along side abletone live so live sinthesisers could be used to gain a multitude of sounds. MAX/MSP could record an aspect of the beats as they were created and loop them accordingly.

Another version of the beatspinner was created using a video camera and coloured coins. A live feed was sent to MAX/MSP where it could pick up the coloured coins and output a representing sound…

Interesting project that in theory could be developed further…

Mini Alaska Mix

First of a series of mix’s from myself

    Drumatic amens: Alaska aka Paradox

30 mins

Click for download

Sounds of the human body

Interesting to read that “our mother’s heart was the first sound we heard, so a heartbeat is one of the most reassuring sounds we know.” Going back to the womb is what we are all striving for!! Producers take note. If atmospheric human made sounds are most reasuring to us, could this be something to think about when sampling/producing/thinking about how to change someones feeling to a sound?

The day I start producing, I’d like to give it a shot.

That is all.

Laser Harp

‘Stephen Hobley’ has created this beeeeeeauuuutiful laser harp.

He wreckons you can build one for under 600 US dollars.

‘The harp is driven by an Arduino (Boarduino varation) and connected to the impOSCar VSTi software synthesizer, the TAOS sensor array sits on the floor in it’s own stand.’

Build instructions and source code available on his website..

http://www.stephenhobley.com/build

Another pic..