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“Mobile Music Making on iOS” slides

The slides from my Moogfest talk “Mobile Music Making with iOS” are available on SlideShare. This is missing all the demos and further explanations, but maybe this can still be useful to someone.

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By Geert Bevin – May 24, 2018

MPE MIDI Live! chat on May 26

MPE MIDI Live! chat on May 26 with Roger Linn Design, Geert Bevin, Ben Supper, and Gregory Pat Scandalis!

We’ve arranged for a MIDI Live! Chat with some of the key people behind the MPE specification. The MIDI Live! event will happen on Saturday, May 26.

Here is the time of the event in various time zones.
10 am- Los Angeles
1 pm – New York
6 pm- London

It’s easy to log in to a MIDI Live! event using a one-click social sign on like your Facebook or Twitter account.

Developers who are interested in creating MPE hardware and software can hear directly from the people who worked on the spec and have already implemented it. There will also be discussions on new MPE checklists and test sequences being developed as well as ideas for an MPE logo program.

You can RSVP for the MPE MIDI Live! event here.

To attend the MPE event simply go to https://www.midi.org/live on Saturday.

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By Geert Bevin – May 24, 2018

Expressive E Touché with Moog synths

Arthur Bouflet composed and performed this very nice demo, showing how Touché can enhance the expressiveness of Moog synths, both analog and iOS!

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By Geert Bevin – May 17, 2018

Why MIDI Polyphonic Expression (MPE)?

A short video to explain why MIDI Polyphonic Expression (MPE) is so focused and limited, but why it’s so important that the standard exists and is widely available.

You can find the MPE spec here, by scrolling down to “Supplemental Specifications [Post 1996]”:
https://www.midi.org/specifications-old/item/the-midi-1-0-specification

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By Geert Bevin – May 5, 2018

MPE spec published by the MMA

After several years of hard work with the MMA working group and collaboration with AMEI (the Japan MIDI Standards Committee). The MPE spec has been approved by both organizations and is now published on the midi.org website.
You can find it at the bottom of this page: https://www.midi.org/specifications-old/item/the-midi-1-0-specification

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By Geert Bevin – May 4, 2018

Real-time orchestral harmonizing with Leap Motion and Cubase

Hagai Davidoff again comes up with an amazing use of my GECO MIDI app for Leap Motion: real-time orchestral harmonizing with Steinberg Cubase.

GECO is now available as donationware via my site http://uwyn.com/geco/

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By Geert Bevin – May 4, 2018

MIDI Polyphonic Expression (MPE) adopted by the MMA!

After several years of hard work of the entire MMA MPE working group, the MIDI MPE spec has finally been adopted!
The final spec will soon be available for download from http://midi.org

More details can be found in the official announcement of the MMA:
https://www.midi.org/articles/midi-polyphonic-expression-mpe

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By Geert Bevin – February 1, 2018

Arvo Pärts’ Fratres on three Continuums

Edmund Eagon, Rob Swimmer and Sally Sparks played Fratres on three Continuums during ContinuuCon 2017.

Thanks for this beautiful and very emotional performance of this magnificent piece.

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By Geert Bevin – July 12, 2017

From Arduino to LinnStrument

LinnStrument is an expressive electronic musical instrument with five dimensions of touch sensing. It is built with open-source hardware, the Arduino Due and runs open-source firmware. There are hundreds of playing cells and multi-color LEDs, making it ideal to discover embedded Arduino development with concrete musical and visual results.

This session introduces the Arduino development concepts, tie them back to the actual hardware, provide an overview of the main algorithms in the LinnStrument firmware that are responsible for the musical feel and explain valuable lessons that were learned during the development of the firmware.

From Arduino to LinnStrument – Geert Bevin from Official ZeroTurnaround Account on Vimeo.

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By Geert Bevin – June 29, 2017

The Oval – First Demo

The Oval is a new electronic musical instrument with the form factor of a hand pan. After backing their Kickstarter two years ago, I finally received the instrument yesterday.

Here’s a first demo video that shows some of its capabilities.

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By Geert Bevin – May 30, 2017