Primus Tour visuals powered by CellDNA

August 9, 2010

Primusville 2010 is the new tour of legendary rock band Primus, and it looks like it will be amazing. With a surreal stage, their crazy music, and visuals created by Agent Ogden, rocking an Ohm64 and CellDNA, how could you not want to go? See when they come to a city near you sometime in the next 3 months:
http://www.primusville.com/
Of course, they’ll be bringing in the new year in their hometown in San Francisco.

Here’s some pix from a recent show that Agent Ogden sent me to whet your appetite….

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Builder Contest Results

August 6, 2010
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A few months ago we announced our design your own controller contest, and we are very excited to share the results. It may sound a bit cliche to say “every entry was great” but really, it was. We received a lot of great designs and concepts, and we’ll share the best of them right here. I really wish we didn’t have to pick just one because more then one deserves the win, but we did say one winner, so here goes.

First Place : Anson Cheung’s Sandbox

Modular controller have been around for a little while now, notably the Mawzer, but Anson’s Sandbox really takes it to the next level by giving it a sleek enclosure and thoughtful layouts. The Sandbox also does a good job of utilizing all of the Brains capabilities. It is worth noting Emanuele Ponzio’s (aka APE) awesome BYOB SKULL entry. Ape’s entry does win for best name however! It was a close call between these two.

Second Place : Luke Andrew’s WhySynth Controller

Luke’s controller is a bit of a departure from the button, knob, and  slider combination, but its spirit is 100% in line with our philosophies here at Livid. Synth specific controllers and it is refreshing to see a controller that is so focused on one task.

Third Place : Mike Stacey’s Cocytus

We really like the originality in the design and layout of this controller. A lot of people come to us with their ideal layout, but quite frankly it’s usually too specific for the general public. This entry illustrates exactly why we created the contest in the first place, to show how our Builder series can be used to create a controller that you, its user, wants to play.

Here are some of the other notable mentions for the contest, it was great to see all these different concepts and designs over the past two months. I hope to see some of these brought to life!

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Scratchworx Review

July 22, 2010

After almost a year scratchworx.com finally gave us a review and some awesome pictures of the Ohm64. While this was the first generation Ohm64 (powder coated not anodized faceplate, no countersunk screws, and numbered buttons) the review is good and the pictures are awesome.

“If you want a workhorse, something designed for a single job, such as an Ableton Live or Logic or Traktor controller, there are plenty of other things on the market. If, however, you find yourself and your creative urges heavily influenced by all that surrounds you and get inspiration from the rewards proffered from not only personalising and customising things until they’re uniquely yours, but, admittedly, overcoming the shortcomings of a device and truly learning your equipment, I cannot recommend the Ohm64 highly enough.”

You can read the full review here.

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Block Molar VST Demo

July 20, 2010

Austin Producer/DJ Augustine Verrengia a.k.a ONE4ALL created a demo of the Molar VST Plugin.

http://www.vimeo.com/13301434

ONE4ALL has also provided his Live project file, and Molar VSTi presets to get you started. You can download those here.

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OhmSound Update

July 16, 2010

OhmSound FM Synthesizer for Ohm64Finally! I got to fix some bugs that had been continually put down the priority list. Presets and setup are now more reliable on OhmSound, and it’s updated with the latest build of Max. OhmSound is incredibly fun – you can really get a huge variety of sounds out of it. For example….:
http://www.vimeo.com/13375433
Download the new application from our support page

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