Benton Pena @ technology + culture + life and everything in between

Deep within me
Turn all the secret stones
Voice of fields
Breathing when love holds
Still no word we can speak
A path should been chosen
But all trembling track
She lead us back and here
the guts are

Experimentos:

Desierto:

Vespa:

Jungla:

Live Electronic Music from M4M, very cool!

gear used
esx1: all sequencing and drum sounds
tx81z: reverby/pumpy sawtooth bass/lead (chain:tx81z-mfc42-alesis nanoverb-dbx266 ch1 (pump)-ch2 (compression)-mixer)
mks50: hoover/saw/lead/pumpy synth (Chain MKS-boss sl20-dbx266(stereo, mostly pump)-zoom rfx2200-mixer)
Redsound SoundBite Pro: vocals/looping
korg kaoss pad 2: delay
kaoss pad 3: loops, looper(snare rolls), grainshifter
kaossilator: noise sweeps (path: k01-mini kp(delay)-mixer)
er1: beatbox AND sidechain signal (Chain: left out-boss v-wha-sansamp gt2-boss volume pedal-boss dd5 delay-volume pedal(stereo from the delay)-mixer)
Motu midi mixer: my mixer, controlled by the BCF)
Kawai midi patchbay:guess
dbx mc 6: output compressor
NOT used:
a computer, besides recording it; no edition, no mastering, What you hear is what I send out of the main outs

August 5th, 2008 is the sixth anniversary of National Underwear Day. I think this just an excuse but, anyway I found this funny video about a segment from Craig Ferguson’s late night show last week where Regis Philbin and Craig Ferguson compare underwears, in honor of National Underwear Day.

Here some history http://www.freshpair.com/underwear-day-history.html

Peer to peer (or P2P) networks uses diverse connectivity between participants in a network and the cumulative bandwidth of network participants rather than conventional centralized resources where a relatively low number of servers provide the core value to a service or application. Such networks are useful for many purposes like sharing files!!!

One of my favorite P2P clients is Bitcomet, because it’s powerful, fast, very easy-to-use, and completely FREE. It contains many advanced features for BitTorrent download and extends its leading BitTorrent technology to HTTP/FTP to accelerate downloading up to 5 - 10 times faster.

So the easiest way to configure Bitcomet with your Onebox from Onemax, is as follows:

Login to your Onebox, make sure you are properly connected and launch the web browser. Type 192.168.1.1 as the URL. A password screen displays the default password is 1234 displays non-readable characters. Following screens displays to change your password click ignore, then click Go to Advanced setup

Once there you see the status screen, use this screen to look at status of the device, system resources, interfaces, etc.

Click Network in the upper left side of the screen. And finally NAT

Click Port Forwarding tab, make sure Default Server in Default Server Setup is 0.0.0.0 and in Port Forwarding let’s modify rule #1.

Rule setup:

• Active check
• Service Name: Torrent
• Start Port: 6881
• End Port: 6999
• Server IP address: 192.168.1.33

This IP address is the default from the DHCP pool, make sure this is your computer’s IP address in case you have more than one computer connected to the Onebox.

Then download and install Bitcomet, and open Options. Go to Connection, and modify your listen port to let’s say 6999 click OK

Verify the status bar says WAN:190.52.226.75 this IP must be the IP address of the WAN interface of your Onebox.

Happy downloading!!!

Finally finishing my home studio, here the photos of how my project is going…

As I posted before, here it is the main MIDI controller an M-Audio Ozonic, the groove box Korg EMX-1 on blue, on black the Korg KaossPad 3 an Effects box with a 4 track sampler. –>

<– Here the mixer the Edirol M-16DX from Roland, this mixer is quite versatile has 16 channels, effects and what I love is that works as an audio interface so this completes your DAW more information here.

This is one of my favorite synth, the Novation X-Station, sweet fat sounds and most parameters can be accessed right in the panel, also works as a MIDI controller of course and has an audio interface, great for traveling as it can work on batteries or powered by the USB port. Sounds just great. –>

<– Here the rack, on top the I/O module of the M-16DX, below the classic synth Yamaha TX81Z, below a rompler the Roland M-DC1 classic dance sounds and effects. Below a vintage piece of equipment the Akai ME30PII Midi Patchbay, expander and merger 4 x 8 no more troubles with MIDI devices. In the bottom the classic Emu Proteus I, a rompler with the basic rock and pop sounds from the EIII library. I used this machine in 1992 when I use to play rock with the boys.

What’s left is a rack power conditioner the monitor speakers that will be the M-Audio AV40, the monitor stands and a LCD monitor… But the more exciting, an analog synth, combined with a analog vocoder plus a modulizer, sorry but this will be a custom made device(DIY) that will be my signature sound for my music, so I can’t give further details.

It’s a little messy, but is a work in progress thing

The Korg/AQ DS-10 + Nintendo DS Lite Equals a portable music creation tool, that emulates the popular MS-10 synthesizer, a cool & classic analog synth known for its great bass and percussive sounds. With it boasting two patchable virtual synths with two oscillators each, a drum machine, a sequencer, and a full range of effects, to name but a few features this is not a game.

I would use it as a portable music book for making music on the fly while traveling or even in the street while walking, just to catch my inspiration in the moment.
Enjoy this vid.

The cost? about USD 60 for the software and USD 150 for the DS Lite.

Here a few links:

http://www.aqi.co.jp/product/ds10/en/index.html
http://createdigitalmusic.com/2007/03/15/hacked-midi-support-for-nintendo-ds-dserial/
www.vintagesynth.com/korg/ms10.shtml