Friday, December 30, 2011

#M4MLive - Muzik 4 Machines - tiger blood/Tiger balm/Liv3Cat/1990/jaded

#M4MLive - @Deadmau5 - Jaded (Live, 1st ever try)

Friday, December 09, 2011

#M4MLive - TechNut Cracker/ElectroniCasse-Noisettes/TechNoel - Muzik 4 M...



joyeux noel, bonne année, merry merry something something

Jean Leloup - 1990 (2011 M4M Remix) 1st Try - Muzik 4 Machines

Friday, October 21, 2011

Gear porn 2011 - Muzik 4 Machines

as seen on Matrixsynth


New spaceship!
Music is from the new album, microprocessors for mammals, on iTunes now
iTunes: http://bit.ly/fB0L9V
Store: http://muzik4machines.com/store
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gear used

AKAI APC40: Ableton live control

Ableton Live on MaccBook Pro 1.1: Sequencing and Mixing

MOTU Traveler+ADA8000: Mixer

Korg ESX1: Drums

Yamaha TX81z: Reverby/Pumpy Sawtooth Bass (chain:TX81z-Boss V-Wha-Akai MFC42-DBX266 ch2 (Compression/distortion)-Alesis Nanoverb-DBX266 ch1 (pump)--Mixer)

Roland MKS50: Hoover/Saw/Lead/Pumpy Synth (Chain MKS50-DBX266-Boss SL20-Zoom RFX2200-Mixer)

Clavia Nord Micro Modular: Synth, bass, arpegios, pads, chords

Electro Harmonix V256: Vocoder and talkbox (with MXR Dist+ and danelectro Rocky Road on the synth signal line)

Korg Kaoss pad 2: Tempo Delay

Korg Kaoss Pad 3: Loops, Looper(snare rolls), Grainshifter

Korg Kaossilator: Noise Sweeps (path: K01-Mini KP(Delay))

Korg ER1: LEFT: Distorted Beatbox AND sidechain signal (Chain: left out-ProCo Turbo Rat-V Wha-compressor-DD5)
RIGHT: Compressor Sidechain Signal

DX200: LEFT: Fm E-piano, pads, 303-esque sequences, etc (Chain: Left Out-Boss DD5 delay-Mixer)

MOTU MIDI Mixer 7s: Drums Submixer

MOTU Midi Time Piece 2: Clock and MIDI routing

Monday, October 17, 2011

Friday, October 14, 2011

A lot of clips this is





I was shocked when i accidentally pressed ctrl+a in session view, and i didn't yet record the er1 and nord clips...
gonna be a mess to manage, gonna get color coding things better than that

note that 8000 of the clips are just to have the lights on the APC going (right now it's only the record lights marking every beats and bars, but i plan on experimenting with like, having the name of the pattern scroll with the 8x5 grid, in red, so i can still know what is playing or not between the letters, but that will be a mega PITA to program for sure, I'll look into M4L repository to see if it can be done with less programming (maybe it wil be just too much MIDI data too))


i actually already changed the colors to have better separation, but i took the screenshot after an accident (it took the time of a whole cig of beachballing while it selected all the clips lol) when its done (meaning that i'll be to the same point i was on the electribe, because it's an ever evolving thing, patterns/songs and remixe/covers come and go) i'll do a complete "map" (that will be one high screenshot)

Sunday, October 09, 2011

Bar beats indicators on APC40


i made a pretty simple midi file actually for the led run, you need 8 tracks (ableton limitation that doesnt allow a track to output to all channels out)

lets say the note is c2 (its probably not but i dont have the manual here at work, but its a midi note)

you set the apc as a track out

on your 8 tracks you select the out to be the APC

track 1 channel 1, track 2 channel 2 etc

track 1 clip has a 1/16th c2 on every beat of bar 1 plus a 6 bar long c2 on bar 2 beat 1 and then again 4 times c2 on every beat in bar 8

track 2 has nothing in bar 1, 1/16th c2 on every beat in bar 2 and a 5 bar long c2 on bar 3 beat 1 then again, bar 8 is 4 beats

and so on

the long notes keep the light on after the bar played
and on bar 8 every light flash (its just to indicate me i'm at the end

as i built all the ableton set using 8 bars patterns its perfect for me (i do have a couple that wont be 8 bars but ill find a way probably using mutes and solo lights for these as i wont need to mute/solo parts in those already pre programmed songs)

as for the drum mutes, i simply MIDI assigned them as you'd do with any other controller (with the "remote" in and out set to on in the prefs

i have 1 drum column with the whole shebang on it, it feeds a midi rack with 9 dummy midi fx(i used pitch, but it doesnt matter, its just you cant have empty slots in midi racks like you can in audio racks)

so i made this rack which i key filtered every of the 11 notes used in my drum tracks and assigned the mutes of that rack to the clip stop buttons on the APC

im probably totally unclear, so just ask any questions you might have

Tuesday, August 30, 2011

#m4mlive after #Irene - August 29th 2011 - Muzik 4 Machines



random youtube comment i found by googling some M4M typos this afternoon, i totaly didnt remember that

There once was a young man who bought his first electronic synth and soon after he started collecting all types of electronic machines. Playing in a small room till his fingers bled and his ears glowed red, after years in his techno abode he emerged with a smile on his face and hair like Dr. who. He now goes by the name MUZIK 4 MACHINES and his midi interfaces are wired to millions around the world; wanted by the FBI for his abusive tweaking causing uncontrolled dancing.

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Tuesday, August 09, 2011

Ableton setup(my personal convoluted method)

i posted a question on a forum and started talking wayyy too much, so i decided to blog it

ok, first let me explain a bit about my session and setup

i used to have all sequencing in the tribe, but to play the new album live, i needed linear sequencing so i exported the midi from logic to live
i really want to have each drum part on its own track in live so my column setup is something like this
kick - snare - ghost - clap - perc - closed hat - open hat - rev crash - crash - and so on*
(since i also work that way in logic it was a pretty easy transition


* for geeks only, of you don't care about the setup you can skip this part and not lose any info for the issue discussed, i just feel like talking about it :lol:

the actual live session is more like this as at the moment(because i'm SO gonna save and get a presonus 24 mixer) uses my soundcard (MOTU Traveler) as a submixer into the MOTU midi mixer
the motu inputs are kick, snare, stereo drums, er1 stereo, kaossilator, and 2 mics (talkbox and vocal) (drums are sent to out 1-2 and the mics to out 3-4
the mixing is not done in the card as there is no easy way to map controllers(mackie only) to the dsp mixer(which would be better than using live as a mixer)
the outs are then fed in the midi mixer
IN 1 - MOtu 1-2
IN 2 - Motu 5-6
IN 3 - TX81z
IN 4 - MKS50
IN 5 - DX200
IN 6 - NOrd
IN 7 - MOTU 3-4
IN 8 - (is just a vca, so it gets used as a volume for aux in 2, kaoss pad 3)
aux IN 1 - Kaoss pad 2 return
aux IN 2 - In 8 output

as for outs 7-8-9-10of the MOTU they are plugged (but not used) in the aux sends of the midi mixer with y plugs so i can have send from just the snare in the kaoss (oh yeh, aux 1 sends to kp2, aux 2 to kp3)

soooooo :lol:
mixing of those parts is done in live, plus insert fx on the talkbox (pumper and grain shifter)
so my session column is as follow

(ill go per line as the formating will be messed up)
1 - kick - mono - out 1-2
2 - snare - mono - out 1-2
3- drums - stereo out 1-2
4 - er1 - stereo out 1-2
5 - k01 - stereo out 1-2
6 - talkbox - mono out 3-4
7 - mic - mono out 3-4
8 - spacer
9 - sidechain signal for the live compressors on all -pler and talkbox)
10-VocalPler - stereo out 5-6 (for playing a capellas audio)
11-zikpler Stereo out 5-6 (for playing instrument audio parts) (both of these are legacy, i used them for live remix
12-DrumPler stereo out 1-2
13-AlbumPler steeo out 5-6 (additional tracks i cannot play live) (those 2 are only there for the album part of the set)
14-spare track (muted and disabled, for rejected/unused/not needed files i might need one day)
15-MIDI loopback 1 (when using the tribe as a sequencer, routing instrument part 2(MKS) in the nord(actually the reverse for technical reasons)
16-MIDI loopback 3 (Part 2 to vocoder (stupid pedal is channel 16 only)
17-spacer
18-Kick
19-Snare
20-Ghost
21-Clap
22-Closed
23-Open
24-Reverse
25-Crash
26-Closed 2
27-Open 2 (the 2 stretch part on the ESX)
28-Slice (pretty much unused as i havent figured out hot to advance steps on that track lol)
29-spacer
30-tx
31-mks
32-dx
33-nord
34-vocoder


there is about 500 scenes in the session but at the moment only about 250 are used, but as i transfer all sequencing data from the tribe (256 patterns, many will take like 10 scenes to hold all variations
some scenes will be exact midi duplicates but have diff vocalpler or zikpler (most remixes i do have pretty much the same backing notes, but diff words and stuff)

sooo, that was a long post, hope some peole will enjoy this geek tech talk

Monday, July 25, 2011

remix "contest" - Simulated Vacuum

the files are here
you can stream the song from here
or buy from iTunes
or even go as far as to buy a physical CD

someone asked me on youtube to have a go at remixing simulated vacuum, so i made those packs and thought, well, since they are online, why not share them with the community and see what sounds we can get from that :)

there is 3 packs, one is only the drum sound (cause i thought i had forgot to zip them with the logic session)

the MIDI plus sfx is a trimmed MIDI file ready to be imported in ableton live and the 2 stems are the "guitars" and the sfx/beep/solo (i won't even need the "guitar" in my live version, but it's there nonetheless

the Session pack is the Logic 9 session, audio files and all that is needed to open it for those among you using logic

Saturday, July 23, 2011



see it on photosynth where you can pan and zoom

new toy (EHX V256)


and it's pedal board


it's a pretty convoluted chain but it works(only downside is the v256 synth has no mono and/or porta mode

the mics plugs in the v256
the main out of the v256 goes in the line selector return 1
the synth out of the v256 goes in the pedals then in the ls2 main in
the ls2 main out goes in the mixer
the loop 1 send goes into the talkbox amp
loop 2 is a loop back to have a volume control on the synth

that way i can: use the vocoder like normal OR
use the internal synth as a regular poly saw synth OR
send the synth in the talkbox, put the mix to dry on the v256 and also have a talkbox

talk about overusing a piece of gear lol

Monday, July 11, 2011

some history

someone asked me something on a forum and i started digressing, so here is a short history of how i distributed/shared my stuff and gained some exposure for pretty much nothing but time


at first i was just giving away everything on my website(mp3) it got crawled and got me thousands of hits from mp3 sites like bee and a lot of russian agregators


then when i started making lots of videos i used mininova for a long time(since the dawn of the content distribution thing) and gave everything away for free, all the time

then i started using recordunion.com (a&r code 480a116f8e, it will give you 2 free uploads] and got my music on itunes and stuff(amazon, deezer, djtunes, juno, spottify, napster, etc), got me a bit of money and some exposure

being on amazon, i managed to make an artistcentral page for the band

last month i decided to sell physical cd's i first went to cafepress cd on demand and followed the path to the closest thing there was to the original cd maker and signed up with ccnow.com, was a 40$ investment (only the second time i had to pay for anything to distribute the stuff)

i also use heavily the social networks like twitter, facebook (fan pages and profile) google plus(ask me if you want an invite if necessary)

a page on last fm with free downloads is nice too and i still keep a myspace page active

i'm also very active on youtube, with over 1.5k subscribers and over 1 million total views

still i'm looking for help too for the sending of presskits/radio play/international booking

Thursday, July 07, 2011

Muzik 4 Machines Old School, Plastic CD Store is now open


http://muzik4machines.com/store

Muzik 4 Machines Old School, Plastic CD Store is now open
special introductory price of 4,44$ per single CD (about half of the download price, it's a real bargain)
I sell at cost because the goal is not to make money, it's to have those plastic discs travel round the world in cars and old boom boxes

Magasin officiellement ouvert avec 5 albums pour commencer, plus a venir a mesure que les fichiers seront en ligne, special d'ouverture a 4,44$ par cd dans un mailer (au cost, le but étant de faire circuler du plastique plus que de faire de l'argent)

iTunes: http://bit.ly/fB0L9V
Home: http://muzik4machines.com
Store: http://muzik4machines.com/store
Twitter: http://twitter.com/muzik4machines
Podcast: http://muzik4machines.com/2ztc7w
Youtube: http://youtube.com/muzik4machines
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/Musik.For.Machines

Friday, June 24, 2011

Store



so this is the way i'm gonna sell physical cd's, you buy it in the store widget, and i place the order on cafepress shipped to your address

Tuesday, June 21, 2011

Transistor Casino - Muzik 4 Machines' new Album Out NOW

weird, the video plays on my channel and not in embeds/on the video page
http://www.youtube.com/user/muzik4machines

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EUWXWJ2WrHE

Album's out TODAY

not live PA(yet) but it will be in a couple weeks when i finish conforming all those studio tracks in live sets and loops to be played among all the other songs live

so the album's supposed to be available worldwide from today at least on iTunes, amazon, djtunes, Juno, Tunetribe and more
here's 1 free finished song for you my friends
Transistor Casino - Muzik 4 Machines

Monday, June 06, 2011

Microprocessors for Mammals PRE RELEASE



all but song 4, over clipped and limited on purpose to give you a good reason to buy the clean mastered versions on june 21st in your favorite online mp3 store

Sunday, May 15, 2011

Music for Machines/Music for Mammals RELEASE CANDIDATE

voici les dernieres versions/here are the latest versions, ready to go mix in a real studio


a propos de music for mammals (voir autre blog post plus bas):
j'avais plein de bouts de tests de tounes avec addictive drums, masi ca fittait pas full lol, faq j'ai comme "concept" un "album" double, music for machines (les 10 ou 11 tounes elecronique)/music for mammals (les 6-8 tounes pas electro pantoute)

c'est bien beau en théorie, mais comme ca se vends juste en format numérique a la piece, le concept est pas mal dur a garder, j'imagine que ceux a qui je vais faire des copies physique auront la totale, les autres auront le choix lol

d'ailleurs, je cherche toujours quelqu'un qui me preterais son home studio un samedi ou un dimanche que jajuste mes niveaux, j'ai beau le tester sur mes 5 systemes de son(du speaker du ipod au systeme du salon) mon appart est une caverne et jai pu de vrais moniteurs

mais je digresse, voici un update, come je disait en haut, c'est fini de "faire" reste juste a les mixer parce que la chu sur que la bass arrache tout pis que les hi hats sont disparus :lol:

http://ge.tt/4JVdnv5?c les 10 tounes "electro" (sauf make me wet, a la pas changée celle la)
ou dans un beau ti player flash en playlist: http://tweetmysong.com/ghrlq1


ou chaque toune:
(j'ai pas encore déterminé l'ordre)

Live Elephant
are you a god?
Music For Machines
Penis in Line (needs a real title)
Simulated Vacuum
Suburban Electric Tornado
Transistor Casino
Sand Cat
Tenacious Sociopath (also needs a real title)
Nuclear Fadeout
On fait de l'Acide

faites vos commentaires ici ou sur tweetmy song ou sur facebook, comment ca sonne dans votre kit a vous?

(PAS le cover officiel)

Tuesday, May 10, 2011

EXCLUSIVE, get it while it lasts


The Pirate Album now on iTunes for a (very) Limited Time

ok, so this is mostly a covers/album remix, and i forgot to put the release date late summer as planned, the time to get all clearances, so it will probably get removed pretty fast, get it while it lasts, all live performances



Saturday, May 07, 2011

UPDATED VERSIONS, i still need your advice on those

these are new versions, using some hardware and/or more mixed and/or more FX added as needed, keep reading below for more info

A Live Rat

Are You a God

Make Me Wet Radio Edit

Mini-Maline

Simulated Vacuum

Suburban Electric Tornado

Transistor Casino



here are all the new files http://ge.tt/4Itxhhz?c all in one page on the ge.tt site, or if you keep reading they're just below


http://ge.tt/4kqEHmW (the whole album, see bottom of post for independant links) (mirror here if ge.tt blocks the files http://tweetmysong.com/o92b92 )


Here are the UNMIXED (some not even structured) tracks of the new double album, please give me all feedback regarding composition and arrangement, keeping in mind that the mixing is not final and most of the automation/drum fills are still to do


i'm gonna rent a studio/control room for a couple of day next month to finalize the mixing (and depending on my budget, the mastering) so i need any/every possible advice, info on how it sounds, kicks too long, too boomy, hats volume and all, keep in mind tho it's not mixed, just overally balanced with headphones and computer speakers (with a sub, but still very low quality)


Music For Machines


these are new versions, using some hardware and/or more mixed and/or more FX added as needed

A Live Rat

Are You a God

Make Me Wet Radio Edit

Mini-Maline

Simulated Vacuum

Suburban Electric Tornado

Transistor Casino


those 2 i didn't do yet

Make Me Dubby Wet

Make Me Wet Extended


(not really structured but i want advice on them too)


The Van NO STRUCTURE

Penicilin NO STRUCTURE

Monosyllabic Morphine Fantasy NO STRUCTURE


Music For Mammals


Organ Transplant

Richard de la Jungle

Mini-Maline Slow

No Children


Tuesday, May 03, 2011

Edition is magic (Black Widow's Run "remixed")

2 summers ago i made a movie with @seb messinger : here (17 minutes)


today waiting for the election results i had my fun with imovie trailer featur, showing how the edition can radically change the story

first i treated it as a blockbuster with jurassic titles and zimmer-esque music: here (59 sec)

then i tried the action movie angle, with lame nu metal thinghy: here (50 sec)

then just for fun i made it a romantic comedy (you need to watch the movie to really enjoy the sarcasm on this one): here (56 sec)


and just for good measure, here is a making of/videoclip: here (4:46)

Tuesday, April 19, 2011

New album coming, please comment

http://ge.tt/4kqEHmW (the whole album, see bottom of post for independant links)
mirror here if ge.tt blocks the files

Here are the UNMIXED (some not even structured) tracks of the new double album, please give me all feedback regarding composition and arrangement, keeping in mind that the mixing is not final and most of the automation/drum fills are still to do

i'm gonna rent a studio/control room for a couple of day next month to finalize the mixing (and depending on my budget, the mastering) so i need any/every possible advice, info on how it sounds, kicks too long, too boomy, hats volume and all, keep in mind tho it's not mixed, just overally balanced with headphones and computer speakers (with a sub, but still very low quality)

Music For Machines

A Live Rat
Are You a God
Make Me Dubby Wet
Make Me Wet Extended
Make Me Wet Radio Edit
Mini-Maline
Simulated Vacuum
Suburban Electric Tornado
Transistor Casino

(not really structured but i want advice on them too)

The Van NO STRUCTURE
Penicilin NO STRUCTURE
Monosyllabic Morphine Fantasy NO STRUCTURE

Music For Mammals

Organ Transplant
Richard de la Jungle
Mini-Maline Slow
No Children

Saturday, April 16, 2011

Music for machines/Music for Mammals album pre mixes

http://ge.tt/4kqEHmW (the whole album, see bottom of post for independant links)
mirror here if ge.tt blocks the files

Here are the UNMIXED (some not even structured) tracks of the new double album, please give me all feedback regarding composition and arrangement, keeping in mind that the mixing is not final and most of the automation/drum fills are still to do

i'm gonna rent a studio/control room for a couple of day next month to finalize the mixing (and depending on my budget, the mastering) so i need any/every possible advice, info on how it sounds, kicks too long, too boomy, hats volume and all, keep in mind tho it's not mixed, just overally balanced with headphones and computer speakers (with a sub, but still very low quality)

Music For Machines

A Live Rat
Are You a God
Make Me Dubby Wet
Make Me Wet Extended
Make Me Wet Radio Edit
Mini-Maline
Simulated Vacuum
Suburban Electric Tornado
Transistor Casino

(not really structured but i want advice on them too)

The Van NO STRUCTURE
Penicilin NO STRUCTURE
Monosyllabic Morphine Fantasy NO STRUCTURE

Music For Mammals

Organ Transplant
Richard de la Jungle
Mini-Maline Slow
No Children

#M4MLive - April 15th 2011 - Studio album almost done i needed a break

Friday, April 15, 2011

Nuclear Fadeout - Muzik 4 Machines Outtake


Brand new song that won't be on the album as it's not up to the standards i've set myself. And it's been a long time i haven't uploaded anything. The song will be on sale on iTunes pretty soon under the name Patchbay. https://www.recordunion.com/Music/Album/7415

Wednesday, January 26, 2011

#M4MLive - January 25th 2011 - Muzik 4 Machines


kindof back but with 14 more ms latency on the drums, motu soundcard on xp on a macbook pro=NOT WORKING PROPERLY