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Sruti Box Links, Reviews and performances
version 1.0.1
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| version date | title review | ||
| 1.0.0 Sept 1, 2008 | 2.99 for generic sine waves!? $2.99 for a generic sine wave oscilator...rip off. Create your own tones in Logic, Reason, or Ableton...save your money; I wish I did. | ||
| This pesky review hung around for a very long time! This articulate and thrifty reviewer from the early days clearly didn't notice all the other timbres that the Srutibox sported. You could also build up some pretty complicated textures even in the old days with just and near-just harmonics. But you could save a lot of money buying Logic ($499.00), Reason ($499.00) or Ableton ($449.00) and run them on a suitably powered Mac ($$$) ... or you could listen to SrutiBox ($2.99) on your iPhone. | |||
| 1.0.1 Sept 18, 2008 | Very Cool steve_1963 This is not, as one reviewer said, a "simple sine wave oscillator", it allows additive synthesis of 12 oscillators. While it may not match the authentic sound of a harmonium, it is in fact very cool. I agree that the sliders are a bit hard to control (it got easier when I found I could tap on the location I want it to go to, rather than trying to drag the button). My other complaint is that the help text is way too small to read; the zoom gesture did make the text larger, but then it was too hard to scroll. I'm only going to 4 stars because it is totally lacking in modulation options. |
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| Thanks! Since then, I fixed up the instructions page and made the "expanding/contracting" controls feature. Apple took out the tap-to-set-a-slider feature in 2.2.0, so I had to put that back in. | |||
| Performances: | |||
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| who | when | where | what |
| electronics duo rise set twilight Michael T. Bullock & Linda Aubry Bullock | 24 September 2008 | The Green Door, Burlington VT | |
| Nick Dan | October 2008 | (Australia) | Thought you'd like to know I used your app for a gig and recording
session the last few days. MySpace website |
| Bob Scott | October 2008 | (Australia) | Its a beautiful idea, i love playing with it - really takes you somewhere else - so many possibilities! I've been experimenting using low fundamentals ~ 30Hz into large PAs for live installations/performance... quite amazing results [ ...] Also great fun feeding into other signal processingm etc, etc!. http://www.dodgysound.com/ |
| Pauline Oliveros | April - May 2009 | Vienna Austria, Belfast, N. Ireland | Droniphonia with iPHONES, Spatialization, Streaming environments and Multiple Instruments (2009) Based on the iPHONE application Srutibox by Henry Lowengard Environmental streams from Locus Sonus Concept by Pauline Oliveros Droniphonia has polytonal drones continually morphing timbres, volumes and fundamentals moving in space. Networked musicians (Belfast, Banff and Troy NY) listen to the drones and develop gradually overlapping improvised sounds and phrases - first solo and then between two or three players at a time in a slowly growing density and texture. Different musical characters appear unexpectedly from time to time out of no where on a one time basis. Finally all players weave their way in and out of the droneophony sharing the unknown finale. The 2009 Sonorities Festival of Contemporary Music takes place in SARC, the Harty Room and the Whitla Hall, at Queen's Unversity Belfast. http://paulineoliveros.us/ |
| Michael T. Bullock | 9 November 2009 | solo performance and presentation at UVA, Charlottesville VA | |
© 2008 Henry Lowengard, sruti box picture from http://www.kalakendar.com/