Peter Blasser Workshop
Custom synthesizer desiginer and electronic musician Peter Blasser gave an all-day workshop on March 9th, 2015 for ESP, Music Tech, and Composition students. Peter provided the students with kits for his Mr. Grassi paper-circuit syntheiszer and helped the students build their own synths. Peter also gave a presentation on his current work and creative interests.
AirPlay Screen Sharing
The Modular Synth Studio has a large flatscreen that is connected to an AppleTV. This means you can wirelessly display the contents of your laptop screen(Os X 10.10.1 Yosemite or above), iPhone, or iPad on the display. To do so, follow these steps:
1) Turn the TV on and wake the apple TV up.
The silver remote is for the AppleTV and the black remote is for the flat screen.
2) In the menu bar of your operating system, in the upper right-hand corner of the screen, click on the AirPlay icon.
Select B305B screen. Your device’s screen should now appear on the studio display. If you do not see an AirPlay icon in your menubar, make sure AirPlay is enabled in your device preferences. test
Serge Recording Tutorial
Confirm that the Lynx Aurora audio interface’s USB connection with the Arp (iMac) is secure and make sure channels 3 and 4 on the Mackie Mixer are connected to the Serge. (click on the small photo icons for a larger version)
Protools:
1) File -> New Session
2) Then Save window will pop up! Create a folder with your name under Arp/Users_files. And save the ProTools session to your folder.
3) Make a new track under Track -> New
4) Set to stereo and click create
5) Click under I/O and Set the output to Aurora USB play1-2 and input to MackieSub 1&2
6) Send Serge Synth channel on mackie mixer into SUB 1-2 by pressing these two buttons. And pull up the fader 1 and 2 where it’s labeled as Output to ProTools
7) Record-enable your track
You should be getting signals from serge at this point.
8) Have fun rocking out on the serge! and make sure you hit save!
Ableton Live:
1) go to Preferences
2) Set input and output devices to Lynx Aurora
3) On track view drop down menu of input selection. Set 1-2.
4) Hit record-enable
5) if you hit auto under monitor setting, you can monitor it back in real time through main speakers.
6) Hit record!
