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MIDI Merlin History and Development
MIDI Merlin 2 was designed by Randy George entirely in Cycling’74 Max visual programming environment. The real-time tracking is made possible by sigmund~, the powerful and accurate pitch/amplitude tracking algorithm designed by Miller S. Puckette for Max’s open source cousin development platform, Pure Data (Pd). With the exception of sigmund, MIDI Merlin was built entirely with vanilla external objects in Max version 6.1.9.
MIDI Merlin was incepted in 2011 in the apartment of an inspired music hardware technologist friend in Berlin-Mitte, Germany during the designer’s mid-thirties escape-from-reality European excursion. The original goal of the software was to augment the capabilities of the space controlled musical instrument known as the theremin, by employing a pitch and amplitude tracking device, and re-routing and programming the data into something new, either as a performance or sound enhancement. It evolved over the course of six years. In its intermediate stages of development it worked exceptionally well for the theremin and the designer saw no reason why it could not be used with other instruments. In 2014. the quest began to build the software into a robust performance workhorse application. In 2018, it is finally able to enter the world of live performance, education, and interaction design.
I am very excited to announce and publish a new software product! It is a theremin training tool that offers users new levels awareness and improvement for many aspects of structured theremin playing technique. Merlin Tuner!
Read more …Performer Case for the Haken ContinuuMini – combination protective case and performance harness for the portable synthesizer from Haken Audio.
Read more …Row Downtown LA, October 7 Performance at AdultSwim Festival for the first ever Rick and Morty Musical Ricksperience. Tickets are available at with a 20% discount. Enter Code on following page.
Read more …Greetings, music maker. Have you come for the magic? You do not need to look much further. It is just around the corner. A wizard awaits you. He will guide you on your quest to make new sounds.
Read more …Friends of MIDI, Realtime Pitch Tracking, Resynthesis, Theremin, Educators, Sound Designers, Performers, Very soon the software I have been working on for the past six years will finally be made commercially available. I will be making the announcement on all social media channels and Music Technology forums and Theremin related locations on the web. Stay Tuned!
Read more …Saturday, August 26, 2017 at 7:00PM Concert @ The NAMM Museum of Making Music in Carlsbad, California. Musical Voice of the Theremin, featuring Randy George, theremin; Matt Piper, guitar, bass, electronics; Kevin Yokota, drums, percussion – presented in conjunction with the Museum’s Summer of Innovation Special Exhibition.
Read more …Friends, I have some news to share, finally! I’ve created new theremin videos! It has definitely been a long wait. I wanted to thank you for your patience by sharing the whole lot at once. You can find the videos on the Video Gallery page!
Read more …As of October 19 2015, I have begun teaching theremin lessons over Skype. I’m also continuing to offer lessons in person where ever I am located, where I live in Los Angeles or any city I’ll be visiting. I’m making this post primarily as an update so that everyone visiting my website can be aware of…
Read more …April 26, 2015, I played theremin in the premiere of a chamber music film composition by composer Martin Ulikhanyan and filmmaker Alik Barsoumian. Zipper Hall at the Colburn School in Los Angeles.
Read more …Welcome to the software blog on my website. I thought I would make a special category for software related posts to make it easy to find updates for MIDI Merlin and other projects I have going on in the realm of development.
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