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LoopMash by Steinberg, developed in collaboration with the MTG, is announced

16.01.2009

 

At the NAMM show, one of the world’s largest music trade shows, Steinberg Media Technologies GmbH has announced the release of Cubase 5, the newest version of its well known music production software. In cooperation with Yamaha Corporation, the Music Technology Group (MTG) of the Universitat Pompeu Fabra in Barcelona played an important role in the research and development that led to one of its new features, LoopMash, a powerful creative tool for slicing and instant re-assembling of sound material.

LoopMash originates from a joint research project between MTG and Yamaha, a project that aimed at developing the next generation of music production tools. In particular it focused on the manipulation of sounds in a way similar to the creation of mosaics, a process that is now known as audio mosaicing. With the techniques developed, existing sound material can be recycled and recomposed using computational tools; first by automatically extracting sound snippets from existing music, then analyzing the similarity between them, and finally recombining the snippets in musically relevant ways.

The outcome of the project was a software prototype that used this technique as a musical instrument, remixing the snippets intelligently and automatically, typically from drum-loops, under interactive control of the musician. This prototype showed that potential of these techniques for making music based on reusing existing sound material and thus giving deejays and contemporary electronic musicians a new level of control.

In a team effort, MTG, Steinberg and Yamaha successfully have converted the resulting prototype into a real product. LoopMash is now a VST3 Instrument, integrated into Cubase, and thus adding to Cubase a unique and innovative way of creating music.

 

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Cubase 5

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