Daily Giz Wiz 890: The Wild Planet Beat Blender
Episode 890 of the podcast
| Subject: | Review of The Wild Planet Beat Blender |
| Released: | Friday 7 August 2009 |
| Length: | about 20 minutes |
| Download file: | DGW-890.mp3 (9.4 MB) |
| Bookmark: |
|
Listen to the episode
Short info
Create your own music with the The Wild Planet Beat Blender.
Audible pick of the day: Dean Koontz's Frankenstein: Dead and Alive: A Novel, Unabridged, By Dean Koontz. Narrated by John Bedford Lloyd. For a free audiobook, visit Audible.com/gizwiz.
For more details and a chance to win the Mad Magazine "What The Heck Is It?" contest, visit GizWiz.Biz.
Bandwidth for Daily Giz Wiz is provided by AOL Music and Spinner.com.
(source: twit.tv/dgw890)
Detailed information
Released in June 2006 and designed by Eric Shank, the Wild Planet Beat Blender was a music mixer that had 3 tracks controlled by 3 beat selector buttons (Drums, Rhythm and Lead). Each track had 4 or 5 music samples, plus a silent beat. There were 4 tempo settings. From these controls, you could make your own loops. You could even piggyback more than one Beat Blender together to create longer songs. Wild Planet does not make it any more, but hacked versions can be found on the web.Got Audible
Regular correspondent Steve Miller spent 2 hours trying to get Paul Minshall's Audible Theme out of his head. In the end he had to go to the Audbile website, and bought himself Pride and Prejudice and Zombies, a book previously recommended by Leo and Paul Thurrott of Windows Weekly.
Weekend Pursuits
If you're in NYC at the moment, Dick recommends an exhibition organised by Gladstone Gallery of works by Basil Wolverton, dubbed by a New York Times article as "The Michelangelo of MAD". Then head off to the High Line Park.
(source: insidedgw.vox.com)
