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  • Jamm Pro (spiracy) coming together of music.

    Jamm Pro (spiracy) coming together of music.

    Jamm Pro is a music production and remix APP for I-pad, and the only digital APP I’ve used in my digital music since 2012.  

    Matt Black and Jonathon Moore are two halves of Coldcut, a music production and performance duo that have been at the seeding edge of electronic dance music culture for four decades. Besides their musical output and live DJ performances, Coldcut have consistently produced tools made for DJ’s, both analogue tools, such as the 12” vinyl–DJ Toolz–series from 1993. 

    JP is a part of a lineage of open-source tools for independent music producers and DJ’s. Matt Black in particular has helped manifest this Coldcut ethos in APPs aimed at the I-Pad touch-screen interface, intuiting how the innovations made at Apple could be repurposed for music production and performance. Accordingly, with each major update to the I-Pad comes updates and extended functionality of the APP. This lineage of the development from Coldcut–and by association the groundbreaking independent label NinjaTune–is important to me as it distinguishes them from many other APP manufacturers by their consistent, core artistic values.  

    A prospiracy is the coming together of forces for the betterment of all parties. What I see as the challenge or aim of the game with Jamm Pro, is both playing and creating TunePacks, seeking harmony and coherence, searching for the perfect beat. Jamm Pro forces anybody with ears to reconsider musical genres and try to figure out where one spills into another. Make it new, make it cohere.

    There’s a host of instructional videos and demonstrations at Youtube, plus the APP itself features a detailed manual and on-screen “help” overlay which I found very useful. Matt Black does a weekly live Jamm Cast under the Pirate TV moniker, broadcasting on Twitch, Youtube, and Mixcloud where you can witness Matt hammering and pushing the APP to the outer limits, plus soothing visual candy and positive news items blended in.        

    If you’d like to hear some of my remxies, visit my vimeo account and Jamm Pro youtube playlists. 

    Equipped with four main channels, each with nine sequencers — six modulation sequencers, a slice sequencer, a pitch/reverse/drill sequencer and a gate sequencer — and up to 64 patches per set, Jamm Pro allows for a possible 2,304 sequencers per Sound Set in the app.

    READ FULL ARTICLE @ Synthtopia

    • Record in via Mic, Soundcard, Inter App Audio. Audiobus/AUM are supported, giving you access to the extensive range of iOS IAA apps like drum machines and synths to work with Jamm.
    • Multitrack Stem recording: Transforms Jamm Pro into a production tool: recordings are saved with all channels individually recorded. You can then load these into an editor/DAW such as Ableton, Logic or Pro Tools to work on further.
    • Multi-touch tip control: Use small finger movements to simultaneously and expressively control multiple FX at once.
    • Individual per channel FX: 5 Distortion/Crush units, 5 Filters, 5 Delays, 5 Reverbs, 5 Sidechains. All with full recallable control.
    • 64 Total Recall Patches: instantly Store and Recall the total state of what you’re doing with 64 Patch memories.
    • In-app help: Access help overlay screens from wherever you are to explain all the page’s functions… no need to stop to read and dig into the manual!
    • Coldcutter module: Buffer shuffle and modulation matrix for sophisticated beat manipulation. Users can trigger automatic call and response between channels, algorithmic evolutions of samples and modular synth-like patchable modulation sequencers.
    • Sub-bass module: Automatically generate super heavy bass kicks and basslines from drum samples — a feature dril fans will adore.
    • Loopstation/Resampling functions: Use Jamm Pro as a Loopstation — perfect for vocalists to loop and layer vocals as well as beatboxing via instant recording.
    • MIDI input: MIDI Learn allows easy connection of MIDI hardware to trigger and control Jamm Pro.
    • Slice sequencer: Unique and highly interactive feature allowing users to simply draw on the screen to restructure any sample.
    • Smart pitch bends: Change the pitch of any or all of the channels in real-time to inspire musically apt progressions.
    • Scratch: Experiment with the iconic hip hop technique by applying the effect to any sample.
    • Ableton Link Support
    • Note: Ninja Tune says that “Jamm Pro is a very powerful app and will perform best on newer iPads. The iPad Pro is the ideal device for the best experience with Jamm Pro.”
    • Pricing and Availability. Jamm Pro is available now for US $9.99.

    READ FULL ARTICLE @ Synthtopia

    https://jammpro.net/

  • DJ Steve Fly Jamm Pro Remix LM / Max Pelsey

    DJ Steve Fly Jamm Pro Remix LM / Max Pelsey

    The Main Jamm Interface contains a set of Global Controls which are present on all screens, including the Screen Selectors at the bottom. The Screen Selectors select between the main Screens and Modules which offer different functions of which the Play Screen is the most important.

    This manual is an addition to the comprehensive InApp Help available for any screen from the top right Help icon. Use this Help first which has a description of every control in the app. The manual is more in the nature of overviews of the different modules and functions.–https://jammpro.net/manual/

    https://jammpro.net/manual/
    [soundcloud url=”https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/908532556″
  • Pirate TV on Twitch feat. Deep Scratch

    Pirate TV on Twitch feat. Deep Scratch

    PIRATE TV FEAT. DEEP SCRATCH JAMMPRO REMIX

    https://clips.twitch.tv/GrotesqueCulturedTitanTheThing


    https://www.twitch.tv/coldcutofficial

  • Jamm Pro And Pirate TV

    Will be featuring some Jamm Pro work from #DeepScratch labs. #Amsterdam.

    https://www.twitch.tv/coldcutofficial

    GOING LIVE IN FIVE

  • Pirate TV And Pro Jamm

    Coldcut present Pirate TV – 9th May 2020

    I’m thrilled Matt Black of Coldcut / Pirate TV featured a mix I made using Jamm Pro, for his epic 2.2 hr Jamm Pro session for pirate TV.

    https://jammpro.net/

  • Beast From The East – Jamm Pro Remix

    Beast From The East – Jamm Pro Remix

  • Jamm Pro – Quantum Trap (Test Mix)

    Getting my heed into Jamm Pro, testing out screen video/audio recording.

    #JammPro #FlyAgaric23

    http://jammpro.net/jp1000/

  • From the James Joyce Quarterly (Spring 2019)

    “In a welcome contrast to the seriousness of high-art venues, Steve Fly Agaric 23 embodies the ideal of a space-cadet savant, just barely returned from the realm of interstellar ideas but landing into perfect musical timing, without losing the traces of stardust from whatever cosmic forces returned to this atmosphere in his wake. A drummer and DJ-turned-programmer, Fly’s performance was based on a digital remixing palette he developed uniquely for the day, “BloomJamm,” which was available for free download by all conference attendees, and remains accessible to the general public via his website.
    Fly’s audio samples included clips of Joyce-head Robert Anton Wilson, whose influence was also present in the work of the visual James Joyce Quarterly 56.3-4 2019 Complete_Issue_56_3.indb 422 1/14/2020 1:14:29 PM 423 artist Heather Ryan Kelley. Kelley sat beside the stage throughout the day creating live art. Though Kelley and Fly drew on overlap-ping sources of inspiration—Joyce’s Wake, RAW’s Coincidance, and elements of prepared materials and automatic improvisation—her temperament and approach are marked by a delicate exploration of the inner worlds and symbols of language, both as words and as sigla.

    ….

    “Also departing from the Antwerp Symposium in search of unusual
    adventures was “Amsterdampster,” a series of shows organized by Steve Fly Agaric 23 immediately following the performances at deSin-
    gel. Each of the three Amsterdam performances was held at different locations there, including Sexyland in North Amsterdam, the Cafe Monumentje, and the Cafe Daan and Daan.

    The gig at Sexyland included an explosive rant from Christian Greer on Joyce’s methods for destroying imperialism at its root, through the introduction of an anti-capitalist virus into the English/ American language via Finnegans Wake; a reprise of Bindervoet and Henkes’s performative lecture; and a set of mind-melting improvised music from Fly and Vincente Pino’s Dr. Marshmallow Cubicle. A particularly unique highlight of the evening was an impromptu offering of “Finnegan’s Wake” from the Dutch National Opera singer Cato Fordham, who first recalled discovering his brother Finn’s personal copy of Finnegans Wake strewn about somewhere, only to find himself transcendentally transported into language through its reading.

    Unexpected forms of impromptu transportation also occurred at Cafe Monumentje, west of the canal in Jordaan. A real locals bar unaccustomed to performances and where English speakers are rarely found, much less welcomed, two English expats and an American—Fly, William Sutton, and myself—nervously sat in the back corner wondering how to proceed with our late afternoon gig. Emboldened by his background as a stand-up comedian, Sutton began the evening, to the relief of Fly and me. Rapping in Dutch about William Shakespeare and the power of language, Sutton dexterously transitioned to English before cuing me to talk about Joyce and read fromthe Wake.

    We stumbled on Joycean gold when one of the most disinterested
    regulars finally looked up from his newspaper to demand a look at what gibberish this was, and from then on, in lieu of any formal per-
    formances, the entire bar spent the night cheering and shouting while passing around this weird little book. With each reader laughing
    aloud until the next insisted on finding out for himself what was so
    funny, the Wake proved itself again as a true pub-book-for-the-people,
    while one man declared, “I’ve been at this bar every day for forty
    years; we haven’t seen this kind of magic since the old days!”

    From…
    Joyce Smithy: A Curated Review of James Joyce in Visual Art, Music, and Performance—Community and Elusive Understandings
    Tess Brewer, Christa-Maria Lerm Hayes, and Derek Pyle
    University College London, University of Amsterdam, and Waywords and Meansigns.

  • JAMM PRO TEST MIXES (R.I.P Andy Weatherall)

    JAMM PRO TEST MIXES (R.I.P Andy Weatherall)

    I just got my hands on JAMM PRO. If you have an I-Pad, or can get your hands on one, I suggest you do the same. It’s fast to reward with fat and tasty grooves, and allows for total synthesis of all elements.

    Here’s the results of my first four mixes. Having too much fun, on a sad day.
    R.I.P Andy Weatherall!

    (Just scratching the surface, there’s soooo much to discover here)

    Check these links, get on it.

    Win £1000 for your Jamm Pro skills video

    Get out there,  mix it up.

    –Fly

  • Ninja Jamm Pro – Now You Know

    The team of beat headed boffins at Ninja Jamm have released their latest son, or daughter of Ninja Jamm (2012) called, Jamm Pro (2020). Previous upgrades to Ninja Jamm, have evolved the on-the-fly remix and performance APP, but the new JAMM  PRO is altogether a different beast. Fit for 2020, and full of all the bells and whistles required to launch the software once more, into the jam.

    JAMM PRO has the dual purpose of being a live performance tool and a capable studio tool for recording and spicing up whatever patterns you might have lurking? And so much more yet to be discovered. It’s an innovation tool in itself. Keep that in mind. Never be afraid to try new things.

    JAMM PRO is exclusive to the I-Pad, and I imagine this is due to the massive expansion of functionality that would require a tooth-pick, or other such poker on a cell phone-sized touch surface. I’m biased, in that I picked up an I-pad exclusively for the purpose of running Ninja Jamm in 2012, and have always felt that the extra yard, or extra surface space of the I-pad suites the NJ APP.

    JP exploits every millimetre of space on the pad, bringing a full studio of delights to the user, just under the finger tip, toggles and sliders and touch-sensitive pads all over the shop. You can wiggle your pinky and make bass that’s stinky, to mean, the touch sensitive pads respond to the slightest of motion, as demonstrated in the video below.

    In typical, Coldcut style, you can input an array of audio data of your choice, from drum machines and other instruments to anything you can play through a microphone (Beatbox, Kazoo, the spoons?) plus MIDI capabilities.

    There are four channels with nine sequencers each (modulation, slice, pitch/reverse/drill and gate) and up to 64 patches, allowing a staggering 2,304 sequencers for each sound pack (Sound Set in Ninja Tune’s lingo). You can finally use your own samples as well, whether they’re from Sound Sets, external sources or straight from the iPad’s mic.–Here’s a review from ENDGADGET
    https://www.engadget.com/2020/02/13/ninja-tune-coldcut-jamm-pro/

    I’ve previously spent days creating my own custom tune packs for Ninja Jamm, thanks to the open source approach of the project, now, you can focus on the music and remix,  and input readymade files, hasstle free. I’ll be using it in conjunction with my turntables.

    JAM PRO is available for half-price, $9.99, for the first two weeks of sale. A bargain on top of a bargain if you ask me. I’ve used Ninja Jamm in a variety of settings, jamming with musicians, in the studio, composing, and within DJ sets (portable turntablsist take note) and it’s easily best interface for flipping the dopest beats and jamming new ideas on the move. Jam Pro opens up the trick-bag and hands over the goods. Do with it what you will. Make it new. Make it rock.

    #JammPro #NinjaJamm #NinjaTune #Coldcut

    GET THE APP HERE AT APPLE STORE:

    p.s You’ll see my work, as fly agaric 23, on the list of HOTTEST JAMS at
    NINJA JAMM. There’s sure to be some new hot slices on the way.
    https://www.ninjajamm.com/charts.php

    CHECK OUT MY NINJA JAMM PROJECTS
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