Phase #2 of building lock-down

On day #46 of the Corona building lock-down, our director Henk vd Meulen and his crisis-team came up with the next step in slowly opening our KC building again for individual practise. For exact details we refer to the content of his e-mail and the protocols that were attached. What does this new phase #2 mean for you and for us? We will begin our more regular lending services again starting on Monday, May 11th. We have to prepare the…

More gear available during lockdown

In the last weeks we received more and more e-mails with request how to improve the audio quality with on-line lessons. To be able to support the requests we had to invest and expand the amount of USB-audio interfaces and we had to ‘hunt’ for available keyboards in our building. Because the “whole world” is looking for better soluttions to improve the audio and video quality, it was actually quiet hard to get the items that we wanted. What did…

Jamulus Server Setup (Mac)

In our search for better audio quality recent weeks, we found the application Jamulus as one of the possible solutions to work on-line and combine it with music making. This application connects multiple musicians with each-other by means of a server. All you see in your screen is a volume knob (fader) to adjust the audio mix. The more musicians, the more faders. After some tweaking with volumes and settings and getting used to hear delay (inevitable), you will have…

Network-Based Collaborative Music Making

Our colleagues in Oslo created a very informative page with a nice explanation how to use the network (internet) for music making. Please take the time to check this one out. Many thanks to Stefano Fasciani Tools for synchronous collaboration Jacktrip Soundjack Jamulus Source-connect Telematic performance format Musicianlink Sofasession Wemust Ultra-videoconferencing Jakazam Lola Artsmesh Ultragrid Ninjam Jammr Tools for asynchronous collaboration Soundtrap Loopslab Kompoz Skytracks Soundation Procollabs Blend Splice Audiotool Ohmstudio Bandhub Voisey Earsketch Tools for network measurements Find your…

Corona closed EWP

As the rest of the world, also the Royal Conservatoire will close its doors till at least April 7th. So it is not possible any more to borrow equipment – we are very sorry. We have to find alternative ways to work with audio, video or electronics. Aslo with your “electronics questions” we will be there to help you. We will create a new page referring to eLearning. Learning on-line, there are a lot of tools making this very well…

CNC cutting machine

We recently bought a new ‘CNC-cutting machine’ so we can make our own front-panels or Printed Circuit Boards (pcb) in the future.Our colleague Paul is building the machine from scratch and soon it will be finished for us to realize our first project with it. If you want to know more details of this particular device, check this link