New Octavio Video – Keyboard Rig

Jamie and I have been getting a lot of use out of the Octavio for various musical utility tasks where we need a convenient but dependable speaker system with a full frequency response that isn’t fatiguing to listen to. Anyway – I decided to make a promotional video about how I’ve been using it to play my sampler through for the last day. It really is convenient to have a little self-contained speaker box that I can just plonk down and plug in to avoid the discomfort of headphones and the difficulties in headbanging with them. The way I’ve set everything up here is the keyboard is talking to the sampler (grey box) via midi and then the sampler is sending audio to the Octavio so I can hear what I’m doing. Also the original song that I’m poorly trying to play can be found on Jamie and I’s myspace.

So anyway – I thought I’d try to be as pretentious as possible in this video because the playing is so bad – I thought it might be safest to take the piss. So I hope it’s okay with everyone. Either way – even though I’m not really a modern keyboard virtuoso I can say that the Octavio may be used for monitoring any audio source and if you have a lot of audio/music gear it is great to have around as a convenient and high-quality speaker system. Thinking of it as a Zune dock is really overlooking a lot of fun possibilities…..

Thanks for watching.

Jacob of the VAF Kids

New Octavio Theme Song

Hi Everyone

I’ve just been working on a little Octavio theme song that I’m sure will aid in it’s conquest of the world. Jamie and I are planning to accumulate as many cliche jingles as possible to spice up our podcasts and use as backing music for the video remixes.

This song is mainly influenced by all that 80s spacey pop music. I don’t really know how I’m trying to imitate it because all I’ve heard is a bit of Peter Gabriel and Enya, but anyway spacey synthesizers (check), world music percussion (check), exaggerated reverrrrrbbbbbb (check)……….I had a fair bit of fun doing this and I think you should all have a listen to the mp3 linked below. I would recommend listening on a VAF product because you won’t fully appreciate the depth of the music on anything else :-p .

Octavio Theme 1 (1.5mb)

I hope everyone’s having a great time (yay I’m still on holidays)

Jacob on behalf of VAF

p.s. Jamie and I have written a rap about Powermove (the Octavio’s distributor) and it should be on the way soon……..