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

Octavio Interview Remix RadArtFilm

I’d like to unveil Wholesale Meat Media’s first promotional film (propaganda?) – a remix of an interview we found on the web where Mr Vafiadis was talking about the Octavio. Thanks heaps to Duncan for posting the original video at on10.net. Oooops I think I may have forgotten to ask permission to remix it but Mike tells me that they are probably cool about it (I hope so?). Anyway – shout of thanks to them.

I mainly chose the segments of closeup moving octavio footage and just used iMovie’s inbuilt processing to make everything look a bit like a dated music video. Hopefully this should suit the 80s-style octavio theme tune I made yesterday. I would have to say that Mr VAF is really quite an exciting guy to talk to (even though most of what he says goes over my head).

Anyway – please enjoy the viewing and be seduced into purchasing an octavio.

Jacob on behalf of VAF