July, 2007 archive

NAMM: Yamaha announced today its rollout of six upgraded MG Series analog mixers, adding to the four models introduced earlier this year.
The new mixers include features inherited from the company’s professional mixing consoles and offer intuitive operation, crystalline sound and components that are optimized to work together.The new mixers come with easy-to-use compressor controls. Conventional [...]

Tascam today announced three new drum libraries developed by multiple Grammy award winning musician and recording Engineer Larry Seyer.
The new POWERkits Volumes 1, 2 and 3 libraries from Larry Seyer Digital, focus on providing high quality musical instrument drum sounds with very low computer processing power requirements. POWERkits is the first plug-in library to be [...]

At the Summer NAMM Show, Tascam introduced the new MP-BT1 Bass trainer and the MP-VT1 Music and Vocal trainer. The new MP3 trainers feature Tascam’s VSA technology (Variable Speed Audition (pitch control w/o affecting key).
“Tascam’s family of MP3 trainers is the world’s first music player for musicians, and we’ve completely designed it to fit your [...]

The Super Mario Bros. AudioSound Super-Synthesizer isn’t as cool as you’d think from the title, but it’s still worth checking out.
Brings back things, doesn’t it?

Summer NAMM: Roland introduced a new desktop hardware synth today, the SonicCell. According to Roland, the SonicCell puts the power and legendary sound quality of a Roland hardware synthesizer on your desktop. According to us, it’s the most hideously ugly synth we’ve seen in a long time.
Here’s the details…..

2007 Summer NAMM Show Update: Alesis has begun shipments of the long-awaited DM5 Pro Drum Kit. Alesis announced the DM5 at the 2006 Winter NAMM Show.
Description:
The DM5 Pro Kit includes an updated DM5 sound module which contains a wealth of pre-programmed sounds and drum kits; ultra-sturdy hardware; and a professional tubular rack set-up.
The five-piece DM5 [...]

At the Summer NAMM Show, Open Labs introduced the sexy Timbaland Special Edition MiKo keyboard workcenter.
Building on the standard features of the MiKo LX, an all-in-one portable studio powered by Windows XP, the Timbaland Special Edition takes the instrument to a new level.
Timbaland Special Edition MiKo features an all-new Arctic White Chassis color scheme, E-MU’s [...]

2007 Summer NAMM Show: Open Labs announced that it will be substantially upgrading the previous software bundles for its MiKo and NeKo keyboard production stations.
The V4 sound library for the NeKo LX in particular, features E-MU’s new Proteus X2 Streaming Sound Module V2.5 with over 5,500 instruments including the following:

E-MU Proteus 2000
E-MU Mo’Phatt
E-MU Modular System
ARP [...]

Summer NAMM Show: The Roland RE-201 Space Echo has been reborn as the BOSS RE-20 Twin Pedal. According to BOSS, they’ve recreated every sonic detail and nuance of the original, providing users the warm, unpredictable and highly tweakable retro sounds of the RE-201.
Description:
The original Roland RE-201, commonly known as the Space Echo, was an analog [...]

BOSS has expanded its ME series multi-effects family with the ME-20, a powerful multi-effects unit optimized for live performance.
Description:
The ME-20 provides overdrive, distortion, delay, chorus, phaser, flanger, tremolo, rotary, and EQ effects, taking BOSS’s performance-based philosophy to a very affordable price point.
The ME-20 features a newly designed super-rugged metal chassis complete with three footswitches, 5 [...]