Novation LaunchKey Offers 50+ Hardware Controls, iPad Integration

2013 NAMM Show: Novation today introduced a new line of MIDI controllers, Launchkey, that offers 50+ physical controls, including 16 velocity-sensitive multi-color trigger-pads for launching clips and scenes in Ableton Live. The Novation LaunchKey line offers 25, 49 and 61 note keyboard controllers. In addition the keyboard and DAW controls, Launchkey is ‘an integrated software/hardware… Read More Novation LaunchKey Offers 50+ Hardware Controls, iPad Integration

January 17, 2013January 17, 201326 Comments

AudioThing Intros TapeStation For Kontakt (Bass Synth)

AudioThing has introduced TapeStation – described as “what happens when a ’90s analog synth meets an ’80s tape recorder”. AudioThing sampled “a famous Analogue Bass Synth” (BassStation, cough, cough) to tape using a new old stock cassette, and then turned it into a Kontakt Instrument.

October 19, 2011October 19, 20111 Comment

Free BassStation Sound Pack

Free Music Software: Hollow Sun (the sound developers that are working on the Hammond Novachord sample library) have released a free sound pack that features bass synth samples from the Novation Bass Station: What’s on offer here are 30 excellent synth bass sounds that cover a wide range of genres, uses and applications and which… Read More Free BassStation Sound Pack

January 12, 2010January 10, 20102 Comments