3Dvarius – The World’s First 3D Printed Violin

Laurent Bernadac – a violinist and engineer – has introduced the 3Dvarius – a new electric violin design, based on a model of a real Stradivarius violin and created by 3D printing technology. The body of the 3Dvarius is printed as a single piece, departing from traditional musical instrument production and giving it a very unique property: according to… Read More 3Dvarius – The World’s First 3D Printed Violin

Sexy New Experimental Synthesizer

The reactable is a state-of-the-art multi-user electro-acoustic music instrument with a tabletop tangible user interface. Several simultaneous performers share complete control over the instrument by moving physical artefacts on the table surface and constructing different audio topologies in a kind of tangible modular synthesizer or graspable flow-controlled programming language. If that sounds like a bunch… Read More Sexy New Experimental Synthesizer

Akai Intros EWI 4000S MIDI Wind Instrument/Controller

NAMM 2006 Winter Show: Akai Professional introduced the EWI4000S Wind Controller. The newest addition to the EWI family incorporates numerous enhancements to its overall design as a wind controller, and adds an integrated analog modeling synthesizer optimized for wind control, dedicated MIDI In and Out ports, an audio output, new performance functions, internal effects processing,… Read More Akai Intros EWI 4000S MIDI Wind Instrument/Controller