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Moog has introduced the Multi-Pedal, a programmable four channel CV/MIDI foot pedal controller.
It has four analog control outputs, MIDI In & Out and USB connectivity (MIDI over USB). It can transmit controller information on up to 4 MIDI channels and CV outputs simultaneously.
Each CV output can be programmed individually. Signals can be foot pedal controlled [...]

Tyler Freeman, aka odbol, liked drumming on his pants so much that he added MIDI triggers, hooked his a** up to a computer and created Drumpants.
DrumPants are a set of pants that enable the wearer to produce drum sounds by hitting various parts of the pants with his hands. The wearer thusly becomes a [...]

Roger Linn Designs has released the AdrenaLinn III, the successor to Linn’s Adrenalinn II, which featured guitar effects beat-synced to an on-board drum machine. Adrenalinn II owners can buy an upgrade kit to take their machine to III status.
“AdrenaLinn III provides a guitar modeler, plus a wide variety of unique modulation and delay effects,” said [...]

Virtuasonic’s MIJOY PRO 2 is a VSTi MIDI plug-in that allows you to use a joystick or gamepad as a MIDI controller. It can be used to control other VSTi instruments, FX plug-ins and MIDI hardware in real-time.
Here’s a video of the Mijoy Pro in action:

MIJOY PRO 2 requires a Windows VST Host able to [...]

Innovative Music Systems has announced that the Ensemble Edition of their flagship product intelliScore is now available. IntelliScore Ensemble listens to prerecorded or live music (in WAV, MP3, WMA, or CD format) comprised of several different instruments and helps create a multiple-track MIDI (.mid) file containing the notes played, broken down by instrument. The MIDI [...]

Alesis has introduced a cool new drum pad controller/drum machine, the Performance Pad. It’s a drum machine, an electronic percussion instrument and you can use it as a MIDI input device.
Performance Pad features eight velocity-sensitive drum pads and a built-in electronic drum machine with professional sounds and features.
Features:

8 natural feeling, velocity-sensitive drum pads with Dynamic [...]

Infection Music has announced that the pilot build of its unique Zeit desktop sequencer has been completed.
They call the Zeit the world’s best hardware sequencer and at £1199, it’s certainly one of the most expensive. You can preview a demo of the Zeit in action, below.
Here are the specs:

 

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XT Software has announced the community-based energyXT2 MIDI & audio sequencer for Windows and Linux is to be released on Friday the 15th of June.
energyXT2 highlights:

Available both as DAW and VST plugin
All-in-one synth/sampler, multi-fx and sequencer
Streamlined workflow and design

Whats new in energyXT2:

100% re-worked, based on over 3 years of feedback from users
High quality time-stretching and [...]

Groove Monkee has announced the release of Groove Monkee Rock, 1,500 MIDI beats and fills covering 10 styles of rock music: alternative, ballad, blues rock, classic, contemporary, hard rock, punk, metal, funk rock and pop plus sections of half-time, basic rock and prog rock.
In addition, there are over 200 extra drum fills, 100 intros and [...]

Classical MIDI Connection, a website devoted to classical music MIDI sequences, has announced the First Annual Classical MIDI Sequencing Competition. The top 3 prizes will be chosen by expert judges and a People’s Choice Award will be decided by public vote.
Over $1,000 in prizes will be awarded to the best contestants. Submissions are accepted [...]

A new web site promises to turn your genetic sequence into a musical sequence.Rie Takahashi and Jeffrey Miller of the University of California at Los Angeles describe the system in the open-access journal Genome Biology. They set up a system is to translate amino acids - the building blocks for human protein sequences - into [...]

ManiacTools has released MIDI Converter Studio 5.6, a specialized software utility for musicians and sound professionals that converts MIDI files to popular music file formats, such as MP3, WAV, OGG and WMA. The software is very simple and straightforward, and is capable of processing various types of MIDI files - MIDI 0, MIDI 1, [...]

QRS Music Technologies has introduced a high-tech version of Gulbransen Digital Hymnal.
The Digital Hymnal DH200 uses CompactFlash card technology, letting you download standard MIDI files and MP3 files to expand the unit’s vast software library capabilities.In addition to CompactFlash technology, the new DH200 has an upgradeable operating system.
The Hymnal plays thousands of hymns, choruses and [...]

TerraTec Producer’s Expandable Controller Keyboard AREA 61 will be available in spring this year.
AREA 61 is an expandable keyboard system for studio and live musicians. It offers freely selectable, integrated sound generators (f.e. KOMPLEXER DSP soundboard) that may also serve as a central control unit for all software sequencers and virtual instruments in computer based [...]

The new Ztar Z7-S master MIDI guitar controller from Starr Labs offers guitarists high-speed MIDI control. The Ztar differs from other guitar synths by having a glitch-free, 6-string x 24-fret touch-sensitive keyboard that’s ideal for playing synthesizers.
The Z7S fingerboard is fully polyphonic, meaning it can play more than one-note-per-string can be played simultaneously. The programmable [...]