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I’ve seen tons of virtual keyboards before, but never a commercial virtual MIDI keyboard.
Tanager Audioworks’ Chirp is a new application that turns your computer keyboard into a MIDI keyboard controller…..so you can play notes on your computer keyboard.
Chirp combines a photo?realistic keyboard interface, ten programmable trigger pads and several controls for easily entering pitch bend, [...]

 

Steinberg and Yamaha have introduced a new MIDI controller for Cubase, the CC121 Advanced Integration Controller.
Features :

Advanced Integration controller knob with ‘point and control’ support: controls any visual Cubase 4 parameter, internal FX setting or VSTi parameter using mouse pointer selection
Instant plug and play with ‘Cubase Ready’ LED – no additional setup or parameter [...]

 

Wusik has announced the release of Wusik VM (VST Manager & MIDI Tools), version 1.2.0.
WVM extracts presets from any VST loaded into it and allows the user to organize those presets into banks using the standard FXP/FXB format. This manipulation of presets extends to being able, while a group of different VST’s are be loaded, [...]

 

Kenton has added to their unique range of studio solutions with the Merge 4, a 4-way MIDI merge box.
Operation of the Merge 4 doesn’t get more straightforward — take four opto-isolated MIDI Ins, merge the four streams of data and deliver the combined results to two MIDI Outs (both carry identical MIDI data). Once you’ve [...]

 

Submersible Music is now shipping KitCore Deluxe, which bundles KitCore (a MIDI drum instrument based on DrumCore) with the drum/percussion sounds and MIDI grooves found in DrumCore Deluxe.
KitCore Deluxe gives MIDI-based musicians (on both Mac and PC) access to the drumkits and MIDI beats found in DrumCore Deluxe at an affordable price. It works with [...]

 

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 [...]