Chamber of Sounds has introduced the Jupiter III G analog percussion synthesizer.
The Jupiter III analog percussion synth has a redesigned PCB, linear pots, a larger piezo pickup, and an LED power indicator. According to Chamber of Sounds, this makes it ‘ballsier than before’.
Applied Acoustics Systems has introduced Chromaphone, described as a ‘creative percussion synthesizer’ for Mac OS X and Windows.
Chromaphone combines ‘acoustic resonators’ to create drums, percussion, mallet, string, and synth-like instruments. Drum skins, bars, marimbas, plates, strings and tubes form pairs that are triggered by a configurable mallet and a flexible noise source.
At the heart of Chromaphone lies technology that models how vibrating objects interact and influence each other, capturing key acoustic behaviours of musical instruments.
“This new resonator coupling technology we are introducing in Chromaphone brings our physical modeling platform to a whole new level,” according to Philippe Derogis, CTO of AAS. “Musical instruments are made from combinations of interacting mechanical objects and coupling allows us to take into account this complex dynamics with great acoustic precision and sharpness.”
Chromaphone runs on both Mac OS X and Windows in host sequencers supporting the VST and Audio Units plug-in formats.
Chromaphone is available now for US $169 through December 5th, 2011. After that, the price goes up to $199.
Sonic State takes a look at the Yamaha DTX-12 Multi Pad, a $700 percussion pad system that features 12 stepped pads. Continue reading
This is the official introduction video for the Korg Wavedrum.
Featuring performances by Peter Michael Escovedo, Efrain Toro, Jeff Campitelli, and Joe Russo of the Benevento/Russo Duo.
See the Korg site for more info.
via SynthTV
Image Line Software has introduced Drumatrix – a percussion modeling instrument that gives you control over 10 physically modeled drums that can be routed to independent outputs for external effects processing.
It’s now in beta, so consider this info preliminary. Also, Image Line says that they may have to rename this to Drumaxx for legal reasons.
Key features:
This video captures a demo of the Korg WaveDrum at Winter NAMM 2010. Continue reading