Here’s another sneak preview of the Keith McMillen Instruments QuNexus keyboard controller, demonstrating how the keys sense pressure and location so that you can change the pitch or sound of notes – after you play the note.
The KMI QuNexus is currently under development as a funded Kickstarter project.
Here’s a quick intro to Yonac Software’s new software synth, Magellan for iPad.
The video explores one of the more unique features of Magellan – the twin independent polyphonic synth engines. It covers: loading presets, foregrounding a synth, adjusting parameters, synth coupling, and other advanced settings.
Magellan is available now in the App Store for $4.99.
If you’ve tried out Magellan – let us know what you think of it!
Here’s a quick sneak preview of the upcoming Mutable Instruments Ambika polyphonic synthesizer, demoing the Fuzz, Crush functions and the “wavesequencer”.
Wizdom Music has released a new iOS app, Jordan Rudess and Kevin Chartier?s Tachyon, that lets you morph between two sounds, polyphonically.
Here’s what they have to say about Tachyon:
Most instruments only allow you to play one sound at a time, but with Tachyon, you can seamlessly blend between any two sounds as you slide your fingers up and down the screen.
The visual experience of Tachyon is just as mesmerizing. As you move along the playing surface, a field of twinkling stars morphs into the shape of your selected instrument, allowing a direct correlation between sight and sound.
Mutable Instruments has announced the Ambika – a new DIY polyphonic synthesizer.
Translucent, polyphonic, DIY and even a bit sexy – the Ambika will allow for six voices. It can be configured so that all of the voices have the same synth design or with unique synth designs on a per-channel basis.
“It?s huge,” they note, “And it draws a lot of power!”
Here are the details….
At the 2012 NAMM Show, Studiologic introduced the Sledge polyphonic keyboard synthesizer – a new keyboard, based on a Waldorf sound engine.
The Sledge combines the power of the Waldorf engine with a retro, knobby front panel.
The synth is based around the latest Waldorf modelling technology, offering virtual analog and wave table synthesis, derived from the PPG wave. The three oscillators, plus a Noise generator, are fed into Sledge’s multimode filter, with selectable 24 / 12 dB slope.The old school interface makes clear the signal path and how each control affects the result.
And two built-in effect units deliver Chorus, Phaser and Flanger, as well as a reverb or an analogue style delay.
Details below. Check out the info and let us know what you think of the StudioLogic Sledge synthesizer.