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Filed under: Electronic Instruments, MIDI Controllers, StrangeBen Brown plays his bizarre DIY monome guitar synth thing, aka the Guitarnome:
I’m playing the guitar I made from scratch, with a monome kit embedded in it. It was a long project… but fun.
Some parts are a bit out of tune(need to do some more guitar work) and Im still figuring out the setup(running 7up live on the monome). The audios pretty crappy on this recording unfortunately as my speaker setup was a bit janky… but hey! it was fun. Ran the vid through ScreenFlow for some super quick editing and export.
I’m using Ableton Live for my audio bits and a Presonus Firepod to process my voice and guitar signal. We kinda just did this spur of the moment so I didnt get the audio from Ableton.
The Guitarnome is not a traditional guitar synth, but rather a monome/guitar mashup.
The Guitarnome has a body made from cherry, wenge, and maple, a neck with a zebra wood fret board and a birds eye maple neck. Brown embedded a Monome within the body and custom built the encasing for all the electronics. The Guitarnome has USB & 1/4″ outputs.
M-Audio has announced a redesigned Oxygen series of USB MIDI keyboard controllers.
Available in 25-, 49- and 61-key models, the Oxygen keyboards feature full-size velocity-sensitive keys along with sliders, knobs and buttons for tweaking and performing with software instruments.
With DirectLink, these same controls instantly map to a DAW’s mixer, pan, and transport functions, providing real time control with a variety of DAWs including Pro Tools, Cubase, Reason, Live, Logic and Garageband.
The Oxygen 25, 49, and 61 are currently shipping and carry an MSRP of $149.95/€87, $189.95/€107, and $249.95/€141 respectively.
TASCAM has announced the US-2000, a new one rackspace 16-input audio interface that’s expected to sell for under $500.
US-2000 features
- 16-in / 4-out USB 2.0 audio interface.
- 96kHz / 24-bit audio resolution.
- (8) XLR microphone inputs with phantom power.
- (6) 1/4? balanced line inputs.
- (4) 1/4? balanced line outputs.
- (2) 1/4? instrument inputs (chan. 7 & 8 on front panel “combi “jacks).
- Stereo S/PDIF digital in and out.
- 100-LED meter bridge (5 segments for each input and output).
- Zero-latency direct monitoring with mono/stereo switch for each pair of inputs.
- 1/4? balanced stereo monitor output with its own volume control.
- 1/4? stereo high-powered headphone output.
- Mac and Windows compatible.
- Steinberg Cubase LE4 48-track recording software included.
- High-tech, attractive aluminum case design.
If you’ve used the TASCAM US-2000 USB audio interface, leave a comment with your thoughts on it! Read more…
This is a video demo of the C-Thru Music Axis 49 control keyboard.
Watch through for the prog-rock synth jam! Read more…
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Filed under: Audio Interfaces, Electronic Instruments, Software Sequencers, Software Synthesizers & Samplers, Synthesizers
This is an overview of the Fantom VS Synthesizer built into the SONAR V-Studio 700R interface.
The Fantom VS includes 1400 patches suited for all kinds of productions and accepts Roland’s specialized ARX expansion cards for piano, drums, brass and more.
More info at the Sonar V-Studio site.
