Arturia has announced that KeyLab Essential, the most recent in their KeyLab line of controller keyboards, is now shipping. Announced earlier this year at Musikmesse, the 49- and 61-note controllers offer intuitive performance controls, DAW integration and come with Arturia’s Analog Lab software.
Bastl Instruments has introduced 60knobs, is a dedicated control interface for LXR drummachine, that is also editable and talks the DX7 SysEx protocol.… Read More Bastl Instruments Releases 60knobs Control Interface
Use it to deconstruct any sound as you like, rebuilding it as a composite of glitchy micro-loops, a shifting soundscape or whatever else the user can imagine.… Read More Ableton Announces Iota, Sample-Based Granular Looper
I Speak Machine have released the first music video, Shame, from their upcoming album, Zombies 1985, which the band describes as a “sinister, synth-centric love letter” to 1980’s horror.… Read More I Speak Machine – ‘Shame’
Korg has announced the reintroduction of iMono/Poly, an iOS version of the classic monophonic synthesizer. Korg introduced the Mono/Poly, a “fat-sounding” four-VCO monophonic synthesizer, following the release of their six-voice Polysix synth in 1981. Manufactured from 1981 to 1984, Mono/Poly’s “most signature characteristic” was the Synchro and Cross Modulation functions that could run dual, or… Read More Korg Debuts iMonoPoly, iOS Reissue of Classic Synth
ROLI has released Equator, the Multidimensional Polyphonic Expression (MPE) synthesizer behind the company’s Seaboard RISE and Seaboard GRAND, as a standalone software synth for Mac & Windows.… Read More ROLI’s MPE Software Synth, Equator, Now Available Standalone
Native Instruments has released an update to their Maschine software. The free-to-users Maschine 2.6.8 update introduces a monophonic bass synth and an isomorphic keyboard.
Heaven 17 performs their banned-by-the-BBC synth pop classic, (We Don’t Need This) Fascist Groove Thang.… Read More (We Don’t Need This) Fascist Groove Thang
A Life In Waves, the documentary about electronic music and sound design pioneer Suzanne Ciani, is now available to stream on demand. … Read More Suzanne Ciani Documentary, ‘A Life In Waves’, Now Available On Demand
MUTEK Montreal – a festival featuring electronic music from around the world – is coming August 22 to 27, 2017.… Read More Mutek Montreal Festival To Celebrate Innovative & Alternative Electronic Music
