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iTONTO App Documents “World’s Largest Synthesizer”, Benefits Bob Moog Foundation

Synthesizer pioneer and Grammy Award-winning producer Malcolm Cecil has introduced iTONTO, an app for iPad and iPhone that offers up a trove of historical and technical information about the world’s largest synthesizer, TONTO. Best known for its prominence on four Stevie Wonder albums in the late 1970s, TONTO is a behemoth assemblage of various synthesizers and custom components,… Read More iTONTO App Documents “World’s Largest Synthesizer”, Benefits Bob Moog Foundation

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ROLI Debuts Seaboard RISE Expressive MIDI Controller

Advanced MIDI controller creator ROLI today announced the new Seaboard RISE, their most affordable expressive MIDI keyboard controller yet. Like the Seaboard GRAND, the Seaboard RISE reimagines the keyboard as a pressure-sensitive, continuous surface that responds to even the subtlest gestures. This lets you change the sound of each note in three dimensions, with left/right, up/down, and in/out movements of… Read More ROLI Debuts Seaboard RISE Expressive MIDI Controller

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Sample Logic Announces Gamelan

Sample Logic today announced Gamelan, their world-instruments-meet-hybrid-sample-synthesis library. Twenty-five Balinese Gamelan instruments have been, as they describe it, “morphed and mutilated” by Sample Logic to create a collection of “cinematic quality atmospheres, inspirational melodic instruments, thundering percussive impacts and twisted loops.” Recorded on the scoring stage at Skywalker Sound with the Gamelan Sekar Jaya (GSJ) ensemble,… Read More Sample Logic Announces Gamelan

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