NAMM Show Preview: Novation is launching Automap 3 Pro, the latest incarnation of its intelligent music software control system. Automap 3 Pro will support multiple hardware devices. This lets any of Novation’s hardware controllers be stacked within the Automap server. Multiple Novation controllers can then work side by side to access separate parameters on different… Read More Novation Automap 3 Pro Software
audioMIDI.com‘s Tom Luer demos Akai’s new EWI USB wind controller. Akai Professional’s EWI USB is a wind controller that features a plug-and-play USB interface for use with the included Aria software with Garritan and Akai Professional samples as a sound source. EWI USB is Mac and PC compatible. Professional players will find EWI USB fully… Read More Akai EWI USB
2009 NAMM Show preview: Percussa has some goodies on tap for the upcoming NAMM show that look like they will dramatically expand the range of uses for their AudioCubes: AudioCubes VST Wrapper, AudioCubes Loop Shaper & AudioCubes DeckBridge for Deckadance.
This video demonstrates using TouchOSC, OSCulator, Ableton Live and AudioDamage’s BigSeq plugin. TouchOSC is an interactive control surface that outputs OSC messages, which can then be converted to MIDI notes and CC data by OSCulator and other programs. Very cool demo and the video is very effective at combining the different sources to make clear… Read More Control Ableton Live With Your iPhone
This video, via Dan from Schaack Audio, demos a single Percussa AudioCube controlling Slicex in FL Studio.
A look at the Korg nanoPad via SonicState; make sure you check out the section on the editor, which gives the nanoPad a lot more power than is obvious from looking at it.
This video captures Canada’s Technofunk Collective in action. Technofunk’s recent performance at the Fritz Helder and the Phantoms CD release party unveiled their prototype “reactifunk” table. Through some reverse engineering and loads of tinkering the collective has adapted the basic software of the funkiest musical instrument in the world, the Reactable. Inspired by Bjork’s recent live… Read More The Technofunk Collective In Action
C-Thru Music has posted this teaser image of its AXiS-49 USB Music Interface. Here’s what they have to say about the alternative keyboard controller: The AXiS-49 is a USB MIDI keyboard designed for home studio or tour bus use. We are at the prototyping stage. We hope to have the ’49 available late in 2008 or… Read More Will This Music Keyboard Be A Game-Changer?
AudioCubes in Dr. Faustus video shoot: We set up at the loft and shot this video. The final version will be posted as soon as it is edited. These are shots from just the two stationary cameras. The handycam footage has yet to be converted to an editable format. I’m working on it. The soundtrack… Read More Percussa AudioCubes at DIV (Divine Intervention) Video Sh
The Evolution Control Committee have invented a rear-projected infrared-activated faux-touchscreen mashup controller…hacked from the Nintendo Wiimote. It’s a bizarre McGyver – but you got to love the giant screen and the “insanely overloaded Ableton Live” running on it. According to the ECC, the Mashup Controller is “the secret sauce that makes The ECC’s Wheel Of Mashup live… Read More Giant Wiimote-Based Mashup-Controller For Ableton Live
