Roland has released an update to the MX-1 performance mixer, adding Ableton Live integration and more. Roland’s unveiled the new AIRA MX-1 Ableton Live mode at ADE 2015, with an exclusive performance from KiNK. In the video, above, KiNK launches Ableton Live clips and scenes from the MX-1, as well as controls effect sends and recording automation.
Today IK Multimedia announced their new dual-channel mobile audio and MIDI interface, iRig Pro Duo. Designed for use with an iPhone/iPad, Mac/PC and Android devices, the fully-featured interface “enables musicians to create music with studio-quality audio and a whole suite of features” in or out of the studio.
TZM Creative Lab has launched a crowdfunding project to fund the production of the Motus – an inexpensive ‘spatial wireless instrument’ that translates gestures into sound. There’s a long history of gestural controllers in electronic music, notably the Buchla Lightning. The Motus is designed around current electronic technologies, though, which allows it to be very… Read More Motus Spatial Wireless Instrument Turns Gestures Into Sound
Livid Instruments has announced Builder Boxes, a series of Do-It-Yourself kits that include everything needed to build a MIDI controller. Kits include a “Button Box” MIDI controller equipped with sixteen buttons, along with a “Fader Box” controller outfitted with eight sliders.
ROLI, the maker of the Seaboard Grand and Rise expressive MIDI controllers, has announced the acquisition of Blend, a music collaboration platform. This announcement follows on Roli’s acquisition of JUCE, a C++ framework for cross-platform audio development. The hardware innovator is framing these acquisitions of software and social platforms as “extending its areas of expertise”… Read More ROLI Acquires Blend Social Collaboration Platform
Pioneer has introduced RMX-1000 for iPad – a tactile app that lets you add high-quality FX via Audiobus and Inter-App Audio. Originally launched in 2012, the hardware RMX-1000 is a popular effector that can be used in the studio and for DJ performances. The RMX-1000 app emulates the hardware to deliver touchscreen control of Scene FX, Isolate FX, X-PAD FX and… Read More Pioneer Turns $799 RMX-1000 Into An iPad App
Reactable Systems has introduced Reactable Live! S6, the latest version of their tangible music control system. Here’s the official video intro:
Developers Tempo Rubato, who handled the porting of Arturia SEM V to iOS, shared this sneak preview of iSEM running as an Audio Unit in GarageBand on an iPad Pro.
Bitwig has released Bitwig Studio 1.3 – the latest version of its music production software for Windows, Mac and Linux. The latest version of Bitwig Studio features multi-touch, tablet display profile, gestures, pen control, and more cowbell.
Symbolic Sound shared this video demo Kyma 7’s support for the Roger Linn Design LinnStrument, using Multidimensional Polyphonic Expression (MPE) – a way of communicating expressive performance information over MIDI.
