NAMM Winter Show: Akai Professional introduced a new tool for creating beats on-the-go – the XR20 Beat Production Station. The XR20 is a portable beat production station loaded with a sound set that is geared towards making Hip-Hop and R&B beats wherever and whenever inspiration strikes. More than 700 pre-loaded sounds cover a range of… Read More Akai Intros XR20 Beat Production Station
You may remember Peter Bennett and his steampunk music sequencer. Here’s a series of videos from Bennett feature other interesting new interfaces for music. The Virtual Drum A haptic force feedback device that simulates the feel of a drum, designed as part of Bennett’s MEng in Cybernetics at the University of Reading. The switch held… Read More New Music Interfaces
PhD student and cybernetics guru Peter Bennet has created a new tangible interface, Beat Bearing, which is a sort of steampunk-style music sequencer. Creatively, Bennet uses ball bearings on washer as a way of completing a circuit to make a switch. Sequences are created by moving ball bearings from the tray to one of the… Read More Steampunk Music Sequencer
We’re looking forward to checking out Roger Linn & Dave Smith’s LinnDrum II (formerly the BoomChik) at the upcoming 2007 NAMM Show. Here’s what Dave Smith has said about it: Many of you have been anxiously awaiting news of BoomChik, the collaboration between Dave and Roger Linn announced at Winter NAMM 2007. As information becomes… Read More NAMM Preview: Roger Linn & Dave Smith’s LinnDrum II
Check out the Drum Buddy, an awesome electroacoustic drum machine: [display_podcast] Only 10 Drum Buddies were made – all in New Orleans, Louisiana – and the one for sale (in the photo above) is serial #1. It is also the instrument which was originally intended to belong to Quintron. He has decided to let this… Read More Awesome Electroacoustic Drum Machine
Sinevibes has released MPC Recharger, a collection of sounds for professional rhythm composition with Akai MPC-500, MPC-1000 and MPC-2500 samplers. Description: Aimed at those who seek something different than samples of old vinyl and vintage drum machines, MPC Recharger has been created totally from the ground up, delivering fresh and never-heard-before sounds. This library brings… Read More Recharge Your MPC-500/1000/2500
Synesthesia Corporation has launched a new website for the Mandala 2.0 High-Def Drum & Synthesizer and announced that it is now taking orders for the new product. Mandala 2.0 is the new version of Synesthesia’s high-def drum and synthesizer, co-developed with professional drummer Danny Carey of the progressive rock band Tool. The company announced the… Read More Mandala 2.0 A “Synthesizer With Drumsticks”
Synesthesia‘s Mandala 2.0, a high-def virtual drum and synthesizer, looks pretty awesome. It’s a USB-based drum controller & a new type of synth, too. Here’s a video that shows off the Mandala in action: [myspace]http://vids.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=vids.individual&videoid=10586143[/myspace]
Tyler Freeman, aka odbol, liked drumming on his pants so much that he added MIDI triggers, hooked his a** up to a computer and created Drumpants. DrumPants are a set of pants that enable the wearer to produce drum sounds by hitting various parts of the pants with his hands. The wearer thusly becomes a… Read More Drumpants Turn Your Pants Into MIDI Instrument
Roger Linn Designs has released the AdrenaLinn III, the successor to Linn’s Adrenalinn II, which featured guitar effects beat-synced to an on-board drum machine. Adrenalinn II owners can buy an upgrade kit to take their machine to III status. “AdrenaLinn III provides a guitar modeler, plus a wide variety of unique modulation and delay effects,”… Read More Roger Linn Intros AdrenaLinn III Effects Box
