Winter NAMM Show: Roland introduced the MV-8800 Production Studio. Don’t mistake it for a Music Production Center – it’s an MPS. The MV-8800 is a fully equipped sampler and synthesizer with parameters that can be edited and automated with the assignable sliders and/or with an optional VGA monitor and mouse. It’s also an advanced multitrack… Read More MV-8800 Looks Vaguely Familiar
One of the coolest things we saw at the NAMM Show this year was a new MIDI controller introduced by C-Thru Music, the bizarre AXiS-64 MIDI controller. Designer Peter Davies threw out preconceptions of what a music keyboard should be and designed a layout based on the Harmonic Table. According to C-Thru Musiic, the arrangement… Read More Video: Hands On With The New Axis MIDI Controller
The Red Hot Chile Peppers’ latest CD, Stadium Arcadium, features interesting use of modular synthesizer by John Frusciante, who relied heavily on his 40-year-old modular synthesizer to tweak his guitar parts. “When you listen to Dani California, the guitars are always changing, and there’s all these effects going on, created with the modular synthesizer after… Read More Chile Peppers Guitarist Using Modular Synthesizer, Moog Gear To Get New Sounds
Organizers have announced plans for Analogue Heaven Midwest, a synth get-together planned for Saturday, March 24th in Lagrange, IN. All synth geek gearheads are encouraged to come and spend some time with awesome gear and great people. It should be a great opportunity to meet other like-minded synth fans. It’s unlikely that anyone attending will… Read More Analogue Heaven Midwest 2007 Announced
2007 Winter NAMM Show: Behringer unveils, at the NAMM Show 2007, METALIEN iAXE629-MA USB GUITAR – a hard rocking guitar with integrated USB port as a follow up to the success of its predecessor, iAXE393 USB GUITAR. METALIEN iAXE629-MA USB GUITAR plugs straight into your PC or Mac computer without the need for any other… Read More Behringer Introduces The Metalien iAXE629-MA USB Guitar
2007 Winter NAMM Show: Open Labs announced the Gen 3 series of MiKo Mobile ProductionCenter products, with powerful upgrades to the MiKo SE and MiKo LX. Open Labs had these on display at the NAMM show, and a little hands-on time revealed that they were more than the sum of their parts. The MiKo is… Read More NAMM: Open Labs Intros Gen 3 MiKo Mobile Production Centers
2007 Winter NAMM Show: JazzMutant introduce its next major update for the Lemur Multitouch Control Surface. The JazzMutant Lemur, described as the most advanced and innovative controller created for musicians, sound designers, composers, audio engineers and media artists, now is taking things to the next level of control. After taking the turn to complete workflow… Read More JazzMutant Announces Lemur Multitouch Control Surface Version 1.6
2007 Winter NAMM Show: Responding to the massive popularity of the Little Phatty Tribute Edition, Moog Music has introduced The Little Phatty Stage Edition. The new synth has the same features and sound engine as the original limited edition Little Phatty designed by Bob Moog, and also boasts improved software and a unique auto-calibration feature.… Read More Moog Intros Little Phatty Stage Edition
NAMM Show Update: Today Ueberschall announced the availability of their 7th Liquid Instrument, Ueberschall Liquid Trumpet. With Liquid Trumpet now it is possible to add some amazing trumpet licks, themes and solos to any music production. All trumpet themes are professionally played with various grooves and flavours, a variety of styles and trumpets (basic, mute… Read More Ueberschall Intros Liquid Trumpet
Applied Acoustics Systems has announced that their Professional and Session Series instruments are now available on Mac OS X as Universal Binaries and as RTAS plug-ins on both Mac OS X and Windows. This Technology Update also includes a handful of new features and several bug fixes. The Technology Update applies to the Professional and… Read More Applied Acoustics Systems Releases Universal Binary Update
