Advanced MIDI controller creator ROLI today announced two new products for mobile music-makers. The Equator for iPhone app ports the company’s Equator software synthesiser to the latest iPhone, using the Apple device’s 3D Touch capabilities. One of the first music apps on Apple’s App Store to take advantage of the iOS 9 interface update’s 3D… Read More Roli Debuts 3-D Touch Equator Synth for iPhone, Flip Case for RISE
Sunday Synth Jam: This video captures a performance by Kaitlyn Smith on a Make Noise modular system, controlled with a Buchla LEM218 keyboard.
Titan Reality has introduced the Pulse 3D music controller – a new gestural music controller. Pulse is a high-speed 3D controller and an ‘intelligent space and surface’ to interact with. It can also recognize hand gestures and objects to give you a more realistic and creative way of controlling sound. Here is the official video intro:
Critter & Guitari shared some updated information on their new Organelle synthesizer. The Organelle offers a similar interface to some of Critter & Guitari’s other instruments, but it features a powerful sound engine that runs Pure Data patches.
The Kickstarter project to fund production of the Arpeggio portable arpeggiator, sequencer & synth has reached its $85,000 funding target, with several days to go.
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.
This video, via AkaiProVideo, is their official intro for the new Akai MPC Touch ‘music production controller’.
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
Reactable Systems has introduced Reactable Live! S6, the latest version of their tangible music control system. Here’s the official video intro:
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.
