Category: Electronic Instruments

V-Accordion Update Offers Extended Looper Functionality, Updated Orchestral Options

Roland has announced a major system update for the FR-8x, the flagship of their V-Accordion lineup. FR-8x Version 2.0 software adds new drum and orchestral parameters, increased control of audio files, extended looper functionality, updated Orchestra Chord voicing capabilities and more. The V-Accordion line is an electronic instrument that brings combines features familiar to keyboardists, like… Read More V-Accordion Update Offers Extended Looper Functionality, Updated Orchestral Options

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Inside Therevox Custom Musical Instruments

Reader Stephen Young created this short film, Therevox – Wood & Wires, which takes a look inside the workshop of Therevox Custom Musical Instruments. Since 2004, Mike Beauchamp’s Therevox has made instruments in the tradition of Paul Tanner’s Electro-Theremin and the Ondes Martenot. Their ET-4 line is controlled by moving a finger along a reference keyboard, shaped to… Read More Inside Therevox Custom Musical Instruments

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Weather For The Blind

Sunday Synth Jam: Quintronics’ Weather for the Blind is a live streaming site of a musical instrument which is ‘played’ by the weather. The project combines ambient music, sonification and analog synthesis. 

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