Eowave has announced the Eobody2 Live Sensor Controller Pack is now shipping. The kit offers an easy way to get into creating DIY MIDI sensor interfaces. Eobody2 Live Sensor Controller Pack includes: 1 Eobody2 USB8 SensorBox 2 x 18 mm pressure sensors 2 x 10 cm position sensors 1 x 20/80 cm distance sensor –… Read More Eobody2 Live Sensor Controller Pack
genoQs Machines has announced NEMO, a new MIDI sequencer based on technology from their Octopus sequencer. Features: Unique, high-end design Octopus technology at heart Portable format 16 concurrent tracks Intuitive, realtime everything Pricing is set at 1399 Euros, with availability in July. The site promises more details to come.
One of the most interesting introductions at NAMM this year wasn’t a synth or new control surface, but KRK’s ERGO – a digital room analysis and correction system. ERGO analyzes and compensates for bad room acoustics, which can negatively effect your mixes. The unit connects to a computer via Firewire when it is performing its… Read More An In Depth Look At ERGO Room Correction
Gainer is a DIY environment for user interfaces and media installations. It can be used to connect sensors or actuators with Max/MSP. The basic concepts are: The user can use it for creative work from prototype stage to final output stage. Using a breadboard allows the user to learn by mistake. The user can build… Read More The Gainer
Line 6 has introduced the JM-4 Looper pedal, designed for practicing, songwriting and performance The JM-4 Looper lets players layer guitar and bass tracks and, with the balanced XLR microphone input, even vocals, using sound-on-sound loop recording.Complete with an extensive collection of famous guitar sounds, JM-4 Looper gives players access to 250+ artist-created presets, 150+… Read More Line 6 JM-4 Looper Pedal
Dave Cornutt offers a nice overview of how a VCO works: Synth circuit designers, starting with Moog and Buchla in the early 1960s, long ago turned to “artificial” oscillator circuits that do not rely on natural resonance. Rather, they rely on an analog implementation of a mathematical function that can be made to increase and… Read More How A VCO works
At the 2008 Winter NAMM Show, Analog Suicide‘s Tara Busch talked to Peter Grenader and got the latest scoop on the Plan B modular synthesizer.
I’ve kind of got a thing for cheap guitar effects – they usually sound pretty awesome on synths and cost almost nothing because guitarists buy them by the score. Waves Audio’s iGTR Personal Guitar Processor puts the GTR family’s guitar amp and effects sounds into a snack-sized device. It offers a variety of Virtual Amps,… Read More Waves iGTR Personal Guitar Processor
At the Winter NAMM Show, Line 6 introduced the ToneCore DSP Developer Kit, a programmable stomp box effects development platform that lets anyone with a PC and an interest in Digital Signal Processing become a hardware effects developer and distributor. For the first time, anyone with an interest in DSP software development can write, develop,… Read More Line 6 ToneCore Developer Kit Lets You Create Effect Pedals
2008 Winter NAMM Show Update: BOSS announced the GT-10 Guitar Effects Processor. According to Boss, the GT-10’s DSP engine provides a more natural and musical response. It also offers Phrase Loop,and Parallel Effects Chain, while new USB audio/MIDI capabilities add flexibility. The GT-10 also offers the COSM technology found in many BOSS and Roland products,… Read More BOSS GT-10 Guitar Effects Processor
