Last year’s NY Moogfest was such a blast that Moog has announced plans to do it all again. This May 31st, BB King’s Bar and Grill in Times Square will again host Moogfest in the Big Apple. Renowned keyboardists and longstanding Moog users will gather to celebrate the Moog sound. This year’s lineup includes Edgar… Read More Moog Announces Moogfest 2
April 1st, 2005: Korean manufacture K-Tar has introduced the first ever 100-key USB-based MIDI controller, the K-Tar 100. The keyboard offers computer musicians a full octave of additional range over traditional keyboards. Because of the extended range of today’s soft-synths, many notes are beyond the range of most USB keyboards. Instead of wasting all of… Read More K-Tar Intros First 100-Key USB Controller
Korg has announced a promotion that offers customers an Extreme value. From January 1 until July 31, 2005, anyone who purchases a new 61, 76, or 88-key TRITON Extreme from an authorized U.S. dealer is eligible to receive the Korg Legacy Collection absolutely free. This offer presents savings of $625, as well as the opportunity… Read More KORG Offers Extreme Promotion
Open Labs announced the latest addition to its award-winning line of NeKo keyboard workstations at the 2005 Winter NAMM Show. The Open Labs NeKo GS workstation integrates the recently-announced mFusion,a breakthrough set of software technologies from Open Labs that allows users to control different musical keyboard devices and software packages through a single interface. A… Read More Open Labs Intros NEKO GS Keyboard Workstation
At the 2005 NAMM Show, Korg introduced a new platform for musical production, the OASYS Open Architecture Synthesis Studio. Designed to provide a unified musical production environment, OASYS seamlessly unites state-of-the-art synthesis, audio hard disk recording, MIDI sequencing, second generation KARMA functionality, a control surface, a CD burner and more under an intuitive interface, highlighted… Read More Korg Unveils OASYS Open Architecture Synthesis Studio
2005 NAMM Show: The Fusion 6HD/8HD Workstations from Alesis contain four synthesizers, an eight-channel hard disk recorder, built-in sampler, effects processor and expandable RAM possibilities, all in one package. Powered by a Coldfire processor surrounded by seven high-performance DSPs, the Fusion is the only synth workstation with integrated 8-channel 24-bit recording capability. Available in two… Read More Alesis Unveils Fusion Workstations
NAMM 2005: Roland has announced an upgrade to the V-Synth family with the release of Version 2 software. This user-installable system upgrade adds significant new features to the already-powerful V-Synth. V-Synth Version 2 has a completely new set of patches. The “V-Synth Producer Edition” is a collection of highly playable sounds from an acclaimed roster… Read More NAMM: Roland V-Synth V2
NAMM 2005: Alesis debuts Fusion Synth keyboard workstation. The Fusion has a newly developed synthesizer engine that employs a Coldfire processor surrounded by seven high-performance DSPs. This powerful processing core provides four synthesis types: Sample Playback, Analog Modeling, FM and Physical Modeling. Specifications: Tone Generator – Fusion Engine Synthesis – Sample Playback, Virtual Analog, FM,… Read More Alesis Fusion Debuts at Winter NAMM 2005
Clavia has released a demo version of the Nord Modular G2 demo software. According to Clavia, the demo only hints at the possibilities of the G2 itself: In our view, only hardware can offer rockstable and trouble free operation in a ‘single box solution’. In other words; real musical instruments that you just pick up… Read More Nord Introduces Modular G2 Demo
Dave Smith Instruments has announced the Evolver keyboard, a 4-voice synthesizer based on the Poly Evolver rack. The keyboard has 4 voices, each a complete Evolver identical to the mono Evolver and Poly Evolver rack. For additional polyphony, Poly Evolvers can be chained via poly MIDI output. The keyboard provides 512 Programs, 384 Combos, 78… Read More Evolver Polyphonic Analog/Digital Keyboard Announced
