2009 Winter NAMM Show: DigiTech announced its new TimeBender delay pedal. The TimeBender delay features ten delay types including Digital, Analog, along with Fixed Head and Moving Head Tape delays along with a 20 second looper. The TimeBender lets you create custom repeat rhythms or patterns on the fly by simply strumming the guitar. Up… Read More NAMM News: Digitech Timebender Delay
2009 NAMM Show: MOTU introduced Volta, a virtual instrument plug-in that lets you play and automate modular synthesizers—or any hardware equipped with control voltage (CV) inputs—from your favorite host audio workstation software. Volta receives conventional virtual instrument input such as MIDI notes, MIDI controller data or even high-resolution audio track ramp automation and responds by… Read More MOTU Volta Lets You Control Analog Synths From Your Computer
At the 2009 Winter NAMM Show, AnalogSuicide‘s Tara Busch got the rundown on Plan B modular synthesizers from Plan B’s founder, Peter Grenader.
http://www.youtube.com/view_play_list?p=2CF2E6E14119E22E 2009 NAMM Show update: The Roland C-30 is a digital harpsichord with authentic sound and feel, but with features only possible in a digital instrument. We had a chance to check out the C-30 at NAMM. While it’s clearly a digital instrument, it does a great job of packaging it up in a form… Read More Roland C-30 Digital Harpsichord
http://www.youtube.com/view_play_list?p=C89F4850E6A1D495 The above videos offer Roland’s official introduction to their new V-Piano. The Roland V-Piano lets you play a variety of preset keyboards, but also lets you edit details like Unison Tune, Hammer Hardness, Cross Resonance, Tone Color, String Resonance, Damper Resonance, Soundboard Resonance, Key off resonance, Damping Time and Damping Noise Level. Features: Revolutionary… Read More The Roland V-Piano
Tara Busch talks with Moog Music’s Amos Gaynes about the Moog Etherwave Plus theremin at the 2009 NAMM Show.
In this video, via GearWire, Josh from Bigcitymusic.com talks about the three upcoming Metasonix Eurorack synth modules: The R-51 — voiced for analog synth mangling — allows you to add mild tube warmth or take it to the next level (BAM!) and get all Metasonix-y (i.e. sounding like bathroom humor). The R-52 is a multimode filter… Read More Metasonix New Eurorack Synth Modules
dkimcg shows how to use thousands of dollars of modular synth gear to make cool oscilloscope graphics. Here’s the details: Based on the math behind a Lissajous curve using a Cwejman stereo ringmod. You can patch a similar thing with the sine waves of a quadrature oscillator (offset 90 degrees), and 4 additional oscillators (self-oscillating resonant… Read More Using A Modular Synth To Make Cool Oscilloscope Graphics
This is a demo video for the Korg MS 10 Monophonic Synthesizer – sort of a second string classic in the world of vintage synths. This demo focuses on filter effects.
Trailer for the movie Telstar: Set against a backdrop of early 60’s London, TELSTAR is the story of the world’s first independent record producer, Joe Meek. A maverick genius who enjoyed phenomenal early success with TELSTAR – the biggest selling record of its time – before bad luck, depression, heartbreak and paranoia forced him into… Read More Telstar Movie Looks At Life Of Producer Joe Meek
