Misa Digital recently introduced the NSC-32 Note Sequence Controller (NCS), ‘a new type of electronic musical instrument’ designed to let you manipulate and cue electronic music sequences live. Now they’ve shared a series of videos that takes an in-depth look at what the NCS-32 can do and offers a comprehensive guide to using the new Note… Read More A Video Guide To The Misa NSC-32 Note Sequence Controller
Could AKAI be bringing back the AX analog synthesizer? On AKAI’s Facebook page, they shared a user demo of the AKAI AX73 6-voice analog synthesizer, with this note:
Jeff Snyder of Snyderphonics, developer of the Manta controller, shared this video preview of the upcoming Birl electronic wind instrument. In the video, Pedro Eustache tries out the Snyderphonics Birl electronic wind instrument prototype. The first part of the video shows him testing out more discrete playing and the ending shows him trying out fingered pitch bends, one… Read More The Snyderphonics Birl Electronic Wind Instrument (Sneak Preview)
2016 NAMM Show: French startup Expressive E will be introducing Touché, described as an ‘innovative controller with unmatched sensitivity’, at the Winter NAMM Show. Today, they shared this teaser video for the Touché, which features EMS founder Peter Zinovieff sharing his impressions of the new controller and sharing his thoughts on why new types of electronic… Read More EMS Founder Peter Zinovieff On The New Expressive E Touché Controller
Herr Schneider, owner of SchneidersBuero in Berlin, shared this set of videos, which feature Bob Williams and Steve Gay of UK synth manufacturer Analogue Systems.
Electro-Harmonix has introduced a pair of new ‘Lester‘ effects pedals, that they describe as ‘The Ultimate Rotary Speaker Emulator’: The Lester G was designed with guitarists in mind, and includes a dedicated compressor that maximizes the rotary speaker effect on guitar; and The Lester K is tailored to the needs of keyboardists looking for Leslie-style rotary speaker effects.… Read More Electro-Harmonix Lester ‘The Ultimate Rotary Speaker Emulator’
We’re wrapping up our look back at Best of 2015 poll results with a look at the best new synth modules of 2015. For the modular synth category, we let readers nominate the best new synths modules of the year and then vote on them. It’s clear that readers were impressed with the Mutable Instruments line, voting the… Read More The 10 Best New Synth Modules Of 2015
UK-based Mogees shared a new preview video for their Mogees Vibration Sensor kit, which lets you use just about anything as a musical instrument. Mogees works by combining a vibration sensor with music software that translates the vibrations of objects into expressive synthesized sound. It also can be used to generate MIDI, letting you turn just about anything… Read More Mogees Vibration Sensor Lets You Use Anything As A Musical Instrument
This pair of videos, via Perfect Circuit Audio, demonstrates the factory patches of the new Modal Electronics Modulus 002. Modal describes the Modulus 002 as ‘the first analogue/digital hybrid polysynth to have been designed, developed, and manufactured in the UK for four decades’.
This video, via GEOSynths, explores using the Strymon DIG Dual Digital Delay with synthesizers.
