At the 2014 NAMM Show, we had the chance to talk with writer Mark Vail, who has written extensively for Keyboard magazine and is the author of two books found in a lot of keyboardists’ libraries, Vintage Synthesizers & The Hammond Organ: Beauty in the B. Vail was carrying a proof copy of his latest book, The… Read More Mark Vail – The Synthesizer
The Bob Moog Foundation announced today, at the 2014 NAMM Show, significant additions to the Asheville-based foundation’s archives, Michelle Moog-Koussa, executive director of the Bob Moog Foundation (BMF) and Bob Moog’s daughter, announced the additions, including: over 1,000 schematic drawings from 1965 to 1985; several rare prototypes, including: a Moog Apollo synthesizer (the Apollo became the prototype… Read More The Bob Moog Foundation Expands Its Archive
2014 NAMM Show – Elektron has officially introduced Analog Rytm, described as a ‘one stop solution beat machine’. Key Features: 8 drum voices, each with: Specialized analog percussion sound generator. Sample playback. Analog multimode filter. Analog distortion. 12 velocity & pressure sensitive pads Analog master compressor & distortion Reverb & Delay send FX World class Elektron… Read More The Analog Rytm Coming Q1 2014 For $1549
2014 NAMM Show: Bitwig has announced that Bitwig Studio, long in beta, will launch on March 26th, 2014. The cross platform DAW (Windows, Mac OS X, Linux) is created by some of the original developers of Ableton Live. It offers deep multi-core and multi-processor support, built-in 32/64-bit bridging, plugin-crash-protection, multi-display support, the ability to open multiple projects… Read More Bitwig Studio Launches March 26, Priced At $399
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The latest episode of the SoundWorks Collection video series takes a look at the sound of The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug.
Expert Sleepers has introduced three new modules: The ES-40 SPDIF Interface (£94.80) converts a standard S/PDIF input to five channels of expansion headers, which are used in conjunction with the Expert Sleepers ESX range of expanders. The ESX-8CV CV Expander (£130.80) is an expansion module for the ES-4, ES-40 or ES-5, adding eight CV outputs from one expansion header.… Read More Expert Sleepers Intros Three New Modules: ES-40, ESX-8CV & ESX-8GT mk2
Valhalla DSP has announced that they will be releasing The Halls of Valhalla – a hardware reverb cartridge for the Tiptop Audio Z-DSP cartridge:
The 2014 NAMM Show kicks off next week – and you know what that means: tons of new gear, some vaporware, booth babes, NAMM weirdness and ‘game changers’. The NAMM Show is where many companies make their biggest gear and software announcements of the year. We’ll be on site in Anaheim, CA next week bringing… Read More Open Mic: What Do You Want To See Introduced At This Year’s NAMM Show?
In case you were wondering what DJ/producer Sasha thinks about EDM, he shared his thoughts on it via Twitter:
