We’re on our way to 2012 NAMM Show in Anaheim, California. You can follow our coverage from our NAMM Show page. If you have news, you can submit it via the Feedback Form. If you’d like to meet with us at NAMM, let us know and we’ll set something up: Contact James: at 515-537-9941 via Twitter… Read More Synthtopia At The 2012 NAMM Show
Reader Mike Leghorn continues to make progress on his ambitious classitronica version of The Planets, by Gustav Holst. We’ve featured his takes on Mars, Mercury & Jupiter previously. You can preview Leghorn’s take on Venus, above. Check out his SoundCloud page for more.
Sunday Synth Jam: This video, via Kevin Schlei, captures three improvisations, by Seth Warren-Crow and Schlei, on tabla and tablet. Schlei is using TC-11 on an iPad. The three pieces were taken from an evening of performances exploring short-form improvisations.
2012 NAMM Show: Native Instruments has leaked out this ‘teaser’ image of a new MIDI controller, which we expect to be officially released next week. This looks surprisingly similar to speculation from a year ago for the NI Traktor Kontrol FX2 at the DJTechTools forum, right. The original Traktor Kontrol X1 offers control over Traktor’s looping,… Read More NAMM Leak – Traktor Kontrol X2
Reader Julian Pröll, senior designer for the industrial design company formquadrat gmbh, sent us word about a new design concept for a touch-sensitive guitar, right. The design, which explores the use of touch-sensitive plastics, combines multi-touch sensors with social media integration. The guitar offers three primary touch fields (neck, drum area and touch wheel). It… Read More Touch Sensitive Guitar Concept
Buzz is starting to heat up for the 2012 NAMM Show. We’ve already seen a few teasers and leaks, including: The Nektar Panorama Controller for Propellerhead Reason The Moon Modular 6005 module The Moog Minitaur analog bass synthesizer – which has been confirmed by Moog The Akai MPC Renaissance – a new Music Production Center… Read More NAMM Rumors (2012)
Robert Henke has announced a new Monolake album, Ghosts, scheduled for release in Feb 2012: During the entire year 2011 I composed a lot of sketches, mainly rhythmical tracks, but most of them I had to throw away at some point. Either I did not like specific elements in them or they did not fit… Read More New Music From Monolake – Ghosts
Off Topic: The Boombox Project is a short film, by Paul Stone, that looks at photographer Lyle Owerko and his ‘creative anthropologist’ appproach to documenting the history of the boombox. More info on The Boombox Project is available at Owerko’s site. via musicofsound
Developer Christian Bacaj has released Electronic Piano Synthesizer for iPhone. Here’s what Bacaj has to say about Electronic Piano Synthesizer: The EPS XS gives you possibilities you don´t have with any other Piano, EPiano or Synthesizer on the iPad. You can adjust the sound while you play on the keyboard and hear the changes immediately.… Read More Electronic Piano Synthesizer XS Now Available For iPhone
The latest SoundWorks profile looks at the sound and music of The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo. Featured are composers Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross, Sound Re-recording Mixer Michael Semanick, and Re-recording Mixer, Sound Designer, and Supervising Sound Editor Ren Klyce. The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo is a 2011 English-language drama/thriller film. It is… Read More The Sound & Music Of The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo
