2009 Winter NAMM Show: Korg made it NAMM debut of the microKORG XL – an analog-modeling mini-synth with a vocoder (MKXL). The microKORG XL offers eight-voice polyphony, a 16-band vocoder, on-the-fly parameter editing and USB MIDI connectivity. The Korg microKorg is tough to get excited about. It’s got a U.S. MSRP of $750.00, which is pretty steep for a mini… Read More NAMM Update: The Korg microKorg XL
We’ve been posting a lot lately – here’s a quick digest of the top posts from the last week, in case you missed them: NAMM Preview: Native Instruments Maschine Posted on Wednesday, January 14th, 2009 in DJ – Comments: (8) via monofonicos: Native Instruments will be introducing Maschine – a next generation groove production studio… Read More Popular Posts On Synthtopia From 12th January – 18th January
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At the 2009 Winter NAMM Show, Numark announced Stealth Control, a new professional DJ controller that comes with Native Instruments Traktor LE and MixMeister Fusion Live software. Stealth Control is based on Numark’s other popular control surfaces, such as Total Control and OMNI CONTROL. Its layout mirrors traditional “two decks and a mixer” setups, and it’s housed… Read More Numark Stealth Control DJ Software Controller
See these shipping boxes packed 20 feet high? They are for all the gear that’s on display at the 2009 Winter NAMM Show. Synthtopia is on site to bring you the latest news about electronic music software and gear. Here are some of the highlights of what we saw on day 2 of the NAMM Show: Access updated… Read More 2009 Winter NAMM Show Report: Day 2
At the 2009 Winter NAMM Show, Cycling ‘74 and Ableton announced Max for Live – a tool that lets you create and edit new features for Ableton Live. Max For Live devices look a lot like any other device in Live (right) – except that they have an edit button. Cycling ’74 founder David Zicarelli offers his perspective on Max For… Read More On Integrating Max & Ableton Live
2009 Winter NAMM Show: Cycling ’74 and Ableton have announced Max for Live – an alt/electronica synthgasm. Max for Live permits users to create devices that extend and customize Live by creating instruments, controllers, audio effects, and MIDI processors. In other words – it lets you make up bizarro electronic music stuff and put it… Read More Max For Live
2009 NAMM Show Update: Focusrite introduced its first collection of VST/AU plug-ins, the awesomely titled Focusrite Plug-in Suite. The Focusrite Plug-in Suite offers a high-end collection of EQ, compression, reverb and gating VST/AU plug-ins for tracking and mixing: The Compressor and Gate have been modeled on Focusrite’s hardware devices, using the measurement of Focusrite’s custom optos… Read More Focusrite Plug-in Suite
2009 WInter NAMM Show: Roland introduced the AX-Synth – a new keytar that may make you look like a mouthbreather, but at least offers a great range of real-time controls and a built in synth engine. The AX-Synth is self-contained, offering a built-in synth engine, and comes loaded with solo-oriented sounds from Roland’s current generation… Read More NAMM: Roland Brings Back The Keytar
2009 NAMM Show: Ableton today introduced the latest version of Live – Ableton Live 8. Based on our very preliminary first impressions – Version 8 looks like it will be a solid evolutionary upgrade of the popular sequencing app. Cool new features include a looper, new effects (including a vocoder) and a more powerful Operator… Read More Ableton Live 8 First Look
