NAMM Show Update: EASTWEST expanded upon its Quantum Leap Colossus collection by introducing Quantum Leap Goliath. Designed for composers and songwriters, Quantum Leap Goliath is a complete collection of quality instruments and sounds, spanning various genres and musical styles). Quantum Leap Goliath encompasses the entire Colossus collection plus 8 Gigabytes of new content. With Goliath,… Read More EastWest Quantum Leap Goliath
.flickr-photo { } .flickr-yourcomment { } .flickr-frame { text-align: left; padding: 3px; } .flickr-caption { font-size: 0.8em; margin-top: 0px; } Image: Synthesizers This may look like an innocent rubber ducky, but it’s actually a bizarre MIDI drum trigger that we saw at NAMM.
A nice improvisation on modular synth, Tweaking Inertia, from Morbius.
.flickr-photo { } .flickr-yourcomment { } .flickr-frame { text-align: left; padding: 3px; } .flickr-caption { font-size: 0.8em; margin-top: 0px; } Image: Synthesizers We caught a freestyle rap that evolved out of a demo session by James Bernard at the Cortext booth. It’s impressive the number of things that you can rhyme “Cortex” with……
.flickr-photo { } .flickr-yourcomment { } .flickr-frame { text-align: left; padding: 3px; } .flickr-caption { font-size: 0.8em; margin-top: 0px; } Image: Synthesizers At the Winter NAMM show, a theremin fan (and a really nice guy) shows off the t-shirt his friend had made for him.
.flickr-photo { } .flickr-yourcomment { } .flickr-frame { text-align: left; padding: 3px; } .flickr-caption { font-size: 0.8em; margin-top: 0px; } Image: Synthesizers We had a chance to see Grandmaster Flash do his thing at the Winter NAMM Show. He was demonstrating his science at the Native Instruments booth. We’ll have some video of his performance… Read More Grandmaster Flash Demonstrates His Science
Image: Synthesizers We had a chance to see Tony Monaco again at NAMM, and like always, we were impressed by his incredible musicianship and his warmth. This is the way he greeted us – even though we’d only really talked to him in any depth once before at the Summer NAMM show in Indianapolis. What… Read More Tony Monaco Greets Us at NAMM
.flickr-photo { } .flickr-yourcomment { } .flickr-frame { text-align: left; padding: 3px; } .flickr-caption { font-size: 0.8em; margin-top: 0px; } Image: Synthesizers Tony Monaco demonstrated how he could gig and get a massive sound by using laptop beats as his rhythm section, the pedals for bass, one keyboad of the Hammond for chords with a… Read More Tony Monaco at NAMM
Tony Monaco at the 2008 Winter NAMM show. Man, can he play the Hammond B3.
Steinberg has announced the release of the Software Development Kit (SDK) for VST3, the latest generation of its VST platform. VST3 offers new capabilities to developers of host applications, audio plug-ins and virtual instruments. The SDK can be used under free license, and is available for download at the Steinberg website. “VST3 opens up new… Read More NAMM Show: Steinberg Updates Virtual Instrument Standard
