M-Audio introduced a new series of USB MIDI keyboard controllers at the 2009 NAMM Show. The Axiom Pro family builds on M-Audio’s line of USB MIDI keyboards, but is designed provide musicians with a more responsive playing experience as well as deeper tactile control to mimic the feel of playing a real piano. Available in… Read More NAMM Show: M-Audio Axiom Pro Control Keyboards
http://www.youtube.com/view_play_list?p=2CF2E6E14119E22E 2009 NAMM Show update: The Roland C-30 is a digital harpsichord with authentic sound and feel, but with features only possible in a digital instrument. We had a chance to check out the C-30 at NAMM. While it’s clearly a digital instrument, it does a great job of packaging it up in a form… Read More Roland C-30 Digital Harpsichord
http://www.youtube.com/view_play_list?p=C89F4850E6A1D495 The above videos offer Roland’s official introduction to their new V-Piano. The Roland V-Piano lets you play a variety of preset keyboards, but also lets you edit details like Unison Tune, Hammer Hardness, Cross Resonance, Tone Color, String Resonance, Damper Resonance, Soundboard Resonance, Key off resonance, Damping Time and Damping Noise Level. Features: Revolutionary… Read More The Roland V-Piano
In this video, via GearWire, Josh from Bigcitymusic.com talks about the three upcoming Metasonix Eurorack synth modules: The R-51 — voiced for analog synth mangling — allows you to add mild tube warmth or take it to the next level (BAM!) and get all Metasonix-y (i.e. sounding like bathroom humor). The R-52 is a multimode filter… Read More Metasonix New Eurorack Synth Modules
This is a demo of the new Metasonix KV-100 AssBlaster vacuum tube processor that was shown at the Big City Music booth at the 2009 NAMM Show.The video captures a drum pattern from the Jomox XBase999 analog drum machine getting mangled. The KV-100 contains the basic preamp stage of the discontinued Metasonix TM-7 Scrotum Smasher,… Read More NAMM 2009: The Metasonix KV-100 AssBlaster
At the 2009 NAMM Show, Vir2 introduced Mojo a horn virtual instrument. Inspired by legendary groups like Tower of Power and the big bands of decades past, MOJO is designed for emulating everything from a sultry sax solo to a screaming full big band. More than a dozen articulations are instantly loaded and intelligently handled… Read More Winter NAMM Update: Mojo Horns
At the 2009 NAMM Show, Eastwest/Quantum Leap introduced Quantum Leap SILK – a virtual (software) instrument that features a collection of historic and unique string and woodwind instruments from China, Persia and India. I was able to check SILK out at NAMM, and it’s an awesome-sounding sound library that’s likely to see a lot of work on… Read More Quantum Leap Silk Virtual Instrument
2009 NAMM Show: Redmatica previewed its “next generation” sampling applications, Compendium Pro Bundle 2. The new set of applications include Keymap Pro 2, AutoSampler 2 and ProManager 3 and offers both evolutionary and revolutionary features, building over the foundation of Keymap 1.5, AutoSampler and ExsManager 2. “‘Revolutionary Evolution’ was the concept behind the entire development… Read More Redmatica Sampling Suite
At the 2009 NAMM Show, CME and WaveIdea announced NeoSynth24, a new audio/MIDI expander available as an expansion board for CME keyboards (UF and VX series). NeoSynth24 features onboard DSP for up to 124 voices of polyphony, a built-in effects engine, two sets of analog outputs as well as headphones and S/PDIF output. The unit… Read More The Neosynth24 Expansion Board
At the 2009 NAMM Show, Arturia introduced Brass 2, featuring virtual recreations of three wind instruments – a trumpet, a saxophone and a trombone. The characteristics of the real instruments have been analysed and modelled by Ircam Paris using mathematical algorithms. Here’s what’s new in Brass version 2.0: New physical modelling of the saxophone Two… Read More Arturia Brass 2.0
