Waves Intros Codex Wavetable Synth For Mac, Windows

Waves today introduced Codex, a new wavetable synthesizer instrument for Mac & Windows. Waves Codex is a polyphonic synthesizer, based on a granular wavetable engine. According to Waves, Codex is designed to ‘create sounds that range from warm acoustic and analog emulations to completely new, never-before-heard intricate and evolving textures’. Here’s the official video intro:

The Cortex Rap

NAMM demo vet James Bernard was showing off the latest Cortex dj gear when a man came up and started freestyling the Cortex rap. If you can identify the rapper – let me know in the comments!

Freestyling at Winter NAMM

.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……

Cortex HDC-1000 Digital Music Controller

Cortex will begin shipping the HDC-1000, a patent-pending USB host-controller digital music manipulation platform, to musical instrument retailers September 15, 2006. “With the rise of portable media players and mass storage devices being a source for storing and playing music Cortex developed the HDC-1000 to utilize this technology and bring it to the DJ realm,”… Read More Cortex HDC-1000 Digital Music Controller