S&TG discusses how he wasn’t a fan of entering notes using the Circuit’s grid format, but he’s nevertheless made it an important part of his mobile rig, because of its immediacy for MIDI recording and looping. … Read More Using Novation Circuit As A Hardware MIDI Looper
This video captures a hypnotic ambient performance, featuring the Yamaha Reface CP & Mutable Instruments Rings.… Read More Yamaha Reface CP vs Mutable instruments Rings Ambient Jam Session
At Superbooth 17, we talked with Yuji Yamada, who was showing his ‘Reface Robot’ – a robotic synth-tweaking machine that can change all the parameters on a Yamaha Reface synth at the same time.… Read More ‘Reface Robot’ Tweaks All The Synth Parameters At The Same Time
Two new controller apps offer new ways to work with the Yamaha Music USA Reface DX synthesizer:… Read More Confusion Studios Announces MDDX 1 and 2: MIDI controllers for Yamaha Reface DX
2016 NAMM Show: At the NAMM Show, Yamaha announced some updates to Soundmondo, its social media site for synth patch sharing. Soundmondo lets you connect your synth to the Internet, via Web MIDI, for patch sharing and more. Yamaha’s Nate Tschetter gave us an update on Soundmondo:
At the 2016 NAMM Show, Yamaha introduced a keytar attachment for the company’s line of Reface mobile mini keyboards. The combination of the keytar attachment and the Reface’s support for battery power means that users have the same freedom to move around as guitarist and bassists. Yamaha’s Nate Tschetter gave us a quick overview of the new Reface… Read More Yamaha Intros Reface Keytar Adapter
75 Custom Presets for the Yamaha Reface CS offers – you guessed it – a collection of 75 new patches for the Reface CS synthesizer.
Yamaha has launched Soundmondo – a new website for Yamaha keyboard owners to share and find synth patches. Initially, Soundmondo supports the recently introduced Yamaha Reface line of mini keyboards. ‘Soundmondo is social sound-sharing for synthesizers,’ says Nate Tschetter, marketing manager, Music Production, Yamaha Corporation of America. ‘Back in the day, synthesizers had patch sheets where… Read More Yamaha Debuts Soundmondo, A ‘Social Sound-Sharing’ Site For Synths
2015 has been an amazing year for synth introductions – with major new synth lines from Roland, Yamaha and Korg; new modular synths, both big and small, from Moog and others; a new Prophet from Dave Smith Instruments; innovative new synths from smaller companies and hundreds of new synth modules. Here are the 10 most interesting… Read More The 10 Most Interesting Synth Introductions Of 2015
The latest in Markus Fuller’s series of teardown videos takes a look at the inside of a Yamaha Reface DX:
