Today IK Multimedia announced their new dual-channel mobile audio and MIDI interface, iRig Pro Duo. Designed for use with an iPhone/iPad, Mac/PC and Android devices, the fully-featured interface “enables musicians to create music with studio-quality audio and a whole suite of features” in or out of the studio.
TZM Creative Lab has launched a crowdfunding project to fund the production of the Motus – an inexpensive ‘spatial wireless instrument’ that translates gestures into sound. There’s a long history of gestural controllers in electronic music, notably the Buchla Lightning. The Motus is designed around current electronic technologies, though, which allows it to be very… Read More Motus Spatial Wireless Instrument Turns Gestures Into Sound
Livid Instruments has announced Builder Boxes, a series of Do-It-Yourself kits that include everything needed to build a MIDI controller. Kits include a “Button Box” MIDI controller equipped with sixteen buttons, along with a “Fader Box” controller outfitted with eight sliders.
ROLI, the maker of the Seaboard Grand and Rise expressive MIDI controllers, has announced the acquisition of Blend, a music collaboration platform. This announcement follows on Roli’s acquisition of JUCE, a C++ framework for cross-platform audio development. The hardware innovator is framing these acquisitions of software and social platforms as “extending its areas of expertise”… Read More ROLI Acquires Blend Social Collaboration Platform
This video, via KORGINC, captures an improvisational performance by Seth, featuring 16 Volca Keys synced together.
This video, via AskAudio Mag, captures an audio demo of the Moog Mother 32 synthesizer.
At 2015 Musikmesse, Modal Electronics introduced a new 3-octave synth, the duophonic, bi-timbral Modal 001 synthesizer. In this video, via sonicstate, synth guru Nick Batt explores the sonic capbilities of the Modal 001. Pricing and Availability The Modal 001 synthesizer has a suggested retail price of £1350 (EU €1,850, US $1,995). For product specifications and… Read More Modal Electronics 001 Synthesizer Audio Demos
Techné Media has released an updated version of Different Drummer – its drum machine iOS app. According to the company, Different drummer lets you create ‘repeating patterns, infinite patterns, simple patterns, complex patterns, straight rhythms, poly rhythms, human feel, robot feel, arpeggios, chord progressions, fills, sequences, dynamics and much more’. Here’s what’s new in Different… Read More Different Drummer Updated To Version 4.0
This video, via Chris Stack (experimentalsynth), captures an overview and performance demo by Bob Moog of the theremin.
Sunday Synth Jam: This video, via Paul Normand Lebel (A Box In The Sea) captures a multi-platform modular soundscape performance, Crystalline Plasma Radio Waves. Lebel’s performance combines hardware synths & samplers, modular synth and touch-based sample mangling.
