At the 2015 Summer NAMM Show, Casio introduced a new flagship Privia digital piano line, PX-560, which not only is a capable digital piano, but also features interesting synthesis capabilities. We talked with Casio’s Richard Formidoni and, in the video above, he gives an overview of the new PX-560 and demos its touchscreen synth patch editing.
Developer Jonatan Liljedahl has updated Sector – a beat-sequencing app for iOS – to version 1.1. Here’s what’s new in Sector v1.1: MIDI Control to trigger sectors or switch between memory slots MIDI Clock Slave mode Listen to MIDI Machine Control start/stop messages New special silent WRP shape to mute sectors or add rests Design… Read More Sector Updated With MIDI Control & More
At the 2015 Summer NAMM Show, Casio introduced two new models in its Privia digital piano line – the Privia PX-360M and PX-560M. The Privia PX-360M and PX-560M both feature: A 5.3” Color Touch Interface. Casio’s AiR Sound Source An 88 note Tri-sensor Scaled Hammer Action keyboard Compact design for portability
Jean-Michel Jarre has released a sneak preview of his collaboration with fellow synth pioneer Vince Clarke, Automatic.
apeSoft has released iPulsaret 2.0, a major update to its real-time granular synthesizer for iOS. Here’s a preview of what’s new in version 2.0:
This video, via sonicstate, takes a look at the Analog Engine section of the new Roland JD-XA synthesizer, the company’s new flagship hybrid analog + digital synth. featuring both a SuperNatural digital engine and 4 analog voices:
At the 2015 Summer NAMM Show, Roland was previewing their new System 500 Eurorack synth modules. The Roland System-500 is a new, fully-analog Eurorack modular synthesizer line, based on the SYSTEM-700 and SYSTEM-100m.
At the 2015 Summer NAMM Show, BOSS introduced the DD-500 Digital Delay, a new effects pedal that they call the most powerful digital delay pedal ever made.
At the 2015 NAMM Show, Electro-Harmonix debuted the 22500 Dual Stereo Looper. The 22500 records high quality, non-compressed audio direct to a removable SDHC card (4 to 32 GB). Each card holds up to 100 individual loops. Includes an 8 GB card for up to 13 hours of total recording time.
Developer Mayank Sanganeria has released bent.fm – a full FM model of a circuit-bent synthesizer. bent.fm allows the user to tweak classic circuit bending modifications like fine and octave-decimated clock bends, and experiment with more esoteric bends. Sanganeria says that bent.fm is ‘for anyone interested in circuit bending, glitch sounds, industrial music, and post-procedural art.’
