NAMM Leak: It looks like Casio will be announcing a return to the professional synthesizer market at the 2012 NAMM Show. Reader aymat sent us this image of the Casio XW-P1 Performance Synthesizer. No official specs are available yet on the Casio XW-P1 synth, and the QR code links to a placeholder site. Casio made… Read More NAMM Leak – The Casio XW-P1 Performance Synthesizer
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Big City Music has just listed a new vintage synth for sale, which could be yours – if you’ve got an extra $25,000 lying around. The PPG is unusually rare – it’s thought that only two were ever made. Here’s what Vintage Synth has to say about the PPG Realizer: The Realizer was very unique… Read More Got An Extra $25,000? Then This PPG Realizer Could Be Yours!
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Free Music Software: Konkreet Labs has released Oblique – a Max for Live synthesizer which is completely mapped to Konkreet Performer. As a regular synthesizer, it receives MIDI notes from any MIDI device. Unlike regular synthesizers, though, the timbre of the sound is controlled by OSC messages coming from the abstract interface of Performer. The main idea behind… Read More Free Max For Live Synth, Oblique, For Konkreet Performer
Producers of the modular synthesizer documentary I Dream Of WIres have released this in-depth interview with synthesist Richard Lainhart, who died Dec 30th, 2011. Lainhart sat down with director Robert Fantinatto last summer to discuss electronic music, modular synthesizers and his approach to making music. The documentary is currently in production, but the filmmakers posted Lainhart’s… Read More Remembering Richard Lainhart
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Moog Music has officially unleashed the new synth we previewed yesterday – the Minitaur analog bassline synthesizer. Minitaur is a compact analog bass synthesizer that features a classic “one knob per function” layout. It is the first instrument in the Taurus family that does not have foot pedals. Here’s what Moog has to say about the… Read More Moog Minitaur Analog Bass Synthesizer – Official Specs, Pricing & Demo Videos
Robert Henke has announced a new Monolake album, Ghosts, scheduled for release in Feb 2012: During the entire year 2011 I composed a lot of sketches, mainly rhythmical tracks, but most of them I had to throw away at some point. Either I did not like specific elements in them or they did not fit… Read More New Music From Monolake – Ghosts
Off Topic: The Boombox Project is a short film, by Paul Stone, that looks at photographer Lyle Owerko and his ‘creative anthropologist’ appproach to documenting the history of the boombox. More info on The Boombox Project is available at Owerko’s site. via musicofsound
