Solid State Logic, the world’s leading manufacturer of professional digital and analogue consoles, is proud to announce the release of X-Patch at the 2010 Winter NAMM Convention, Booth 6907 at the Anaheim Convention Center from January 14th to 17th.
Akai Professional, the name synonymous with music production, announces the APC20 Ableton Performance Controller. Akai Pro will introduce the APC20 at the 2010 Winter NAMM Show in Anaheim, CA, booth 6400, January 14–17.
Great tip from one of our fans, Rumour has it that Akai will announce a smaller version of the APC40, the APC20. A few hours and we know for shure.
Digidesign will introduce and reveal the new Pro Tools Instrument Expansion Pack at this weeks NAMM. Thanks to the AIR Users blog we have the details for it.
Ultrasone announces the release of its latest special edition headphone – Edition 8 Palladium. Based off the design of the original Edition 8 headphone, these new special edition headphones incorporate lavish accoutrements to create the best sounding and most elegant pair of Ultrasone headphones to date.
EKS, creators of the world’s most innovative and fully configurable DJ controllers, is proud to announce the debut of their latest innovation – Otus RAW. Designed to work as a single or dual deck controller, EKS’ Otus RAW will contain many new features that were requested by professional DJs from around the world. Otus RAW is also designed to fully utilize the possibilities offered by today’s and tomorrow’s DJ software.
Infrasonic M49 is the ultimate tool for your sound creation with various controllers and easy operation. M49 freely maps eight knobs to popular DAWs and software instruments. The circled LED turns on with each tweak, giving you more of a distinguished sense of control.
E-MU® Systems has announced that its new E-MU LONGboard 61 and SHORTboard 49 keyboards are now shipping. These completely new instruments combine great feeling 61-note or 49-note MIDI controller keyboards with a 128-voice professional sample-based instrument with 32-bit effects and a world-class 64MB sound set.
Stanton’s much anticipated update to its SCS.3 Serato ScratchLive (SSL) preset is now available. The SCS.3 Serato ScratchLive V2 preset gives you unmatched control over SSL, no matter whether you own a single SCS.3d or the whole SCS.3 system.
The Looperlative LP2 is a new mini looper who will make his debute on the Winternamm 2010.
Peavey has added two new, feature-laden mixers to its long-running PV Series, the PV® 6 USB, and PV® 8 USB. The PV® Series has long been the benchmark of performance and value in audio, and these new PV® mixers reinforce this legacy. With exclusive Peavey reference-quality microphone preamps—featuring an astonishingly low THD (total harmonic distortion) of 0.0007%—these new mixers are equally useful in project studios or live- and program-music mixing situations.
Learn to play music with your iPhone! – iDISCOVER KEYBOARD transforms your iPhone or iPod touch into a music creation studio. Virtually anyone can use it to easily create music. 25 piano-style keys and a custom sound app that includes more than two dozen world-class sounds give you everything you need to learn and create music with your iPhone or iPod touch.
At the NAMM next week Allen & Heath will be launching the iDR-16 MixRack and iLive-R72 rackmountable Control Surface from the iLive digital mixing series. Also the global launch of the ZED-10 and ZED-10FX from the ZED Series of USB-equipped mixers for live performance, recording and production and the US launch for the Xone:DX MIDI USB controller.
Rayzoon is pleased to announce that Jamstix 3 is now in a public beta for Jamstix 2 owners. Jamstix 2 users who are eligible for a free upgrade to Jamstix 3 (purchased after 05/11/2009) will automatically receive a separate mail with download links and license key when Jamstix 3 is released and do not need to buy the pre-order. Jamstix 3 is scheduled for release in Q1 2010.
From humble beginnings as a party DJ in downtown New York, Paul D. Miller (a.k.a. DJ Spooky) is today a formidable force in hip hop. But he’s also an acclaimed multimedia artist who’s written on the subject of the history of hip hop and the aesthetics and art of the genre, and has criss-crossed the globe on the search for art and music. His latest Album, The Secret Song, is a fusion of hip hop, dub, rock, house and breakbeat, with snippets of the numerous genres moulded together to form what reviewers have said “may be the only concept recording of the 21st century that can be considered crucial listening”.