Rana Sobhany woke up at 5:30am to pre-order her iPad on March 12th, and got in line to pick it up at 2am on April 3rd. She rocked the house over the weekend at the iPad Dev Camp in Silicon Valley and here we learn how she was DJ’ing there.
On Wednesday April 21st at 7 pm, Moog Music and Pastemagazine.com will launch the second season of Live at Moog with Amanda Palmer. Live at Moog is an innovative web video series featuring performances filmed at the legendary Moog Music factory in Asheville, North Carolina.
“March 29, 2004“. Yes, that was the day we implemented a NEWS section into the Gearjunkies website. And almost six years later we have reached news post number 5000. Congratulations to …. ourselves! Of all those 5000 posts there were big hits and there were misses. Some barely got read and others shot through the roof with reads!
Elektron has today released new updated Operating Systems for their Machinedrum and Monomachine instruments. Both updates are available on the Elektron website as of today.
This ‘much-anticipated’ next version of the Imposcar softsynth is in its final development stage. According to their own website, GForce are putting their heads down once more and get on with the job of completing this instrument. So we have to wait just a few until GForce is unveiling the final version. That said, … we came across a very interesting ‘sometin’ ‘sometin’ on the internet. A GForce Imposcar2 hardware controller! Looking at the pictures, … that is a sweet controller, right? To be completely clear, the persons in the picture below are members of Underworld together with Dave Spiers from GForce. The guy playing with the controller is Darren Price of Underworld, contributor of many sounds to the (version 1) impOSCar soft synth. So there is an onvious connection between Underworld and GForce.
The SV-1 contains the hippest, most in-demand and soul-satisfying keyboard sounds ever collected in a single instrument. Decades of electro-mechanical, transistorized, tape-driven, analog, and digital legends are joined by a collection of rich acoustic pianos, all reproduced with stunning realism. But the SV-1 is about much more than excellent sound; the SV-1 re-creates the look, the feel, and visceral pleasure of performing on a vintage instrument. Korg’s SV-1 has plenty of control on the keyboard itself, but the editor software gives you a much deeper level of control. This tutorial will guide you through the additional functions of the SV-1 editor.
Roland is proud to announce five new workshop booklets for the Fantom-G Workstation Keyboard, bringing the total of illustrated PDF tutorials for its flagship workstation keyboard to 15. In addition, the first 10 Fantom-G Workshop booklets have been revised to include the many new features added in the recent Fantom-G Version 1.31 System Update. Workshop booklets are available as free downloads from the Roland U.S. website.
Roland is pleased to announce the V-Piano® Evolution System Program Update, which adds two new stunning Vintage and Vanguard piano models to enhance the sonic possibilities for the groundbreaking V-Piano.
Last year AVID decided to combine all of their brands (including Digidesign, M-Audio, and Sibelius) into one unified AVID brand. During the past year AVID have been working hard to transition Digidesign to the AVID name. Below is an ‘Open Letter’ to all Digidesign customers to share information, answer questions, and explain how the changes will affect them.
It seems that KORG is (yet again) the first manufacturer to release an iPad dedicated instrument, the iElectribe. With this app Korg emulated the ELECTRIBE hardware interface into software, with preset management via a standard iPad-style menu.
Here it is, … our final MusikMesse post. This year (like the previous ones) we shot a lot of pictures and video footage. Not everything ended up in a post on Gearjunkies. But we thought we could compile most of the video footage and make a MusikMesse Tour to give you a short impression of the Messe this year. We want to thank all the manufacturers who gave us the opportunity to play with their latest gear. We enjoyed that very much. We call ourselves ‘gearjunkies’ for a reason of course!
The +Drive gives a significant boost to the Machinedrum and Monomachine storage capabilities. Everything is basically multiplied with a factor of 128. Thousands of patterns, sounds and songs can be stored internally and more or less instantly recalled. The Machinedrum SPS1-UW+ MKII can now host over 6000 samples. The Monomachine SFX-60+ MKII can be loaded with more than 8000 user waveforms.
Another Messe show is behind us, and it is time for the Gearjunkies Roundup of the new product releases from the show! The first impression was that there was not so much news around, but a second look gave away a lot of smaller as well as bigger product news. We actually had a lot of heated discussions over big kebabs to come up with our winners! So, here we go!
Before the Messe we made our own list of products we definately wanted to see and feel. One of those new (announced) products was the Feeltune Rhizome. It is like a hardware DAW. All the stuff you need to make music in a box, so to speak. Easy to use like a groove machine, powerful like the latest computer technology, and empowered by the versatility of plugins. The Rhizome is the only box combining samplers, mixing desk, sequencers and synthesizers, totally open and compatible with VSTs.
Only 40 units will be offered with this UV green finish that glows brightly under blacklight. Same features and functions as the standard Orb unit. The Orb is an easy to use, single track, step-based digital sequencer, ideal for controlling our XS semi-modular synthesizer as well as other analog CV/Gate or MIDI synthesizers. The Orb is also a perfect solution for controlling 303 clones which often lack the essential sequencer.