Roland has released its new flagship SP-555 Sampling Workstation for its popular SP Sampler lineup. The SP-555 comes complete with 16 velocity sensitive pads, 37 Fantom-quality effects, an exciting new LOOP CAPTURE function, beefed up internal sample memory, and total computer integration with USB MIDI/AUDIO connectivity. Roland say that the new SP-555 is the perfect weapon for artists looking for new ways to get their creativity juices flowing.
Alesis has introduced the Performance Pad tabletop and kit mountable drum pads with a built-in drum machine.
The introduction of the Moog Little Phatty synth in March 2006 marked a new era in Moog’s history, bringing the features and functionality of its high-end analog instruments to a broader audience.
Gearjunkies found pictures from a different Bassline. Rumours are that there will be a new bassline soon.
Roland is proud to offer a brand new set of FREE bass synth patches for the MV-8800 Production Studio. In addition to the incredible lineup of analog modeled sounds and effects already onboard the MV, for a limited time you can get this special set of bass synth sounds to add some killer low end to your tracks.
A new version of Virus TI Software Suite 2.0.5 is available for download.
Open Labs, the leading designer and developer of computer music production solutions, announced today that it has recently upgraded its line of NeKo and MiKo Keyboard Production Stations with premium sounds and additional software with no increase in price. The new libraries represent the largest number of preset sounds available for any keyboard production station and includes high quality 24-bit sounds not available on any other keyboard.
A new version of Virus TI Software Suite 2.03 is available for download.
Roland is happy to announce newly released drivers for Windows Vista operating system from Microsoft. Along with Roland/BOSS/EDIROL branded products, Roland has been developing X86 and x64 Vista drivers months for the release of Windows Vista.
At the recent Musikmesse Ken Macbeth introduced the improved M5, the M5N. There have been some refinements in this design of the M5N instrument including yet further tightening of the of the transistor based Envelope Generators, on the ‘FAST’ setting, the Attack/Decay/Release parameters have been shortened by some milliseconds to produce the snappiest envelopes to date.
The FLAME MIDI TALKING SYNTH is a small sized MIDI-controlled sound module based on the analogue Speakjet chip, produced by the U.S. company Magnevation LLC. Originally designed for basic artificially generated speech output in American English tongue it was then refined and further developed as an 8-bit sound module with speechlike sounds and synthetic robot voices as well as beeps, alarms, noise and retro style sci-fi sounds.
As Moog introduced the new MoogerFooger MF/FM earlier this week we were excited. Anything new from Moog is always exciting. When visiting the website and reading the details and specs, we got a weird sensation. It was kinda an exotic and unusual new …. device! So we went with the story, it did not ring a bell here… yet.
DJ Gear from Cortex, HDTT-5000.
The mixer that had all the buzz pre-Messe. Ecler EVO 5.