2011 release, the long-awaited eighth album from the Hip Hop/Rock trio. Hot Sauce Committee Part Two was produced by Beastie Boys and mixed by Philippe Zdar. This album marks Mike “Mike D” Diamond, Adam “Ad Rock” Horovitz and Adam “MCA” Yauch’s first full length effort since 2007’s Grammy-winning all-instrumental The Mix-Up.
Release date: May 3, 2011
Rob Papen has released a new soundset for SubBoomBass called SuperEcho. This soundset is made by Antonio Sage and Bad Boy Bill. This is a sound bank with an electronic edge. It is designed to bring some razor sharpness to your electronic productions.
In the year since the launch of the Tom Oberheim reissue of the SEM, a surprising number of units have been built, tested and shipped. Surprising? Well, considering the fact that Tom Oberheim assembles and tests each unit by hand, each of the instruments shipped thus far represent a serious commitment of man-hours.
KOMA is an analogue bassline inspired by classical synths from the 1980s. It offers the possibility to mix 4 different waveforms (saw, square, sub, noise). The 24 dB low-pass filter is also inspired from classical filters from the 80s.
With Punch, Rob Papen delivers a brand new speaker busting, body rattling software instrument. Punch delivers synthesized drums in the finest audio quality and with breathtaking features for the contemporary producer.
Pre-orders for the remaining units from the first production run are open again! Price for Solaris remains at $3999.00 or 3590 Euros (includes 19% VAT; adjust VAT per your country) in Euros (plus any shipping costs). They have a handful of units left to sell (10 or so), which will ship by end of June.
Yamaha introduced the i-MX1 on the recently held Frankfurter MusikMesse – a MIDI interface that‘s connected to the Apple iPad and thus offering vast possibilities to control MIDI equipment. The Apple iPad has proven itself as a very handy tool, combining a very nice touch panel with a reasonable size. It has sold in large quantities. On Winter NAMM 2011 Yamaha introduced a series of Apps that will allow a wireless controlling of the MOTIF XF Music Production Synthesizer.
Another year with another MusikMesse in Frankfurt. We’re back home again, and it’s time for the traditional Gearjunkies MusikMesse Roundup. But before we continue, we have to say that we were confronted with lots of personal words of manufacturers about the consequences of the earthquake and tsunami of march 11th in Japan. The scale of what happened goes beyond imagination. It has affected the lives of so many people, and then it is only logical to see that it influences companies with ties to Japan, which are a lot of companies. We bear with them and wish them lots of strength in these difficult times.
Some of you might know that the two SoundCloud founders are both Swedish and moved from Stockholm to Berlin to start working on SoundCloud full-time together with a team. A few weekends ago, adidas originals Sweden visited Alex & Eric on a sunny Saturday afternoon in Berlin to follow and capture their every moves. In this really cool video, they look back at how and why SoundCloud got started and ends with the two founders talking about startups to a group of entrepreneurs at the Berlin Startup Camp
This year we visited our Friends at Feeltune again. Kindly they gave us another demonstration of their Rhizome Groove Station. The Rhizome is designed to allow musicians to freely express their creativity and for live expression, the Rhizome is both a real instrument and a full on production station. The Rhizome is the future of groove machines.
Arturia has announced that their hardware drum machine Spark will ship the 1st of June. Combining the power of analog synthesis, physical modelling and samples, through the intuitive workflow of a hardware drum machine, Spark is a highly creative beat production center.
Recently I came across a presentation on the TED website. It featured Eric Whitacre speaking about his project ‘Sleep‘. This 2011 Virtual Choir video features 2052 performances of ‘Sleep’ from 1752 singers in 58 countries, individually recorded and uploaded to YouTube between September 2010 and January 2011.
John Bowen posted on the Matrixsynth blogspot about a new 8-voice all analog synthesizer showing up at the EMC/Moog Booth (which they share with the Solaris, Muse, Spektralis and Mellotron guys). It has 107 knobs, 7 filters, 4 Oscillators and a digital memory for storing presets. It’s a heavy one weighing 55 kilos. We decided we would take a look at this ‘beast’.
One of the big hits of the past NAMM was the Arturia Spark. Of course they were present at the MusikMesse as well. The guys from Bax.TV went to the Arturia stand and made a video of this hybrid drum machine.
Station Q is like half an Oberkorn sequencer. It is identical to Oberkorn, except that is is 8 step instead of 16, and does not have the MIDI features. The Station Q is the perfect companion to the Station X/Y mini-modular combo.