Posts Tagged 'midi'

Kore released to the world
Studio Hardware, Studio Software

Kore released to the world

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Native Instruments is excited to announce that KORE is now available in stores worldwide. KORE has been specifically developed to increase the efficiency, flexibility and ease of working with software instruments and effects in the studio and onstage. KORE is an integrated system consisting of a host software for VST and Audio Units plug-ins, and a tightly integrated hardware controller that includes a professional USB 2.0 audio/MIDI interface. It can be used both as a standalone instrument host as well as a plug-in within any Audio Units-, VST- and RTAS- compatible sequencer program. Due to the sophisticated bi-directional integration of the controller with the KORE software, all major functions of the system can be controlled without the need to touch or even see the computer that runs
the software.

Synths and workstations

Meet KORE on the Kore Days World Tour

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Under the title Kore Days World Tour, Native Instruments has initiated a tour at local distributors World Wide. The KORE Days kick off from May 8th at NIs top dealers worldwide. Each participating store will host an event in which KORE will be presented in detail by selected product specialists. All aspects of KORE will be covered, from creating new sounds and using the Sound Browser to using KORE in a sequencer or live on stage.

Monome starts shipping the … Monome
Studio Hardware

Monome starts shipping the … Monome

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Monome is a collective community responsible for the Monome, a midicontroller with a grid of internally lit tactile pushbuttons. Each button has an internal light. Monome is a USB controller, with 8 rows of 8 illuminated silicone buttons powered with the mapd software (drum machines, loopers, 1bit video transformers, physics models, virtual sliders, math games, etc.) The controller receives and sends MIDI and OSC thru mapd.

Studio Hardware

News from Novation?

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Novation is cooking up something, and we have a lot of reasons to believe that this could be something really cool… there’s currently not much more that can be said about it, other than to hold your breath for more information from Novation.. check back soon!

MusikMesse 2006 – New Gear round up
Synths and workstations

MusikMesse 2006 – New Gear round up

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So what was new at the MusikMesse of this year? It must be said that this edition of the MusikMesse didn’t introduce as many new gear as the 2005 edition did. The only product that really ‘took the cake’ was undoubtedly the new Moog. For weeks and months there was the buzz on the internet what Moog would come with, … the Little Phatty. It was the last product the late and great Boob Moog worked on.

Next to the Phatty there was the new KORE from Native Instruments. Again with an extensive pre-Messe publicity coverage, the Kore got unveiled at the MusikMesse after being announced at the WinterNAMM earlier this year in Anaheim, USA.

The list below covers just a small selection of the gear that we think were the most interesting, and stood out the most.

Terratec announces the Area 61 keyboard controller
Synths and workstations

Terratec announces the Area 61 keyboard controller

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TerraTec Producer announced a unique keyboard at the Frankfurt Musikmesse – AREA 61. AREA 61 is an expandable keyboard system for studio and gigging musicians. It is a genuine musical instrument with freely selectable, integrated sound generators (optionally available DSP soundboards) that may also serve as a central control unit for all software sequencers and virtual instruments in computer-based music studios. So in fact it is not just a midi keyboard controller, but much more.

Studio Hardware

TranzPort drivers for Intel Macs

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New Macintosh Universal Binary driver update! Now use TranzPort with your new Intel-based Mac. Frontier Design have been busy adding to TranzPorts broad support making it what they say is the most efficient tool for all of todays DAW environments. A new Macintosh Universal Binary driver update is now available. This update allows users to fully integrate TranzPort with new Intel-based iMac, Mac mini, and MacBook Pro systems, while still remaining compatible with existing G4 and G5 computers.

Studio Hardware, Studio Software

Kore: chapter 5 – Make sounds compatible

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Imagine moving complex instrument set-ups between different songs and systems – Now You Can: KORE.

Do you own more than one audio computer, a laptop and desktop for example, or a Mac and a PC? Do you work both in the studio and on stage, or in different studios that use different sequencers? Do you want to be able to use exactly the same sounds and instrument or effect set-ups wherever you go?