Posts Tagged 'midi'

New Bigfoot MIDI controller from Suzuki

New Bigfoot MIDI controller from Suzuki

It’s a gigantic piano keyboard sculptured from perfectly proportioned oversized foam piano keys. They snap together to form one, two, even three full chromatic octaves! Step on any key and play a perfectly formed, in tune note. Play melodies, chords, songs with one student or the whole class. It’s fun, yet educational. It’s an acoustic teaching tool that’s a blast to use.

Sony has created a musical game called Block Jam

Sony has created a musical game called Block Jam

Block Jam is a musical interface controlled by the arrangement of 25 tangible blocks. By arranging the blocks musical phrases and sequences are created, allowing multiple users to play and collaborate. The system takes advantage of both graphical and tangible user interfaces. Each block has a visual display and a combination of a gestural input and a click-able input. Each Block metaphorically contains a sound group that can be chosen via the gestural input, the click-able input changes a block functionally. Thus, musically complex and engaging configurations can be rapidly assembled. The tangible nature of the blocks and the intuitive interface promotes face-to-face collaboration, and the presence of the GUI allows for remote collaboration across a network.

Chordspace? … Chordspace!

Chordspace? … Chordspace!

Sometimes when collecting and researching news and products for GearJunkies, we come along some interesting GEAR. So we stumbled upon ChordSpace. ChordSpace is a plug-in that generates MIDI chords. No knowledge of theory is needed to use it. You simply click around until you find a progression that works for you. ChordSpace has a palette of over 200 chords per key, all logically laid out so that great progressions are easy.

New MIDI Controller The Musicpole

New MIDI Controller The Musicpole

Veteran keyboardist Rags Tuttle has created an entirely new instrument that brings fresh methods of playing to musicians of all skill levels. His creation, the Musicpole MIDI Controller, wraps a standard keyboard around a visually striking acrylic pole, using the music theory of the circle of fifths to arrange the keys in a unique spiral pattern. Unlike a standard, flat keyboard, the spiral layout of the Musicpole puts all of the right notes for a given musical key directly in front of the player in a vertical row. To play in another key, the player rotates the entire Musicpole to another of the 12 keys labeled at the top of the pole.

Open labs announces NeKo Gen2 workstations

Open labs announces NeKo Gen2 workstations

Open Labs today announced the release of the first Athlon 64-bit dual-core keyboards, the NeKo64 Gen2, a powerful new version of the NeKo line, and the NeKo LET Gen2. Boasting a 2.0 GHz Athlon dual-core 64-bit processor, the NeKo64 Gen2 maintains the NeKo64’s legacy as the most powerful production stations available, by providing the latest generation of advanced processors, while substantially lowering the price.

M-Audio announces the Project Mix I/O

M-Audio announces the Project Mix I/O

M-Audio announces a new professional interface with 8 analog inputs and 4 analog outputs, ADAT compatibility, MIDI I/O, 8+1 touch sensitifs motorized faders, transport controls with joggle, and LED display for each channel.

Mackie Control, Logic Control and HUI protocol support And LBNL : ASIO2, WDM, Core Audio, GSIF 2, ProTools M-Powered compatibility

Gearjunkies opens User Studios

Gearjunkies opens User Studios

Today Gearjunkies opened their virtual studio section called User Studios. With the User Studios, Gearjunkies can publish their own studio on Gearjunkies and show other people what their studio looks like. The User Studio isn’t limited to a listing of equipment, but every studio can also include lots of pictures, of the studio itself, and pictures of individual instruments.