Moog Music, the company known for pushing the future of electronic instruments and changing the way music is played, has announced two new product innovations, unveiled for the first time at the 2008 NAMM show in Anaheim.
Inspiration can happen anywhere. The XR20 is loaded with pro-grade, industrial-strength drum, percussion, bass, synth, sound effects, vocal and instrument hit sounds and has the ability to lay them in a groove wherever and whenever youre ready.
The MPC series set the standard for beat production. What would it take to make the ultimate MPC. Dozens of engineers, 20 years of experience and a new synth and drum sampling engine unlike any MPC ever. Introducing the MPC5000 the new standard for music production.
The Prophet 08 Synthesizer Module is a tabletop knobby module with all of the features and controls of the Prophet 08 Keyboard minus the keyboard, of cours) in an even more compact enclosure. Includes rack ears for optional rack-mounting.
Open Labs, the leading designer and developer of computer based music production solutions, introduced a companion to the popular Timbaland Special Edition MiKo today. The new Timbaland Special Edition NeKo, an all-in-one production studio powered by Windows XP, is capable of running virtually any Windows XP compatible software including a variety of DAW software, virtual instruments (VSTi), virtual effects (VST) and other music applications.
Roland is proud to announce the new ARX-01 and ARX-02 expansion boards for the new Fantom-G series. Fantom-G is the first instrument equipped with Roland’s revolutionary ARX expansion-board slots. Each ARX board is a synth in itself, powered by Roland’s proprietary SuperNATURAL sound technology for organic, emotional expression.
So you would like the first pics from the new Roland fantom workstations? Here you go:
ARTURIA will unveil version 1.0 of Origin Keyboard, the keyboard version of its first Hardware Synthesizer, Origin. This keyboard lets you perform and create your music with a new level of dynamism, control and ergonomics.
From January 17 to January 20 the NAMM Show is the largest music products trade show in United States. Held every January in Anaheim, California, USA the show brings together all facets of the music products industry to reveal new musical instruments/products and ideas. And every year rumours start to emerge on the internet on what the manufacturers have cooked up for us. What can we expect for the coming year. We tried to gather some totally unfounded and unauthorised ‘rumours’ for you.
Radikal teknologies announces Hybrid Elements. Now much info, only a picture.
Access Music today announced Virus TI Snow, their new table-top synthesizer based on the award-winning Virus TI series of synthesizers.
DOEPFER MUSIKELEKTRONIK GMBH, will be showing new products at the coming NAMM exhibition in Anaheim. Most prominent will be the new A-100 CV/Gate Keyboard. The A-100CGK is a monophonic keyboard with CV and Gate outputs. The main application is the control of an A-100 system but even other modular systems or synthesizers can be controlled provided that they use the 1V/octave standard. In addition the A-100CGK has a Midi output available to be able to control the planned A-100 keyboard controller.
Clavia has released the Nord Wave Manager, the application that allows Nord Wave users to create Sample Instruments from any standard audio file and download these to the Nord Wave synthesizer through its USB interface.
As announced earlier, Roger Linn and Dave Smith will be releasing the Linndrum II this year. Roger will release the all-digital Linndrum II and Dave the analog version of the Linndrum II. Roger Linn has now released images of the machines which show a clear difference in the design of the two versions.
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