For those who know, analog sound has always been known to be “punchy, organic, powerful, living, warm and brilliant”, often all at the same time. Moreover, the best analog instruments have offered tactile interfaces (often good old knobs!) for immediate and intuitive access.
CreamWare Introduces Family of Classic Synthesizers in a Box – CreamWare now offers ASB (“Authentic Sound Box”) — a line of faithful digital emulations of classic synthesizers housed in an ergonomically shaped desktop enclosure. The first two models — the Minimax ASB and the Profit-5 ASB — will make their debuts at this year’s Musikmesse.
Update
Thank god it is only once a year April Fools Day. As some of you might have understood, … there is no real ION Rack version from Alesis. Like many ‘websites’ we wanted to join into the FUN. So our art director tried his best to fabricate this Rack version of the Alesis Ion. Many of you thought it was a great idea that Alesis was looking into this Rack/Module market, but then again they don’t (yet). Maybe we gave them an idea for the future!
To give you an idea of how this image of the Rack Ion came along we posted the picture below. Starting point was the official ION image. From here we created all the knobs, red lines, red text, grey text, aluminium front, and all shadows from scratch. The rack ears we borrowed from the Roland V-Synth!
Compliments go out to some members of the Harmony Central forums who in the end saw that the dimensions weren’t totally on par. But as it was a rush job, image was created in 12 hours over two days, this was the only real fault in the image that could give us away as being a April Fools Hoax.
The new Cwejman S2 is here and is an integrated synthesizer; all modules (sound sources, modifiers, modulators and controls) are linked together in the way to offer the greatest possible flexibility with creation and reproduction of sounds.
Crossfader is an initiative from none other then Microsoft. Crossfader is an online community for the global electronic artist. Microsoft is building this tool to help you connect with people who share your love for creation, great music, technology and modern culture. They are just getting started and have several cool features in the works as they move through the beta stage. So join in the fun – register, set up your profile, build your blog, watch some video and start posting in the forums.
Korg USA has begun an exciting promotion that offers customers a real “Extreme value.” From January 1 until July 31, 2005, anyone who purchases a new 61, 76, or 88-key TRITON Extreme from an authorized U.S. dealer is eligible to receive the award-winning Korg Legacy Collection absolutely free. This offer presents savings of $625, as well as the opportunity to buy one amazing workstation and get four classic synths free.
Against all odds they did it! 100 factory new SID 6581 chips was secured by
Elektron, allowing for a brief return of the highly sought after SidStation
synthesizer. At least for a short while the unique SID sound can find its
way to the control of new daring musicians.
Dear fellow Gearjunkies, today is a special day, for we have a confirmed winner of the Gearjunkies Native Instruments Absynth
The AR1 is a 3 vco monophonic synthesizer, and is built to order. Cases will be available in light or dark wood.
We all know Quantum Leap for there softsynths.
But we read on the Sounds online website:
For touring musicians, this is the ultimate instrument to have on the road or in a club, in fact, EASTWEST is also releasing a hardware rack-mount version of COLOSSUS called COLOSSUS LIVE. COLOSSUS has incredible instruments of every type (check out the complete list at the bottom of this page), for song-writing, filmscoring, multi-media production, in the studio, or on stage, COLOSSUS is an indespensible tool that has you completely covered.
we will examine it, stay tuned!
Now you will be able to experience the Nord Modular G2 demo software. This software will demonstrate a bit of the power of the Nord Modular G2 hardware system.
E-MU Systems today announced Mo’Phatt X, Planet Earth X and Virtuoso X – the first three legacy sound module libraries for its Proteus X and Emulator X desktop instruments that offer every last sample of E-MU’s popular Mo’Phatt, Planet Earth and Virtuoso 2000 hardware sound modules.
The V-Synth Reloaded Roland’s flagship mega-synth grows even stronger with the release of Version 2 software. This user-installable system upgrade
…No, I am not gonna say: I told you so……
OASYS is built around our new flagship PCM-based engine, which we call the HD-1 High Definition Synthesizer. Driven by an exacting, robust and detail-rich voice architecture, the sound of the HD-1 possesses an amazing clarity and presence; a high end that is crystal clear, but never harsh; a detailed and accurate sound that is smooth and rich across the entire audio spectrum.