Korg announces the new Kaossilator 2 Dynamic Phrase Synthesizer. Introduced in 2007, the original Kaossilator brought fun and easy music-making to musicians and non-musicians alike. It gave rise to the Kaossilator Pro, iKaossilator App for iPhone, and now the Kaossilator 2, which enables anyone to create and save their own music with the touch of a finger.
Great news from Waldorf! They have a new synthesizer: the Pulse 2.
MiniBrute is Arturia’s new analog synthesizer. With a pure analog signal path and several innovative features, it sets a new standard for what a hardware synthesizer should be.
Arturia has great news! They will accounce… Nope, I’m not gonna tell you what it is (and Yas, I know what it is), But we have a teaser:
Akai will of course announce the new MPC lineup, but there’s more news from Akai at the NAMM. Take a look at the MAX49 that will be shown in Anaheim.
Novation are pleased to announce the launch of the Daniel Fisher Soundpack (Vol. 1) for UltraNova. It’s free for all UltraNova users and it comprises 30 sounds by one of the industry’s most talented sound designers. This soundpack is the latest in a series of free sounds from renowned artists and sound designers, made exclusively for Novation’s UltraNova synthesizer. Daniel has focused his energy on the incredible potential of the Novation UltraNova in a series of four soundpacks, which will be released throughout early 2012. These sounds reflect the skills and experience of Daniel’s 30+ years in the soundware industry.
The Nord Drum is a revolutionary 4-channel drum synthesizer that is the result of a creative collaboration between Clavia and drum/music technology enthusiasts Bruniusson & Berg. With an amazingly vast sonic palette and an astounding level of playability it is guaranteed to change your perception of what’s possible with synthetic, sample-free percussion.
Akai annouced the second of three new MPC models: the AKAI MPC Studio.
The Dance & Trance soundset offers a hand-picked selection of over 400 meticulously programmed sounds for ElectraX, designed by a team of professional sound-designers.
If you are a DJ or producer you can probably talk for hours about great tracks, softsynths, compression, sample packs and .wav files. You sit behind computers for days creating tracks or browsing Beatport, Dance-Tunes, Trackitdown, or Whatpeopleplay.com for nights on end. That drive, that urge is similar to a alcohol, sex or drug addiction. It’s a feeling you can’t explain to people that aren’t ‘t a passionate dj or producer. Even your best friend or girlfriend doesn’t completely understand it. Do you recognize this? Most likely you will!
And there it iis! the new Akai MPC Renaissance:
Later then normally but like every year, this is becoming the time that many manufacturers try to give some back to existing and new customers. This is the season the Holiday Deals are launched. So we collect the deals we come across and share them with you. This way you can get the best deal out of this season for the gear you really want!
Can you believe it? Yet another year has rushed by. And, … what a year it has been. We are glad we can say that this year was pretty good to us. More visitors, more reviews, more followers on Twitter, Facebook and Google+, new team members, two new (Dutch) blog websites with DJ2DJ and Studiojunkies… So yeah 2011 was good to us.
With their seasonal greetings, Elektron have send us this information which is always nice as it is about FREE stuff! They want you to explore three brand new Machinedrum UW Sound Packs? This time Elektron have gone modular crazy. The three Sound Packs are the result of heavy patching and knob tweaking and consist of a total of 322 samples, all of them of course 100% copyright free.
Urs Heckman is proud to announce the release of his new synthesizer, DIVA. Diva‘s oscillators, filters and envelopes closely model electronic components found in some of the great monophonic and polyphonic synthesizers of yesteryear. Modules can be mixed and matched – build hybrids of those classics!