OP-1 stands for Operator 1: The OP-1 is a pocket size controller for your favorite software sequencer. Connect it to your laptop and it lets you control your sequencers transport with the common play, stop, rec, forward and rewind. Use it to control your software synthesizers with the 4 rotary encoders and 16 dedicated quick keys for fast selections.
Clavia is pleased to announce that the OS of the Nord Wave have been updated to version 2.02 which besides a few bugfixes, also includes some exciting new features.
The Nord Electro 3 OS has been updated to version 2.02. This update contains a few bug fixes – the “what-happened-to-my-tonewheel-leakage?” and the “Farfisa clipping/good for fireworks” bugs have now been eradicated. A more significant result of the update is the compatibility with the new Nord Sound Manager application and its feature set.
Ever since the introduction of the Nord C1 in 2007, life has been a bit easier on the organ player. No other unit delivers so much, at such a low cost, in such a compact and lightweight package. The sound and the versatility of the C1 has not only made it a player favorite, it has also received great accolades in the music press all over the world. With the introduction of the Nord C2, Clavia now raise the performance bar a bit further – this is the new organ for others to compare against.
Finalist Skot Wiedmann’s untitled instrument houses discrete modular synthesizer circuit boards connected by a neural network of wires in a star-shaped interface. It has oodles of knobs for sound-tweaking.
Dark Energy is a monophonic stand-alone Synthesizer with USB and Midi interface. The sound generation and all modulation sources are 100% analog, only the USB and Midi interface contains digital components.
Arturia released a few videos of their Origin synth on YouTube. Arturia sohows us how to use the origin and let us listen to the sounds.
The Fuzebox is a fully open-source, DIY 8-bit game console. It is designed specifically for people who know a little bit of programming to expand into designing and creating their own video games and demos and MUSIC!
John Bowen has started his own video channel on Vimeo, where he shows all there is to know on his synthesizer Solaris.
Benelux MUSIC ALIVE is a yearly event for all enthusiastic music soft and hardware users and the ideal way to learn the newest products, new technologies and to meet and talk to company product specialists, other musicians and producers. Last february 15 at the Novotel Rotterdam (Brainpark) an afternoon packed with music software workshops, new product and technology presentations, lectures about Internal Mixing and Mastering etc. High light this year was the ‘sneak-preview’ of Ableton Live 8 by Dankmar Klein (Ableton).
Radikal Technologies has posted a teaser video on their upcoming version 2 of the Spectralis Hybrid Synthesizer.
BPM version 1.01 is now available as a free, downloadable update for all registered BPM users. This is not just a “maintenance update”. Version 1.01 is loaded with significant new features, including the ability create slices in audio files that don’t have them yet, plus the ability to drag and drop slice loops onto a pad bank to automatically load loop slices into the pads.
Akai Professional, the name synonymous with music production, announces the release of its Vintage Beat Machines Sample Pack for MPC, a sample library for its MPC music production workstations. The sample pack is available now from the company’s Web site.
Akai Professional, the name synonymous with music production, announces the release of MPC5000 OS 2.0, a new operating system for its flagship MPC5000 music production workstation.
Do we have a something special for you here. A keys version of the infamous Mopho synth from Dave Smith Instruments.