This week no ‘Something for the Weekend’ post but here is something cool too. One of the big announcements of last year was definitely the ‘BIG’ Voyager from Moog. So here’s the video they just released on the MiniMoog Voyager XL.
The Denon DN-MC6000 is a dedicated Traktor controller and digital mixer. Cased in solid steel it has excellent build quality and can be used to control other DVS systems via midi. The DN-MC6000 comes bundled with Traktor LE and works with both Mac and PC systems. If there is a direct competitor out there that will give the Native Instrumenst S4 Kontrol a run for their money it should be this DN-MC6000 controller.
Take a peak behind the scenes at Ableton‘s inaugural Hackathon! 30 developers spent 24 hours working on their pet projects, with some inspiring results. Does coding the night away with colleagues, coffee, and energy drinks sound like fun to you? Ableton is hiring!
The Denon DN-X600 is a highly spec’d 2-channel performance mixer, optimised for both traditional vinyl techniques and the latest digital media and computer DJ systems, that offers levels of technology and performance comparable with Denon’s flagship 4-channel models. Solid steel chassis construction, professional grade components and powerful USB MIDI capabilities make this a robust gigging tool, equally at home in the booth or the studio.
Daft Punk is BIG! Right? But with the release of Tron:Legacy their fame has become even bigger. Producing the OST for Tron they have ventured into new musical territories. When the news, that they would produce the OST, reached the internet (almost half a year ago), it was the buzz you just could not avoid. Everyone talked about it.
The Octatrack DPS-1 is a 8 track dynamic performance sampler. The Octatrack is ideal for radical audio processing and performance oriented sampling. Every track features real-time pitch scaling & time stretch and the next generation Elektron step sequencer has been designed with maximum usability and efficiency in mind. And from this coming monday the 20th of December at 8.00 CET Elektron start taking pre-orders from the general public.
Retouch Control offers TouchOSC templates to control Propellerhead’s Record and Reason. So it is NOT an app but uses the TouchOSC app as a basis. TouchOSC is a universal iPhone / iPod Touch / iPad application that lets you send and receive Open Sound Control messages over a Wi-Fi network using the UDP protocol. Retouch Control is not available yet, more info is coming soon at www.retouchcontrol.com.
Rob has released a close-up look and tutorial on his reverb plugin RP-Verb. RP-Verb is the fruit of Rob Papen’s decades-long study of reverb and endless hours of exploring, testing, and tweaking by Rob and Jon Ayres. The result is exactly what you would expect: a stunning, musical reverb that brings unmatched dimension and fullness to your mixes.
Allthough announced … oh so long ago, the OP-1 is still not released, however the project is still alive as this video shows us. John Eriksson from the band Peter Bjorn and John, got to have a go at the this Teenage Engineering‘s cutting-edge keyboard….. Still waiting though!
Nectar is a complete set of 11 vocal production effects combined in one plug-in that’s designed to give you immediate results. Built-in Styles get the grunt work out of the way so you can focus on the creative finishing touches.
It is the time of year that all kinds of lists come out. Best this or best that of 2010. However, the list below is a very nice one. It is a selection of the best musicvideo’s of 2010 according to eclectro.nl. Eclectro is a website dedicated to ‘eclectic electronica’ and is being made by a team of journalists, DJs, producers, designers and people who appreciate all kinds of electronic music.
This week we have a video of the Latronic Notron hardware midi step sequencer. We tried to find more details and specs of this sequencer but this is just on of those little hidden gems from the past that almost anonymously exists in the world of analog vintage gear. There isn’t even a wikipedia page for it!
The dynamic duo behind drum & bass outfit Urban Assault and labels Heavy Artillery and 5 Star Recordings Faust & Shortee perform a scratch and controllerism routine to perfection, taking advantage of the Traktor Kontrol X1‘s intuitive control over track browsing, looping, cue points and effects in Serato Scratch Live.
FabFilter Timeless 2 is not only a perfectly modelled classic tape delay. Its unique high-quality filters and many creative options turn it into the ultimate sound-mangling machine! Create echo, chorus, flanger, phaser, scratch effects and much more.
What do you get when you are a product designer and electronic musician? Well … meet Yuri Suzuki! A japanese born designer living in London who makes electronic music as a side gig. Or is it the other way? Anyway, one of his latest projects is the Urushi Musical Interface. It is a touch panel style musical interface which uses principle of gold inlay. Watching the video makes me think it takes a lot of effort to understand the workings behind it and get a decent performance out of it. On the other hand … it just looks stunning!