NAMM 2024 ran from Thursday 25th to Sunday 28th January. Here are the highlights from the major piano, keyboard and synth-related companies. Highlights JoeCo has announced its BandMate multichannel backing track player for live performance playback plus MIDI, with accompanying app. It’s designed to provide a more robust solution for […]
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Elektron has announced its celebration of 25 years with the release of limited e25 Remix Editions of three of their units, the Digitakt, Digitone and Syntakt. Hand-built in stainless steel, individually numbered and with laser-etched logos, they come in a unique box design/build, and also come with e25 poster versions […]
Hit’n’Mix has announced the latest version of its RipX software is now a fully-fledged DAW with AI built right in to the workflow to aid in creating human-friendly results from automatically machine-generated content. Claiming to be the first of its kind to provide “a truly holistic approach to cutting-edge AI […]
Steinberg has announced a major new version release of its popular Cubase DAW, taking the version to 13. Ignoring the “unlucky” jokes, we’ll take a look at what’s new and improved in this professional music software. New/Updated Features Cubase 15 available Workflow Improvements Versions There are three version of Cubase […]
Zynthian, a new class of musical device, debuted in late summer and is a powerful multitimbral synth and audio processor, capable of managing up to 16 audio chains simultaneously, as well as being a MIDI processor and router, equipped with standard MIDI ports, USB, Wi-Fi and wired networks. Its main […]
We’re great fans of new software and methods to break us out of our regular DAWs, great though they are, so we were pretty excited to see the creator of a 10-year project decided it’s good enough to release to the public. Cantor is not really a DAW in the […]
Pocket Animal Audio has shown off its latest creation, the Woovebox, which is a powerful and portable audio workstation and groovebox which aims to help musicians flesh out ideas and even complete entire tracks by building on simple ideas and adding listener interest through conditional triggering and modification of distinct […]
Donner is perhaps better known for its digital pianos and other more traditional instruments rather than the slightly more quirky portable music creation devices, but it has just launched a campaign on Kickstarter to have its new MEDO multi-function musical instrument gain funding for production. The take on the MEDO […]
This month has seen Knobula’s latest Eurorack-friendly synth, the Pianophonic, land and be ready for sales. This eight-voice multi-oscillator wavetable synthesiser is a hybrid combining multi-oscillator synthesis with the percussive detail of sampled sounds. Its eight polyphony voices are not limited to piano sounds, despite the name, and is highly […]
Peru-based AtomoSynth has teased its social media followers with some basic information about the second version of its Eurorack Tottem drum synthesiser. The new Tottem features four independent, all-analog percussion synth voices, two of which featuring full percussion synth with triangle and square wave oscillator, an envelope for the “sweep” […]
Erica Synth has announced the fruit of its collaboration with electronic music pioneer Richie Hawtin, in the shape of the Bullfrog synth which has been designed to appeal to, and educate, a younger audience, as well as being accessible and usable by professional musicians. Features include an analog VCO with […]
BandLab has announced that it is to rebrand its Cakewalk DAW into two new distinct products, Cakewalk Sonar and Cakewalk Next. as it seeks to “make its renowned music production software even more accessible to global creators.” The original Cakewalk DAW will be renamed to SONAR, a name last used […]
Casio is a well-known brand offering a wide range of digital pianos and music keyboards. Here we look at the main ranges of instruments which come with 88 keys. An electronic instrument with 88 physical keys most closely mimics the majority of acoustic pianos, and removes the need to transpose […]
Arturia has announced the imminent availability of a limited edition of its MicroFreak experimental synth: the MicroFreak Stellar. “Discover a synth that looks as weird and wonderful as it sounds with a slick all-black exterior, decorated with detailed space-age graphics reflecting its controls,” is the opening gambit from Arturia, and […]
As if we needed another reminder as to how powerful Apple’s iPad has become, even outclassing some lower end laptop and desktop machines, Apple has announced that Logic Pro for iPad will be launching this month. Mac musicians and producers with Logic Pro have had access to arguably the best […]
Introduction For the best part of two decades, in the 1980s and 1990s, Yamaha created some iconic mini music keyboards under the PortaSound name. Many of these were simple instruments aimed at children and/or beginners, but as the years rolled on, a number of additional features were added. Even today, […]
In this article we take a look and compare the features and specifications of the thirteen models of Korg‘s Pa*X line of synthesisers. There are thirteen models comprising eight distinct models with various key count variations on some. The Pa1X was launched in 2003 so we are now looking at […]
VR App puts a Steinway in your room You may be lucky enough to be able to afford a Steinway piano but how do you know your house is big enough for it to live comfortably and provide enjoyment for you? There’s an app for that. An Augmented Reality (AR) […]
Casio has announced its new XW-J1 DJ controller, an all-in-one VJ/DJ controller for creating remixes of audio and video from music players, smartphones, and PCs that supports OS X, iOS, and Windows platforms. Musicians can mix music using the djay app, transforming their Mac, iPad, iPhone, or iPod touch into […]
Preempting NAMM 2014, Roland has announced its new breed of music workstation. The FA Series, available in 61-key (FA-06) and 88-key (FA-08) models, is naturally being talked up by Roland, with hyped statements such as “taking the ‘work’ out of the music workstation”, “completely reimagines”, “effortless real-time power”, “ultra-fast workflow”, […]