25 Results for "design"

Teenage Engineering TP-7 Field Recorder: 1.1.3 Update & a Review

TP-7 from Teenage Engineering has received a new update with exciting new features.

Axel Hartmann: An Interview with the Legendary Synth Designer

Synthesizer industrial design genius Axel Hartmann talks about the design process, finding inspiration and who he wishes he could design for. Hint: they’re Scandinavian…

Nothing Ear Headphones and Ear (a): An AirPods Pro alternative?

In-ear Nothing Ear headphones and Ear (a) bring longer battery life, better sound and more. Let's take a look!

Boom Library / Boom Interactive sale: 20% off sound design plug-ins

Boom Interactive and Boom Library products are discounted by 20% until August 31, 2022. Get some plug-ins and sound libraries!

Opto: Stunning West-coast style portable modular synthesizer from Rob Eris

Opto is a beautiful take on modular West-coast synthesis in a handy portable format featuring a dual oscillator & touchplate keyboard. But is it real?

MDLR-37: hand crafted folding modular system from Love Hultén

The MDLR-37 pulls in a Korg Minilogue and Microkey, a Meris ENZO, T-Rex Duplicator and Doepfer A-199 for a perfectly poised folding synth station.

Satellite Amplifiers gives up as Gibson takes back the Coronet name

It looks like Satellite Amplifiers has had to relinquish its federal trademark over the Coronet electric guitar, following a legal battle with Gibson.

Another legal dispute with Gibson, this time with Satellite Amplifiers

Looks like Gibson is back in the courtroom. Satellite Amplifiers recently received a legal court notice from Gibson to stop them making guitars based on the classic Epiphone Coronet design.

Build electronic musical instruments with Roger Linn

Legendary drum machine and instrument designer Roger Linn is running an online workshop on Designing Physical Interactions for Music at Stanford University. And it's open to anybody.

Give your drums some Backbone with Steinberg’s new drum designer and re-synthesizer

Steinberg has released Backbone a drum design tool that will level-up the way you generate drums with multiple layers of samples and re-synthesis in a neat and colourful interface.

Roland GP-002: the perfect extension for the Boutique JX-03

Graphic designer Robert Chrispijn has conceptualised the perfect companion to the Roland Boutique JX-03 by reimagining the PG-200 hardware programmer as the GP 002 virtual extension. Shame it's not real.

Behringer DS-80 round 3 – is Uli getting the hang of his CS-80 clone?

The first DS-80 design kept the bank of preset sliders and had a very small ribbon, the second design put the performance controls out of reach. Uli is hoping third time's the charm.

Tone Lab: a stackable modular synthesis system for easy music making

Finding synthesizers a bit too complicated? Tone Lab provides simple interactive hardware that lets you build up sounds in layers of clearly labelled synthesizer blocks. How high will your tower of sound go?

Superbooth 2018: Pittsburgh Modular Electronic Sequencer Designer in action

The fabulous looking Electronic Sequence Designer finally gets fleshed out at Superbooth. 4 channels of CV/Gate plus MIDI and a very versatile and creative user interface that wants to be played with.

Uli Behringer asks for ideas for Eurorack modules

With a couple of cool synthesizers under his belt Uli Behringer turns his attention to Eurorack modules. Do we want Behringer modules for $49-$99? If you've got some ideas Uli would love to hear them.

Apple Mac Pro 2018 rumours: An all-new modular Mac with easy upgrades in the offing?

The new Mac Pro has already been in the works for some time and could be showcased in June at Apple's WWDC event, envisioned as the highest-end desktop system in the Apple line-up.

Apple MacBook Pro 2018 rumours: A better laptop for musicians?

The 2016 and 2017 MacBook Pros didn't come off as convincing upgrades for musicians with reduced connectivity, somewhat gimmicky OLED touch bars, and price increases. Can Apple win them back?

Apple Mac Mini 2018 specs, price, release date rumours: budget Mac for musicians?

The Mac Mini has always been an opportunity for musicians to set up a reasonably capable Mac rig for music production. However, it hasn't been updated since 2014! Has Apple forgotten or there's more to come?

Fender videos demo new effects pedal line-up designed by Stan Cotey

Stan Cotey of Fender has designed six brand new effects for pedals and now Fender has finally released some great demo videos of each one for you to check out.

Behringer asks if you’d like an OB-Xa clone as a desktop or keyboard

While Uli Behringer asks whether you'd like your OB-Xa clone with or without a keyboard, I wonder how long it will be until we can design our own synth in their online store?

Design mockup shows how users want Ableton Live 10 to look

Nenad Milosevic listened to user feedback and created a thorough mockup of the requested design changes in the upcoming Ableton Live 10. His work is polished and authentic, though Live is still flat and dark...

Orange Dual Discrete OP-Amp: Must-have musical component or audio snake oil?

Designed from the ground up for musical applications!

PUSH TURN MOVE – the book for all electronic knob twiddlers

PUSH TURN MOVE is a beautiful book charting the design of music technology interfaces. Just arrived on Kickstarter it's packed full of gear, interviews and stunning photography.

Bergstok Music: Reversible modular guitars looking for backing

Not only can this Bergstok design be switched between a left- and a right-handed version in minutes, you can also swap out pickups with ease, too.