930 Results for "MIDI"

Korg celebrates 10 years of the nanoSERIES MIDI controllers with a splash of colour

Korg releases their inner fabulousness with Orange/Green and Blue/Yellow anniversary nanoSERIES controllers. Or this is what happens when you let your kids loose in your design software.

909 Day – Behringer reveal the RD-909 Rhythm Designer

The combination of Knobcon and 909 Day was too much of a temptation for Behringer and so they had to reveal the prototype of their RD-909 Rhythm Designer.

909 Day: DSP Synthesizers releases 909 based “Plugin Synth” on a USB stick

Using Virtual Analog Technology DSP Synths has recreated the Roland TR-909 as the R909 Plugin Synthesizer on a USB stick. Plug it into any device and you have 909 sounds ready to go.

A is for “Affordable” with the Komplete Kontrol A-Series controller keyboards

Looking suspiciously like the original Komplete Kontrol keyboards the new A-Series controllers aim to bring NKS instrument mapping to a keener budget.

Native Instruments pumps up the Komplete Kontrol S88 to MK2

Catching up the S49 and S61 the fully-weighted, hammer-action Komplete Kontrol S88 controller keyboard gets the MK2 makeover with dual screens, pitch and mod wheels and the sleek black buttons and lines.

UNO’s official editor released by IK Multimedia

With the release of the software editor you can now get fully under the hood of the IK Multimedia UNO synthesizer. You don't have to wish for bigger envelopes or PWM - it's all here on Mac, PC and iOS.

Spectrasonics Omnisphere 2.5 Hardware Synth Integration finally arrives

It's taken them a while to release the 2.5 update we first saw at NAMM but it's been worth the wait. Omnishere 2.5 Hardware Synth Integration is immense and the most extraordinary thing I've seen in a long ...

Cosmosƒ real-time dynamic stochastic synthesis engine reaches Saturn6

Saturn6 introduces "The Object" so rather than sculpting the concrete sonic material, you record your gestures targeting all parameters which construct the sound object. No, I have no idea what that means ...

ModulAir: a slightly dodgy but fun polyphonic virtual modular VSTi that’s free

Full Bucket Music has released the slightly buggy beta of ModulAir which sounds brilliant but might crash horribly. But with some great sounds and lots of cable-free patching, it's worth a go.

Stick your gear together with midiglue converter, sequencer and effects unit

Kickstarter project midiglue is a box of tricks that mutually converts MIDI, USB and CV/Gate, it splits and merges, sequences and arpeggiates and has a bunch of MIDI effects. Perfect for sticking your gear ...

Kemper Profiler OS 5.5.2: More features, easier control and stereo

The new 5.5.2 OS for Kemper's Profiler range of modelling amps adds some new features that will make it easier to use and also make it more flexible than before.

Transform the Microsoft Surface Dial into a MIDI controller with Elephant

The Surface Dial is a brilliantly engineering piece of hardware that sits around doing nothing all day. Not any more. With Elephant you can transform it into an awesome knob controller for your music software.

Get some guitar feel in your electronic music with the StrumPad MIDI Controller

A remarkable open source MIDI project that creates the feel of strumming a guitar. Feed chords from a keyboard into StrumPad and then strum away with your fingers to output a very expressive strummed ...

Fully fledged DAW Tracktion 7 is now free

Tracktion Corporation has announced that Tracktion 7 is now completely free. Unlimited tracks, VST support, vocal comping and step sequencing it has everything you need to produce music on MacOS, Windows or ...

Ribn: Looping finger driven modulation of any MIDI parameter from an iOS device

New into the Apple App Store is Ribn, an organic repeating modulation generator that you can run into any MIDI device. Record looping oscillations or complex finger movements for fabulously spontaneous control.

Sputnik – Arcade Modded Guitar

This Ibanez Semi-Hollow AS53 has been stuffed full of controllers and has enough lights on it to help land an aeroplane

IK Multimedia UNO Synth gets a free iPad patch editor

While we're waiting for IK to release the PC/Mac editor for UNO Jakob Haq has put together a full editor for iPad using MIDI Designer Pro 2 which reveals all sorts of hidden parameters.

RetroKits RK-005: USB MIDI Hub that hosts, merges and interconnects everything

Got a lot of USB MIDI gear knocking around? Well the RK-005 can host it and bring it all together into a single MIDI stream, clock to analog and then connect to a DAW or not. A super versatile MIDI interface.

Lunastone Three Stage Rocket MIDI: Søren Andersen signature overdrive

Based on its Big Fella circuit, Lunastone's (kinda) new release adds MIDI to its Three Stage Rocket pedal, letting you integrate it with MIDI gear such as DAWs or bigger digital pedalboards.

Oddball: Grab a ball and start bouncing beats and controlling MIDI

If Steve McQueen in The Great Escape was a DJ then Oddball would be his beat making weapon of choice. Bounce the ball, make beats, repeat. It could also be an interesting physics-based MIDI controller.

Q170 MIDI Gates: Moog Unit module produces gate signals from MIDI messages

The Q170 MIDI Gates is a useful module that translates MIDI notes and CC messages into 8 channels of gates for your 5U Moog Unit format modular synthesizer

Mode Machines SEQ12: Huge 12 track matrix based hardware MIDI sequencer

The 12 x 16 red LED button matrix is the centrepiece of this chunky hardware MIDI sequencer. 12 tracks of either mono, poly or percussion sequencing with plenty of room for performance and pattern triggering.

Blue Cat Audio gives away its Free Amp plug-in, 3 amp sims that go up to 11

With dials that go all the way to 11 these three new guitar amp simulation plugins will keep you busy for a while and best of all they are all completely free!

Behringer X-Touch One Universal Control Surface: hands-on DAW control

Behringer introduced the X-Touch One Universal Control Surface, a tool designed to enhance your DAW workflow. For USD 150, it comes across as a good option for supplementing the typical mouse-keyboard combo.