Synth 

NAMM 2016: Waldorf Kassettenspieler „Sampler“ in Rocket Case

Dies ist ein Gerücht – aber ein Gutes. Ein Minisampler von Waldorf – inspiriert von diesem Ding hier: Waldorf Kassettenspieler This is a rumour, but a nice one. Maybe you know this one: Cassette Sampler KeyboardDieses Video auf YouTube ansehen this is basically on a professional level, what the tape player (kassettenspieler) will be able to – it comprises of these.. Waldorf “Kassettenspieler” Tapeloop Synthesizer inspired by the legendary sounds of tape machines Upload any kind of samples – ARM Processor – Analog Multimode Filter – 128 GB Internal Flash Memory…

Event 

Apple WWDC – OS X El Capitan 10.11 + iOS 9 + Apple Music (new service) – Audio Unit Plugins in iOS9

El Capitan is the name of the new OS X 10.11 (Release: Oct 2015) has some nice updates but more „minor“ stuff like swipe gesture in Mail, and real English questions in finder, spotlight and mail like „find stuff I was working for last june“ – so may fit fine into Siri commands Safari adds audio off if something start noising around it has a mute button and „pins“. and spring open Emails in Mail. So it’s nice to have but no revolution. split window/screen setup and multiple screen stuff.…

NAMM 2015 – OVERVIEW / ÜBERSICHT + Talk

UPDATED – last: 25.1. 19:30 (also updated most of these posts:) most important things from NAMM in one – OVERVIEW  – die wichtigsten Sachen von der NAMM Waldorf Wavetable Module (Eurorack), Attack App, Nave Plugin Moog Modular limited edition System 15-55 – Minimoog? coming? Roland JD Xi + JD Xa – analog + digital crossover synths + TR sequencer inside! Korg MS20M with FM, Sync, PWM and flat desktop design + SQ1 sequencer (-> SynthDB   Korg MS20M Analog Synthesizer) Sequential Prophet 6 (yes it is labelled Sequential, not Dave Smith who is still the distributor) +…

Synth 

Sequential (Dave Smith) Prophet 6 – very Prophet 5’ish Synth

it’s a lot like the 1x Multi Timbral, 5 Voice, (1978)   Sequential Circuits Prophet 5 Analog Synthesizer but with some additions. -> bold – what is different to the P5 the Sequential Circuits Prophet 6, P6 Analog Synthesizer isn’t bad at all. Sounds a bit different but has new filters and OSCs. very hands-on, very easy and intuitive – ok – it is a classic concept so it should be- like the FX in this one. 2 VCOs- morphable wave shapes – PWM – Sync, 6 voices Triangle Sub Generator Slope for „analog“ detuning low & high pass filter velocity /…

DAW macOS 

Logic Pro X10.1 (2015)

hey, Apple seems to keep working on Logic X – and .. not being at NAMM (I think) here is a run down image stolen from CDN – see link above! – since apple .. well – never got an NFR or so.. so.. Automation by regions org’ed plugins multi touch EQ support + app retro synth + wavetables (so this is catching up with retrologue etc.) A NEW COMPRESSOR <—!!! the old one was sooo $%$%!! new quantize mode called „smart quantize“ names can be seen – got handles…

the last genoQs Octopus Sequencer made by it’s master

Marcel of the former GenoQs Sequencer company took his soldering iron to make one last Octopus Sequencer and posted it on Ebay for auction – as you know I rarely post things that are just for sale there but since this sort of the last chances to get one incl help in case of things not working in the future you still get help from Marcel and to mark the sell official – so here we go for 1480€ plus transport (20€). 26.June: update: it’s now at 1640€ – climbing…

Musikmesse Bericht 2014 – Final Musikmesse 2014 Images Collection

Here we go – the super long’ish Imagery Gallery from the Messery including my own booth – SynMag / Synthesizer-Magazin featuring a lot of vintage synths but also the Magazine of the present & future SynMag .. ja, dann mal vom Stand des SynMag mit alten Synthesizern zum Heft über neue Synthesizer und das Beste von Heute von der Messe in Bildwerk. Controller – Software und Kurioses.. Rack Version von den neuen Clavias, Step Sequencer von M-audio und Akai – in letzterem Fall ein vollständiger analoge Drumcomputer, der jedoch nicht…

Roland Aira – Post NAMM 2.nd-4th Teaser for new SH101/TR808/TB303 -> TB3, System 1, TR8

UPDATE – it will be presented on Musikmesse but also in Feb. – and they put out some more till then – they seem to be more into the promotion of stuff – they did not show the AIRA series at NAMM but have another teaser for the world and I also just post it and send you to the longish forum posts (page 35) .. 4th Update: it’s called ACB – Analog Circuit Bahavior – Korg’s buzz word is quite similar (component modeling…) it means – they analyzed it…