Korg Electribes MX/SX are discontinued – new Electribe 2 in 2015

販売完了製品|KORG INC.. says my beloved Electribes (SX and MX) are officially discontinued? I heard some very vague rumours there might be something coming. I am not happy to say, that also the Volca series isn’t at all anything like a replacement as well as the Gadget App which are nice but not even close complete – the real thing on tribes was – you could make your music incl samples and had enough tracks to make it work – more is nice – polyphony as well and dynamics as well. but…

MusikMesse 2013 Impression + SynMag Walkthrough

Musikmesse Impressions (iPhone -lo quality) – it’s all quite like announced. But there have been 2-3 things that are nice, small things.. Nord Lead 4 (digital, successor of the NL3), Korg Volca Beat series (all analog / MS filters), Novation Bass Station II Analog Synth, Jomox Drum Modules, EOWave – complete new modular system (!), MFB Dominion 1 & MFB Tanzbär (Tr808 style) Drummachine with Roll-Function and 16 Patterns in Chain (!), Buchla Distribution (Vertrieb in EU): Schneidersbüro / – heißt ja jetzt Alex4 inkl Reparatur und Music Easel im Programm. …take some time to load all images ;) _…

NI Komplete 9 + Battery 4

beside the „revolution“ analog sounding something coming up there will be 2 more things.. Komplete 9 – new in here (compared to Komplete 8): MONARK synth (analog modeling „minimoog style“) BATTERY 4 drum sample player THE GIANT piano SOLID EQ SOLID BUS COMP SOLID DYNAMICS -> studio fx SESSION STRINGS -> string library Battery 4 – just an ad, no real content in here.. time stretching and optimized workflow – ..

Arturia – MinimoogV-Original free on 21.this month (only)

on the 21.st there will be a free Minimoog V version up for everyone. the „original“ addition means, that it is really just „the mini“, no additions, as we know and love Arturia for – but it has the same sound as the minimoog V and you can use it for free – so why not checking it out, then…? Arturia – Musical Instruments | MinimoogV-Original.

Modular – the documentary – I Dream of Wires – Video (cEvin Key of Skinny Puppy in here)

Modular – the documentary – I Dream of Wires – Video about Modular Synths. check the previews to it I Dream of Wires — IndieGoGo. – NOTE – they still need your support to make it happen until end of this year – so this is crowdsocializing the costs – you may „buy“ it in advance and help them to get it done! DREAM OF WIRES: THE MODULAR SYNTHESIZER DOCUMENTARY will take you on a journey into the obscure, but highly influential world of modular synthesizers. Learn how it revolutionized…

Mackie & Behringer iPad Mixers – they (Mackie) did not „take“ anything, sure! + UPDATE iodock clone by behringer

hmm, very straight video, they got. so here’s the second bigger company showing a new mixer based or better built around the iPad (looks like you need lots of them in the future)? worth a look: and.. – unmentioned before / bisher noch nicht hier genannt – iPad Dock Mixers from Behringer – Forum: iPad Pulte von Behringer Info Check: /www.behringer.com/news/behringer … ix1642usb/ It’s basically the Xenyx series, but with iPad Dock, don’t know how good it works with macs and audio, since Behringer has always been really bad with editor software…

Arturia Minibrute Analog Synth

Arturias new Mini Brute Analog Synthesizer more musical video approch from the EM project Node Multimode Filter (Steiner Parker), 1 OSC with SubOSC, 2 LFOs,  0,1 Hz to 100 Hz special „Ultrasaw“ and „metallic“ settings called Metalizer 2 ADSR envelopes 25 dyn keyboard with aftertouch CV/Gate USB MIDI, MIDI in / out (no thru) Arpeggiator possibly sooner or later with Pro-One kind of Mini Sequencer “ Note that the Arpeggiator can also be used as a basic sequencer. In the Hold mode, you press and hold the first key of the sequence, then…

Logic @ App Store – Logic Pro X coming?

Apple is kind of strange, from now they sell Logic Pro 9 for 150€ and Main Stage 2 for 24€, of course it’s smaller (430MB). So Logic X might be one step closer, and since they actually SELL Logic Pro 9 it looks a LOT like a completely new non compatible Logic Pro X coming sooner or later. Since they don’t need package and posting it it’s cheaper – but they also threw away all those sound packages on the DVDs, most of the built in effects are unchanged since…