the Invincible: Push Controller – Ableton going the Maschine way. with dynamic pads (pressure & velocity) in Live 9

Ableton says Push! – I want to see you on the floor. it’s very much like a new Launchpad and step sequencer with pressure sensitive  and velocity pads and display, so .. a „better“ maschine? SO GREAT THEY ARE DOING STEP SEQUENCING IN HERE!! Sorry, but this looks more sexy to me than most of current grooveboxy approaches to computers, so – interesting to get my hands on one of these – not so cheap – but interesting concepts of CHOOSING and PLAYING and yet SEQUENCING it – don’t know how…

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iPhone 5 + iPad Mini / Lightning Anschluss und USB-MIDI für Keyboards/Klaviaturen am iPhone 5 – wieder möglich seit 7.02 – Apple Event am 23.Okt.2012

Dear musicians – be aware of Lightning connectors do NOT work with any USB Keyboard with CamConnection kit, if you like to let them know – just tell ‚em you won’t buy things that do not support USB Keyboards as before on any iOS device.. https://discussions.apple.com/message/20078680?ac_cid=op123456#20078680 UPDATES iOS 7.02 and higher (we are at 7.04 atm, 7.1 coming..) – FINALLY WORKS! it finally works on the iPhone 5 (5c/5s should work as well but I don’t own one to check it out) I reconnected a friends iPad 4 and my…

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Sormina – 8 „finger controllers“ used very differently

Forum • Sormina – 8 Drehscheiben ganz anders… this thing seems to come from a Finnish guy called Juhani Räisänen. As you can see it is about more deep nuance of one sounds – to have full control via all fingers – all sent wirelessly to the host computer and sent to synths or softsynths. of course those 8 controllers send out MIDI controller data. in english it’s name could be „fingerina“ (as well as in german) – hmm, how to control pitch and sounds equally or – how do…

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Endeavour Evo Controllerkeyboard – lower prices / kleinere Preise.

those touch sensitive keys called Evo went in the Musikmesse at 2800€, but now they can be aquired for 1199€. endeavour GmbH – note that the missing wheels can be set that way: choose the first C – assign Mod Wheel to it, second key (D or C#) and assign it to Pitch Bend – relative or absolute – there you go. – and also note – those keys are much longer / larger than normal piano or synth/weighted keys, at least to have more room – they got a different feeling…

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QuNeo Controller controlling Ableton – sort of chase light sample position sequencer in here

if you’ve been following Keith McMillens new QuNeo Controller it looks a lot like it is all based on Max/MSP (hard to handle but..) there have been sequencers for Monome doing almost the same – following a clip referring to the position and showing it via the Pads quite similar to a TR808 or Electribe kind of sequencer – mosly limited to 16 or 32 steps (unfortunately) but this one looks promising – just because those slides are colour coded and may show the position later and jump when one 16-bar…

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Madrona Labs Soundplane Controller

Madrona Labs Soundplane Demos at Decibel 2011 – YouTube. since Mr.Linn presented his Linnstrument and somewhere around NOW there’s a hand full of new controllers, that try to re-arrange the way to play melodies and scales – from the Linnstrument, to Buchla Thunder to Eigenharp and the Xylosynth, here’s the Madrona Labs which reminds a bit of an alternate Haken Continuum  – listen and watch. lots of fun, though. this one has sensor fields that are also pressure sensitive but not continously – nevertheless is seems to have position sensors per…

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