NAMM 2019: Kemper Kabinet 1×12 cab announced

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Kemper is launching a new Kabinett 1×12 cab and Editor at Winter NAMM. They have spent two years developing it and it adds 16 new Speaker Characters in one cab. Kemper Kabinet The new Kemper Kabinet has been developed during the last two years by the company for their Kemper PROFILER system. The Kemper Kabinet […]

Shapeshifter: DIY drum machine with expandable hardware

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Fase Lunare has come up with an expandable DIY drum machine they are calling Shapeshifter. The Open Source, Teensy based project is also Open Hardware and has an integrated breadboard to encourage experimentation and the development of expansion boards. Shapeshifter With the basic firmware it features 4 voices and 16 samples per voice. Each drum […]

The ATOM: small but mighty performance pad controller from PreSonus

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Small but mighty, that’s always the idea of something called Atom. The ATOM production and performance pad controller from PreSonus appears to fit the bill. It’s certainly a very colourful little thing. ATOM Slightly unexpected I would say. PreSonus have their FaderPort control surfaces but nothing to indicate they were getting into the performance pad […]

ALAK is a 4-track polygonal pattern sequencer with rotating shapes

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That’s an immediately intriguing headline, or at least it is for people who find the possibility of a rotating polygonal pattern sequencer interesting. And let’s face it, who doesn’t? ALAK offers 4 tracks of shape-based gate sequencing which makes it a doddle to dial up interesting rhythmic changes and occurrences on-the-fly. ALAK Not sure it stands […]

Crazy8 Beats is now available for rhythm and sequencing fun times

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We caught a whiff of this bonkers box back in November but now it’s ready to unleash its craziness upon the world of modular percussion and MIDI synthesis. Crazy8 Beats is available now for a tempting €303. Crazy8 Beats It draws a lot of similarities to their regularly bonkers “Crazy8” sequencer but this time the […]