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Teenage Engineering like to flirt with other industries, they like their sticky fingers in different pies and why not? They’ve done speakers and turntables with Ikea, DJ Tech Tools with Pioneer and personal assistants with Raven. Now they’ve got together with Panic to produce Playdate, the Teenage Engineering designed handheld games console. Playdate What’s that […]
People love to control Ableton Live. It seems to inspire hardware designers more than any other DAW or performance software. One such designer is Galen Farrel (who sounds like he should be in Star Trek) of Envision Sound who is building what he believes to be the next generation (see!) controller for Ableton Live. Strata has […]
If you’ve ever got frustrated with your MIDI controller and thought that you could design something more tailored to your needs then Highly Liquid MIDI CPU is for you. Highly Liquid MIDI CPU It’s a PCB with a microcontroller and everything you need to build your own MIDI controller. Now, by “build” I mean get […]
Akai Professional has introduced a twist on their MPK Mini compact keyboard and pad controller. The MPK Mini Play has a bunch of sounds inside and it’s own speaker making it a portable little musical keyboard. MPK Mini Play 128 sounds and 10 drum kits seems an awful lot like a General MIDI sound set. […]
Make Noise have announced the imminent arrival of a new and improved René. It’s the world’s only 3D Cartesian Music Sequencer and is named after René Descartes. They are not into adding numbers to names so despite some radical upgrades this will now be known as “René”. The original one will simply fade into obscurity. René […]
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 […]
We first came across Tinami in the summer of 2017. Seemed like a neat idea – from an online template 4 x 4 grid of MIDI control possibility you can populate it with the knobs, buttons and sliders of your choice. Hit the order button and Tinami will make you your very own customised MD-1 […]
Gotharman’s Musical Instruments has opened preorders on their latest computerised groove box machine called deFormer 3. The previous deFormer was an effects box whereas this is definitely more in the mould of the DuoSpaze and PolySpaze boxes of noise and rhythms. I get the feeling that Gotharman’s are sort of developing a chunk of technology and put […]
A new instrument was introduced over the weekend at Moogfest from the makers of the Organelle. It’s called ONDA and follows a very similar form factor and can run algorithms from simple to complex on its open platform. ONDA It combines elements from the Organelle and the Pocket Piano but adds a new light-up keyboard […]
Intech Studio releases a few details of their forthcoming Grid modular MIDI controllers ahead of their debut at Superbooth 2018. Grid I’m going to stick my neck and make the assumption that by “modular” they mean that you can use a number of these modules together rather than it having anything to do with Euorack […]