ZAOR’s MAREA media workstation provides perfect home for new-gen mixing consoles ORADEA, ROMANIA: studio furniture designer and manufacturer ZAOR is proud to introduce the MAREA media workstation — another addition to its flourishing family of CLASSIC Series media workstations, this time tailored to stylishly and comfortably accommodate a new generation of compact mixing consoles and [...]

Let’s take a look at the DSI Pro 2 overview with Carson of Dave Smith Instruments at Summer NAMM 2014 courtesy of BBoyTechReport affiliate William McKnight of The Maschine Warehouse. If you don’t know much yet about the new DSI Pro 2 monosynth with polyphonic tendencies (thanks to a bit of clever paraphonic design work) be sure to [...]

James Patrick’s Ableton Live and synthesis knowledge is deep. He was one of the first, anywhere on earth, to teach and develop a curriculum based on Ableton Live.  I had a chance to meet James Patrick, Dubspot Senior Instructor, recently. I sat in on one of his overviews of Silent Way VST. James expertly demonstrated how to [...]

Big things coming from CME as Jordan Rudess joins the team as CMO (Chief Musical Officer). Jordan has always supported and been an advocate for CME’s XKey but now it seems that he has officially joined the team. Here is what CME’s blog had to say about it. As a keyboardist, Jordan Rudess is a [...]

My good folks over at Make Noise is at it again. The latest in the series of using a modular synth with an mpc preps you to sequence a bassline using the Make Noise Shared System modular synth which I’m sure translates well into any modular synth. SO for my MPC heads that may be [...]

Teenage engineering is proud to announce the release of the OD-11 cloud speaker for the US market, starting from 18th July 2014. The original Stig Carlsson OD-11 loudspeaker, from 1974, is back forty years after the original launch. As practically all Swedes know, booming in the 70’s, the Carlsson loudspeakers challenged a whole industry, resulting [...]

Premier DJ manufacturer unveils the first intelligent Serato DJ controller with integrated software feedback screens. Cumberland, RI, USA – July 14, 2014. Numark (numark.com), the world’s leading innovator of DJ solutions, announces NV, an intelligent controller for Serato DJ. Featuring high-resolution color screens that provide extensive visualization of Serato’s flagship DJ platform and advanced interactive [...]

Looking for the Perfect Beat is a cinéma vérité immersion inside the unique Los Angeles “beat scene” music community, centered around the world famous Low End Theory club night. Filmed over the summer of 2013, we are given the opportunity to elegantly lift the veil on the personal creative processes of the internationally-acclaimed pillars of the [...]

Breakthrough modulus.002 takes British synth power polyphonically to world stage BRISTOL, UK: breakthrough British electronic musical instruments manufacturer Modulus is proud to announce availability of modulus.002 — the first analogue/digital hybrid polysynth to have been designed, developed, and manufactured in the UK for four decades — as of July 10… Even though the technology for [...]

The first Portable Lightning/USB MIDI interface for iPhone, iPad and Mac/PC July 10, 2014 – IK Multimedia, the leader in mobile music-creation apps and accessories, is now shipping iRig® MIDI 2, the first portable Lightning/USB MIDI interface for iPhone, iPad and iPod touch as well as Mac and PC. iRig MIDI 2 adds a whole [...]