NAMM 2013 IV – still some things to know – clever MIDI, Audio and ..

there have been quite a lot of interesting things at NAMM, see all the 2-3 pages of news – here’s a new Apple-Keyboard-kind of MINI USB Keyboard from CME with polyphonic Aftertouch and Dynamics for $99 .. also Behringer got a range of Mixers that also work as an audio interface in 4 sizes – as a small 19″ rack, a bigger one like the Yamaha 01V96 and the 2 X32 mixers with OLED displays for track names and full knob control – they are all iPad controllable as well…

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Eventide H9 Harmonizer – Stompbox re-thunk

they’re stompboxing the H9000? Well, this one is more the preset-kind of thing, but looks like there will be an editor app for ipads, has MIDI and so it might be a good idea and chance to have the quite unhandy H-series Editor (Orville n stuff) to be more usable and touchable, so .. this is a great chance to do it the right way, I did not even see or touch it, so .. one of those things to check out.. Eventide H9 Harmonizer® – Stompbox re-thunk. in fact…

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Launchkey free app & new Controller

Launchkey is a new little iPad Preset Synth with morphable parameters and a new controller keyboards with 16 pads is released under the same name as well. the launchkey-app is already available at the appstore, since there is already another app named launchpad we’ll see if it will be released under that name – it’s planned to add something to the pads – maybe sooner or later to control ableton live in a launchpad manner?..

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Apple Special: Vom iPad zum Macbook. iOS und OS X für Musik – Umgang mit dem Appstore – Welche Mac Hardware? Wie konfigurieren? HD, SSD, RAM, Macs – Was braucht man wirklich? – Workshops – AMAZONA.de

Apple Special: Vom iPad zum Macbook. iOS und OS X für Musik – Umgang mit dem Appstore – Welche Mac Hardware? Wie konfigurieren? HD, SSD, RAM, Macs – Was braucht man wirklich? – Workshops  ich habe mal einen kleinen Artikel zu iOS und OS X geschrieben, hier geht es vorallem um die Hardware -was passt wozu und was soll man beachten wenn man einen Mac für Musik kauft. Es wird noch eine Folge geben, wo es dann um iOS Apps geht, MIDI und die Praxis und welche Apps generell was…

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macOS Windows 

Waves go synthesizers – Element – standard VA synth

Element By Waves. is nothing special – a 2 OSCed 4 LFO synth with all you might expect but nothing too special except it is from waves – well known for their production tools and quite hard dongled (iLok’ed) and expensive bundles. But well – they’re good at what they’re doing.. has a sequencer/arpeggiator as well and they went for Jordan Rudess to put his name under it.. Forum: Waves stellt ersten Synth vor…. ein Standard VA, aber von Waves ist nun unterwegs. 2 OSCs, 4 LFOs, Standard Filter und Arp/Sequencer.

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