NAMM 2006 – 19.Jan

well NAMM is close (19th, Jan) but this europe, so we’ll get our info through US sites and blogs, so this time it is about watching the big and smaller ones. there are rumours around for another mc808, a smaller mc909, hope it is the furst live-able one since no mc allows access of the steps like the electribe does or the xbase999 , machinedrum etc. maybe we’ll see another korg? anyway, there is nothing I know of that is much of a surprise.. we’ll see.. NAMM 2006 steht am…

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Anyware SEMTEX – 19 inch Rack ready shipping..

the rack version of the semtex.. it has it’s power switch on the front panel and the top 2 rows are the midi CV + gate outs, that can acced from the front, the midi jacks are on the back side.. same price as the XL standard desktop: 1200€. der Semtex hat nun eine Rackvariante bekommen, es gibt nun Powerschalter und Midi CV/gate Buchsen vorne, Midi natürlich bleibt hinten.. anyware SEMTEX – 19″ Rack is ready.. shipping.. review / test semtex.. and audio SEM vs. Semtex compared plus lots of…

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Boing Boing: new Coldplay CD has rules: No MP3s, no DVD players, no car stereos

Du you like CDs? here is a special one with rules: no converting to mp3, no playing in cars (!), no playing on any computer! (they do not mention Linux, so maybe you are allowed to play it on a Linux machine.. btw: since I do not own a CD player I would not be allowed to play it! so why do they say it,, when you’ve already bought it? Boing Boing: Coldplay’s new CD has rules: No MP3s, no DVD players, no car stereos is this legal to do…

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(D) Moog contra Creamware Minimax?

nur ,weil bisher keiner wirklich drüber schreiben wollte.. wir haben das zu dritt mal gemacht.. es gibt auch welche, die bei Blindflug den Creamware bevorzugten.. HIER WURDEN VOYAGER UND MINIMAX GEGENEINANDERGESTELLT, NICHT MINIMOOG UND MINIMAX, also bitte nur als PLANSPIEL betrachten!! die idee dabei ist, heute kaufbare Alternativen zu suchen zum MOOGSOUND allgemein.. basierend auf MINI und anderen.. ein echter vergleich folgt, wenn sich das mal ergibt und minimax und minimoog sich bei anwesenheit meiner ohren treffen!! also.. Sprich: Direktheit und „vorn sein“ contra Breite, Volumen und „Schönheit“, Das Analoge…

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dvdborn: Oberheim OB8k

look at this, never seen a pic but rumours about what it can do.. here is one by DVD born.. (I recently told you about them/him).. dvdborn do not confuse this with the ob8.. want more synth, that never went into real production .. einige Synthesizer, die es nie geschafft haben.. Forum.. it is basically a Matrix1000 , but expanded, it has 8 voices (or better say it had?), was shown on NAMM 1989, it had also some Masterkey functions possibly like the Xk, which has a nice Arper with…

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