New Apple Mac Book Pro 13″ Retina + Mac Mini (+ iPad Mini)

13″ MacBook Pro – from 1699$, – aber bei uns..? hmm.. 2,5 GHz, 8 GB RAM, 128 GB Flash storage 2,5 GHz, 8 GB RAM, 256 GB Flash storage 2,9 GHz, 8 GB RAM, 512 GB Flash storage <— den muss man haben Mac mini 2,5 GHz Dual, 4 GB RAM, 500 GB Hard drive 2,3 GHz Quad, 4 GB RAM, 1 TB Hard drive Mac mini Server 2,3 GHz Quad, 4 GB RAM, 2 TB Hard drive iPad Mini… whatever. 1024×768 pix , 7.9″, very thin – more for…

Elecktroid Drum Machine (OS X) incl. Probability Functionality

this is a drum machine with probability based functions for steps and also some nice features like automation of the waves (jumping around in a sample – sampling is possible) – so this may be interesting, this is just a teaser – so not everything is told in detail, but .. Eine Drum-Machine mit Step-Eingabe, Wahrscheinlichkeits-Stepübergabe und ein bisschen Modulation der Sample/Position oder anders gesagt – es sieht nach im Sampler herumfahren aus, .. allerdings zu wenig Details sind zu erkennen,….. Forum: ->Polyrhythmik, das wollten wir doch schon immer! Elecktroid

iPhone 5 + iPad Mini / Lightning Anschluss und USB-MIDI für Keyboards/Klaviaturen am iPhone 5 – wieder möglich seit 7.02 – Apple Event am 23.Okt.2012

Dear musicians – be aware of Lightning connectors do NOT work with any USB Keyboard with CamConnection kit, if you like to let them know – just tell ‚em you won’t buy things that do not support USB Keyboards as before on any iOS device.. https://discussions.apple.com/message/20078680?ac_cid=op123456#20078680 UPDATES iOS 7.02 and higher (we are at 7.04 atm, 7.1 coming..) – FINALLY WORKS! it finally works on the iPhone 5 (5c/5s should work as well but I don’t own one to check it out) I reconnected a friends iPad 4 and my…

Yamaha MX49 / MX61 Rompler

Yamaha introduced a new offspring of the Motif and the downsized MOX series – the 128voice MX49 with smaller keyboard (finally!) and the standard format. USB Editor/MIDI, audio in.. of course this is a rompler and based on workstation style structure like a smaller MO-X , so it’s a lot like the new MM6. But it was and is time to get the idea of keyboards do not need to be larger than 60 keys by default, .. hope to see this on the big models as well, 3.5 Octaves…

Koma SVF-201 Analogue State Variable Filter Module

First Module by KOMA, euro rack format filter based on vactrols (optical components).  all 3 filter types can be used simultaneously. (or notch when mixed together as known from other modules of this kind like the Oberheim SEM, …) it has parallel mounted PCBs – can be used in skiffs – total depth is less than 4 cm. THE SPECS ARE:* 4 audio outputs: Low Pass, Band Pass, High Pass, Mix Out * 1 audio input with attenuator / adjustable gain * CV input for Cutoff with attenuator * CV…

Sormina – 8 „finger controllers“ used very differently

Forum • Sormina – 8 Drehscheiben ganz anders… this thing seems to come from a Finnish guy called Juhani Räisänen. As you can see it is about more deep nuance of one sounds – to have full control via all fingers – all sent wirelessly to the host computer and sent to synths or softsynths. of course those 8 controllers send out MIDI controller data. in english it’s name could be „fingerina“ (as well as in german) – hmm, how to control pitch and sounds equally or – how do…

2 Projects introduced – Raspberry Pi running Pure Data / Parallella for audio multi threaded/core operation – platform

This is the small raspberry PI Computer, which is nerdy as hell, but a very nice chance to get even a synth to work with this project – didn’t know it was fast enough so – here’s a demo of it strange, that guy wrote on his Remote XL instead of using the display, but he’s more clever than I am, since he knows how to handle this: first session with the Raspberry Pi running Pure Data. I’m running Pd 0.44 (test version) with „-nogui -noadc -alsa“ flags + a…

Synth-Project presents: The Little Shruthi-1 Keyboard – A closer look (not a musical demo)

Synth-Project did it again building a synth keyboard and knobs around the well known Shruti -1 vom Mutable Instruments – not that it is a functional more fun to play work, no it is just also looking nice – reminds a bit of a slightly flattened little phatty – so this is a bit more than a „controller“ – it’s a mod. -> Mutable Shruti , Shruti XL Synth the standard Shruti -1 looks like this and sounds like this: