After lots of talk about the future of MIDI the MIDI Manufacturers Associationg drags the proposed specification for MIDI 2.0 into the spotlight of prototyping. Let's hope it works.
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Designed in Denmark, this little guitar upgrade could add MIDI expression to your guitar - without the need for any routing or permanent modifications to your instrument!
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DataLooper is a MIDI foot pedal designed to give hands-free control over the Looper device and Session View in Ableton Live. It's reached its goal on Indiegogo and will become a reality unlike State of The ...
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Strata is a prototype advanced controller for Ableton Live from Envision Sound that claims to take control, performance and workflow to the next level. They are looking for Live users to get involved.
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If you need to plug a MIDI controller into an analogue synthesizer then Kenton have you covered. The Pro Solo Mk3 in a stunningly similar silver box with more CV outputs, envelope and drum triggering.
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Marshall and Alexa join forces: The new Acton II Voice and Stanmore II Voice smart speakers combine classic rock amp looks with modern day smart speaker technology.
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Trying to play creatively on an octave-and-a-half of mini rubber keys is an uphill battle so now Joué is giving us the extended Grand Clavier with 25 notes of MPE expression, a controller strip and bubble.
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Intech Studio is hoping to bring their innovative modular MIDI controller to life via crowdfunding site Indiegogo. Each 4x4 unit of controls snaps together magnetically and instantly works with your DAW.
Novation updates their SL range of controller keyboards with five little screens, dual CV/Gate outputs and a polyphonic 8-track sequencer. The SL Mk III is packed full of versatile controlling action.
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Get your fingers into Ableton Live with touchAble Pro multi-touch controller and performance tool for iOS, Android and Windows touchscreens. It's more than control - it's like a whole new front end.
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The little entry level Maschine gets a welcome upgrade. Mikro MK3 is smaller, lighter and sleeker than the previous version and is ideal for music production on the move with the full Maschine software.
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The Surface Dial is a brilliantly engineering piece of hardware that sits around doing nothing all day. Not any more. With Elephant you can transform it into an awesome knob controller for your music software.
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New into the Apple App Store is Ribn, an organic repeating modulation generator that you can run into any MIDI device. Record looping oscillations or complex finger movements for fabulously spontaneous control.
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Would you let the sticky fingers of kids anyway near your Eurorack? DivKid does - in this new video he shows how a playful selection of modules and a CV controller can introduce kids to modular.
New mid-range controller keyboards from Nektar get leaked on a French music store website. The Panorama T4 and T6 appear to have all the DAW integration facilities we like at an attractive price point.
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A new form of distorted synthesis discovered after a lab coding accident that has been likened to crashing data streams together is both painful and breathtaking. StarCruncher is somehow terrible and awesome.
Both Hickory and Dickory look (and probably feel) like actual analogue hardware, giving MIDI control over FabFilter's plug-ins - or any other EQ plug-ins that accept MID input.
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A video has emerged of the U-He CVilization prototype Eurorack module in action but without any explanation of what it's actually doing. Is it a CV processor, a sequence mixer? What do you think?
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Norns is a minimalist metal box harbouring the power of processes to evolve and morph into anything you can write a script for. Monome's slow reveal is an enticing look into the mind of a synthesis developer.
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Capacitive touch control of CV in multiple dimensions, sequencing, MIDI and with reassuring curves (arches) could be the modular (and more) controller that you've been waiting for.
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With Slow Rise, Slow Fall, Sine, Square and Harmonic tremolo effects all onboard, this new foot treadle operated tremolo effect looks like a really well thought out pedal design, but how does it sound?
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Enhancia's Neova and has fully funded on Kickstarter after a day. Meanwhile, the Genki Wave has double funded on Indiegogo. 2018 is the year of the MIDI controller ring but which one has ultimate power?
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With the latest update (v. 2.7.3) to its Maschine production platform, NI has added integration with Logic Pro X to the Maschine MK3 hardware controller. The unit's displays now showcase the Logic mixer.
Million Machine March has taken the Bastl 60 Knobs and added 60 Jacks for patching control voltage directly into your DAW or other MIDI device. Is this the CV/MIDI hub we've been waiting for?
