The tease machine leading up to Superbooth has started and IK Multimedia are dropping clues to a new device they are bringing to the show. Knobs seem to be the focus, which is nice.
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Native Instruments smallest and cheapest way into the Komplete eco-system with the Komplete Kontrol M32 MIDI controller keyboard and NKS control station.
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The pedal Danger Zone analogue phaser and tremolo pedal, comes with built-in WingMan controllers and something called the Secret Weapon Mach II?
A new Eurorack module from Rossum Electro that's a field of knobs and intertwined patch sockets that, apparently, is all analogue - what's it going to be?
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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.
Fancy dreaming up a MIDI controller? The Highly Liquid MIDI CPU could be the heart of your ideal controller. All you have to is solder on the knobs and faders and tell it what you want it to do.
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PsyTrance producer Raphael Huber has designed a 60-knob MIDI box that lays out controls common to many analogue-style VST synths, helping you jump between them yet stay in control.
The MPK Mini Play has 128 sounds and 10 drum kits and can also act as a USB MIDI controller, run on batteries and has onboard speakers. So it's a cool little portable music device. But who is it for?
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Developed in cooperation with Image Line, the Fire controller integrates tightly with FL Studio, not unlike Ableton Push or NI Maschine. With 4 matrixes x 16 velocity-sensitive RGB pads, you can input patterns.
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Make Noise's Cartesian sequencer has evolved into a third dimension so you can now snake in one dimension while Cartesianing in two others, simultaneously. And it all lights up, which is nice.
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The small but mighty ATOM is a compact performance pad controller with lots of special Studio One integration. Perfect for banging out beats on the Impact XT drum machine.
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Go to the website, design your dream MIDI controller using knobs, buttons and faders on a 4 x 4 grid and hit the order button. That's the plan and they are taking preorders on Kickstarter to make it happen.
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Korg releases their inner fabulousness with Orange/Green and Blue/Yellow anniversary nanoSERIES controllers. Or this is what happens when you let your kids loose in your design software.
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Looking suspiciously like the original Komplete Kontrol keyboards the new A-Series controllers aim to bring NKS instrument mapping to a keener budget.
Freak makers Melu Instruments have started to tease a new desktop device that's "a little bit more than a synth or a sequencer" and could possibly take grooveboxes to a new dimension. What do you think it is?
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SKULPT is a great name for a fat little futuristically designed polyphonic synthesizer. 4 voices and 32 oscillators of virtual analogue synthesis that'll run on batteries. Hitting Kickstarter next week.
