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Black Corporation is now ready to take your deposit on their forthcoming XERXES 8-voice polyphonic desktop synthesizer for delivery shortly before Christmas.
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Joué has produced the not unexpected Grand Fretboard. It transforms their Joué Board MPE/MIDI controller into a squishy guitar fretboard controller for playing licks and chords over a greater range.
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Kodamo has unveiled a prototype of the Essence FM synthesizer at SynthFest France. It's a 6-operator FM synth with 300 voices of polyphony, waveform drawing, MPE support, and many other good ideas.
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ROLI has made its upcoming Studio Player available as a public beta, containing all three of the company’s sound engines, adding a new interface and some effects and composition tools.
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Rediscover the joys of pressure based MIDI and MPE control with the Buchla Thunder reimagined for the Sensel Morph pressure controller.
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A smaller, more portable and perhaps soloist inspired expressive instrument from Haken Audio. The ContinuuMini contains a powerfully dynamic and multi-dimensional sound engine - now on Kickstarter.
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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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Pipes holds up to 128GB of sample library in memory for instant, low latency multi-instrument and multi-controller access. It's open source and touchscreen controlled and looking for preorders.
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Developed with ROLI, makers of the Seaboard MPE controllers, Crusher-X is embracing all 5 dimensions of this expressive technology so you can push your grains in many directions at once.
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The first synth to come out of Fxpansion since the ROLI merger and it's a doozy. CYPHER2 is a complex analogue modelled oscillating and modulating five-dimensional monster synth.
The Expert Sleepers FH-2 will take your MIDI keyboard, MPE controller, MIDI fader/knob bank or groovebox and convert it all to CV while arpeggiating, clocking, LFOing and step sequencing.
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Felix Visser from Syntonovo has been working on a multi-dimensional keyboard long before MPE came along and now his XYZPression keyboard is almost ready to go and it's built into an analog synthesizer.
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Can't afford a Behringer Model D? Don't worry, now you can have an authentic Moog Model D on your iPad for a fiver. Comes with 4 note poly, effects, MIDI and MPE support, loop recording and a load of presets.
The MIDI Manufacturers Associated officially adopts MIDI Polyphonic Expression and MIDI Capability Inquiry into the MIDI specification. MIDI finally begins to evolve.
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The recently release Sensel Morph customisable MIDI controller now lets you change the function of all the control areas so you can mix MIDI control with keyboard strokes, and adds MPE support.
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With this ring, I thee control the filter and vibrato of all my MIDI gear, wedding me to be forever controlling MIDI with gesture infused performances. Does this Oria MIDI Ring rule them all?
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The new Light Block M features added sensitivity, undulating tactile feedback and a deeper and thicker fingerable surface. Erm... this is a musical product right?
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Bitwig Studio reaches version 2.2 and joins the Ableton Link party for instant networked tempo sync to other software and devices. There are also new modulators, time shifting and 3GBs of new content.
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You no longer need to buy a ROLI Seaboard to enjoy the MPE showcase synthesizer Equator. In fact, you don't need an MPE keyboard either. It's available now for everyone.
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If a piano fell through a worm hole from the future then this would be it. The mPIANO is an exquisitely designed MPE controller beautifully built by Austrian company ALPHA Pianos.
The Polyend Poly is a Eurorack MIDI-to-CV converter with 8 voices, 4 outputs and 3 modes of operation and MPE support making it quite a remarkably creative utility module.
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You no longer need to be envious of those premium priced ROLI controllers. The Seaboard Block is 2 octaves of sensibly priced 5D control that can expand with other Blocks.
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Inspired by the Yamaha CS-80 and in celebration of the future-scapes of Vangelis Deckard's Dream is not replicant, it's a living breathing analogue 8 voice polysynth of the gods.
Is it about time that we found something beyond the constraints of MIDI that takes us into the future? Robin seems to think so.
