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Designed with Erik Norlander (Alesis Andromeda) this little monosynth really does impress with its sound and capabilities. UNO is now available to own and it'll be interesting to see what people do with it.
Surface Go is your iPad-sized entry to the Microsoft Surface range at an interesting price that can run desktop music software. It comes with a keyboard and pen but does it have enough power?
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More groovebox action from Denmark's Gotharman's Musical Instruments. This time the deFormer 3 includes 16 light-up buttons for easier step sequencing of the multiple synth, sampler, noise and audio tracks.
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The Shrolca takes the Mutable Instruments Shruthi mono MIDI synthesizer and puts it in a Volca sized box and adds a touch keyboard for good measure. It's not exactly innovative but it looks cool.
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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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Grab hold of your Komplete Kontrol keyboard with both hands and journey through the Blackhole of extraterrestrial reverberation with Eventides awesome plug-in now compatible with NKS 2.0
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Through motion sensors, induction, conduction and touching fruit you can trigger nodes that play notes and generate tunes from playful interaction. Playtronica pulls everyday objects into electronic music.
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The NSynth algorithm extracts characteristics from a handful of sounds to interpolate a gazillion others letting you play in the space between instruments. It's experimental, open source and backed by Google.
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StageLight 3.5 works some magic into the Drum Machine with multiple lanes of automation, enhances the mixing experience and sorts out the browser. There's no DAW on Windows, Android or MacOS as touchable.
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Navigate your DAW like a boss with this palm-sized programmable keyboard shortcut and macro controller. TouchPad has 36 keys for up to 5 commands per key for super fast audio editing.
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DEK is an innovation and smart grid-based MIDI controller that can automatically detect lock into the key of a song and let you play along. Is that worth 2499 of your hard earned dollars?
The Neuman prototype synthesizer from the same Japanese manufacturer that brought us the cardboard cutout Kami-Oto with a whopping great big touchscreen interface. Looks amazing, will it ever be real?
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Simple and minimalistic the D1 Digital Piano provides a very playable weighted piano in a tidy and compact form that's great for gigs and perfect for the home.
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XG, Touch Innovation's magnificent touchscreen MIDI controller is the knobby, posh, over-compensating DJ-ing version of an iPhone X. If you really, really want this, be prepared re-mortgage your house.
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Get your fingers into your modular with the Intellijel Tetrapad. Four strips of force, position and pressure sensitive material that can be used to send notes, chords, voltage, control, LFO and all sorts.
Emulator 2 customisable touch-screen MIDI controller software is now available at a regular pay-once price after they killed off the "unpopular" subscription model.
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Developed by Sensomusic and La Muse En Circuit, MusineKit 2 brings a playful and creative musical box of modules to touch, control, manipulate and mess about with on Windows or MacOS. Pure joyfulness.
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An introductory video of the Serge TKB has emerged. It's a touch-keyboard, CV programmer and sequencer built for Eurorack by AnalogueResearch.com (ARC) and officially licensed by Serge Tcherepnin.
It's a box of noise, sequences and unexpected tones that modulate beneath your finders. Eowave are bringing the Quadrantid Swarm prototype we saw at Superbooth to Kickstarter.
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The familiar 1010music Eurorack touchscreen module evolves into a polyphonic sequencer with 4 note tracks and 4 rhythm tracks with onscreen editing and MIDI and CV outputs.
Game engine developers Detune who brought Korg synthesizers to the Nintendo 3DS have revealed that they are porting Korg Gadget to the Nintendo Switch hybrid console.
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Wired Heart is a very affordable digital synthesizer with touch sensor control and light sensitivity. Just another weird maker of noise or is it lovable enough to stay in your hands for more than a minute?
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You can now adorn yourself with gold leaf tattoos that carry MIDI and controller information directly from your touch into your DAW or MIDI instruments and sound sources. It's wearing music on your skin.
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1010music release a complete polyphonic wavetable synthesizer voice for Eurorack. Synthbox shares the same touch-screen hardware as the Fxbox and Bitbox and can also share the firmware.
