Creative Connectivity with Roland Gear and the iPhone
The WNA1100-RL is a simple, compact wireless USB adapter for Roland Wireless Connect. Roland Wireless Connect is an innovative system that allows Roland electronic musical instruments to communicate fluidly with the iPhone. Consisting of a wireless USB adapter and two new iOS apps (Air Recorder and V-Drums® Friend [...]
PussPuss makes you want to wet your prints!
If you're girl is wearing any of these swimsuit designs this summer, you know you got it good. Made in the EU, they are handmade swimsuits with classic gear printed onto their Italian fabrics. Sounds plush & swanky & has classic gear on them, including the Technics SL-1210MK2 Turntable, Clavia [...]
Radikal Technologies Accelerator
The Accelerator, Radikal Technologies' new flagship instrument, is a full featured polyphonic synth with eight powerful subtractive voices (expandable up to 32). With the introduction of its Radikal Spectralis synthesizer back in 2004 Radikal's R&D department already had established a reputation for having created the best sounding synthesis engine in the world. Six years later the [...]
I had the pleasure of checking out a 1981 Serge Modular synth last night at a friend's place. What an experience that was. What made it great was that he knew the whole history of the synth, who created it and where, and had records of bands that had recording weird experimental albums with it.
He [...]
So we did it. 2012 Winter NAMM has come and gone, and I'm not really sure how I made it out alive. We were in kind of an inebriated Fear & Loathing style happy mess at the Hilton next door for the weekend, and the amount of bells & whistles and flashing lights and drums [...]
These could be real leaks of Akai's next release, the MPC Fly, and they could be fakes, of course. The official Akai announcement comes Thursday evening, probably at NAMM. The Fly could just be an I-something download, a mobile app version of their new software, but since MPC has rebranded itself as "Music Production Controller" [...]
Another DAW? Sure, why not. This one is put out by Bitwig Studio (Ableton Live expats). It looks a lot like a slicker, more polished version of Live. Whether it works as fluidly as Live won't be known until the Beta version is released.
Besides the interface, one of the coolest features I saw was the "Lan [...]
Unpowered mixers might be reliant on an external power source, but often times they can be more diverse in features and give users better sound than a mixer with a built-in power source. There are a lot of expensive unpowered mixers out there, but most manufacturers have several affordable models as well. Here are five [...]
Best Synthesizer Keyboard under $700 In 1964, Robert Moog built the first synthesizer to be released for public and commercial use. By the 1970's, they were being built compact enough to be portable by studio musicians and traveling bands, which saw a huge increase in their popularity. By the time the 80's came, the technology [...]
My friends over at Wavaflow Studios are taking over managing Steve Vai’s Mothership Studios. The owner of Wavaflow, Wagner Fulco, actually worked at Mothership Studios as a Musician’s Institute student, and it was his first job in the US. He said while working there he always dreamed that some day he would be in a position to have a studio like Mothership, and now he’s been asked to manage it along with running Wavaflow. Pretty dope.
