It’s never too late for a last minute Christmas impulse buy, and KORG are certainly playing that market with the pink KORG KAOSSILATOR. The much adored, portable and diminutively sized portable synthesizer is now available in limited quantities in an obnoxious but, if I’m honest, rather fetching pink and white. If you want to set [...]
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KORG KAOSSILATOR Limited Edition Pink
Wednesday, December 17th, 2008Noise.io iPhone Synthesizer And Controller Review
Wednesday, November 5th, 2008I was fortunate enough to get my hands on Noise.io a couple of days before its release. Now, a couple of days after, I have been absolutely stunned by the iPhone synthesizer and even bought the application, despite already having it, to support the small but talented development team who have invested months in this [...]
Noise.io iPhone Synthesizer Hits The App Store
Friday, October 31st, 2008The long awaited synthesizer/controller combination, Noise.io, for the iPhone is now available for your music production pleasure. Alas, I’ve been so addicted to actually playing with it, and so busy traveling down for the Microsoft Christmas Showcase that I didn’t have time to crank out a review to coincide with its release, rest assured a [...]
Noise.io Groundbreaking Synthesizer For The iPhone
Thursday, August 28th, 2008I’ve been pining for a quality synthesizer application on the iPhone since picking one up a few weeks ago. Noise.io seems to deliver almost exactly what I was looking for, and it boggles the mind that I only discovered it yesterday. Noise.io is set to sequeeze every last drop of functionality and controllability out of [...]
Sound Control Stores Acquired By Professional Music Technology
Friday, June 13th, 2008Professional Music Technology, winner of “Best UK Music Retailer Chain” for two years running has taken on Sound Control stores in Norwich, Leeds and Manchester Salford adding to their existing stores in Birmingham, Northampton, Oxford, Romford and Southend. This is good news for our local Norwich store which will remain under the management of Giles [...]
Warwick Streamer LX LTD 2008 4 And 5 String Basses
Friday, June 13th, 2008Warwicks annual limited edition bass model has arrived and this year it’s set to be the undeniably gorgeous envy of bass players the world over. The humble sounding Warwick Streamer LX LTD 2008 boasts an impressive real-wood aesthetic with an exotic madrona burl top and matching burl pickup covers complemented by a swamp ash body [...]
LIMS: Korg “nanoSeries” Controllers
Friday, June 13th, 2008Korg has unveiled their new nanoSeries controllers at the London International Music Show 2008. nanoSeries consists of the nanoKEY Slim-line USB Keyboard, nanoPAD Slim-line USB Controller and nanoKONTROL Slim-line USB Controller. All three controllers heavily emphasize both compactness and somehow also functionality with intuitive layouts and bucketloads of controls packed into a small form factor.
LIMS: Roland Add “Juno Stage” To Juno Lineup
Thursday, June 12th, 2008Roland have announced that 76-keys of Juno Stage goodness will be available this August. If you’ve ever read my coverage of the lesser Juno-D you will know this is set to be a solid product at a reasonably affordable price. A couple of interesting features are the inclusion of an 88-note multi-sampled piano and support [...]
LIMS: Roland Announce GW-8 Set For September 2008
Thursday, June 12th, 2008The next in the GW series of workstations from Roland is set to arrive this september. The Roland GW-8 will deliver one-man-band performance power in a compact 61-key form factor that weighs in at a compartively feather-light 6kg. Full specifications and juicy details on the GW8 are already available at Roland’s website so I will [...]
Novation XioSynth Controller and Synthesizer Review
Tuesday, May 6th, 2008Joining our ranks of Novation products is the XioSynth Controller and Synthesizer which is a mixed bag that might appeal to some and turn off others with its incredibly compact and good looking silver/grey finished body with rounded edges for an appealing but not necessarily very robust aesthetic that seems more suited to the studio [...]