Archive for the ‘special instruments’ Category

Eowave Persephone MK2 Eowave Persephone 2 features: 2 analogue oscillators with tune, fine tune, space, 12dB LP filter, LFO duophonic pressure and position sensitive ribbon, ribbon scale from 1 to 10 octave 16 routing presets (8 fixed, 8 assignable),  modulation key, 2 pedal inputs, pressure on the ribbon 4 CV outputs, MIDI in/out, audio out, [...]

The 2009 Musikmesse in Frankfurt, Germany started today. I’m not there but I read about it at Sonicstate, Harmony Central, Synthopia and Music Radar. Here are some of the most exiting new products I’ve found: Akai Miniak minisynth/vocoder Developed by Akai together with Alesis, this is a promising new synth. Alesis hardware has in my [...]

Modular synth makers Plan B has a new digital oscillator capable of some cool sounds. Sonicstate has made a video presetation by inventor Pillip Gallo from the WinterNAMM 2009: Part 1 Part 2

Why does swedish people pronounce english so badly? Anyway, the Mellotron is kinda nice. This one here is handbuilt and has all the features of the original M400 model. A new function is the possibility to play at half speed. It’s made by sewdish company Mellotron Archives. There’s an old review of the Mellotron here. [...]

The Delta Lab studio in Copenhagen must be the best looking music studio in the world. Besides all the fancy architecture and design they’ve got some really good equipment, including over 50 syntesizers and more than a dozen vintage organs. Even the vinyl player in the studio looks rad: The main studio is based around [...]

The Gibson Dark Fire is more than a beautiful guitar; it also has some fancy technology inside: The strings  can be tuned automatically as in the Gibson Robot Guitar released in 2007 – not to be confused with auto tune.. Two regular pickups, the Burstbucker 3 humbucker and a P-90H singlecoil Each string has a [...]

På mandag var jeg på en veldig bra konsert med det legendariske bandet Einsürzende Neübauten. Bandet har en lang fartstid og en stor fanskare. Deres siste utgivelse heter Jewels og er satt sammen av sanger som de opprinnelig spilte inn og gav som gaver til fansen hver måned. Veldig bra plate! Filmen Crossing The Bridge [...]