Another raft of controller keyboards, this time coming from the M-Audio camp bring us a complete refresh of their Axiom range.
Axiom AIR 25
Premium Keyboard and Pad Controller
25 expressive synth-action keys with aftertouch 16 great-feeling trigger pads respond to pressure and velocity Roll button aids in [...]
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Developed by AIR Music Technology as the ideal scratch pad / music creation kickstart tool to get the ideas flowing the Ignite Music Creation tool is now available. The client offers full support for M-Audio keyboards with additional intrigration features over the normal stand alone mode.
About Ignite
Inspiring Sounds
Ignite includes over 275 [...]
Numarks monster of a flagship mixer gets an overhaul with all sorts of interesting things going on. It keeps it’s lovely motorized platers and solid tank like construction but adds a whole raft of extra control features to take advantage of the updates to Serato that have occured over the last few months.
NS7 II [...]
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Two new controller keyboards announced at NAMM by Akai today. The Max 25 & 49 have all your normal features and a handful of sliders & pads for to cater for your controller needs, plus both of them come with one additional rather suprising feature of a CV gate!
Compact [...]
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Another pre-NAMM announcement, this time coming from the controller fiends over at Nektar. Best known for their P4 & P6 keyboards which much to our delight have recently gained Cubase support comes something rather different.
The Panorama P1 the features generic MIDI controller capabilities that allow operation of any DAW, making this a far more [...]
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With the start of what is perhaps the largest show in the music tech calender only days away the announcements are starting to pick up. In what can only be described as a shotgun approach, Roland takes no prisoners by announcing all their product in one deft swoop.
So without further ado for the full [...]
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Novation have announced their new range of controller keyboards today called the Launchkey 25, 49 & 61 editions. Normally we wouldn’t have all that much to say about another entry into the already crowded midi keyboard controller market but this time around we appear to have some interesting added functionality that should raise these controllers [...]
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Steinberg today have thrown their hat into the budget interface ring with the announcement of the UR-22 interface. Details on the hardware is that it is a 2in2out unit capable of 24bit 192khz recording and features a couple the D-PRE preamps from the midrange MR series interfaces. Looking at what appears to be a fairly [...]
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For Practice it’s Perfect…….
The Korg Pandora has been around since 1995, I remember it well. Indeed I even contributed five of the original voices to it! (Back then I worked for Korg UK, and got involved as part of the International voicing team for the guitar products), and for [...]
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This weeks product launch from Focusrite as part of their run up to this years NAMM is the Focusrite Scarlett 18i20, which looks to be a strong entry into a section of the market which is perhaps a bit light on options at this price point.
About the Focusrite Scarlett 18i20
At it’s heart the [...]
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