bleepology

Sonic Core, son of Creamware, has a new product, the PCI-e or Cardbus connected Xite-1, this is edited with the Scope platform software you may be familiar with if you’re a Pulsar user. They claim 10x the horsepower of the previous Scope cards.

Great new book brought to you by the folks from schneidersbuero, about several modern analog synth designers, both as creators of products we love and as musicians. I haven’t had a chance to take a close look yet, but I love the concept, and I hope to review it here later.

Korg had the new MicroKorgXL in spades, as well as many colors:

And the nano controllers in black:

They also had their DSD 1bit recorders arranged in a new multitrack fashion, for a total of 8-track recording in this format. Neat for archiving those old master tapes that are falling apart.

Part 5: Max For Live

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Part 4: Sharing

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Part 3: The Akai APC-40

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Part 2: New FX and Sound Library
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I apologize in advance for the poor quality, but something is better than nothing, right? Posting the videos from the Ableton press conference yesterday, here’s part 1
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I just finished uploading the rest of day 1’s pics to fdiskc. These include Plan B modular stuff, Genoqs sequencers, the new Radikal Spectralis, and some zvex stuff. Have at them!

As I said earlier, Metasonix has some cool new stuff at the show, like the eurorack modules:

and the KV-100 multi-effect unit:

That’s it for now, I’m heading back to the show floor to close-out day 1.