Audio and Video Illusion called the McGurk Effect
December 19, 2012 – 2:05 pm | No Comment

It is true, music is best heard when your eyes are closed or if you can get really really close to the stage performer.
Everyone knows this because visual cues can at time be distracting. …

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New Performance Synth App for the iPad
May 14, 2013 – 11:49 am | No Comment
New Performance Synth App for the iPad

Here is an interesting Performance Synth, an app that turns your iPad into a real time performance instrument.
 

This $5 app allows you to carry a complete, full featured, real time synthesizer around with you and have …

Sick octave synth
May 14, 2013 – 11:36 am | No Comment
Sick octave synth

Uk indie rock band The Young Knives are selling a hand made synth, based on the classic Atari punk console design, to support their new album ‘SICK OCTAVE’.
The band are letting fans pre order their …

Roland VR-09 Stage
April 3, 2013 – 7:00 am | No Comment
Roland VR-09 Stage

The Roland VR-09 is a great piece of equipment designed to be great for live shows. Its lightweight, only 5kg and its got the perfect and easy to use design to make It a perfect …

Casio XW-P1 Synthesizer
October 10, 2012 – 7:13 pm | No Comment
Casio XW-P1 Synthesizer

Looks like Casio has re-entered the professional synthesizer market this year with two products ideal for performing and recording artists – the XW-P1 Performance Synthesizer and the XW-G1 Groove Synthesizer.
I have been playing with Casio …

Korg Monotribe
April 4, 2011 – 3:01 pm | 6 Comments
Korg Monotribe

Korg has released pictures of a new product called the “korg Monotribe”. Based on the name, it sounds like some sort of cross-breeding of the Korg Monotron and Korg Electribe. The picture seems …

Korg Kronos Details released!
January 12, 2011 – 7:30 pm | 70 Comments
Korg Kronos Details released!

The first images and information for the Korg Kronos are in from NAMM 2011!   It’s a full workstation, with:

9 Sound engines, each offering a unique sound-creation technology (see list …

Korg Kronos – guess what it is, and win a Korg Monotron!
January 3, 2011 – 11:54 am | 148 Comments
Korg Kronos – guess what it is, and win a Korg Monotron!

Korg has released a teaser video of the new Korg Kronus that will be unveiled at NAMM 2011. Details are extremely sketchy, but they talk about it in terms that indicate that it’s supposed …

Synthesizer T-shirt that you can play
January 2, 2011 – 7:14 pm | 5 Comments
Synthesizer T-shirt that you can play

ThinkGeek has released a T-shirt with something resembling a Moog on it – that you can actually play. The ‘synth’ on the shirt features 5 different sampled sounds plus 8-voice polyphony (!). It …

Theremin – Electronics Illustrated 1960
December 21, 2010 – 8:52 pm | One Comment
Theremin – Electronics Illustrated 1960

For your pleasure is a scan from Electronics Illustrated’s June 1960 issue, describing the Theremin. It’s a great read – they almost sound like they’re describing some strange alien device, and it definitely gets …

Minimoog Voyager XL
September 10, 2010 – 4:03 pm | One Comment
Minimoog Voyager XL

Only two days after we posted about the Minimoog Voyager XL, Moog has officially launched the new monster monosynth.

Moog says:
Designed in celebration of the 40th anniversary of the Minimoog, the Minimoog Voyager XL is a …