Posts Tagged ‘hardware’

Percussa AudioCubes

Percussa AudioCubes

Percussa initially released the AudioCube over a year ago. The unique interfaces provide a creative means to playback samples, manipulate effects, and even generate audio based on proximity to other cubes, rotation, and a myriad of other features. Beyond everything else though, they just look cool.


VIDEO: Guitar + 2 iTouch Units + Ableton

VIDEO: Guitar + 2 iTouch Units + Ableton

Brian Green crossbred his guitar with a pair of iPod Touches to add a new dimension to his performance.


The Dragon Midi Controller

The Dragon Midi Controller

Check out this video of a new type of interfacing for Cubase (and undoubtedly other DAWs soon enough).


Native Instruments Maschine

Now that we’ve posted a video on MOTU’s BPM, it’s only fair that we post the other most talked about groove box from NAMM 09, Native Instruments’ Maschine. Though I’m not sure how useful the “step squencer” mode would be with just 4 pads and 4 tracks per bank, the ease of use for hooking [...]


MOTU BPM

Here’s a quick overview video of the new MOTU BPM (Beat Production Machine) released at NAMM 09.


Akai APC40 For Ableton Live

From Ableton.com: The APC40 (Ableton Performance Controller) is a dedicated controller for Ableton Live, designed by the same engineering team responsible for Akai’s iconic MPC range of products. This is a dream come true for the Ableton Live community and an exciting first step into the world of Ableton Live for new users. The APC40 [...]


Universal Audio Announces UAD-2 Solo/Laptop

I’ve been waiting for this one. Back when I had a G5 tower, it was no sweat to find DSP cards to offload the processing of really solid plug-ins onto a card instead of the host CPU. While there have been products that tried to so similar things on laptops through firewire units and such, [...]