Turn any flat surface into a playable keyboard by using the SERAFIM KEYBO which is a mini laser projector that can be a  QUERTY or musical keyboard. It comes with its own app for iOS & Android. You can use…

 It's that time of year again: SUMMER NAMM 2021. Here is some of the gear that was mentioned:

• BOSS EURUS GS-01 - This is not a guitar pedal. BOSS have created their first Electronic Guitar Synth. (You can switch between…

 PRESONUS have announced the: REVELATOR io24 audio interface. Apparently , this the first audio interface designed for recording & streaming.

It features:

• 2 low noise X-MAX L mic preamps 
• 6 In/ 8 Out 
• Built in fat channel with Compression, EQ…

 The artist REMUTE is back with his album: 'Living Electronics'. The difference with this album is that if you want to listen to it you need a Nintendo Gameboy. The album is all on a Nintendo gameboy cartridge. 

This is…

 Imagine playing a 'Knitted Keyboard'? Irmandy Wicaksono is a research assistant at MIT MEDIA LAB & he has created a 'Knitted Keyboard' that you can play, folded or rolled up, worn etc.

Features include:

• 5 Octave piano
• Sensitive touch etc

 BEHRINGER are back. This time with a ‘Eurorack multi-engine oscillator with 20 synth engines’ called ‘BRAINS’.

It features:

• 20 synthesis & drum voice engines
• USB Connection
• 2 outputs
• OLED Display
• Trig Input
• 4 CV Input controls etc

 Recently Apple announced that they would be adding spatial audio to the latest version of Logic Pro. This follows  the roll-out of spatial audio to Apple Music streaming services. 

This would mean that in Logic Pro mix engineers would be…

 SSL are back with a brand new controller for the SSL Native Channel Strip 2 & Bus Compressor 2. It does look like a really nice controller. 

It features:

• SSL NATIVE CHANNEL STRIP 2
• BUS COMPRESSOR 2
• SSL PLUGIN MIXER…

 Recently, I was asked to review the plugin 'INFILTRATOR' created by DEVIOUS MACHINES. 

What is the plugin 'Infiltrator'? It's a multi-effects sequencer plugin. The first time I tried this I was like "WOW", this plugin offers a lot. 

It features: 

• …

 Listeners who subscribe to Apple Music should soon be able to listen to higher quality audio eg, lossless & spatial audio (supporting Dolby Atmos). 

In June 2021 there will be many spatial audio tracks for subscriber to listen too.

There…

 Hi! Everyone, Hope you are all ok. I just wanted to give you all quick update of what's happening with my music. 

Im currently working on a new EP for my solo project (LAW) , On this EP…

 AKAI are back with their drum machine plugin: 'DRUMSYNTH'. (It is available to download for free for users who have got: FORCE, MPC LIVE, MPC LIVE II, MPC X, MPC ONE & MPC SOFTWARE).

It features: 

• 725 presets
• 7 effects…

 BEATPORT is one of the first music retailers to start accepting bitcoin. The service is due to start in June 2021. BEATPORT have teamed up with crypto.com  .

Cryptocurrency has been around for a few years now. Will other music…

 This 91' Gibson Les Paul Goldtop could be one of the most rarest in the 'Hall of Fame'. The guitar was signed by music legends in 1992 at BOB DYLAN'S 30th Anniversary Concert. It features autographs from: BOB DYLAN, GEORGE…

 This synth vst is inspired by a legendary FM synthesiser. Could it be inspired by the Yamaha DX7 or Yamaha GS1? I'm not sure. 

It features:

• 8 OPERATORS 
• EFFECTS (Reverb, Delay, Phaser, Chorus, Tremolo & Vibrato etc)
• OVER 500 PRESETS
• …

 Designer Timothy Lamb (AKA  Trash80) has created a handheld music making machine (inspired by the gameboy tracker Little Sound DJ).

It features: 

• 8 tracks of built in synth or samples 
• Midi output
• sampler (can playback mono & stereo files up…

• Touch sensitive keys
• Rotary Controllers
• Light Sensors
• Status LEDs
• Runs on USB…

 As some of you maybe aware that I am a fan of Steinberg Software. Steinberg have released some new software dedicated to podcasts & Social Media called: WAVELAB CAST. 

It features:

• up 92 kHz in 32 Bit Audio
• Import audio…

 LOU OTTENS was a Dutch Engineer who invented the cassette tape (& helped develop the compact disc) I remember as a child having cassette tapes (I've still got some cassette tapes). Remembering the days when you would listen to the…

 If you use Cubase, Wavelab or both you will know that you have to have a USB licenser dongle. Therefore taking up a USB port on your pc or Mac. (I was once in situation where I needed to take…

 SPOTIFY has announce that later this year they will be rolling out lossless streaming. (As of writing this, no date has been confirmed). This is something ( I think) Spotify users have requested quite a bit. 

Lossless streaming is already…

 On 22nd Feb 2021 a video appears on DAFT PUNKS youtube channel called 'Epilogue'. The video shows the duo wearing their space-age helmets & leather jackets walking around a desert. It features a scene from their film 'Electroma'. You can…

 The audio world the other week was saddened to learn that Audio Equipment Inventor  RUPERT NEVE had died.

In 1961 RUPERT NEVE found his own company 'NEVE ELECTRONICS'.  NEVE known for Mixing Consoles, preamplifiers (Most influential 1073), EQ's etc. 

NEVE…

 Nowadays there are quite a few music composers, producers, mix engineers, mastering engineers etc that use dual display with their computer. A few years ago I started using dual display with Cubase & I find it very helpful to have…