Category: midi

The best portable (and affordable) USB MIDI controllers

[ad_1] But before we get to the nitty-gritty, let’s be clear about what we’re looking at here. For one, we’re only considering keyboard-style controllers. While pads are a bonus, we’ll be ignoring pad-only controllers like the Novation Launchpad. (They’re a different beast.) We’re also focused on USB-MIDI controllers. My reasoning: I assume most of you […]

Orba is a tiny instrument that you shake, tap and twist

[ad_1] Part of the appeal of the Instrument 1 was that you didn’t need to be world class musician to coax exciting and varied sounds out it. It was incredibly beginner friendly and, as we said way back in 2015 it “crams most of the music store in one gadget.” The Orba similarly focuses on […]

Korg Minilogue XD update adds key triggers for synth sequences

[ad_1] The upgrade also brings active step function that lets you add or remove steps from a sequence while you perform. You can control the arpeggiator’s speed and gate time, too. And if you often like to revert back to earlier settings, an original value view lets you see where those settings were and quickly […]

The best MIDI keyboard controller for beginners

[ad_1] Why you should trust us I have two decades of experience reviewing AV products, and currently I am a contributing technical editor at Sound & Vision magazine and a regular contributor to the SoundStage network of websites. I’m also a drummer and electronic-music maker, so I have extensive familiarity with the tools of the […]

Jammy’s digital guitar is a futuristic idea let down by today’s tech

[ad_1] Essentially, Jammy is a MIDI controller with built-in sounds. It’s not the first guitar-style MIDI controller, but they’re not common. There’s a good reason for that: They’re very hard to do right. There are a lot of moving parts, and the way in which a guitar is played makes it much harder to track […]

Serato Studio helps simplify the path to music production

[ad_1] Loops, cue points, effects, time stretching and key detection with Pitch ‘n Time plus loads of instruments and samples help you create song blocks that you can then arrange into a single timeline along the bottom. It’s not really meant to take the place of a more advanced digital audio workstation (DAW) but it […]