The New Roland VG-99 Guitar Synth – Way to Go!
	Another piece of happy news for the guitarists out there, especially for those who are never satisfied with the sound they manage to get from their gear, no matter how advanced and complex this gear could be: the Roland VG-99 is now available. For those who haven't yet been "infected" with the Virtual Guitar virus, I'll tell you that this piece of guitar processing tech is one of the most advanced things you could ever ... [read more >>]
	07 August 2007, 10:26GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Doom Co-Creator Reveals 31 Tracks that Never Made It to the Game – Download Here!
	Who didn't play Doom? If there's anyone present that didn't play Doom please raise your hand and then slap yourself. Now, as much as we've all loved playing the game when it was first released (I didn't even own a computer back then, I had to skip school an go to a ... [read more >>]
	25 June 2007, 10:14GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

The Haken Continuum Fingerboard: The Controller Divine
	Among the zounds of controllers on the market, many of those that are new are barely bringing something that was never seen before or at least has never been done that respective way so far. Well, Haken Audio decided it's time to go big and interesting and have released their Continuum Fingerboard, one controller likely to gain supremacy on the piano-like new generation of such devices.[admark=1] The Haken Audio Continuum Fingerb ... [read more >>]
	20 June 2007, 03:16GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Controller Breakthrough - The Mawzer Modular MIDI Controller
	It's been quite a long time (in both common time and technology-time) since the first piece of news about the Mawzer Modular Control Surface struck the pages of the web. Back then this was more like some sort of dream whose "coming true" was quite far and uncertain, if any at all. We're quite happy to see it actually happening; and it's not just some web-talk gossip about the guys at Mawzer doing something – t ... [read more >>]
	12 June 2007, 11:46GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Do Humans Really Have Enough Fingers? The Monome 40h Special Edition
	They first laughed when they saw it. They have then touched it, tweaked it and played it. And then they all bought it. Yep, it's the Monome, once more, with a nifty comeback, the 40h Special Edition that looks even better and neater.[admark=1] The Monome has extremely fast grown (around 1 year) to be one of the world's most sought after controllers for music. Any kind of music, as long as it could use such a controller. From ... [read more >>]
	06 June 2007, 12:26GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

The Groove Monkee Blues. All New!
	Groove Monkee have been long time known for the way they understood music and their commitment to delivering the best MIDI bites around. And since usually such a strong mind and hard work produces good results, there we are: Groove Monkee are now proudly announcing the release of their 8th MIDI dedicated and exclusive library, the Blues one, for BFD and EZDrummer. The new library contains around 800 beats for blues and blues-r ... [read more >>]
	12 April 2007, 04:41GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Your Acoustic Guitar on MIDI: Carvin NS1
	So far, the only guitars to benefit from the whole new horizon MIDI processing offered were the electric ones, either bass or common guitars. All you had to do was properly mount the so common Roland GK2 MIDI pickup on your guitar, stick the output connector on your axe, plug in and rock the house through a MIDI synth guitar processor of your choice, such as the popular Roland VG series. Just now, it seems very weird how people could no ... [read more >>]
	06 April 2007, 11:00GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

The MIDI Speaks to Us: Flame MIDI-Talking-Synth
	Personally, I haven't heard about Flame but now; yet I am quite happy I finally did because they have showcased some extremely alluring, interest-raising and special pieces of musical technology at the (I know you know it already) Frankfurt am Main Musikmesse. Flame is a German company specialized in MIDI Controllers and Electronic Music (generally speaking). What have they done so special? They have took two analog Speakjet module ... [read more >>]
	06 April 2007, 07:58GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Advance Your MIDI Cubase Skills
	Cubase is by far one of the leading DAWs in the world and I have seen it used in most of the studios I passed through. I am not a fan of it but this doesn't make it at all less capable; in fact, I guess Cubase is the application I have met more than anything else, whether it was for drum-recording (as it was my case on several occasions) or for whole-band recording. Now, each DAW has to work with MIDI, whether you need it or not. A ... [read more >>]
	04 April 2007, 03:52GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

The Ultimate Akai Keyboard Controller
	We're living in the days when the analog synthesizers are true vintage and are used by legends/big names only, in search for old and extremely specific sounds no computer or plugin can replicate so far. The rest is pure tech and tech has a natural tendency to grow smaller, more efficient, more capable and more user-friendly. World-renowned Japanese company Akai has followed this trend down to the last bite and the result was ... [read more >>]
	30 March 2007, 06:53GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Will Linux Finally Have Decent Audio?
	I presume that 99.998% of the planetary audio runs on Windows and Mac; the rest is Linux, Symbian or whatever and most of the people really don't care about the rest. Now, I've been talking with one of my colleagues at work about why does Linux suck so much when it comes to audio; and the only answer close to perfection and truth was that nobody really cared enough to develop the audio-side of Linux! I mean, there are so many ... [read more >>]
	26 March 2007, 06:13GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Palm DJ
	Up to now, music mixing – whether in WAV or MP3 – in MIDI or other formats was a thing exclusively dedicated to large computers (be them desktops or laptops) or highly specialized digital audio workstations (in their console or computer versions). Once with the development of more and more mobile/portable devices and their quick spreading among the users, it was almost clear that it wouldn't pass too much time until audio applicati ... [read more >>]
	21 March 2007, 11:06GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

The Future of Sound: Hybrid Instruments
	What if your could mix your most convenient and best-sounding synthesizer with your sample-loaded keyboard? What if you could re-shape the sound obtained from mixing 3 of the world's most valued organ sounds? And what if you could do all this in real time and using one single location? Well, no more thinking “what if?” but rather “why not?”. KeyToSound did it in the shape of the NEXSYN. Period, because I really can't think wha ... [read more >>]
	20 March 2007, 07:44GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Better Piano Players Among Mac Users
	Not only Windows users have the privilege of running very cool MIDI piano applications. The Mac enthusiasts have now their share of MIDI coolness as the new, improved and very functional Rondo 2.5 has been released and is ready for shipping. Fractured Software continues the development of the award-winning program Rondo with the 2.5 edition which is now Universal Binary and sports a cool new look while adding to the functional side as w ... [read more >>]
	19 March 2007, 10:11GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Nintendo and Yamaha? Great Piece of Tech!
	More and more, I tend to avoid saying things like “it simply can't get weirder than this”; I have noticed that things actually CAN go weirder and they actually will. Now, making music has evolved quite a bit during the last century and from the traditional violins and pianos we now have MIDI and VSTi; but things haven't stopped here and people began searching for new methods to produce the new millennium's music, b ... [read more >>]
	14 March 2007, 05:58GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Resurrection of The Masters
	It is the dawn of the new, high-definition MIDI era. And once with it comes a whole new horizon expanding the audio restoration possibilities far beyond anything man has dreamed about some 20 years ago. It's the Zenph Studios and audio research group, under the lead of the former pianist John Walker - they have designed and put to work a new way of understanding and playing music, developed with one fantastic goal in mind: having t ... [read more >>]
	12 March 2007, 04:48GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia