Peavey announces new "The Walking Dead" line of instruments and accessories

Although I do play (a little), I don't usually post about guitar related stuff here on Voltage Controlled, but my geeky side feels that this deserves a mention. I'm a huge fan of The Walking Dead (Both TV and comic book) and Peavey's new The Walking Dead line of instruments and accessories looks pretty awesome.

"Peavey Electronics®, one of the world's largest manufacturers and suppliers of musical instruments and professional sound equipment, proudly announces the expansion of its licensed product line with the addition of products featuring graphics from The Walking Dead, the award-winning comic and TV show.

Designed for serious collectors and musicians alike, these new musical instruments will feature highly detailed artwork on guitars and accessories."

You can find more info about the line on Peavey's website, here.

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The Korg Mini MS20 is real!

People have hassled synthesiser companies for ages to recreate some of their classic analog gear. Korg has finally taken the bait and announced a fully functional, fully analog replica of their legendary MS20 synthesiser.



The Micro MS20 is smaller than the original but it looks perfect. If the pricing on this little machine is right then it could be a phenomenal hit. I need one of these!

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Moog announce new Sub Phatty analog synthesiser

Moog have just announced their latest addition of their Phatty range of analog synthesisers. Full specs and price are yet to be released but the instrument looks pretty interesting.



Moog have also uploaded a new promotional video for the synthesiser featuring new Flying Lotus track "Such a Square" and animation by Adam Fuchs.

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Free samples from Voltage-Controlled

Hope everyone out there had a good Christmas and got all the music gear that you've been hoping for. I've put together an extra present for you, I've gone through my hard drive and collected all the samples that Haven't yet made it onto the site. There's lots of synth sounds in this one.

I've added tempo and key information to some of the files (where appropriate) so you should be able to easily fit them into your projects.

As always the samples are available free of charge but a quick donation to the site (see PayPal donate box in the right sidebar) wouldn't hurt. All sounds are royalty free so you don't have to worry about copyright.

Download the samples here (.RAR) - Rapidshare

Merry Christmas, 

Dan.

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Animoog upgraded to V2

Moog's awesome iPad synthesiser has just been updated with some cool new features. 



Animoog now has accelerometer integration, this allows the user to "tilt their iPad in any direction as an interactive 3D modulation source".

The update also gives you: note hold and scale lock, load/save MIDI CC maps, audio copy/paste and it even supports audiobus.

There is also a brand new 4 track recorder available in the built in Animoog store. The 4 track recorder is available for free to existing users until December 31st. So hurry before it reverts Back to the regular price of $4.99.

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Propellerhead PX7 Rack Extension

Propellerhead has just released their PX7 FM synthesiser. It's a 6 operator synth that faithfully recreates the sounds of Yamaha's DX line of synthesisers. I have to admit it looks pretty cool and I've been waiting for a dedicated FM synth to hit the store since Rack Extensions were announced.

Although, I already own a Yamaha TX81z (Hardware) I'll be putting the PX7 though it's paces in demo mode until January. The addition of a dedicated patch converter is also good news as it means that we can convert older .SYX patches so that we can use them with PX7.



PX7 is now available in the Propellerhead shop for € 79.00.

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Lemur 4 coming soon

Liine have Just dropped a teaser video over at their YouTube page with the tag line "Lemur 4. The learning curve is about to drop.".

I brought Lemur the day it was released for iPad but I have to admit I don't use it as often as I should. It's an awesome controller when coupled with your DAW, but to really use it to it's full potential you need at least a basic knowledge of coding. By the looks of this teaser that's all about to change. Hopefully well see a simpler template editor as well as some brand new features. Check out the video below.



Lemur is available in the AppStore for £34.99, it's not cheap but if you're looking to turn your iPad into a feature packed touch screen controller then it's worth the hefty price tag.

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