Akai Pro show of their new MPC softwear

As some of you know Akai (who are responsible for the legendary MPC samplers) earlier this year announced a handful of new products. Among these was the very interesting looking MPC fly (an iOS app developed by Retronyms), the MPC Renaissance and the MPC Studio. The Renaissance and Studio are both midi controllers designed to be used in conjunction with Akai's new MPC software (Sort of like Native Instruments Machine).

Until now we were somewhat kept in the dark about this software but Akai have just released a video overview of the MPC software and I have to say, it looks pretty impressive.

One thing that isn't quite clear though is whether you need the controllers to use the soft wear or whether you could use the soft wear on it's own with another controller. If this is possible then this could be a very affordable solution for beginners to music making and live performances. Coupling the MPC software with a dirt cheap pad controller (say the Korg NanoPad) could be a very convenient compromise for some people. Even though this would be a pretty cool feature I'm not going to be holding my breath.

Anyway, here's the video from Akai.

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NodeBeat HD iPad screen capture demo

Here's another video of me playing about with the display recorder tweak on my iPad. This time the app I'm using is the NodeBeat HD app, which is a fun little generative music sequencer.

I'm hoping to get lots of these iPad display recorder videos up on the site, they're fun to make and it gives me a good chance to show off some of my favourite music making apps.

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Korg Monotribe version 2 update.

Korg have released an update to their Monotribe ribbon sequencer. The update is made my playing an audio file into the sync in jack of the Monotribe. Here's a few videos from Korg USA that walks you through some of the new features as well as informing you how to go about update the OS on your monotribe.

New features include:

• 16 step sequencer
• volume automation
• drum roll
• gate time
• two or more monotribes can be played in rotation

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Pulverizer envelope follower

Here's another quick tip from propellerheads featuring the new pulverizer effect in Reason 6.

This is probably my favourite device that's included in the new Reason update and I cant wait to get my hands of it.

the video shows a creative use of CV routing using the matrix pattern sequencer and the envelope follower section of Pulverizer.



Reason 6 will be available on September 30th. Only a few days to go.

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