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This Fast Food Paper Placemat Is A Music Production Workstation

Forget burgers. Make beats. A popular fast food chain in the Netherlands created a paper placemat that syncs to a smartphone via Bluetooth and provides comprehensive sampling and beat making features.

Moog Music Showcase Modular Synth Makers in Marketplace at Moogfest 2016

At Moogfest later in May there'll be a free interactive bazaar that gives everyone a chance to discover and test-drive the next generation of electronic musical instruments, including modular synths.

Review: Keith McMillen K-Mix Audio Interface, Digital Mixer & Control Surface

K-Mix from Keith McMillen Instruments is a high-quality audio interface, programmable mixer, and MIDI controller combining their best tech know-how in one portable package. Timo Preece gets hands on.

5 Mistakes To Avoid When Using MIDI & Virtual Instruments

If you use virtual synths, samplers or hardware synths, it's likely you've been dabbling with MIDI. Perhaps without realizing it. Joe Albano outlines 5 mistakes to avoid to help get better results.

Modstep 1.1 Includes Audio Unit Support, Arrange Mode, MIDI Import/Export

Modstep is an incredibly fully-featured MIDI sequencer for iPad that comes with a synthesizer and drum sampler too. There are multiple ways to connect it to your setup and version 1.1 gives even more.

Thavius Beck Demonstrates How Ableton Push 2 Note Mode & Scale Modes Work

Learn all about Ableton Push 2's Note modes, Scale modes and how to imply them when playing Push 2 in this excellent video tutorial by Thavius Beck.

New MIDI Controller for Waldorf Blofeld Synthesizer Is Powerful & Beautiful

If you have a Waldorf Blofeld synthesiser and have been round the block with different controllers, then this news might make you very happy.

Nektar Introduce New Impact GX49 & GX61 USB MIDI Controller Keyboards

Nektar tell us their new Impact GX49 and GX61 are expressive instruments, tailored to composition & performance featuring the acclaimed Nektar DAW integration for computer music systems.

StrumPad is an Arduino MIDI Controller With 6 Touch Sensors for Musical Strumming Without Strings

StrumPad is an ingenious idea for a MIDI controller that does away with keys and replaces them with virtual strings / fretboard that can be strummed in a way you'd expect to play a guitar.

This Hardware Sequencer from Polyend is Like a Monome on Steroids

If you're looking for a large MIDI Step Sequencer with so powerful but easy to use features and a gorgeous look and feel then you need to watch this video about Polyend's SEQ from Musikmesse 2016 now.

Watch: The First Drum Machine That Plays Real Drum Kit

What do you get when you cross a drum machine, robotic mechanical balls, and an acoustic drum kit? Polyend's Perc is just that and can play the drums that'll make your human drummer jealous.

Musikmesse 2016: Lab4Music Sipario Advanced MIDI Router

If you want a small, portable, intelligent device to help you manage your MIDI devices, then the Sipario from Lab4Music is worth considering. Here's an interesting video overview from Musikmesse 2016.

Messe 2016: Nord Drum 3 and Nord Drum 3P Now with Integrated Multipad

The new Drum kits from Nord are here. With Musikmesse 2016 just a few days away Nord have announced the new Nord Drum 3 and Nord Drum 3P with integrated Multipad. Check out the video below.

This Eurorack Step Sequencer Module, MIDI SEQ-8 Plays MIDI From Android Devices

Imagine being able to compose MIDI patterns on your Android device and then feed them through a eurorack module to any analog synthesizer of your choice. Stop imagining and check out MIDI-SEQ-8!

Audiowerkstatt Mini-MIDI-Step-Sequencer Now Available

Superbooth16 is just 3 days away... and there's a buzz about it, with so music companies getting involved. One of these, audiowerkstatt have an announcement that'll be available to demo in Berlin.