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‘Music System’ Stories

Teenage Engineering Oplab makes music mangling easy

Chris Davies, Jan 23rd 2012 Discuss [0]

Synth manufacturers Teenage Engineering are best known for their OP-1, a compact instrument the sounds from which belie its toylike exterior, but the company has also revealed Oplab. Intended to make experimenting with audio more straightforward and flexible, the MIDI-enabled Musical Experimentation Board allows you to hook up both traditional and unusual sensors - including pressure, CV and more - and outputs and create suitably offbeat audio. Read The Full Story

iConnectMUSE digital audio mixer brings the studio to your iPhone, iPad

Rue Liu, Jan 12th 2012 Discuss [1]

iConnectivity has unveiled an ultra-portable digital audio mixer designed to work with your iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch. The mixer is called the iConnectMUSE and promises to bring studio quality mixing capabilities to your iOS device. It allows you to capture multiple channels of sound and output them to your iOS or computer software for mixing. Read The Full Story

Pure Contour 200i Air iPhone speaker-dock packs AirPlay

Chris Davies, Jan 10th 2012 Discuss [1]

WiFi radio manufacturer Pure has launched the Pure Contour 200i Air, a AirPlay-enabled iPhone/iPod speaker dock supporting local and streaming media playback. The semi-circular speaker includes a 36W RMS digital amplifier and has twin passive bass ports to try to muster some low-end grunt. Read The Full Story

Pioneer N-30 and N-50 Elite Networked Audio Players revealed

Chris Burns, Jan 4th 2012 Discuss [1]

It would seem that Pioneer has a few surprises before the big events next week, today revealing their line of networking devices will expand with two new Elite branded audio players by the name of N-30 and N-50. Both of these players will be equipped right out of the box with AirPlay and DLNA 1.5 wireless technologies, with vTuner Internet radio as well as both Android and iPhone control apps in tow. Your lovely 2.5-inch full-color LCD display will be showing off all the action right up front as your whole room is filled with explosive sound. Read The Full Story

Epiphany Acoustics EHP-1 headphone amp is packing

Chris Davies, Jul 15th 2011 Discuss [3]

If you're an audiophile, prefer headphones to speakers and gain particular pleasure from visitors complimenting you on your shapely knob, Epiphany Acoustics might have the headphone amp for you. The British-based startup is kicking things off with the walnut-fronted EHP-1, a compact hand-made amp promising minimal noise and distortion along with a distinctive aluminum volume control. Read The Full Story

Airpiano: No Longer Just A Cool Concept, Available For Order Now

Rue Liu, Apr 26th 2011 Discuss [0]

Over two years ago, an interesting instrument of sorts jumped on our radar called the Airpiano. At the time it was an interesting concept by Omer Yosher presented at the Berlin Design Festival that allowed you to play music just by moving your hands around in the air over a motion-sensing board. Now, the concept has finally become a commercial reality, with the first limited trial batch ready for order and newer video demos after the cut. Read The Full Story

Korg Monotron meets iPad iElectribe & Wii Nunchuk for music mangling [Video]

Chris Davies, Jun 3rd 2010 Discuss [0]

Take a Korg Monotron analog synth, throw in an iPad running Korg's excellent iElectribe app and then use an Arduino to tie the whole thing together: you're not only hitting some of the geekiest keywords around these days, but getting an awesome, glitchy, electronic music mangling setup. YouTuber Denkitribe has been circuit bending his Monotron, coming up not only with the system described above, but one in which the accelerometer and joystick of a Wii Nunchuk are used to control the battery-powered synth. Video after the cut Read The Full Story

Sonic Emotional Pulse of Music concept exposes spinning disc

Shane McGlaun, Apr 19th 2010 Discuss [0]

I have seen a lot of home stereos that have a clear cover letting you see the CD or DVD spinning around inside it. This Sonic Emotional Pulse of Music concept takes that idea a bit further and exposes half the disk completely. Read The Full Story

LEGO Sequencer mixes Steampunk, toys, electronica [Video]

Chris Davies, Mar 4th 2010 Discuss [0]

Take LEGO, add pseudo-Steampunk style and throw in glitchy electronic music and you might end up with something like Yoshi Akai's wonderful LEGO Sequencer MR II. A hand-crafted 8-step sequencer, the bizarre instrument uses LEGO bricks to build up patterns of different sounds. Video demo after the cut Read The Full Story

Philips SoundSphere with free-floating tweeters

Paul Fang, Feb 25th 2010 Discuss [0]

Philips is heading into the hi-fi game, with its new SoundSphere home stereo lineup. The MCi900 and MCD900, will both set sail with two speakers, 100 watts of ample amplification, and “free floating” tweeters that are physically outside of the speaker enclosure, for better acoustics. Read The Full Story

Music Bot can name any song

Keffan Dolly, Jan 4th 2010 Discuss [0]

A robot designed and built at the University of Malaga can tell you the name of any song at all. You can sing it, play it, whistle it or really convey it however you would like, and the robot can tell you the name of the song. Being able to tell you the name of the song is a pretty cool trick but that's not all it can do: the bot can tell you the gender of a singer and how many participants of each are singing at any given point in the song, together with suggesting music you may also enjoy based on the music it "hears". Read The Full Story

Pass Labs X260.5 Power Amp promises even less distortion

Chris Davies, Dec 7th 2009 Discuss [0]

It can be hard getting your product to stand out at CES, so one good way of doing so is pretending it's January 7th and pushing out a press release prematurely. Pass Labs are bringing their new X260.5 Power Amplifier to the show, a 260W mono-block amp which boasts the company's Super-Symmetry circuit that - as far as we can tell - promises to more accurately synchronize a stereo pair of the units. Read The Full Story