Category: Gear and Equipment

Music and recording industry gear, equipment, tools, and software.

Schiit Audio Bifrost 3 - collage by Christopher Simmons

Schiit Audio announces launch of updated Bifrost 3 DAC with Ultimate Mesh architecture, Forkbeard support and Unison 384 USB

Christopher Laird Simmons

MUSEWIRE – NEWS: Schiit Audio has announced the launch of their latest audiophile DAC, the Bifrost 3, with upgraded Ultimate Mesh technology, 384k audio input, and now supporting their Forkbeard module which adds a preamp and EQ. This new model replaces the highly regarded Bifrost 2/64, and includes worthy trickle-down tech from their other Mesh models. Schiit also promises the new model will be less expensive than the previous model Bifrost.

ISOVOX PRO

ISOVOX PRO is a new reference-grade vocal booth for home studios

Christopher Laird Simmons

MUSEWIRE – Music Gear News: Swedish music tech company ISOVOX has announced their new ISOVOX PRO, which they say represents the “next evolution of vocal recording, bringing professional, studio-level performance to any room.” Not just an update; but a complete redesign from the ground up, built on years of global feedback and rigorous acoustic development to redefine what professional, portable vocal recording can be.

Waldorf PROTEIN desktop wavetable synthesizer module

Waldorf Music has announced their latest tool for electronic musicians, the Protein, an 8-voice polyphonic wavetable synthesizer

Christopher Laird Simmons

MUSEWIRE – Music Tech news: Waldorf Music has announced their latest invention for electronic musicians, the Protein, an affordable and compact desktop-friendly 8-voice polyphonic wavetable synthesizer based on the original Microwave 1 ASIC oscillators and combined with modern features of Iridium heritage. like a sophisticated arpeggiator, a step sequencer, chord mode, diversity of effects and more.

Schiit Audio Asgard X (front)

Schiit Audio Powers up its New Class-A ASGARD X Modular Headphone Amp and Preamp, including Halo X Technology for Affordable High-end Audio

Christopher Laird Simmons

MUSEWIRE – Music News / Schiit Audio today announced their latest high-quality, high-value audiophile solution, their new ASGARD X, a Class A Modular Headphone Amp & Preamp. Priced from $399US (in black, silver is added $30 cost), the Class A, zero-feedback Asgard X also offers the Mesh DAC card with Unison 384 input and Forkbeard EQ.

Waldorf Quantum MK2 synthesizer

Waldorf Music announces final production run of its flagship Quantum MK2 synthesizer keyboard

Christopher Laird Simmons

REMAGEN, GERMANY / MUSEWIRE – Music Tech News: Waldorf Music this week announced the completion of the final production run of the Quantum MK2 synthesizer. No additional units will be manufactured, according to the company. The Quantum has been Waldorf’s flagship music instrument since its announcement in 2017 and debut in 2018, with the MK2 arriving in 2023 with added features like increased memory storage and poly-AT keybed.

Knobula Monumatic

Eurorack modular synth innovator Knobula announces availability of Monumatic polyphonic synthesizer

Christopher Laird Simmons

MUSEWIRE – Music Tech News: This week, UK-based eurorack modular synthesis innovator, Knobula, announced its latest creation, Monumatic – a fully polyphonic 8-voice synthesizer and a monophonic synthesizer packed into a compact 12HP eurorack module. It features16 selectable oscillator modes to provide a diverse range of both classic and futuristic tone generation using exclusively virtual analog algorithms.

Heritage Audo Synth Buddy

Heritage Audio introduces desktop 10 to 1 reversible and fully passive stereo switch, the SYNTH BUDDY

Christopher Laird Simmons

MUSEWIRE – Music Tech News/ — Heritage Audio has introduced a new desktop 10 to 1 reversible and fully passive stereo switch, called the SYNTH BUDDY. This nifty gadget is like a portable patchbay ideal for DAWless and live setups allowing merge of up to 10 sources to one output, or one output to up to 10 sources. Seamlessly connect up to 10 stereo (or 20 mono) line level sources and toggle between them with the turn of a knob.

Eventide Third Man Hardware Knife Drop Guitar FX Pedal

Eventide Third Man Hardware Knife Drop Guitar FX Pedal Now Available

Christopher Laird Simmons

MUSEWIRE – Music Gear News/ — Eventide has announced today that their Third Man Hardware Knife Drop Guitar FX Pedal is now available. It is described as: “From the twisted minds at Third Man Hardware and the mad scientists at Eventide, comes Knife Drop—a pedal so maniacal, so drenched in sonic chaos, you’ll wonder if you’re dreaming… or already trapped in a nightmare.” SRP $299.

Haken Audio EaganMatrix Micro posed image

Haken Audio has announced the new EaganMatrix Micro, the smallest device so far sporting the expressive synthesizer engine built for MPE

Christopher Laird Simmons

MUSEWIRE – Music Tech News/ — Haken Audio, the company that brought the expressive playability of the Haken Continuum Fingerboard to market, as well as many other MPE-capable electronic music devices, has announced their new EaganMatrix Micro. Packed with the power of the EaganMatrix Sound Technology in the smallest product ever. The EaganMatrix Micro is a full-featured EaganMatrix sound engine in a small self-contained form factor, and is powered and controlled via USB.

ARTURIA Astrolab Keyboard

For its 25th anniversary, Arturia launches ASTROLAB stage synthesizer keyboard with 34 iconic instruments onboard

Christopher Laird Simmons

/MUSEWIRE – Music News/ — ARTURIA today announced a new, innovative stage and studio synthesizer keyboard, they call ASTROLAB, an “Avant-garde Stage Keyboard,” as part of their 25th anniversary in the music instrument business. Accorsing to the company, “Astrolab offers a vast spectrum of classic and modern sounds. AstroLab is a 61-key stage keyboard combining the power of synthesis, intuitive controls, and an innovative ecosystem – inviting musicians to focus on their creative expression.

Gibson Garage London: Jimmy Page, Tony Iommi, Sir Brian May, James Bay, and More -- credit Dave Hogan

Gibson Garage London is a new flagship store for all things Gibson: a place to explore Gibson’s 130-year music history, outside the US

Christopher Laird Simmons

LONDON /MUSEWIRE – Music News/ — Opening to the public Feb. 24, 2024, the new Gibson Garage London is a ground-breaking flagship store for all things Gibson, located in historic London. At the Gibson Garage London kickoff event, Gibson announced it has entered into a collaborative partnership with one of the most influential musicians in history, Jimmy Page, an icon across all genres of music, art, and culture and co-founder of one of the biggest bands of all time, Led Zeppelin.

Avantone Pro Planar the II HEADPHONES

Avantone Pro announces PLANAR THE II Reference-grade Open-Back Headphones with Planar Drivers

Christopher Laird Simmons

/MUSEWIRE – Music News/ — Avantone Pro has announced availability of their new “Planar the II” headphones, reference-grade open-back headphones with Planar Drivers designed for both studio use and critical listening in audiophile home environments. Planar drivers offer an incredible set of advantages over traditional moving coil drivers. Amazing accuracy, high-end detail, clarity, natural bass, and response time.

Gibson Custom Shop Korina Flying V's

Gibson Wins Another Definitive Ruling On Its Iconic Guitar Shapes and Trademarks

Christopher Laird Simmons

NASHVILLE /MUSEWIRE – Music Industry Newswire/ — Court puts Gibson in a position to own their legacy innovations and be future focused: On July 28, 2022, the court issued an injunction permanently enjoining Armadillo (known as Dean Guitars) from the manufacture, advertisement, and/or sale of its guitars that infringe on Gibson’s ES, SG, Flying V, and Explorer trademarks, and the Hummingbird wordmark.

A Moog Semi-Modular Analog Synthesizer

Moog Music announces Mavis: a powerful build-it-yourself semi-modular analog synthesizer

Christopher Laird Simmons

ASHEVILLE, N.C. /MUSEWIRE – Music Industry Newswire/ — Moog Music has announced Mavis: a powerful, low-cost ($349 USD), build-it-yourself semi-modular analog synthesizer that invites creatives to begin their journey into the Moog ecosystem or expand their existing synth setup. With the legendary Moog sound and quality, Mavis delivers serious value in the form of an affordable, compact musical machine. Now shipping worldwide.

1010Music NANOBOX Modules

1010music Announce nanobox desktop synthesis modules, including lemondrop Polyphonic Granular Mini Synth

Christopher Laird Simmons

LOS ANGELES /MUSEWIRE – Music Industry Newswire/ — California-based 1010music has announced two new desktop mini synthesizers, including their new lemondrop, a Polyphonic Granular Mini Synth in shocking yellow livery, and the nanobox fireball Polyphonic Wavetable Mini Synth in a fiery red case. These polyphonic mini synthesizers offer intuitive touchscreen control, 4 voice polyphony and built in effects (FX).

Behringer Eurorack Module BRAINS

Behringer Eurorack Module (Delicious) BRAINS with 20 Synthesis Engines is Now Shipping

Christopher Laird Simmons

/MUSEWIRE – Music Industry Newswire / — Behringer’s new BRAINS eurorack module, a high-resolution multi-engine oscillator module for Eurorack with 20 synthesis engines, 96 kHz sound quality and OLED oscilloscope is now shipping. The Behringer BRAINS is an amazingly versatile digital sound source for creating percussion sounds, leads and basses, as well as drones and soundscapes.

Exploring the Moog Liberation virtual event

BOB MOOG FOUNDATION launches Exploring the Moog Liberation virtual event examining legendary keytar synthesizer

Christopher Laird Simmons

ASHEVILLE, N.C. /Music Industry Newswire/ — The Bob Moog foundation has announced its “Exploring the Moog Liberation” virtual event for Dec. 11, 2021, delving into the now-legendary keytar synthesizer originally released by Moog Music, Inc. in 1980. Former Moog Music Engineer, August Worley will examine the historical, technical, and musical aspects of this lesser-known instrument.

ASM Hydrasynth Deluxe Synthesizer

Ashun Sound Machines announces flagship synthesizer keyboard, the HYDRASYNTH DELUXE with Polyphonic Aftertouch

Christopher Laird Simmons

LOS ANGELES and HONG KONG /Music Industry Newswire/ — Ashun Sound Machines (ASM) has announced their latest flagship synthesizer keyboard, the HYDRASYNTH DELUXE, offering a dual sound engine setup and the largest ASM PolyTouch polyphonic aftertouch keybed to date. The user interface is designed with the utmost attention to detail and offers a rapid workflow.

SOMA ENNER – BODY-PATCHING SYNTHESIZER

SOMA laboratory recently released an innovative electronic music synthesizer instrument, ENNER, using the human body as ‘patch cables’

Christopher Laird Simmons

/Music Industry Newswire/ — In July 2021, SOMA laboratory released the unique instrument — ENNER. Controlled by ‘human patch cables,’ ENNER = combination of words Inner + Energy. The main concept was to create an instrument that’s closely connected to the performer’s emotional state, our inner energy. This idea belongs to the founder of SOMA Vlad Kreimer and Dalin Waldo, the designer of the instrument.

Cozmic Fuzzball Pedal

McGregor Pedals Launches ‘Cozmic Fuzzball’ – a Spacey Fuzz Pedal for Guitar and Bass Players

Christopher Laird Simmons

VANCOUVER, Canada /Music Industry Newswire/ — Boutique pedal company McGregor Pedals has launched its third pedal: The Cozmic Fuzzball. It follows on the heels of the McGregor’s previous pedals, the Crunch Transparent Overdrive, a single-channel, low-gain overdrive pedal for guitar and bass, released in December 2019 and the Crunch Plus Overdrive, a medium-gain version for guitar and bass released in December 2020.

Black Lion Audio Launches PG-P Portable Power Conditioner

Black Lion Audio Launches PG-P Portable Power Conditioner

Christopher Laird Simmons

CHICAGO, Ill. /Music Industry Newswire/ — Boutique audio company Black Lion Audio has announced its new PG-P Portable Power Conditioner — a studio-class power conditioner complete with proprietary PG-P PORTABLE FILTERING TECHNOLOGY to provide the same noise filtering found in the majority of rack-mount power conditioners, despite looking like a run-of-the-mill surge protector.

Polyend Tracker standalone workstation

Polyend pushes Tracker standalone workstation further with MIDI channel aftertouch and polyphonic aftertouch

Christopher Laird Simmons

/MUSEWIRE – Music News/ — Polyend announced today that the company is proud to push the Tracker standalone workstation further forward with a welcomed functionality-boosting firmware update taking it up to v1.3.0 — also adding the timely introduction of onboard games into an otherwise musical mix, allowing users to take a breather from music-making and refill their creative juices, just in time for Christmas.

BritStrip hardware console channel strip

Heritage Audio launches BritStrip hardware console channel strip with Successor-like compressor

Christopher Laird Simmons

/MUSEWIRE – Music News/ — Heritage Audio has announced the BritStrip — “beautifully representing the culmination of 50 years of analogue design in a single-space 19-inch rack device that nails the sound of yesteryear’s iconic recordings for present-day demanding engineers.” It is a British-spec discrete Class-A console channel strip with the same diode bridge compressor found in the European pro audio manufacturer’s multi-award-nominated Successor stereo bus compressor.

UVI releases World Suite 2

UVI releases World Suite 2, delivering 48 new instruments, new vocals, presets, loops and more

Christopher Laird Simmons

/MUSEWIRE – MUSIC NEWS/ — UVI releases World Suite 2, a significant update to their world music instrument collection, delivering 369 instruments, 10,000+ loops and phrases, vocals, and more, from every corner of the globe. Version 2 adds 48 new instruments, new Georgian vocals phrases (including male and female voices), and a brand new and exclusive Oriental String Ensemble.

Butch Vig Drums

Butch Vig Drums, with sounds produced by the rock legend, is the first in a run of collaborations with major artists for Native’s Play Series instruments

Christopher Laird Simmons

/MUSEWIRE – MUSIC NEWS/ — Native Instruments today released Butch Vig Drums – a collaboration with renowned drummer and producer Butch Vig, best known as co-founding member of the alternative rock band Garbage and the producer of the seminal albums including Nirvana’s “Nevermind,” Smashing Pumpkins’ “Siamese Dream,” and Green Day’s “21st Century Breakdown.”

Strymon Volante pedal - top

New Strymon Volante Magnetic Echo Machine effects pedal recreates musicality of tape delay systems

Christopher Laird Simmons

NEWS: New Strymon Volante Magnetic Echo Machine effects pedal features magnetic drum, tape, and (reel-to-reel) studio echo as a stereo multi-head delay that also offers a looper and vintage reverb. Situated at the center of Volante’s control surface are four delay playback heads with individual playback and feedback controls — each head’s playback level can be set for full volume, half volume, or off, and each head can be switched in or out of the feedback circuit.

MOOG ONE Analog Synthesizer

Long Awaited Polyphonic MOOG ONE Analog Synthesizer is Finally a Reality

Christopher Laird Simmons

SYNTH NEWS: While you might have heard rumors about a new polyphonic Moog Synthesizer at recent synth shows, it turns out that the rumors were true. It’s here, it’s real. It’s the brand spankin’ new MOOG ONE from the wizards at Moog Music. Briefly, it’s a 61-key, 16-voice Programmable, Tri-timbral Analog Synthesizer with 3 Voltage-Controlled Oscillators, 2 Independent Analog Filters, 4 LFOs, 3 Envelope Generators, Arpeggiator, Sequencer, Eventide Reverb Suite, and CV I/O. (UPDATED)

UAD Apollo X

Universal Audio Announces Updated and Upgraded Pro Line-up of UAD Apollo X Audio Interfaces

Christopher Laird Simmons

NEWS: Universal Audio has announced their new Apollo X models, now with hexacore processors as standard. The Apollo X is UA’s new flagship Thunderbolt 3 audio interfaces, “featuring elite-class A/D and D/A conversion, new HEXA Core UAD plug-in processing, Unison mic preamps, +24dBu operation, Surround Sound,* and more. All in a sleek, expandable Thunderbolt 3 package for Mac and PC.”

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