Electronic instrument news

Analogue Solutions announces availability of Leipzig-S, the latest addition to its line of designs from founder Tom Carpenter, in the spirit of vintage analogue synthesisers.

The new black Blofeld is produced 100% in German Schwarzarbeit.

Elektron has released three new operating systems.

Korg USA has announced a new fall rebate promotion on some of their models.

Spectrasonics announced the winners of their worldwide "OMG-1 Contest." Over 400 entries for the contest were submitted from 68 different countries, with a diversity of musical styles.

Roland has announced that the new Jupiter-80 synthesizer is now shipping.

Roland is introducing its Jupiter-80 synthesizer at a number of Sam Ash locations this August.

Access Music offers video workshops to Virus TI users, to help them develop their synth skills.

Good news for MC-808 users: Roland releases drivers pour Windows 7 in 32- and 64-bit versions.

SSC Controls, manufacturer of effect pedals and footswitches, showcased at Summer NAMM its DSSP-CE44 pedal designed to control sustain for two keyboards simultaneously.

Yamaha unveils the PSR-S650 arranger keyboard at Summer NAMM 2011.

The CTK-4200, LK-280 and WK-225 are designed to advance the skill sets of amateur and intermediate musicians.

Ten years ago Elektron Music Machines released the original Machinedrum: To celebrate this anniversary, Elektron offers Machinedrum MKI owners to trade in their old units, pay an upgrade price and re…

Elektron Music Machines has released OS 1.0 for the Octatrack DPS-1, described as the single biggest Octatrack OS update so far.

Eowave is now shipping the Eowave Ribbon, a lofi synth and USB and CV Gate controller.

Expert Sleepers has announced the ES-4, a Eurorack format module which converts a standard S/PDIF input to five channels of control voltage.A

Moog Music announced the release of Phatty OS v.3.1, a firmware upgrade to the Phatty family of analog synthesizers.

Reactable Mobile brings the Reactable synthesizer to your mobile device.

Music Computing, the makers of the StudioBLADE line of keyboard production stations, has announced the Gen2 versions.

Blue Cat Audio and Feeltune have announced a partnership for the integration of Blue Cat Audio plug-ins into Feeltune's musical workstation, the Rhizome.

Gotharman announces the relaunch of its deMOON synth in a Youtube video.

Nova*Musik have teamed up with Moog Music to announce the Moog Voyager Performer Lunar Impact.

Rhizome's 1.5.7. update is available for download. This release adds features introduced in 1.5 OS.

The Beat Thang music-making machine should be available next Summer from Best Buy.

Gear4music.com has revealed three new keyboards in the MK series.