Synthesizers/Racks/Modules news

Arturia has announced a new series of three hybrid synthesizers: Analog Experience The Player, Analog Experience The Factory and Analog Experience The Laboratory.

Arturia has announced that the keyboard version of Origin, aptly named Origin Keyboard, will be shipping in March 2010.

Access Music presents OS4 for the entire Virus TI series on the NAMM Show 2010 in Anaheim, California.

E-MU® Systems has announced that its new E-MU LONGboard 61 and SHORTboard 49 keyboards are now shipping.

Access Music has released a Limited Edition of their Virus TI desktop synthesizer, a Virus TI2 White (limited edition).

The new version has 60 potentiometers among its complement of 78 rotary controls.

The VST Little Phatty Editor is available in Windows and Mac (Intel and non-Intel) versions and supports a wide variety of VST hosts, Moog says.

Moog's Little Phatty synthesizer now features the new Control Voltage Output Modification.

The Miniak is a new synthesizer from Akai Professional, developed in partnership with the Alesis synthesis team.

The russian Elektronika EM-5 comes green and heavy like a battle tank, but when taking a look closer it is more like a cancer, Detunized says.

Yamaha introduced two new weighted action music synthesizers, the 88-key S90XS and the 76-key S70XS.

This latest addition to the JUNO Series is specifically designed for the musician on the go, providing professional sounds in a lightweight, portable design, according to Roland.

Roland announced the JUNO-G Workshop series of PDF booklets, now available for free download at RolandUS.com.

Since the release of the Prophet ’08 in August 2007, Dave Smith says it has received numerous requests for a version with more vintage-style controls.

Roland has announced the availability of the VP-770 Vocal & Ensemble Keyboard featuring vocal designer effects and ensemble sounds powered by Roland's SuperNATURAL™ technology.

Orwell Digital has announced the availability of The Ultimate_Xpansion Sound Collection, a patch library for use with Apple's Logic Pro music production software.

Korg M3 Volume #2 - Soundtrack/Film Mix is the followup to Kid Nepro's "Proto Rock" collection, and it is now available.

B.E.A.S.T. is designed to take sound from classic analog synths and inject it with the energy of Reason and the Combinator.

Waldorf announced that the Blofeld Keyboard is shipping with a price tag of 879 Euro.

Beilfuss assures their new step synthesizer will bring "new, never before heard, electronic sounds to music."

Kreativ Sounds released SequenceK THOR Sounds, a collection of sounds that explores and combines all the features of this synthesizer, according to the company.

SoundsDivine has programmed a preset bank for Image Sawer Line.

The axolotl is an analog synth noisebox made for "demanding sound-designers and noise musicians," according to Stupid Design.

Roland has updated its JUNO-G system to version 2.

Karma-Lab has released Catalyst Volume 1 - Creativity Xplosion!, a "KARMA-fied" combi collection for the Korg M3 and Korg M50.