Seven45 Studios has announced a product that the guitar manufacturing industry has been waiting with bated breath for…a guitar video game that utilized a real guitar. Replacing the color-coded plastic guitar controller that has make Guitar Hero and Rock Band a video game sensation, Seven45 Studios will provide a real six-string guitar as their controller...
iPad Available To Pre-Order March 12, Ships Early April
Apple has announced that the Wi-Fi iPad will bow on Saturday, April 3rd in the US, followed by the Wi-Fi + G3 edition later in the month. Additionally, both versions will hit Australia, Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, Spain, Switzerland, and the U.K. in late April. Beginning on March 12, consumers can pre-order both the Wi-Fi and Wi-Fi + 3G models from...
Weekend Fun: Somnus-Neu, The Most Advanced Bed On The Planet
New Zealand based designer Grier Govorko has created the Somnus-Neu, an advanced, multimedia bed that features state-of-the-art surround sound, a retractable video screen, Wi-Fi, an iPod dock, motorized curtains, and three different kinds of LED lighting turned for specific activities, reading, ambient, and “don’t trip while going to the bathroom in...
iConnectivity Announces iConnectMIDI For iPhone
iConnectivity has announced iConnectMIDI a new iPhone to MIDI device. iConnectivity claims that you can simply plug your electronic instrument (synthesizer, guitar, whatever) into iConnectMIDI and you can play and control your music, using your iPhone or iPod, your instrument, or both at the same time. iConnectMIDI can connect up to 16 devices in a chain,...
What Will Apple’s iTablet Do For Music Production?
As we all wait with bated breath for Apple’s Dog ‘n’ Pony show this afternoon that will finally unveil their new iTablet, we still have a few moments to reflect on this products potential impact on the future of music production. Now we’ve been ruminating on an Apple tablet for some time, but on the cusp of the announcement the big...
Misa Digital Guitar Surfaces
From Sydney, Australia comes the Misa Digital Guitar, an open source, Linux-based MIDI controller, that utilizes buttons for frets and a multi-touch screen for strumming and sound manipulation.* Guitars by their very nature have limitations. To create sound you need to hit a string, so that the sound at its most intense point is always the beginning of the...