G-Sonique has started to hype Ampethron, their new hardware synthesizer, which was designed for live electronic music performance. After more than four years of development, the Ampethron synthesizer is designed for live-act and studio use with the with the ability to control, play and modulate.
Electronic dance music is more and more popular with sold out halls and stadiums worldwide, but unfortunately only very few electronic producers have live shows with comparable energy and performance of big live bands – for example guitar bands, rappers or singers. Electronic music has massive energy, but performance and communication with a crowd is limited because it is very difficult to play it live – hardware devices are heavy and only few musicians know how to play piano keys in perfect rhythm. Comparing energy and communication with a crowd of the best live guitar bands, electronic dance music performances can be sometimes boring, many people laugh that these shows are about come to see my laptop or pressing 3 to 4 buttons of a DJ player. We wanted to change that and prepared a synthesizer that is small, portable, creative and very easy to use and play live as part of live-act or DJ set. While some of us are DJs and producers, we understand that it is very difficult to play live on a synth keyboard to music in perfect rhythm, so we developed brand new system of playing sounds, notes and control.
G-Sonique claims the revolutionary thing about their new Ampethron portable synthesizer is that you buy just one hardware device and you can insert additional synthesizers and algorithms via a USB key. The company plans on releasing additional synthesizers and algorithms every year. The worst part about this endeavor is that G-Sonique plans on using crowdfunding to get the Ampethron off the ground. If that wasn’t bad enough, they’re utilizing the unctuous Facebook platform to register for new information and discounts. Why the can’t simply do this from their website is a mystery.
The Ampethron looks like a cross between a Lemur and Roland’s plug-out concept, which is a provocative proposition, but there are many more questions to be answered in order to evaluate the potential of this concept.
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