Metasonix Announces Vacuum Tube Drum Machine

Metasonix, known for their vacuum tube synths has announced the D-1000, the first vacuum tube drum machine since the Wurlitzer Sideman of 1959. The D-1000 consists of only four sounds, 2 toms, a snare and a cymbal, although control voltage inputs provide additional flexibility. Each of the tunable drums is made from a vacuum tube ringing bandpass filter, and can be tuned to sound from below 20 Hz to over 2 kHz. They are also tunable...

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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 pluck. The left hand controls what notes to play, and the right hand controls...

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