66 Digital Nation
MUSIKMESSE SPECIAL
The Musikmesse in Frankfurt is the Euphonix manufacture some of the Akai has announced the MPD18 – a on
www.ableton.com. Hold your
world’s leading trade fair for musi- most expensive, crazy mixing desk USB pad controller with 16 rub- horses though Tex … the new test
cal instruments, computer hard- hybrids known to man, offering berised pads, two banks and a USB- software comes with this warning on
ware and accessories and has been professional video and audio edit- only power input. It looks suited the tin: “Please note that this beta
an important meeting place for the ing solutions and modular sound for creating drum patterns with the version is for test purposes only
music industry for over 25 years. card compatibility. But they also minimum of fuss. The package also and is still under development.
Musikmesse 2009 was recently held make some stuff for people who comes bundled with Ableton Live We don’t recommend using this
in Frankfurt so Kmag sidestepped aren’t ugly and fat, in the form Lite and will ship early summer. version on stage or for any critical
the balding sound engineers to of their luxurious but convoluted productions. We recommend that
salvage the cool stuff. hardware controllers the MC Mix Thermionic Culture have launched you work only with copies of your
and MC Control (which you should a limited 80-unit run anniver- Live Sets and sound material.” So
As broken last issue, Spectrasonics probably check out on YouTube if sary edition of the valve distortion don’t go cooking up that master-
have announced Trilian, the suc- you haven’t already). Now they’re outboard processor known as the piece on Ableton Live 8 just yet,
cessor to their ridiculously good releasing something altogether Culture Vulture in a striking red unless you want to end up slitting
bass software instrument Trilogy. more affordable in the form of a colour, used by Liam Howlett and your wrists when your rival to the
Musikmesse had a fully working compact DAW Controller called Baron, now featuring 10 distortion great ‘Body Rock’ irreversibly
demo of this most dopealicious MC Transport, which can slot types, boasting brand new, rare, mutates into a glitchy Aphex Twin
of plug-ins on show, where, aside in alongside its bigger siblings to military-grade valves. On top of number.
from its revamped graphical user create a true transport rig. It also triode and pentode ‘stortions, you
interface, pleased the crowds with its uses EuCon – the “successor” to now get some other freaky shit – Adam Audio have announced
use of Spectrasonics’ Steam Engine, MIDI – like “MIDI on Steroids” specifically designed for basses – as updates to their flagship range of
first seen in the potent Omnisphere according to Euphonix. Shame it’ll well as the fresh Pentode 2 settings world-beating speakers … the SX3
soft synth. We messed around with it never catch on guys, but anyway, “SC1”, “SC2” and “SC3” which and SX4 (now called S3XV and
a bit, and were seriously impressed check this out on www.euphonix. “squash” the sound and offer radi- S4XV) have new tweeters known
with the wealth of multisamples com where it can be picked up for cal distortion effects like frequency as X-ARTs (Extended Frequency
on offer – no two notes seemed to around 369 squid. doubling and over-compression. Response), which apparently better
sound the same. It will be free to Yours for £1,369. the dangerous ribbon technology
purchasers of Trilogy in 2009, oth- Sounding like some sort of robotic of the originals, and have been
erwise retailing for around £200; pygmy cow, the Akai Miniak is a vir- Watch out for new UAD DSP plug- redesigned vertically. They can hit
upgrades less, on 29 June. tual analogue hardware synth in the ins – rivals to TC PowerCore’s – in 50kHz (the oldies could only clock
vein of Korg’s MicroKORG. The version 5.3 of the UAD OS. New 35kHz) and now have “fun knobs”
The follow up to the Nord C1, the super-cute device has a 25-note plugs are: Cooper Time Cube for fucking around with the low
C2, has reared its ugly mug at the keyboard and a range of controls MkII, which is an emulation of a end. The S3XV has four separate
Musikmesse. Why was there always including obligatory mod and pitch fucked-up bit of old gear that was drivers (instead of three), including
some French guy with bad breath wheels. Some soft knobs labeled Z, built from hosepipe (honestly) one for mid-range. This equates
that keeps on chanting, “Nord, Y and X give you hands on control that costs around £100, and also a to tighter bass, due to the two
Nord, Norrrrrrd” through his over the 600-included presets. barely legal rip off emulation of a seven-inch drivers being reserved
blocked nose in the most nasal way The Miniak costs around £500 and Neve console channel strip and bus exclusively for low frequencies. The
possible in close proximity to this comes loaded with a gooseneck mi- compressor, both sub £200. S4XV has had its driver position
prototype? It features two racks of crophone, 40-Band Vocoder, eight rearranged. Head to www.adamau-
keys, sampled pipe organ and has a voices, three oscillators, two filters, The Ableton Live public beta is
dio.com for pricing.
number of other new additions such three envelope generators and two now available for download. If you
as a tape delay. Despite its niche ap- LFOs, as well effects. The Miniak own a full copy of Live (versions
peal, the Nord brand is sworn upon should be out soon. 1 – 7) and would like to test Live 8,
by quite a few music industry pros, you can download this beta from
Kmag would like you to know. the Ableton Live homepage today
www.kmag.co.uk
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