Being old and such, the Christmas presents don’t pour in like they used to… thus I easily caved in to an impulse buy temptation and bought myself an early Christmas present, the new(ish) XioSynth 25 from Novation. Tiny (468 x 68 x 190 mm), light (a mere 1.4 kilos!), and with a built-in USB audio [...]
Yep, I’m working on some new song recordings and this time around I’ll be sharing engineering duties with my collaborator, which means that I am still doing much of it myself for pretty much the first time ever (oh YAY!). Aside from the fact that I don’t know what the hell I’m doing (but hey [...]
I thought I wanted the M-Audio Trigger Finger but I just did some research and found out about the newer Korg padKontrol: http://www.korg.com/gear/info.asp?a_prod_no=KPC1 Not that I’m any kind of beatmaker but… I WANT ONE!
I’ve been testing out the M-Audio Firewire 410 on my Powerbook G4 (1.5 GHz) since Sunday. It’s a nice small silver metal box… with flimsy plastic connectors and knobs. Oh well, for $250 what can you expect? Installation and setup was straightforward. Download latest drivers on website (I have no idea if the included drivers [...]