"Designbox was founded in 1995 by the industrial designers Axel Hartmann and Stephan Leitl in Ravensburg, Southern Germany."
Take a look at the keyboards to the left. Design Box was part of the design of each as listed on this page. Going from left to right, top down you can see the following:
Alesis Andromeda
Moog Voyager
Waldorf Wave
Access Virus TI
Moog Little Phatty
Waldrof Q Keyboard
EMU Xboard
Hartmann Neuron
Title takes you Design Box. via sequencer.de.
Axel Hartmann has a magic touch:
ReplyDeleteAlesis Andromeda - ALESIS OUT OF BUSINESS
Waldorf Wave + Waldorf Q = WALDORF OUT OF BUSINESS
Hartmann Neuron = HARTMANN MUSIC OUT OF BUSINESS
Now then,
MOOG Music was sort of semi out of business sort of once. At least in a trademark sense.
EMU was bought by Creative, n'est pas?
I'm not saying Axcel had anything to do with the last two (but then, time is Quantum in nature and his influence could have seeped back in time... oooOOOoooOOO)
Access seems untouched?
Design Box is so futuristic that their effects can be seen in the past.
(FYI: I really like their designs).
Yes, I know that Waldorf is back in business (as is Alesis). I heard on the Grapevine that Waldorf is making the SMS2000 in Japan and that Axel Hartmann designed the UI ;)
ReplyDeleteIf he designed the Little Phatty than he's loosing his touch.
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ob synth content: if apple's designers created a synth what would it look like?
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ReplyDeleteJust to make that clear - apart from the Neuron, which was his idea and which he had implemented by a team of people assembled by himself, 'design' as an English term used in German language refers to just visual appearance (and _not_ to -say- circuit design or sound or sonic design, not even product design), and so Axel Hartmann was responsible just for the looks of aforementioned synths (and a whole bunch od Steinberg softsynths as well).
ReplyDelete(And yes. I am not so keen of that either, the looks that is ..)
Thought I'd let you know.
Couldn't those companies come up with intuitive panel layouts themselves? I'm sure there's alot more poeple working in those companies that had ideas too. Interesting that Axel is in such a postion where synth companies think they have to get their new synth layouts designed by him.
ReplyDeleteI do love my Microwave XT, but I don't care that it's panel is designed by some big name. To me it's no more special than the panel of my SCI Pro-One, Octave Cat, Moog Source, Arp Solus, or any other subtractive(ish) synth.