MATRIXSYNTH: Musikmesse2011

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Monday, April 11, 2011

Musikmesse 2011: Mode Machines Shynthlab

YouTube Uploaded by musotalk on Apr 8, 2011

"Wir schauen uns den 100% analog aufgebauten monophonen Synthesizer an."

You can see the ASID 64 there as well.

Uploaded by MusicStoreTV on Apr 10, 2011

iCon iCreative and iStage Controllers

YouTube Uploaded by HarmonyCentral on Apr 10, 2011

"Control Ableton Live, other DAWs, soft synths, and more...and these are projected to be relatively inexpensive."

MESSE11: Waldorf Lector 100 Band Vocoder

via Sonic State

MESSE11: Kenton New Products

via Sonic State

Scheidersbuero booth at Musikmesse 2011

YouTube Uploaded by expertsleepers on Apr 11, 2011

"A brief video tour of the Schneidersbuero 'superbooth' at the Frankfurt Musikmesse 2011, starting from the Expert Sleepers section."

Sunday, April 10, 2011

Mode Machines ASID 64 in Violation of MIDIBox SID Licensing?

This one in via latigid. There is currently a thread on the MIDIBox forum discussing the new ASID64 or ASF-1 from Mode Machines shown at the Musikmesse as being in violation of the MIDIBox licensing agreement. You can see it currently listed on Touched By Sound's website for 1.495,00 € here. What's interesting is the unit first made an appearance during Winter NAMM as seen in this post but may have gone unnoticed until now.

Wilba at the forum who appears to represent MIDIBox states, "I already know about this, and I will comment more on it later."
Followed by TK: "The owner of Mode Machines replies in facebook:

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'Michael Thorpe Hello - I don´t think you are getting the point here. We have not offered the unit furthermore we have only showed a possible version of it and we discussed this beforehand with the owner and designer and also are currently talking to them ...'

These statements are simply not true!

Some months ago we found a MIDIbox SID on the TBS product page. Nils contacted the company, explained the legal status (during a long phone call) and got the answer that they are not planning to sell the MIDIbox anymore. But it can still be found on their page, and now we saw it at Musikmesse as well.

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'we discussed this beforehand with the owner and designer'

false, they never contacted me.

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'and also are currently talking to them ...'

false, they are currently not talking to us (in distance: Nils had to pro-actively contact them some weeks ago and thought that this topic is clarified).
And I must say that I'm not interested to talk with profiteers with such attitude.
Especially since it seems that they have no experience with the MBSID hardware/software - who should support the customers?

Best Regards, Thorsten."

Followed by: "Since some months we consider to change to the TAPR Noncommercial Hardware License, which would allow everybody to build and sell up to 10 units in any 12 month period on a non-profit basis w/o need for a special permission from our side.
Without going too much into details (please open a new thread if you feel that this needs more discussion, but there will be a topic soon anyhow): this license would explicitly allow a professional or hobbyists to build and sell a MIDIbox to another user if he is only paid for his expenses (w/o profit)
It would also make it less complicated to resell a used MIDIbox, no special permission required from our side as long as the NCL isn't violated.

TBS violated the old license (no commercial use without my permission), and they would also violate the new license (e.g. by renaming the project and not mentioning the copyright holders - also the announced price of 1500 EUR somehow doesn't match with the "non-profit" term).

Btw: for the case that you are interested on a MB6582, check this fleamarket sale by Lucem:
http://midibox.org/f...6-sids-3-types/

Best Regards, Thorsten."

Musikmesse 2011: Twitch and ITCH

YouTube Uploaded by Skratchworx on Apr 10, 2011

"A short movie dedicated to the missed opportunity that was Novation's Twitch and Serato's ITCH v2 coming together in my hotel room at Musikmesse 2011."

KOMA Elektronik - BD101 prototype - Musikmesse 2011

YouTube Uploaded by KOMAelektronik on Apr 10, 2011

"Christian from KOMA Elektronik shows the prototype of the KOMA BD101 Analog Gate and Delay at the 2011 Musikmesse in Frankfurt, Germany.

KOMA BD101: Mangle and cut your sound apart with an innovative vactrol controlled analog delay circuit in combination with a fully adjustable wide range frequency gate. It sounds like you're playing your instrument on the porch outside of your house and inside your amp is slowly sinking in the toilet, CV controlled of course. This might sound strange, but that's just what this pedal is about: create weird resonant frequencies, shift between heavy delayed sounds and super short pulses, with whatever instrument you want to plug into it. The BD101 comes standard with a solid footswitch, multiple inputs, an audio and control voltage patchbay and our new innovative expression controller."

Saturday, April 09, 2011

Musikmesse 2011 Pics via Hajo

You can find the full set of pics here. Plenty of gear shots with the emphasis on the people. See if you can recognize some of the faces.

Synth.nl on the Jupiter-80 - Hands On Impression

"Most people start with comparing it with the Jupiter 8. Well I can tell you it has nothing to do with that classic. So forget that association right away!.. In the GAIA you have 3 one oscillator synths that you can stack all with their own LFO, Filter, VCA, two envelopes and an effects sections. Well you can stack 8 of those in the Jupiter 80 without any polyphonic restrictions. So that gives you 27 one oscillator synthesizers in a stack :P I can tell you the sound power coming from that is amazing."

See Synth.nl for the full impression.