NAMM: 2009 Winter NAMM Open Labs booth feat. Jimmy Nichols

YouTube via OpenLabsInc
"Renown keyboardist and composer Jimmy Nichols stopped by the Open Labs 2009 Winter NAMM booth to show the crowd why he loves his Open Labs gear. Nichols is currently the music arranger for Faith Hill, and has worked with Reba McEntire, Elton John, Kelly Clarkson and many others. He has been an Open Labs endorsed artist since 2006, and uses his NeKo in the studio and on the road. At this event, NAMM introduced their Gen5 products, that feature new innovations like Bump MP and Riff."

NAMM: Open Labs MiKo

"MiKo LXD

The Gen5 MiKo LXD is the latest addition to the Open Labs® products line. Using a 15” touch-screen, 37 black and white keys, external backlit QWERTY keyboard and running Windows® OS, MiKo LXD is an entirely new class of portable music instrument. This portable media work center was specifically designed for the electronic musician, music producer and today’s digital lifestyle.

MiKo LXD’s optimized Windows OS natively supports virtually any music application or plug-in developed for a PC. From Pro Tools™ to Nuendo™, Native Instruments™ Komplete™ to Spectrasonics™ Omnisphere™, MiKo LXD does it all with ease.

MiKo LXD is equipped with the new Bump MP™ integrated drum module, designed to allow the user to create beats and trigger any sound, loop or sample in real-time. Enhanced with a special Open Labs version of Guru™ from FXpansion™, key features of the Bump MP include: (16 plus 1) fully assignable pads, note repeat, max level, fixed level fader, transport controls, chromatic mode, hold, pad tune, multiple groove preset and eight engines with 24 presets per engine.

MiKo LXD is also equipped with the new Open Labs Mix/Edit controller. The mixer section consists of multiple fully assignable controls including: (8) encoders, (8) lighted buttons, (8) faders, (4 X 4) banks (total of 128 channels) and (1) master volume fader. The edit section consists of multiple, fully assignable controls including: (8) encoders, (1) LCD display (for encoders), (4) buttons and (4) banks (total of 32 control parameters).

MiKo LXD has the most relevant and compelling sounds including: Open Labs The Master’s Series Library™ produced by multi-platinum producer Mr. Porter (Denaun Porter), as well as Open Labs’ own V5™ sound, sample and loop library.

Open Labs Riff™ is an entirely new concept in virtual instrument hosting. Written from the ground up by Open Labs, Riff encompasses over six years of live performance and studio production knowledge gathered from some of the world’s top artists, engineers, composers, and producers. Its advanced features include: Live Controls™, which allows the user to create any number of virtual controls in real-time that can be mapped to various effects and other parameters. Advanced intelligence allows any number of virtual controllers to manipulate any number of other virtual controllers, providing automation for virtual instruments and effects. Rewire allows for this powerful host application to be used within any DAW program.

The MiKo offers superior mobility in a compact package. It’s perfect for working in a project studio of performing live – where creating beats, guitar and vocal multi-tracking, and DJ/VJ capabilities are as necessary as playing a keyboard.

The MiKo’s assignable Master and DJ controllers elevate live performance beyond normal application. For instance, you can trigger Mp3’s in real time, then grab audio waveforms via the touchscreen. To top things off, throw some real-time drum, bass, and vocal lines on top of your mix.

Open Labs instruments are equipped with Firewire, USB, PCI EXPRESS and an Ethernet port, allowing access to the Internet via a broadband connection. Open Labs tech support can log-in to your system, and our online technicians can remotely view and diagnose any issue – while you are still in your own studio.

We’ve included over 200 world-class virtual instruments and effects with over 20,000 presets with virtually unlimited capability for third party plug-ins and applications.

MiKo LXD Dimensions: 34"(L) X 19"(W) X 7"(H) Weight (base configuration) 38.8 lbs."

LX5 and XXL pictured below. More info: http://openlabs.com/products.html

NAMM: Open Labs Big Secret

"January 15, 2009 – Anaheim, CA. Open Labs®, the leader in computer enhanced musical instruments,
announces it will release six new products at the upcoming Winter NAMM show.
A special press conference will be held at the Open Labs booth, #5900, starting at 10:30 a.m. Thursday,
January 15, 2009.
Products released will include hardware, software, and other technologies that provide even greater performance and capabilities to Open Labs current products.
A few surprises are planned for the event, which will be hosted by Open Labs Chairman and Co-founder, Victor Wong. The event will be taped for delayed airing on the Open Labs LIVE BROADCAST via its website: http://www.openlabs.com.
Product demonstrations, special performances, and interviews will be broadcast concurrent with NAMM show hours Thursday, Friday, and Saturday via the Open Labs BROADCAST, live from Austin, Texas.

Complete listing of the programming will be made available at http:///www.openlabs.com by Monday, January 12, 2009.
Please RSVP for the press conference to insure seating."

Timbaland Neko Beat Making With King Beezy

YouTube via BMB2010. The track starts to develop around 2:02.
"Quik Beat Making Video. Movie "300" Type Chant in the track. Subscribe And Get At Me And My Group GREATNESS For Collabs.

http://www.myspace.com/thereturnofgre..."

Open Labs MIKO Timbaland Edition

via this auction

"www.openlabs.com . . . and . . . http://www.openlabs.com/timba-overview-tse.html

About this particular instrument - it is the current model, fully loaded (with the exception of it having a 500 gig hard-drive rather than 1tb) with thousands of sounds, all the Open Labs software, Reaper DAW, etc."

Open Labs presents iphone Beatmaker Tutorial

YouTube via OpenLabsInc. via Devi of Devi Ever
"Open Labs product developer Matthew Presley demonstrates how to use the new iphone application beatmaker in conjunction with NeKo TSE."
You can get Beatmaker here:

Recorder - Synth Bots

"We play live, using the following: Open Labs NeKo LX, Korg Radias, Roland Juno G, Akai MPC 1000, Theremin, and, occasionally, an Atari 2600 SynthCart. Nothing vintage, just good synthetic fun."

Recorder on MySpace
Recorder on YouTube


Recorder - Satellite
YouTube via recordermusic
"'Space Alone' animation by Ilias Sounas, used with permission"

Maroon 5 (feat Rihanna) - If I Never See Your Face Again

YouTube via polydor. Open Labs Neko and Analog Systems Modular, which I'm guessing was provided by Big City Music according to this post.
"The new single from Maroon 5 (featuring Rihanna) released in the UK on 30th June."

Richard Devine - Odd & Wonderful Synth Effects using a NeKo

YouTube via OpenLabsInc
"Richard Devine is an Atlanta-based electronic musician. He is recognised for producing a layered and heavily processed sound, combining influences from old and modern electronic music. Devine largely records for the Miami-based Schematic Records.

For more information on Richard Devine, please visit our site at www.openlabs.com"

Open Labs Introduction to mFusion

YouTube via OpenLabsInc.

Open Labs "MimiK" Keyboard Cloning Software, Part 2

Update: Part 1 added below. Also check out Redmatica's AutoSampler. via Mibrilane in the comments.

YouTube via OpenLabsInc. If you know synths you know this isn't quite true. What they talk about can be done with almost any sampler. Yes the starting point can be the same but it's where you go from there that makes all synths unique.

"MimiK™ keyboard cloning software is a simple and easy to use software.
Features:
1. Can be setup to automatically sample any MIDI capable sound devices that is connected to a NeKo or MiKo.
2. Can capture different velocity layers, after-touch layers and note off sounds.
3. MimiK can sample any key range, note length, up to 96K/32bits and in stereo (or mono).
4. Creates sample files for each note sampled (WAV or OGG).
5. Options for automatically fading and chopping samples.
6. Can sample entire banks or sets of banks at a time.
7. Exports an open human readable sample library file (SFZ). Sample libraries generated by MimiK can be played back by the free SFZ player. SFZ files can be converted using third party software to most other formats."

Update: Part 1

How a NeKo is Born (a youtube exclusive)

YouTube via OpenLabsInc.
"We were up at work late the other night and decided to tape some of our silly antics. Happy Halloween folks!"

We're Bringin' Sexy Back

The biggest news of Summer NAMM 07. The NEW Timbaland Special Edition MiKo LX!

Timbaland