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  • Meet the world’s first plug-out synth – Roland’s AIRA System-1

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    A few months ago Roland announced it’s AIRA series of products - a line of creative tools including a drum machine, a voice transformer, a bass synth, and the System-1 synthesizer.  A hardware synth with some pretty interesting internal capabilities. First and foremost – it comes...
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  • Oddities from NAMM

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    The NAMM show is an annual gathering of music manufacturers and retailers in Anaheim California. It attracts a huge chunk of the larger entertainment industry on top of those core business people, resulting in a rather astonishing display of music-making business mayhem, rivaled only by...
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  • Bitwig Studio Released!

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    March 26th brings the launch of the much-anticipated Bitwig Studio 1.0. What more is there to say? We here at Controllerism.com are completely ecstatic, especially since we just received a couple of licences from the Bitwig elves, so expect an in-depth and hands-on article soon!...
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  • AKAI reveals revamped APC line of controllers

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    Musikmesse 2014 saw Akai Professional announce an updated line of APC controllers featuring three new models – the APC40 MKII; a compact keyboard – APC KEY25; and an APC Mini. All three controllers are class-compliant and bus-powered (so, no more power adapter like with the...
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