The weeks following a huge tradeshow are marked by the handing out of awards for "best in show" in various categories. MusikMesse 2007 in Frankfurt is no exception and has been handing out the lucite this week - also...
Offsite Link: Get more information about Korg M3 keyboard workstation and KP3 Kaoss Pad's awards at the official MIPA website.
Live from the floor fo MusikMesse 2007 in Frankfurt Germany, it's yet another Gearwire video featuring yet another cool pedal from TC Electronic, this time the Vintage Delay. Twist go the knobs and strum go the chords...
It's another slow, steady montage of Seymour Duncan guitar pickups, shot live from the floor of MusikMesse 2007 in Frankfurt. Take a long peek at this Part 2 of the Duncan guitar pickups. You can also check out Part...
Musikmesse is not just a place to marvel at sounds and the tools we use to make them. It is also a place for totally sweet light shows. Of course these light shows are accompanied by music, in this case an epic Glass-esque...
The 2nd Generation of the popular CME UF line was at the 2007 Frankurt Musikmesse. Here Liu takes us through the features on this update in the line of bothe the standard and deluxe models. Moving faders on a controller is...
Here is an audio demo of what the Akai MPK 49 can do. The sounds are coming from Native Instruments Reaktor. Some of the features that presenter Dan Carnegie takes advantage of are the velocity and pressure sensitive pads,...
Watch a quick and dirty demonstration of a classic pedal from TC Electronic. The Vintage Tremolo gets the knobs worked out for a few minutes in this video shot live from the floor of MusikMesse 2007 in fabulous Frankfurt,...
Thomas Blug and Raoul Walton were doing some jams at the Hughes and Kettner booth at this years Musikmesse. Thomas is a well known guitarist in Europe and it was great to hear some of his licks while we were out there. Check...
In this video shot live from the floor of MusikMesse 2007 in Frankfurt, get an eye and earful of Numark's iDJ controller, the must-have for those who believe that AAC-compressed iPod files are a suitable-sounding subsititue...
Take a video-montage tour of the selection of Seymour Duncan bass pickups on display at MusikMesse. Shot live from the floor of MusikMesse 2007 in Frankfurt, this video displays the goods Duncan's bass people brought...
Zack Wheatcroft of BIAS gives us a sneak preview of Peak Pro 6, due for general release in June of '07. Peak is BIAS's mainline audio editing application and they've been working on new features for a while. In this...
Coincidentally the Roland SH-201 gets a lot of coverage here at Gearwire. Nobody can figure out exactly why this is but we definitely don't think it is a bad thing. In this video we get to hear some of the presets as well...
The D2 (pronounced D-squared) Director from Numark is a new solution for organizing digital music for use in a DJ set. Songs can be categorized by name, album, artist, as well as by custom "crates" as they are called. When...
As we approach the end of the line of Gearwire's MusikMesse coverage and the video bag gets emptier and emptier, out come the human-interest pieces that really leave you with the feeling that it was you and not us who...
The TC stompbox tryouts continue in this video shot live from the floor of MusikMesse 2007 in Frankfurt. This time we check out TC's XII Phaser pedal, which sports a wide palette of tones. get a sense of TC's phaser pedal...
Julian from Edirol runs down the specs of the VCR-300 Midi controller. The VCR series is a new line from Edirol and they were proud to be showing it off on the floor of Frankfurt Musikmesse. Check out the video for all the...
Roland had a collection of some of their most beloved products at this years Musikmesse in Frankfurt, Germany. Among the pieces was the MC-808 Groovebox. Gearwire's Joe Wallace gets in and gets some sounds from the MC-808....
The knobs get a twisting in this Gearwire video shot from the floor of MusikMesse 2007 in Frankfurt. Gearwire's Rob Warmowski dials in the sounds of the TC Electronic Vintage Octa Screamer pedal, producing some tone colors...
Offsite Link: Get more information about the TC Electronic Vintage Octa Screamer pedal at the official TC Electronic website.
In this video shot live from the floor of MusikMesse 2007 in Frankfurt, Gearwire's Rob Warmowski drags the truth out of Christian from Tascam about the company's GA-30CD practice guitar amplifier and its cool features....
The partnership between IK Multimedia and Moog Music was announced at this years Musikmesse in Frankfurt, Germany. To find out what this means for the company and their customers Joe Wallace tracked down David Kerzner...
In this second part of our Steinberg Wavelab video we see some of the more complex tasks that this mastering software has to offer. There are some heavy hitting analysis tools and plug-ins to correct the problems they...
The remixing features in the Roland MC-808 are put front and center in this Gearwire video shot live from the floor of MusikMesse 2007 in Frankfurt. Roland's Michel Bougain slides the sliders and punches the keys in this...
Raoul Walton was nice enough to give us some bass riffage to demonstrate the Hughes and Kettner Quantum series. This bass amp sports 600-Watts and a myriad of tone control. One feature we really liked was the huge knobs on...
Achtung! In this basstastic video shot live from the floor of MusikMesse 2007 in Frankfurt, we get some audio out of the Trace-Elliot 715 bass combo amplifier courtesy of a German gentleman who did not tell us his name...
The Edirol R-09 is getting a facelift. Well, at least the popular portable field recorder will come in some new colors. Also, a new line of accesories will be available for the R-09. A custom carrying sleeve and headphone...
The Surfin Kangaroo Studio step sequencer is a pretty interesting piece. In the vid designer Wolfgang Michalowicz shows us how it gives you a hands on experience in creating you sequence. There are sixteen steps each with...
The S2 stage vocal mic follows on the heels of the Rode S1. The S2 will be a bit more affordable, MAP'ing at around $150. The main difference between the S1 and S2 is that the S2 is an electret condenser design. This means...
Steve from Serato was nice enough to give us a quick demonstration of the video scratching capabilities in Scratch Live. Watch as Steve controls the video transport using a DJ turntable. Warning, this video does contain some...
To meet the demands of the modern DJ Serato decided to include some video scratching technology into there product Scratch Live. According to West, this is not for the proffesional VJ but includes all the features you need...
In this video we focus on the sounds that the Radikal Technologies Spectralis can make. Since it is a hybrid synth with sample playback there are lots of possibilities that go beyond what one would think of as regular synthesis....
