Creating a hardware instrument requires a voluminous quantity of courage. The sheer number of steps involved, layers of complexity, potential pitfalls and distractions are so great that it's really quite incredible that any musical hardware is created. Couple that reality with the difficulty of competing with large corporations that carry emotional cachet such as Roland or Korg, and it can seem like a retelling of David and Goliath, or Roland and Polyend, with one wielding a TB-303 and the other

Did you know the ETC can be controlled with MIDI CC? You don't even need to send audio to bring the Modes to life! Adjust the knob settings, toggle the Auto Clear function, or send program changes. Use the 5-pin MIDI input on the rear or USB port on the right side of the device for USB MIDI controllers (or class-compliant USB MIDI interfaces).

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Eric Pitra references the modulation effect that occurs on a radio when flipping between two stations as an inspiration for his latest creation, Stereo Field. That find is one of those divergent moments in life that can act as a subversively transformative catalyst.

Presonus update their successful but long in the tooth Faderport to include tight integration with Studio One and HUI and Mackie Control protocols.

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The Sensel Morph lets you swap out high resolution mutli-touch control surfaces to best fit your application , pads, keybaords, controls, or even a qwrty keyboard and track pad. USB or Bluetooh for Mac and PC.

The slightly off the wall but extremely expressive touch controller is now taking pre orders, its a very sensitive modulation pad with several axis of movment and CV outputs.

Watch as we go into nature and create a hypnotic track using our new L Series Wireless Bluetooth MIDI controllers. Featuring Bluetooth MIDI connectivity (OS and iOS only) and iOS compatibility, the LPK25 Wireless keyboard and LPD8 Wireless pad controller are designed for the mobile musician who wants the freedom to create and perform anywhere.

The K-Board Pro 4 by Keith McMillen LOOKS kinda lame, but the idea's kinda cool. I like K- stuff, but so pricy... :(

Any of you have a chance to check out the Keith McMillen #KMix yet? Curious but I wish it wasn't so bloody expensive!

Droned-out ambience and densely layered field recordings, distorted beats and industrial-edged basslines – these are the cornerstones of the darkly immersive sound-world of Berlin-based artist Swarm Intelligence. Watch him perform the track “Antenna” in one take on Push.

What's everyone make of the Maschine Jam? Does it contain enough Jam for you? #hardware #Controller

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Watch TecBeatz showcase some of the new features in Live 9.7. Coming later this year and currently in beta, Live 9.7 is bringing some big improvements to slicing, recording and programming beats with Push.

Since we released the new version of Push, Nathan Jonson has been hard at work updating Push Hero, adding a slew of new songs, new features, new animations, plus the ability to add your own songs. To test Push Hero 2 we set up two Push units in two-player mode using MIDI Sync and invited some Abletons in to find out who the real heroes are.

Yo! This is a teaser for new programmer/expander developed by Bastl Instruments collective. It´s called SixtyKnobs and serves as an expansion module for incredibly powerful LXR drummachine from independent diy synth manufacturer Sonic Potions. It has sixty knobs and it lets you to programm most of LXR´s parameters on the fly. Its great for quick editing and jamming. It truly unleashes the beast hidden in the LXR´s synth engine!

Musicians David G. Ríos Muñoz & Francisco Rafart perform the song "Barton Springs".

This Video shows the set up and use of the "Send A User Remote Script" for the Fader Box and Ableton live.