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Posts tagged "MIDI"

Now Shipping: Aviate Audio Multiverse

Aviate Audio, the company behind the Airpatch wireless pedal switching system, announced at NAMM 2023 that their Multiverse multi-fx pedal is now shipping. This is a platform that allows users to create their own effects and add them to a growing library of unique effects.... Click on the title for more

Now Shipping: Aviate Audio Multiverse

EC Pedals previews the Super Switcher II

Even the most die hard relativist acknowledges this universal truth: a guitarist who plays out with a good amount of pedals will eventually buy a pedalboard. However, once you get everything hooked up to it, the pain beings: How do you recreate those dazzlingly complex effects chains that sounded so good in the studio? How do you get everything turned on or off quickly enough when there is a change? Unless you want to look like Gene Kelly on stage, you might also be in want of something like the SuperSwitcher 2.... Click on the title for more

EC Pedals previews the Super Switcher II

Disaster Area Midi pedal controllers DMC 4-B and DMC 7

Disaster Area's newly released DMC-7 and DMC 4-B (big brothers of the DMC -3 and DMC-6) are designed to give guitarists more control over the complex function of their Midi equipped pedals, placing at the tip of their foot functions often only accessible through heavy "finger action". What you can use this pedal for is limited only by your imagination: cycle through presets, flip back and forth between effects, synchronize pedals and activate them simultaneously, activate "secret" functions...

The DMC-7 - the flagship of the series - stands out with its extra built in tuner.
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Disaster Area Midi pedal controllers DMC 4-B and DMC 7

Alesis iO Dock: Connect Pro Audio Gear to your iPad

There are a lot of mind-bending music apps for Apple’s iPad, utilizing the large touch-screen interface and built in accelerometer to create unique virtual instruments, multitrack recorders, and drum machines (So far, this one is my favorite). However, despite the ever-increasing number of music production apps, there are much fewer ways to actually connect your own gear to the popular tablet, leaving a wide range of creative possibilities unexplored. Enter the iO Dock ($199 street) from Alesis, a universal iPad and iPad 2 docking station designed to integrate virtually any instrument or piece of pro audio gear with your iPad. Slip your iPad into the side of the dock, and you’ve got a portable and functional workstation, with all of the connections you need to plug in professional microphones, instruments, and monitors. With the entire App Store at your disposal (the iO Dock is CoreMIDI compliant), you can fully utilize multitrack recorders like GarageBand, play the iPad like an instrument, or use it to control instruments through MIDI. For inputs, the dock has two combination XLR-1/4” jacks, with individual gain knobs and switchable phantom power for the pair. The second input also has a high-impedance switch, allowing you to plug […]... Click on the title for more

Alesis iO Dock: Connect Pro Audio Gear to your iPad