MIDI Controllers Reviews & Features

Alesis Ships Trigger I/O 

The Trigger I/O uses electronic triggers placed on traditional acoustic percussion sources or electronic drum pad triggers, and converts them into MIDI note messages....

Starr Labs Announces Ztar Z7S MIDI Guitar 

The Ztar Z7S is a new, lower-priced MIDI guitar from Starr Labs....

TerraTec Producer Ships the Axon AX 50 USB 

TerraTec Producer is now shipping the Axon AX 50 USB, a guitar-to-MIDI-controller based on the Axon AX 100 MK II....

Behringer's Musikmesse News 

Behringer has unveiled its Truth B3031A and B3030A two-way active studio reference monitors, as well as its U-Control UMA25S USB MIDI controller keyboard....

Novation Automap Universal Now Available 

TERRATEC PRODUCER Axon AX 100 mkII 

By Orren Merton

By the time Terratec Producer acquired the Axon AX 100 from Blue Chip Music, the formerly cutting-edge guitar-to-MIDI converter needed updating. A new...

Steinberg and Euphonix Update Nuendo EuCon 

Steinberg and Euphonix have updated the Nuendo EuCon adapter module to v. 3.2.2....

M-AUDIO MidAir 

By Vijith Assar

The MidAir keyboard models are among the first wireless devices to integrate the keyboard, a control surface, and the wireless transmitter in one package....

Toontrack Music Announces EZplayer Free 

EZplayer Free (Mactel/Win) is a new MIDI bridge and drum-sampler wrapper. ...

CME Adds New UF Series Keyboard Controllers 

CME has announced the latest additions to its UF series of keyboard controllers....

Novation Ships XioSynth 49 

Combining all the functionality of the original XioSynth audio/MIDI controller with an expanded keyboard, Novation is shipping the semiweighted, 49-key XioSynth 49 now. ...

GRAPH TECH 

By Orren Merton

When you play a note or adjust a knob on a MIDI keyboard, it transmits MIDI data. A guitar pickup, however, produces analog electrical current that must...

Alesis Ships IO|14 and IO|26 FireWire Audio/MIDI Interfaces 

Alesis is shipping the IO|26 (Mac/Win; $599) and IO|14 (Mac/Win; $499) FireWire Audio/MIDI interfaces, which feature DICE II Jitter Elimination Technology (JET); Cirrus converters; high definition, transformerless mic preamps with NeutriK connectors; and compatibility with most DAW software. ...

M-Audio Releases MidAir Wireless MIDI System and MidAir 37 

M-Audio is shipping the MidAir wireless USB MIDI system ($149.95) and the MidAir 37 ($299.95) wireless keyboard controller. With the MidAir wireless MIDI transmitter and receiver system, you can wirelessly transmit data from any device that outputs MIDI. ...

KORG padKontrol 

By David Battino

One of the coolest jobs I've had was alpha testing the classic Akai MPC3000 drum machine. Every morning I'd drive over the hills to designer Roger Linn's...

Seizing Control 

By Mike Levine

For sheer convenience, it's hard to beat a USB MIDI-keyboard controller. You don't need a separate interface or MIDI cables, and because it's powered...

M-AUDIO Ozonic MIDI 

By Nick Peck

M-Audio has released Ozonic ($599), a FireWire-based MIDI keyboard/control surface and 24-bit/96 kHz audio interface. M-Audio's design team must have...

M-AUDIO Trigger Finger 

By Orren Merton

M-Audio's Trigger Finger ($249) joins a growing a number of USB keyboards and other MIDI controllers that offer Velocity-sensitive MIDI pads. MIDI pads...

DOEPFER R2M 

By Gino Robair

Horizontal control surfaces ribbon strips in particular have always been popular on electronic instruments. Doepfer based the design of its ribbon controller...

ALESIS Photon X25 (Mac/Win) 

By Len Sasso

A slew of inexpensive, compact combination MIDI and audio interfaces from a variety of manufacturers has recently hit the streets. Alesis's contribution...