Keith McMillen Instruments has introduced K-Board C, a colorful update of its K-Board portable MIDI keyboard.
The KMI K-Board has long been one of the most affordable expressive MIDI controllers available. The new version adds a USB-C port, MPE MIDI support and colorful ABS polycarbonate enclosures (Galaxy, Snow, Orchid, Lime and Aqua).
What they say about it:
“K-Board-C is a simple yet expressive, durable, portable USB MPE MIDI keyboard designed for music producers and performers to use anywhere. K-Board-C works with all of your music software, connecting to your computer or mobile device via USB-C. K-Board-C is MPE compatible with 25 touch sensitive keys to detect velocity, polyphonic aftertouch, and per-key tilt, giving you total control of musical expression. The new K-Board-C enclosure features a durable ABS polycarbonate finish that comes in 5 fun colors: Snow, Galaxy, Orchid, Lime and Aqua. Powerful and portable, the K-Board-C is designed for everyone making music!”
Teenage Engineering’s TX-6 field mixer can now generate a click track based on live beat tracking for any incoming audio. New algorithm promises to keep time while maintaining groove.
Which means that the TX-6 can now act as a sync box. Having ‘listened’ to the incoming audio, it can generate a click track based on it, and send sync out over MIDI and Bluetooth. And this all happens in real-time.
Svante, one of the Teenage Engineering devs, says of this latest innovation:
“Live, realtime beat-tracking is challenging, because the algorithm has to anticipate the beats before they happen. On the one hand, it should react to tempo changes swiftly. On the other hand, it shouldn’t get thrown off by spurious variations in timing (what non-scientists call ‘groove’).
“We have spent a lot of effort on finding the right balance between these two opposites: reactivity and stability.”
The live input tracking is part of the v1.2.5 TX-6 firmware update, which also adds improved tap tempo and BPM adjustment. TX-6 owners can get it from the downloads page of the Teenage Engineering website.
A one-off livestreamed event is happening next week
One week from today, Arturia, French music software and hardware developer is hosting what it’s calling Rendez-Vous, a special one-off livestream event that will see the company showcasing “a series of special announcements”.
Arturia has not revealed about what these will relate to, but given that it’s already updated its V Collection and FX Collection software bundles this year, we guess it would be more related to hardware will be announced. The company’s existing range includes synths, MIDI controllers and audio interfaces.
You can watch the event on YouTube at 6pm CET, 18 October, so stick a reminder in your calendar if you want to find out what Arturia has been up to.
