Looks like Moog have had enough of the Pitch & Modulation Wheel. And they are now spinning their latest option – the color wheel! The latest edition is only going to get better as it will be available in Green and Purple!
Since the release, the Moog Little Phatty has become the go-to piece of equipment for many artists. And with additions like Digital Control on the OSC, CV & USB, who could argue against it? The new features including; MIDI over USB, MIDI Clock Sync, Tap Tempo and the Arpeggiator in the Little Phatty Stage II make it a modern music powerhouse.
The MIDI Clock Sync allows you to synchronize the LFO and arpeggiator rate to the tempo of your MIDI sequencer, drum machine or software. Sample and hold, triangle, square, sawtooth and ramp wave modulations can now be perfectly timed with your rhythm tracks and the arpeggiator.
The arpeggiator is a great new performance feature with applications for musicians in all genres. Its wide variety of uses is sure to find a place in any style, and of course it also syncs to MIDI clock. Tap Tempo brings LFO and arpeggiator tempo sync functionality to situations in which there is no MIDI clock.
The ability to use the Stage II’s innovative interface as a versatile general MIDI controller make Moog Little Phatty – Stage II an incredible tool for both performance and the studio.
The new Nord Electro 4 HP Hammer Action Portable keyboard new features turbocharge your performances. The Electro 4 HP features 73 keys superb hammer action portable E-E keybed with 4 selectable dynamic response curves, 9 Digital LED drawbars on the organ section, Double memory capacity ; 380 MB flash memory is dedicated to Nord Piano Library and 128 MB flash memory to Nord Sample Library, 40-60 Voices Polyphony for Piano Library sounds and 15 Voices for Sample Library sounds, Nord C2D Tone wheel simulation with enhanced 122 Rotary simulation and Drive, MIDI-over-USB, enhanced Sound Manager functionality, Effects; Effect 1, Effect 2, Three band EQ, Delay, Compressor/Amp and Reverb.
The Nord Electro 4 HP has twice the memory capacity to that of its predecessor the Nord Electro 3 HP, and this is important due to it’s extensive sound library that you would want to load on board. The Electro 4 HP’s Organ section has been upgraded to the latest Tone Wheel engine that you can find on the C2D dual manual organ and a pair of stunning new vintage Leslie simulations. Nord has improved the percussion and key click by modelling each note’s click giving a truly authentic sound. Tons of superb sounds – the pianos section is divided into six different types; Grand for acoustic and electric grand pianos, Upright Pianos, Electric Piano 1 with tine, Electric Piano 2 with reed, Clavichords/ Harpsichords and Samples from the sample library. Each of these types has instrument models and they sound and feel very authentic. Steinway Grand Lady D piano sound is superb and if you like something a little brighter you can choose the excellent Yamaha Bright Grand.
The Nord Electro 4 HP is a professional keyboard for live playing. Weighs merely 11 kg, this keyboard is extremely portable, very playable, with quality effects and great piano and organ sounds.
The Korg Krome 61 Music workstation features 61-key semi-weighted, natural touch keyboard, offering a beautifully natural response and feel that lends itself to all styles of playing, 16 track sequencer, auto-song set-up functionality, Cue Lists and realtime-pattern/play-recording (RPPR), dual polyphonic arpeggiators, Efects; 5 Inserts, 2 Master, and 1 Total FX.
The Krome offers dual polyphonic arpeggiators, providing two simultaneous arpeggiators, with not only standard patterns, but also the generation of guitar and bass riffs, drum patterns, pads, synth sounds and sound effects. The extensive effects section features up to five insert effects in addition to two master effects and one total effect. A total of 193 effects ranging from flangers, delays and reverbs, to phasers, compression and dynamic processing offer limitless flexibility. The Krome offers creative effect potential within the grain shifter and talking modulator style of effect processing.
The Korg Krome-61 brings unprecedented standards of sonic excellence and variety to the creative gigging musician’s arsenal, featuring gorgeous sound especially the unlooped pianos, killer drums, and lots of control over the kits, which are traditionally only found on top of the range models. Perhaps the most impressive, the Krome uses Korg’s legendary “German D Grand” as found on their top notch Kronos. The CPU within the Krome has been built to take the full extent of this instruments 61-key full length unlooped stereo samples, even including dampener resonance, a task most other workstations would not be able to handle.
Editing from the front panel is easy, and the new editor software is a breeze. Boot up time is 60 seconds. If you are looking for DAW integration and a multi timbrel sound source, this is the board. The Korg Krome is also available in Krome 73-key and Korg Krome-88-88-key
