Can’t afford a true vintage Mini Moog? Then how about the Mini-Est Moog—a 5-inch wide version made of felt by Etsy craftser pulsewidth? Have your pet mice been itching to form a synthpop trio?
newVideoPlayer("mandaladrum2_gawker.flv", 475, 376);Now the Synethesia Mandala high-def drum and synthesizer is about to bust out in version 2.0, sprouting itself a USB 2.0 port that lets you hook it up to any PC or Mac. Synethesia is calling it “the only electronic drum that truly emulates an acoustic drum.” It’s called high-def because it has 128 concentric rings from the centre of the head to the edge that can detect the exact location and force with which you hit it. This version 2.0 also includes 3000 proprietary samples of the famed Black Beauty snare drum, along with 4GB of sounds from 100 different instruments. In addition to its USB connectivity, it also has a MIDI port with a trigger that’s said to be one of the world’s fastest. To be available November 1, it’ll retail for $349. [Synethesia Corporation, via TMCNet]
Is this one of the greatest pieces of custom hardware ever conceived by man? While it’s primary purpose is analogue audio synth production, finding just the right combination of patch cables surely starts a countdown to the launch of doomsday devices aimed at all the world’s continents, stoppable only by paying a ransom of ONE TRILLION DOLLARS.
In fact, it is 12 Serge modular synths in a rack designed by Mike Adjellian. Well played, sir. [via Street Tech] More »
