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Akai utilizes iPhone/iPod Touch technology


(Screenshot courtesy of emusician.com)

The wizards at Akai (famous for their sampler lines world-wide) have come up with an ingenious way to integrate the iPod Touch/iPhone technologies with their sampler/controller line. Enter the iPk25.
It’s a 25-key controller which hosts the i-gadget. Load up the Akai app (avail via iTunes) and you’re making tunes. Want people to hear them? Dude, just plug in the audio outs to your PA system. When you get back from the streets, plug the controller into your computer via USB and it becomes a standard MIDI controller for your workstation.

I want one.

BRILLIANT.
Peep the video from this year’s NAMM on E-Musician: Akai iPk25 Controller

Apple Strikes Again!

Steve Jobs of Apple was back on the job and announced some new additions and modifications to it’s current line up of offerings. They include:

- iPod Classic upped to 160GB
- iPod Nano now includes a speaker, video camera, and a microphone, available today.
- iTunes 9 is released with additional sync features, app/music sharing, and additional content options with downloaded movies and music. Liner notes and artwork are among new features of digital content.
- iTunes Genius DJ – basically implies that the genius will shuffle your music according to what you have in your library…
- iPhone users can now download firmware update 3.1

More to come…

Visit http://www.apple.com/ for more information.

Groovemaker – IK Multimedia

Groovemaker
(picture courtesy of Groovemaker/IK Multimedia)

Dude. This is insane. If you have an iPhone, go get IK Multimedia’s new app, called Groovemaker. You can mix House, Club, Hip Hop, Techno, Trance, etc. Set up the beats, then sequence it. Is that not enough? Just export your tune over WiFi.

IK Multimedia also creates some awesome DAW plugins and samplers.

More info: http://www.ikmultimedia.com/ or http://www.groovemaker.com/

Get it.

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