Despite the terrible market situation, Frankfurt has some relevant news for the electronic musician. First, a newcomer, Teenage Engineering has this toy, OP-1 , which is still not available for a while, but previewed. It is a small USB MIDI controller plus a modeilng synthesizer and a sampler in...

Alesis will help you in converting your old tapes into mp3. Tapelink USB is a double-cassette deck with a decent USB output, which samples the analogue signal at 16/44 quality. It doesn't need any driver software, all the computers will install it automatically. It plays metal and chome tapes...

This electronic kit can be yours if you make a smart video of yourself using an Alesis product. ShowYourRig is the name of the newest Alesis game, if you are an Alesis user don't miss it. If you have more than one gadget from the company you can enter twice or three times to maximize your chance....

Alesis shows us how to use your 5th generation iPod as a pocket recorder. The small black shoe is ProTrack , the company's new wonder: it features pro-grade XLR inputs accepting microphone or line level signal. It even puts phantom power on them if you use the gadget from the power supply....

Frankfurt' Musikmesse, the world's biggest musical instrument and studio equipment show was held last week, and we were there of course to have an insider view of the current state of the music industry. We experienced slightly even worse mood than last year, the industry's weaking and...

iPod accessories are coming strongly: what you see on this picture is not a cashier's machine but an audio interface with iPod docking. Alesis will sell it, its name is Multiport . It is a stereo USB audio interface with mic and line inputs, and it records on iPod, and plays back it, without the...

NAMM looked two new studio device dedicated for iPod use: at first, Alesis has a new mixer, iMultiMix 9R , which is a 9-channel, rack-mountable analog mixer with five microphone inputs. What you see is true - in front it has an iPod docking interface. Anyway, it has no any special feature among...

Alesis has a new 24/192 interface, iO26 . It is Firewire, has eight analog inputs (all of them are microphone-capable) plus eight analog outputs, receive 16 channel of ADAT digital, and stereo S/PDIF in and out are also present. Turntable is also connectable directly, and MIDI is solved with...

Summer NAMM is up and running with very few real news. One of them is came from the drum factory of Alesis - on the picture you can see the Performance Pad , a decent drum pad controller with built-in high quality sound generator. It has 233 sounds, 100 drum kits and 24-bit output. It has two...

Alesis is dropping in into the podcasting arena: they started to promote a new package called USB-Mic Podcasting Kit . The name unveils the content: it is based on a decent-quality, driverless USB microphone. Sampling is done at 16 bit and 44.1 or 48 kHz, and you also get the headphones and...

Alesis showed a line of new devices at NAMM: audio interfaces equipped with mixer surface. At the first picture you can see MasterControl , a direct competitor of M-Audio's ProjectMix I/O. It has Firewire also, with 8 analogue input channels (plus S/PDIF and two ADAT lightpipes digitally), two of...