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...

Clavia has a new synth based on the Electro line: Electro 3 . It is sample based, and reads all the Nord libraries, for example the piano samples of Nord Stage - unfortunately it has only 256 megs of RAM so don't expect gigapianos. Beyond samples, C1's organ algorhythms are also implemented, plus...

Clavia produces only 299 pieces of this wonderful Anniversary Edition of Nord Lead - the company is 25 years old now. All the instruments will be numbered, and will have a certificate of authenticity signed by the founder, Mr. Nordelius. Inside the instruments is exactly the same sound engine as...

Clavia 's last year sample-based instrument entry, Nord Wave has become complete now with the recently-issued Nord Manager software running on PC and Mac. It can upload any audio file into the Nord memory, plus has all the necessary managing functions like looping, key mapping and so on. The...

A new red wonder has been announced by Clavia : Nord Wave has a multi-synthesis engine capable of producing regular VA architectures, plus complex, multi-layered sample playback per oscillator, plus FM. Promised features are the killer filters, the decent multieffect, and the astonishing sound....

Clavia 's new red wonder is nothing but a double-manual digital organ, the Nord C1 Combo Organ . It models three different vintage electric organ: the tonewheel type, the Vox Continental, and the Farfisa Compact Deluxe. It also has a load of proprietary effects: tube distortion, rotary...