Welcome to the 2017 Sonic Joy awards! As you probably know by now, the Sonic Joy awards are our humble tribute to the music tech industry. It doesn’t pretend to be ‘the ultimate list’, but hopefully it will help you to discover some new tools and make awesome music!…
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KMI BopPad, The Smart Electronic Drum Pad Controller, Is Available To Purchase
Having successfully smashed its Kickstarter campaign goal several times over to help bring the thrilling project to life (as covered by ANR here), innovative hardware and software developer Keith McMillen Instruments is proud to announce availability of the production version of BopPad — broadening the company’s considerable product appeal as…
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BopPad, The Ultimate Drum Pad Controller – 20 Days Left To Support KMI’s Kickstarter campaign
The drum pad controllers market isn’t exactly a synonym of innovation. This is probably what pushed the innovative hardware and software developer Keith McMillen Instruments to introduce BopPad – in their words “the most advanced electronic drum pad controller ever conceived” — and a Kickstarter campaign. At the time of…
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KMI K-Mix Adds Windows Support!
In our K-MIX review published some months ago, we praised the qualities of this little gem but we also had to mention the temporary lack of Windows drivers. Today the guys from Keith McMillen Instruments have got in touch with us to announce the availability of K-Mix Editor for Windows 7,…
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Summer Trips, Carry-ons & Creative Challenges: Volca Sample OK Go, Acidbox ii, Mini KP2S, OP-1 and K-MIX
From Brian Eno’s Oblique Strategies cards to Matthew Herbert’s manifesto, we have seen very different ways of working within constraints. We’ve all been there. Sometimes an empty page is full of too many possibilities. After all, “the enemy of art is the absence of limitations”, quoting Orson Welles. This is…
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KMI K-MIX Update: New Features & iOS Compatibility – Multitrack Recording With The iPad (Video)
If you are an iOS musician and on the fence about buying the KMI K-MIX, we have good news. Last week Keith McMillen Instruments announced the availability of K-MIX Editor v1.2 for Mac OS X for its K-Mix (see our KMI K-MIX review) — improving its K-MIX 8 In 10…