The Casio VZ-1 is a synthesizer keyboard released by Casio in 1988. It is a digital synthesizer with a built-in sequencer and 8-voice polyphony. It features a variety of sounds and effects, including a vocoder. It was one of the first synthesizers to...
DeepMind 6 is the younger brother of DeepMind 12. The device offers a twice smaller number of polyphony voices, a one-octave smaller keyboard (smaller size and weight as well) and doesn’t have a Wi-Fi module. In other respects it replicates DeepMind 12 and is $300 cheaper.
Numa Stage made by Studiologic was released in 2014. It combines an 88-note weighted stage keyboard, which may seem like a massive instrument, but fortunately it weighs only 13 kg. The overall control and general management is pretty convincing. Numa...
Studiologic Numa Concert was released alongside Numa Stage in 2014. Compared to the latter, Numa Concert includes a weighted TP/40WOOD Graded Hammer Action Ivory Feel keyboard, which is impeccably balanced for the piano performance. The synthesizer...
2 Voice Pro is the favorite creature of Tom Oberheim. It almost completely replicates the set of functions introduced in the model released in 1975. "Almost" means that the synthesizer received some additional functions to the set of the original ones....
In 2002 MIDI-keyboard SL 2001 was released. Despite the fact that the instrument is made of plastic, the design is quite solid. SL 2001 has an 88-note velocity sensitive keyboard. On the left side you can find 2 standard modulation/pitch wheels (each...
Native Instruments Traktor Kontrol D2 is much larger than any of the other standalone devices of the Kontrol series. It has a plastic housing, 8 knobs and buttons around the full-color display, volume control, performance and transport sections. More...
In October 2014, Native Instruments Company released Traktor Kontrol S8, which is a follower of Traktor Kontrol S4. With 2 built-in high-resolution displays, S8 looks like a huge step forward. Its dimensions became much larger than those of S4, and the...
When engineers at Native Instruments were developing Traktor Kontrol Z1, they tried to come to the basics of Traktor DJ for iPad, trying to fit it in the same form factor as F1 and X1. Z1 has the most recognizable surface of all 3 units, with a standard...
Native Instruments Traktor Kontrol Z2, released in 2013, is a hardware mixer and a software controller 2 in 1. The included Traktor Pro allows you to perform virtual DJing with mouse clicking, control MIDI/Qwerty, and control the vinyl/CD using...
