Superbooth 2019 - Sand, software and sound

Most of my days are now spent prep’ing our house for sale and an eventual move. If you’ve been there before, you know quite well why my blog posts have become infrequent!

Rest assured, my eyes are still gazing at new music technology and, especially, the gizmos announced at Superbooth 2019.

Korg’s recent announcements caught my attention. You’ve no doubt heard about the Korg Minilogue xD module and the Korg Volca nubass vacuum tube synthesizer. The xD module and the nubass will hit the streets at $549.99 USD and $199.99, respectively. The Minilogue xD module looks pretty sweet and gets around the issue of mini-keys.

The other little gem slips out from Japan. Korg have a line of do-it-yourself kits: Nu:Tekt. (I wonder what search engines will do with that punctuation.) The line already includes headphone amplifier (HA-KIT) and nutube overdrive kit (OD-KIT). Soon, there will be a digital synthesizer kit! From the pictures, it will have a 3.5mm MIDI IN, SYNC IN, SYNC OUT and AUDIO IN.

This kit looks like a heck of lot of fun!

Back to the grind. Unfortunately, the lab is packed up, so hands-on electronic investigations will have to wait.