I am Plastic Fuzz. I am a musician from Leeds, UK. I have a 100 song album and I often make pasta. I also gig regularly.
Archive for April, 2010
Mum, I want one of those.
April 7th, 2010
Every year a new spangley product is launched which makes brains and hearts around the music tech community burst with a geek-like excitement. Here is a contender for 2010; the Rhizome. In a nutshell this a portable [ha!] VST groovebox that marries the appearance of an intergalactic mixing desk and the functionality of a drum machine/hardware sequencer. From the outset it appears to be just another expansion of the recently raved Tenori-On byYamaha which proved to be more expensive than most people expected and shows no signs of a price drop.
Other than the ‘unique intergration’ with VSTs, the mutli-output back panel and the embedded synthesizers, there’s not much to say about the Rhizone before it is released in Q3 2010. It looks heavy and expensive but will probably be favoured by solo electro-pop musicians across the land who are sick of the 1456 wires and cables that brave each gig for the mere 20 minute set before being shifted off to another town to do it all again. Maybe the Rhizone is the way forward…..