Musikmesse 2010: iCon has introduced a trio of new music controllers, the iStage, iCreative & iDJ.
iCon iStage Features:
- 3 set of “4×4” velocity sensitive drum pads
- 4×12 buttons are equipped with dual color LED
- 17-buttons with red LED
- Buttons assignable for “Pan” control
- Buttons assessable for “Volume” control
- 4 difference modes including DJ / Effector / DAW and Drummer for difference applications.
- 2-segment LED display
- 1-encoder for jog wheel for fast scroll
- 1-assignable fader
- iMap midi mapping software included for reassigning midi mapping
- Extremely compact and perfectly match with MacBook
- Class-compliant with Windows XP, Vista (32 bit), and Mac OS X
- USB bus-powered
- Available in Black and White
The iCon iStage is expected to be available in June for 100 €.
iCon iCreative Features:
- Large sensitive touch screen
- 8 x 16 notes layout on x and y axis
- 8 x 16 LED embedded
- 6 difference modes selectable for the touch screen for difference applications
- Piano: X-axis as 16 notes and Y-axis as 8 steps of modulation
- Drum: Touch screen divided into 8 drum pads.
- Fader: X-axis divided into 8 portions for 8 faders and Y-axis as sliding up and down for volume change
- Creativ 1-3: User simply rub, stroke, or tap to the touch screen to instantly create complex phrases with a single finger.
- AirLight 3D effector build in with adjustable sensitivity
- 20-arpeggio build-in with tempo
- 4-assignable encoders
- 2-assignable potentiometers
- 8-assignable buttons
- 8-layer change buttons for switching form one layer to another
- 1-assignable fader
- 2-segment LED screen
- 1-encoder for jog wheel
- Octave Up and Down buttons
- Transpose Up and Down buttons
- iMap midi mapping software included for reassigning midi mapping
- Extremely compact and perfectly match with MacBook
- Class-compliant with Windows XP, Vista (32 bit), and Mac OS X
- USB bus-powered
- Available in Black and White
The iCon iCreative is expected to be available in June for 100 €.
iCon iDJ Features:
- Touch sensitive scratch wheels with high resolution pulse sensor:
- Touch sensor scratch wheel platters give high resolution to experience an analog feel when scratching and mixing.
- Touch wheels sensitivity adjustable
- Vertical volume control faders
- Vertical tempo control faders
- Horizontal cross fader control
- 2×3-band EQ control knobs – Hi, Mid and Low (reassign able)
- Balance control knobs (reassign able)
- Gain control knobs (reassign able)
- 8 reassignable backlit buttons including “Vinyl Mode”, “Sync”, “Loop > “, “Loop < “, “Out”, “In” & “Cue”.
- 4 extra assignable knobs for effect control
- 8 extra assignable backlit buttons
- iMapTM midi mapping software included for reassigning midi mapping
- Extremely compact and perfectly match with MacBook
- Class-compliant with Windows XP, Vista (32 bit), and Mac OS X
- USB bus-powered
- Available in Black and White
The iCon iDJ is expected to be available in June for 100 €.
This. Looks. Shit. Hot!!!
Never heard of these brothers before!
At currents rates that's like what $150 usd ? They look like excellent controllers as well.
iCon please get some Windows 7 64-bit drivers going. I don't wanna have to run these on feeble single core XP machines, or worse yet skip them altogether because of a lack of OS support.
At currents rates that's like what $150 usd ? They look like excellent controllers as well.
iCon please get some Windows 7 64-bit drivers going. I don't wanna have to run these on feeble single core XP machines, or worse yet skip them altogether because of a lack of OS support.
I haven't seen US pricing on these – looks like they want to get into Korg nano territory.
I haven't seen US pricing on these – looks like they want to get into Korg nano territory.
I can wait to see a review of these. $150 is almost too good to be true.
Finally a MIDI controller for doing disco-edit cut ups of Bee Gees records!
These guys also have something called an i.Pad
They're gonna get suuuuued!
These guys also have something called an i.Pad
They're gonna get suuuuued!
Actually Icon is really, i mean really cheap construction. Dead keys, cheap off-axis connection and very poor quality usb cable. Maybe i was not lucky on that one but…
Where can i buy these from??
I've seen the i-key, i-pad and i-controller in the flesh, and they look very poorly designed. I can't say whether they perform badly or not, but lookswise they're certainly ugly imitations of other gear.
maybe tha'ts why they're called iCon… it's a rip off?
Be carefull if you want to buy this I- stage/creative/DJ because, if you know what your doing you can handle them, but if you never ever worked with such MIDI-controllers… well it's not as "plug and play" but more like "Plug and Pray"
Further, i'm working with the icon ipad and icontroller, and i'm glad i bought it!!
As i said, when you know what your doing, it's like a dream-controller!
i really want to use the istage with reason5 and my mpd32 i need more buttons for more control. all live drumming and drone plus tons of fx. 64 buttons for triggering samples and other things. i own a nano pad and it”s kinda finicky. i hope the istage is a little more reliable. i checked out the software and it seemed similar to the korg editor software.
Were can you buy a icon icreative
i need the drive and soft for icon i-creativ i dont have a cd.
would be nice if there would be a driver for win7 64. nothing is working. anybody got something like that?