Remix Mag: Summer NAMM
Remix Mag July 30, 2007
Austin in the summer time, where the NAMM Summer Session has been held the last two years, is always hot. That’s no surprise. But one hot surprise at the show was Open Labs’ introduction of the new Timbaland Special Edition MiKo LX keyboard workstation. Superproducer and hip-hop icon Timbaland has been traditionally tight lipped about the gear he frequently used in his productions, but for the release of his MiKo edition, he spills the beans and coughs up the sounds.
Anyone can see that on the outside, this MiKo rocks a new arctic white chassis and chromey silver end-bells, but the real treasure is on the inside. The Timbaland Special Edition MiKo comes pre-loaded with E-MU’s new Proteus X2 Streaming Sound Module 2.5 with more than 7,000 instruments, including the new Ensoniq Urban Legends Sound Library that contains the sounds from Ensoniq’s.
(Complete review at Remix Mag)