Open Lab's Miko LX

Open Labs has designed the Miko specifically for the electronic artist and lifestyle. It is windows XP based with a 250gb hard disk and does it all. This thing looks incredible. It has built in touch screen, keyboard, and a cd/dvd burner. You can do Composition, Remix, and Performances with this machine.

The Miko is also a complete home theater system including surround sound and dual head video outputs capable of resolution higher than HD. It is capable of hosting up to 250 plug-ins and effects at once, playing over 500-voice polyphony. Hows that for processing power.

This workstation combines the capabilities of a professional musical keyboard, a dedicated DJ section, and control surfaces into one fully integrated-compact package with 64-bit processing technologies plus the ability to store gigs of data like vst's or anything else your pc would do.

Its basically like taking your whole studio with you.

Jonathan Davis of Korn used one of these to do a lot of his music. He plugged his guitar right into it and recorded it on the fly. Timbaland also swears by the Miko. You can plug anything into this like a mic, guitar, etc and record, edit, and burn to cd to have it ready for playing without ever touching a pc. That's a lot from a single piece of equipment no bigger than some keyboards.

The Miko also has a feature called "MimiK" which enables it to clone any digital piano or hardware sound module, even their after-touch and effects. The 15 inch touch screen will allow you to recreate the controls of the hardware that you cloned (sampled). Sweet huh?

Ok here's the kicker.....$3499. It sounds like a lot but if you really think about it you probably have that much tied up with your pc, controllers, cables and all. Anyway this thing looks way cool and I cant wait to try one out. Here is a video of the Miko in action.