After much anticipation over the last months FXPansion has released BFD 2, the most powerful acoustic drum production workstation ever. BFD2’s easy to use interface is redesigned from the ground up to give you more power and control for shaping your drums than ever before. It’s fast and easy to set up and integrate into your digital audio workstation of choice.
Chimera Synthesis is rolling out it’s first product! The bC16 miniature patch synthesizer wraps up a fully featured VCO, LFO, 24dB VCF, VCA, ADSR envelope generator, noise source, ring modulator and headphone amplifier all in a crisp, white, round, CNC machined acrylic housing the same diameter as compact disc.
Solid State Logic have released X-Comp a new plug-in for Duende the DSP powered DAW plug-in platform. X-Comp follows the recent release of X-EQ and further extends the range of plug-ins available for Duende, with another professional audio processing tool that delivers the very finest audio performance, but is extremely simple to use.
The DMC-842 is both an 8-channels AES42 interface as well as a controller for digital microphones. The unique device allows for connection and control of up to 8 digital microphones, and converting their signals to ADAT, AES/EBU, analog and (optional) MADI. Eight individually switchable hi-end sample rate converters offer a flexible clocking and further usage options, especially as the inputs are compatible to AES3 and AES/EBU too.
Fancy yourself as a bit of an audiophile? Think you can you hear the difference? Then take the online Liquid Mix Challenge.
PowerCore 3.0 is the biggest update yet to the PowerCore software package. It is a free update to all PowerCore customers with lots of enhancements and new features based upon a great deal of input from our users.
With the M1 320 USB Alesis brings Pro-Grade USB speaker performance to the computer desktop. The Alesis M1Active 320 USB-audio speaker system is the new world-class standard for USB audio playback and capture. Enjoy great sounding audio from your computer, or record the audio coming into the speaker to your computer.
GCI Technologies, appearing at Booth #6966 in Hall A, has revealed that they will be presenting a number of exciting all-new and innovative products from its three brands, Gemini, Cortex, and iKEY Audio at the upcoming 2008 NAMM show which will take place at the Anaheim Convention Center in Anaheim, California from January 17th to the 20st.
Rob has some great news for you today, BLUE 1.7 has been released and it is a stunning free ‘update’. Rob has added some great new features and also 400 new presets! The synths are known for their ‘floating’ factor. Which means that they always pop-up in many tracks. But BLUE 1.7 is also proofs that this synth offers excellent value for money.
Universal Audio has partnered with Germany’s Sound Performance Lab (SPL) to bring you the Transient Designer, with its unique and compelling Differential Envelope Technology for shaping the dynamic response of a sound. Two simple audio controls allow effortless reshaping of the attack and sustain characteristics. SPL was the first company to design an analog solution for level-independent shaping of envelopes, allowing transients to be accelerated or slowed down and sustain prolonged or shortened.
Ueberschall presents the release of Liquid Instruments Vol. 10 Adlibs. With this release Ueberschall completes the Liquid Player series. The Adlibs volume comes with vocal phrases and gives musicians and producers the possibility to add new color or ideas to tracks and songs.
The multiple award-winning audio software Melodyne studio and Melodyne cre8 are now available in Version 3.2. Registered users of Version 3 get the update free of charge.
Tone2 has released Gladiator, its powerful new synthesizer based on Harmonic Content Morphing (HCM) Synthesis. This new synthesis method is based on a large and expandable repertoire of standard waves like pulse, unique synthetic waveforms as well as resynthesis waves like trumpets, organs, pianos and voice samples.
Grammy-winner Chris Vrenna has played with Skinny Puppy, Nine Inch Nails and is currently on tour with Marilyn Manson playing a Novation ReMOTE SL37. ‘Thank you Novation, you make my life easy!’, he says.
Chris Vrenna has a remarkable history as a musician. He has played drums with Nine Inch Nails and KMFDM, produced music for video games like Doom 3 and Quake 4 and, as a producer and remixer, has worked with the likes of The Smashing Pumpkins, U2 and Hole.
Angry Red Planet updates its MIDI and Audio sequencer (with an emphasis on MIDI) to version 1.2. Temper is distinguished by two basic design goals: To provide you with tools that operate on sequences as easily as individual events, and to decouple what gets processed by how it gets processed.